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 be the most visible occupy accounts. The websites and Twitter […]
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 article that contains the research that informed them. This article, […]
Out now: 2 chapters on social media in higher education
The 13th of June in Bournemouth University’s calendar of the Festival 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 stick on a shoestring budget. To make the challenge more […]
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 it with the Scottish press. As a result of their […]
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 groups. The entire article is here. Here’s an excerpt: […]
The new edition of Culture @ the Olympics hosts an article I wrote about the contractual limitations for artists working around the Vancouver 2010 Olympic Winter Games, treat from the perspective of a corporate sponsor for the Olympic arts. The entire article is below:
It is with tremendous pleasure that I announce the publication of one of my co-authored contributions to Sage’s Encyclopedia of Social Networks. My article on Yahoo!, psychiatrist its history and contribution to the internet world is part of this massive  e-reference work that comes with a 2-volume print version that features 350 signed entries […]
This semester saw me developing and teaching a new extensive course. Following the positive evaluations received from the students taking the New Media course at Katho and their calls for more specialized courses, treatment I was asked to prepare and deliver an introductory course on Branding. The course After extensive research of other branding courses […]
