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  • 1 Feb 2012
    Social media, disability, welfare, work and calculating 'benefit'

    In recent months social media has proved its worth against some harping critics. The uprisings across the Middle East, the worldwide Occupy protest against unsustainable corporate neo-capitalism and the Spartacus Report revolt of disabled and sick people over punitive welfare cuts and changes: all these movements for change have benefited in a variety of ways from web 2.0 and beyond, from online crowd-sourcing, from twitter, from virals, and from 'internetworking'.

  • 15 Oct 2011
    Violence on the steps of St Paul's

    Today (15 October) has seen a global day of action against corporate greed, financial mismanagement and government cuts, which has grown out of New York's 'Occupy Wall Street' demonstration.

  • 11 Aug 2011
    The riots, the media and Twitter

    I have recently spent the night reading about and watching the (in the first instance) London riots unfold from my hotel room in India. I have lived in Lewisham since 1998 and to see aerial images of cars along the main streets on fire and shops I know well looted has been surreal.

  • 9 Jul 2011
    Cyberspace extends scope of Methodist conferring

    The 2011 Methodist Conference has closed in Southport after six days of lively debate. Social media played a significant role in the gathering.

  • 6 Apr 2011
    Trees and tweets planned to build World Sunday for Peace

    Christians and churches across the world are being encouraged to plant trees and to use social media to share the peace message with others.

  • 1 Feb 2011
    Speaking truth to our own power

    Power, its exercise and abuse has filled our screens and newspapers during the last week. The word takes our minds in a particular direction – towards the power that can shut down the internet, buzz protesters with fighter jets, marketise the NHS, sell off our forests, kettle and pepper-spray dissent.

  • 25 Jan 2011
    Bishops tweet their blessings this Lent

    This Lent, Christian Aid is using social media and blogging Bishops to encourage people to use the time between Ash Wednesday and Easter to pray, act and give.

  • 17 Nov 2010
    Chinese woman sentenced to a year in labour camp over tweet

    China is being called on to release a woman sentenced to a year in a labour camp for retweeting a supposedly anti-Japanese message.

  • 6 Jun 2010
    Podcast and online discussion on news and social media

    There will be a 'Sunday Salon' web conversation this evening (6 June) at 8pm, looking at the development of media and political blogs - linking, promotion, how people read them and the interaction of blogs and Twitter.

  • 15 Feb 2010
    Do your homework or you'll end up a Tory

    I'm still recuperating after my arm operation, so I've been having fun with #ivenevervotedtory hash tag on Twitter (you can join me at http://www.twitter.com/jon_bartley).