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  • 16 Nov 2012
    Gaza conflict migrates to cyberspace

    Cyber-activists have pledged to struggle back online against the Israeli government's attempt to isolate Gaza digitally by cutting off the territory's Internet.

  • 10 Nov 2012
    Canterbury to become a fully-fledged See of Twitter

    For the first time in history, the announcement of who would succeed to the See of Canterbury was seen first on twitter (via the @Number10press office), before the formal Downing Street and Lambeth announcements of the archbishop elect.

  • 8 Nov 2012
    Ekklesia coverage of the US election and its aftermath

    Ekklesia provided 16 hours of live updates across the last day and half of the US presidential campaign and polling. We have updated this to include reaction and comment in the immediate aftermath of President Obama's re-election.

  • 28 Feb 2012
    Digitally and humanly 'live' from the Occupy eviction

    Well, it wasn't quite the evening, night and morning that I'd planned... but just as I was about to go to bed the news came through that the forcible eviction of the St Paul's Cathedral Occupy camp was about to happen, and everything changed.

  • 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'.

  • 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.