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eDemocracy at work – A user perspective on WriteToThem.com
2 Comments Published by tobias.escher November 17th, 2008 in *OIINEWS, conferences, eDemocracy, eDemocracy'08, evaluation, mySociety, political participationAt last week’s eDemocracy’08 I talked about the users of WriteToThem.com and their experience when trying to communicate with their political representatives because this is what WriteToThem is about – making it easy for people to find out their representatives (councillor, members of parliament, etc) and sending them an email. The truly amazing finding is [...]
Are mainstream media the future of citizen journalism?
1 Comment Published by tobias.escher November 13th, 2008 in *OIINEWS, conferences, eDemocracy, eDemocracy'08Last Tuesday I have been listening to a talk by Helen Boaden, the Director of BBC News. She was speaking at the eDemocracy’08 conference about the role of citizen journalism for established media such as the BBC and you can find the full talk on her blog. The BBC has a strong track-record of encouraging [...]
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