New publication: Occupy PR
An article I wrote has been accepted for publication in the Public Relations Review and is now available Occupy PR Here are some highlights: Although Occupy protests have concluded, cough occupy groups continue to communicate online. Occupy Wall Street and Occupy London continue to…
New publication: Olympic humanitarianism – the fundamental principles of Olympism
The Journal of Olympic History recently features on the cover of its latest number my article “Olympic humanitarianism: the fundamental principles of Olympism”. While I have published shorter articles on the same topic before in Culture @ the Olympics and Sportanddev.org this is the…
Out now: 2 chapters on social media in higher education
The 13th of June in Bournemouth University’s calendar of theFestival of Learning was dedicated to visual communication. Aimed mainly at people working within the third sector the workshop which my colleague Anna Feigenbaum and I ran challenged participants to think about creating images that…
Occupy Bournemouth and Social Media
At the beginning of this month I wrote about the EuroBlog Social Media Award I have received for my use of social media for research and more. The University of the West of Scotland (where I pursue my PhD) picked up the news and shared…
Beijing: when humanitarian issues and Olympic values collide
Earlier this summer I wrtoe a short piece for Sportanddev.org about the challenges the IOC and the Beijing 2008 Olympic Games organizers faced when questions about human rights, approved freedom of speech and freedom of the press were raised by internaitonal media and advocacy…