Einar Thorsen

Professor of Journalism and Communication at Bournemouth University

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PhD Studentship: News, the Internet and the Arab Spring

1 July, 2011 by Einar Thorsen Leave a Comment

PhD Studentships at the Business School, BU

Bournemouth University has just announced a series of fully-funded PhD scholarships.

One of the projects that has been awarded funding will be under my supervision, entitled: “News, the Internet and Political Protest: Al-Jazeera, BBC and Reuters Reporting of the Arab Spring and its Aftermath”

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Filed Under: Blog, Journalism Tagged With: Al Jazeera, Arab Spring, BBC, bbc news online, internet, phd, political protest, reuters, Social media, studentship, uprising

Google This – 13 Years of World Domination Visualized

14 September, 2010 by Einar Thorsen Leave a Comment

Excellent collection of graphical illustrations of Google's growth to "world domination", courtesy of Inspired Magazine.

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Filed Under: Links Tagged With: Google, history, internet, searchengine, statistics, teaching, visualization

Let’s subsidize open broadband, not journalists (newspaper industry deserves to die)

15 June, 2010 by Einar Thorsen Leave a Comment

Dan Gillmor:

I love newspapers. I worked in them for almost 25 years. But I'm not itching to bail out a business that is failing in large part because it was so transcendentally greedy in its monopoly era that it passed on every opportunity to survive against real financial competition. With a few exceptions, the newspaper industry essentially deserves to die at this point.

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Filed Under: Links Tagged With: broadband, dangillmor, future, internet, Journalism, newspapers

The Internet election?

24 May, 2010 by Einar Thorsen Leave a Comment

Stephen Tall:

Did the internet change the course of the election? At a national level, probably not (or at least not much). But at a local level – whether for council or parliamentary elections – email and Facebook, blogs and Twitter, websites and YouTube can each make a real difference to an individual candidate’s campaigning efforts, offering them the chance to motivate supporters, and communicate directly with voters. None of these are a replacement for regular Focus leaflets and door-to-door personal contact; but they are an increasingly essential addition to our traditional pavement politics.

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Del.ici.us tags: stephentall politics election2010 internet campaigning

Filed Under: Links Tagged With: campaigning, election2010, internet, politics, stephentall

The Medium – The Death of the Open Web – NYTimes.com

24 May, 2010 by Einar Thorsen Leave a Comment

    Virginia Heffernan:

    "But a kind of virtual redlining is now under way. The Webtropolis is being stratified. Even if, like most people, you still surf the Web on a desktop or laptop, you will have noticed pay walls, invitation-only clubs, subscription programs, privacy settings and other ways of creating tiers of access. All these things make spaces feel “safe” — not only from viruses, instability, unwanted light and sound, unrequested porn, sponsored links and pop-up ads, but also from crude design, wayward and unregistered commenters and the eccentric ­voices and images that make the Web constantly surprising, challenging and enlightening."

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Filed Under: Links Tagged With: commentary, internet, nytimes, virginiaheffernan

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