On UK Labour and Conservatives Tweet Sources

Where I share insights into the sources used to tweet from the UK Labour and Conservatives Twitter accounts from an analysis of a sample of 500 recent tweets from each account.

Untangling Academic Publishing: Key Recommendations for Universities and Academics

The report 'Untangling Academic Publishing: A history of the relationship between commercial interests, academic prestige and the circulation of research' (Fyfe et al 2017) has been published today. I share some of the key recommendations.

Don’t Walk Away: The Aporetics of Information in the Age of Twitter Overload

Like you, I've read the news today. Like so many others out there, I also wanted to write something. This is a personal reflection.

Chronicle of a Death Foretold: At Nieman Storyboard, My Translation of an Interview with Slain Journalist Javier Valdez

I've just published a translation of an interview with the slain Mexican journalist Javier Valdez at Nieman Storyboard (Neiman Foundation for Journalism at Harvard University).

Exeunt Android; Enter Ads: An Update on the Sources of Presidential Tweetage

No Trumpian Tweets coming from the Web Client since 25 January this year; no Tweets from Android since 25 March. Tweets from Twitter Ads have made an appearance alternating with Twitter for iPhone Tweets since 31st March. In the 18 days of May so far, the account has tweeted every single day, totalling 90 Tweets until the morning of the 18th of May.

People, Government: Top 300 Terms in the Conservative and Labour Manifestos 2017 (Counts and Trends)

I have just deposited the following data on figshare: Top 300 Terms in the Conservative and Labour Manifestos 2017 (Counts and Trends).

Pint of Science: Comics, Humans and Technology in the Pub! 16 May 2017

I will talk about online Graphic Medicine at the Pint of Science event: Humans and technology: in life and in death. Tuesday 16 May 2017- Doors open 6.30 PM, Event 7.00 PM – 9.30 PM.

Digital Humanities/Humanidades Digitales/Informatica Umanistica, Rome, 20 April 2017

I am looking forward to participating in the round table titled “Digital Humanities/Humanidades Digitales/Informatica Umanistica” that will take place on Thursday 20 April 2017 in Rome, at the Political Science Department of the Università degli Studi Roma Tre.

Android vs iPhone: Source Counts and Trends in a Bit More than a Year’s Worth of Trumpian Tweetage

I have now prepared and shared a CSV file containing Tweet IDs and other metadata of 3,805 Tweets from user ID 25073877 posted publicly between Thursday February 25 2016 16:35:12 +0000 to Monday April 03 2017 12:51:01 +0000. I discuss source counts, trends and implications for research.

Word Counts and Trends in the Letter Triggering Article 50

I'v deposited on figshare a CSV file listing counts and trends of 459 terms or word forms in full text of Prime Minister Theresa May's 'letter to Donald Tusk triggering Article 50' (29 March 2017).