Niki Seth-Smith and Stuart White launch the 'Democratic Wealth' e-book by openDemocracy and Politics in Spires

Niki Seth-Smith and Stuart White launch the 'Democratic Wealth' e-book by openDemocracy and Politics in Spires

What do we know about audiences, readership and patterns of use of political analysis on-line? Chair: Blake Ewing (Graduate Editor, Politics in Spires, DPIR) Andrew Sparrow - The rise of the Guardian Politics Blog, (Editor, Guardian Politics Blog) Chris Prosser - Uses of analytics data (Deputy Graduate Editor, Politics in Spires, DPIR), Rosemary Bechler - openDemocracy: A public service on the web? (Editor, OpenDemocracy) and Vicki Nash - Current research on on-line risk (Oxford Internet Institute)

What do we know about audiences, readership and patterns of use of political analysis on-line? Chair: Blake Ewing (Graduate Editor, Politics in Spires, DPIR) Andrew Sparrow - The rise of the Guardian Politics Blog, (Editor, Guardian Politics Blog) Chris Prosser - Uses of analytics data (Deputy Graduate Editor, Politics in Spires, DPIR), Rosemary Bechler - openDemocracy: A public service on the web? (Editor, OpenDemocracy) and Vicki Nash - Current research on on-line risk (Oxford Internet Institute)

What do we know about audiences, readership and patterns of use of political analysis on-line? Chair: Blake Ewing (Graduate Editor, Politics in Spires, DPIR) Andrew Sparrow - The rise of the Guardian Politics Blog, (Editor, Guardian Politics Blog) Chris Prosser - Uses of analytics data (Deputy Graduate Editor, Politics in Spires, DPIR), Rosemary Bechler - openDemocracy: A public service on the web? (Editor, OpenDemocracy) and Vicki Nash - Current research on on-line risk (Oxford Internet Institute)

Analysing the wider effects of blogging: what is at stake in contributing academic analysis on-line? Chair: Katharine Brooks (Deputy Graduate Editor, Politics in Spires, DPIR) William Dutton - Get Ready to Meet the Fifth Estate – how networked individuals and institutions are reshaping academe (Oxford Internet Institute), David Levy – Blogging, journalism and the consumption of news (Director, Reuters Institute for the study of Journalism) and Will de Frietas – Introduction to a new on-line academic publishing project – The Conversation (Business & Economy Editor, The Conversation)

Analysing the wider effects of blogging: what is at stake in contributing academic analysis on-line? Chair: Katharine Brooks (Deputy Graduate Editor, Politics in Spires, DPIR) William Dutton - Get Ready to Meet the Fifth Estate – how networked individuals and institutions are reshaping academe (Oxford Internet Institute), David Levy – Blogging, journalism and the consumption of news (Director, Reuters Institute for the study of Journalism) and Will de Frietas – Introduction to a new on-line academic publishing project – The Conversation (Business & Economy Editor, The Conversation)

Analysing the wider effects of blogging: what is at stake in contributing academic analysis on-line? Chair: Katharine Brooks (Deputy Graduate Editor, Politics in Spires, DPIR) William Dutton - Get Ready to Meet the Fifth Estate – how networked individuals and institutions are reshaping academe (Oxford Internet Institute), David Levy – Blogging, journalism and the consumption of news (Director, Reuters Institute for the study of Journalism) and Will de Frietas – Introduction to a new on-line academic publishing project – The Conversation (Business & Economy Editor, The Conversation)

Exploring the phenomena of blogging – the motivations and the consequences – with UK academic blogs producers Chair: Katharine Brooks (Deputy Graduate Editor, Politics in Spires, DPIR) Presentations and first Round Table Blake Ewing (Graduate Editor, Politics in Spires, DPIR) Chris Gilson (Managing Editor, LSE USApp – American Politics and Policy) Sierra Williams (Managing Editor, LSE Impact of Social Sciences blog), Chris Bertram (Department of Philosophy, University of Bristol, blogger with the group blog Crooked Timber)

Exploring the phenomena of blogging – the motivations and the consequences – with UK academic blogs producers Chair: Katharine Brooks (Deputy Graduate Editor, Politics in Spires, DPIR) Presentations and first Round Table Blake Ewing (Graduate Editor, Politics in Spires, DPIR) Chris Gilson (Managing Editor, LSE USApp – American Politics and Policy) Sierra Williams (Managing Editor, LSE Impact of Social Sciences blog), Chris Bertram (Department of Philosophy, University of Bristol, blogger with the group blog Crooked Timber)