Great interview by Robert Andrews of "Guardian News & Media’s veteran digital content director Emily Bell, who has spent the last two decades doing, says she will now marry both industry and academic takes on re-inventing the news business, when she becomes director of Columbia University’s Tow Center for Digital Journalism in July."
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Emily Bell on digital economy bill, internet and 2010 election:
"But this is not an "internet election". It is yet another broadcast election; this time with the internet thrown in as a bonus bandwidth-free conduit. The un-internetted nature of modern politics was amply demonstrated by the passage of the digital economy bill last week in parliament, where an informed, vocal group that has both knowledge of and passion about the internet was ignored by a process and an institution that apparently have neither. For many it was their first encounter with "live" law-making
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Bloggers and commentators familiar with parliamentary procedure chided and guided the less experienced dissenters into more effective channels of action; how to pursue and amend faulty legislation, rather than simply complain about it. But the fact remained that the analogue political process had not been breached by all this web activity."
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