The merging of the traditional media and social media continues apace, however The Times’ paywall threatens to render its content“anti-social” by excluding casual readers from commenting on its stories andpreventing its journalists from promoting their stories on Twitter and elsewhere. Does this matter? Can The Times and Sunday Times successfully stick two fingers up at…
Monthly Archives: May 2010
Did social media revolutionise the UK’s general election campaign?
Continuing our study of the effect of the internet and social media on the UK’s recent election, I have been looking at what other commentators have had to say on the matter. Did social media revolutionise our election campaign or merely show an evolution towards digital media? There were victims who committed their “crimes” in…
Hanging in the balance
So, the big day has been and gone and here we are in limbo. Cleggmania and Bigot-gate seemed but a distant memory as news the world over focused on Polling Day. At Metrica we’ve been watching how the social media world has shaped itself around the Election campaigns. We saw as CGM shadowed mainstream media events, most notably the televised debates. On the…
