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New Media Writing Prize announces winners

New Media Writing Prize announces winners

By swarren on December 4, 2012

Bournemouth University hosted the New Media Writing Prize2012, now in its third year, with the winners announced during an entertaining awards ceremony. The overall winner of this year’s Prize was Katharine Norman for her piece ‘Window‘; an interactive work that involves the reader exploring and changing settings to view different elements of the story. This [...]

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Politics Online: Democratising or Distracting?

Politics Online: Democratising or Distracting?

By Tania Willis on October 17, 2011

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There is a longstanding academic debate about whether the internet influences the sphere of politics, and whether political dialogue exchanged online actually has an impact in the real world. Do these discussions actually escape ‘cyber ghettoes’ and can the internet facilitate democracy or does it simply provide political ‘infotainment’ to the subjective consumer?  The Media [...]

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