What’s Inside May 2011:
New websites New articles on 2011 social media trends New articles on political communication. New articles on BBC
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E-G8 Forum http://www.eg8forum.com/en/ The first G8 conference on the impact of the internet upon g8 nations is being held in Paris may 24-25th. The website includes participants, agendas, some papers and videos of key speeches. There is also a twitter feed. Areas covered include: intellectual property and the culture economy, the internet and society, digital innovation, the online economy. Latest issue of First Monday ejournal http://firstmonday.org/issue/current includes articles Clandestine chatters: Self-disclosure in U.K. chat room profiles by Chris Fullwood, Mike Thelwall, Sam O'Neill Banding together for bandwidth: An analysis of survey results from wireless community network participants
Using Online Tools to Engage – and be Engaged by –The Public http://www.businessofgovernment.o rg/report/using-online-tools-engagepublic IBM Center for Government. Advice on what works.
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MEDIA Predicting personality with social media http://scnarc.rpi.edu/drupal6/sites/d efault/files/personality.pdf Recent paper College Guys Who Reference Alcohol On Facebook Have More Friends http://mashable.com/2011/05/19/coll ege-guys-who-reference-alcohol-onfacebook-have-more-friends-study Study from the the American Journal of Men’s Health
Will Facebook ever drive ecommerce?
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http://www.demandware.com/Analy st-Report%3A-Will-Facebook-EverDriveeCommerce%3F/DW_analyst_faceb ook_ecommerce,default,pg.html?el q=7aa500facae048de85f15f8ae6a5e1 23&elqCampaignId=20 latest report from Forrester.
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Digital Opportunity A review of Intellectual Property and Growth Hargreaves report. http://www.ipo.gov.uk/ipreviewfinalreport.pdf
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Navigating News Online – http://www.journalism.org/analysis_ report/navigating_news_online Latest report from Pew Center for research on Journalism. Where people go and why The adaptive moment: a fresh approach to convergent media in Australiahttp://www.unsw.edu.au/images/pad /2011/May/Convergentmedia.pdf Journalism and Media Research Centre at the University of New South Wales.
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4th Report - BBC Licence Fee Settlement and Annual report Culture, Media and Sport committee. HC 454 http://www.publications.parliament. uk/pa/cm201012/cmselect/cmcumed s/454/45402.htm
Nielsen Company’s most recent research on mobile connected devices http://blog.nielsen.com/nielsenwire/ online_mobile/in-the-u-s-tablets-aretv-buddies-while-ereaders-makegreat-bedfellows devices sheds new light on how consumers are using their tablets, eReaders and smartphones – and where they are using them, too. .
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All the articles listed in this newsletter are free but did you know you can also search for articles using the library’s subscription databases. New this month A Dictionary of Media and Communication By Daniel Chandler https://catalogue.lse.ac.uk/Record/1 275922 Get definitions of difficult concepts. A new addition to the Oxford Reference online service which also provides access to many English and foreign language dictionaries.
To find out more try our subject guide . http://www2.lse.ac.uk/library/subject Guides/media%20and%20communic ation.aspx
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