Mediating Conflict

This blog has been dormant for a while and the publication of Digital Media and Reporting Conflict: Blogging and the BBC's Coverage of War and Terrorism is the right time to formally close it. ...

http://www.dsbennett.co.uk/2013/06/digital-media-and-reporting-conflict.html

In 2009, I wrote a blog post arguing that the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) had "fallen off the social media bandwagon". Their digital media campaign in support of Operation Cast Lead in Gaza was...

http://www.dsbennett.co.uk/2012/11/from-cast-lead-to-pillar-of-defense-how.html

Doug Beattie is a British soldier who has served in Afghanistan with the Royal Irish Regiment. I have long been an admirer of the bravery of his honesty. His willingness to openly contemplate, ...

http://www.dsbennett.co.uk/2012/11/kia-brutal-reality-of-war-behind-news.html

Instant and alterable web publication has helped facilitate a shift in emphasis in online news: where previously it was always displayed as a processed package, now it is also presented as a pack...

http://www.dsbennett.co.uk/2012/10/random-thought-on-news-process-and.html

This blog started its life as a way of documenting my PhD project which is now long since finished . I thought I might know by now what this blog is becoming - if anything - but I'm afraid I'm ...

http://www.dsbennett.co.uk/2012/09/drone-journalism-in-uk.html

The US Navy has announced that it will spend up to an estimated $249 million on “battlespace awareness”. Last Thursday, the Navy awarded a new contract  to five intelligence, computer a...

http://www.dsbennett.co.uk/2014/08/us-navy-to-spend-249-million-on.html

With each day of Leveson evidence new stones are overturned, shedding more light on the wider systemic and cultural problems that contributed to the phone-hacking scandal. The ‘post-Leveson�...

http://www.dsbennett.co.uk/2012/05/after-leveson-state-of-news-media.html

War and terrorism through the eyes of new media

http://www.dsbennett.co.uk/2012/05/case-study-in-twitter-and-verification.html

I've been coming across lots of interesting mapping links recently. This has not been entirely accidental. Maybe that might come to something one day, but in the meantime here are a few of the t...

http://www.dsbennett.co.uk/2012/05/links-on-twitter-and-mapping.html

I was at an event discussing the nature of media coverage from Somalia yesterday. It was a very interesting discussion with contributions from various people with experience of reporting from the...

http://www.dsbennett.co.uk/2012/05/media-coverage-of-somalia.html

War and terrorism through the eyes of new media

http://www.dsbennett.co.uk/2012/05/official-twitter-response-to-attacks-in.html

In this video, World Affairs Producer Stuart Hughes talks about his use of social media at the BBC. He was speaking on a course organised by the BBC College of Journalism on 20 April 2012: I s...

http://www.dsbennett.co.uk/2012/04/bbc-journalist-stuart-hughes-on.html

Just flagging up an article I wrote for Index on Censorship for the often unrewarded and hardy followers of this blog. Among other things, I ask: does it make sense to ban the cameras but not...

http://www.dsbennett.co.uk/2012/04/twitter-coverage-of-trial-of-anders.html

Martin Belam is off . Leaving The Guardian for something new. Bon voyage sir! But before he left, he posted a great blog ] about the confusion surrounding journaling and bloggism.  Martin ...

http://www.dsbennett.co.uk/2012/04/is-blogging-journalism-celebration-of.html

ABSTRACT Twitter facilitates the spread of news and information enabling individuals to combat censorship and undermine the stranglehold of state-controlled media. It is undoubtedly playing a s...

http://www.dsbennett.co.uk/2012/04/research-twitter-revolution-in-breaking.html

ABSTRACT In the 21st century journalists are making judgements, usually at speed, about whether to trust the identity of a “real” person through their “virtual” representation.  I...

http://www.dsbennett.co.uk/2012/04/research-gay-girl-in-damascus-mirage-of.html

People keep asking me this, so I thought it was about time I began trying to answer it. After Easter I'll be stepping up the search for the next challenge post-PhD . I've already applied for ...

http://www.dsbennett.co.uk/2012/03/so-what-next.html

Just a note to say I'm looking forward to taking part in this event on 27 April looking at the future of social media analysis.  There are some great speakers including Kevin Anderson, Pippa ...

http://www.dsbennett.co.uk/2012/03/insight-20-future-of-social-media.html

I'm not sure if a PhD ever really ends. There seems to be a lot of bits and pieces I'd like to revise and update. Research that I started as part of the project and I'd like to try to finish ...

http://www.dsbennett.co.uk/2012/03/note-of-thanks-at-end-of-phd.html

In an era of information overload, the aggregator who points you to the most relevant, most useful, most interesting, most entertaining and most timely content and engages with you in the conver...

http://www.dsbennett.co.uk/2012/03/for-further-thought-aggregator-is-king.html

I've just been reading this encouraging report about the state of the Russian Internet. It suggests that "bottom-up" agenda setting and collective online civic action are all possible in Russi...

http://www.dsbennett.co.uk/2012/03/russian-internet-open-and-free.html

Yesterday, at the launch event for this new book on the phone hacking scandal something struck me as problematic with the current debate about the future of the press.  And it was this: the c...

http://www.dsbennett.co.uk/2012/02/it-is-necessary-to-regulate-free-press.html

“ Davies’s work…has gained no traction at all in the rest of Fleet Street, which operates under a system of omerta so strict that it would secure a nod of approbation from the heads of the...

http://www.dsbennett.co.uk/2012/02/phone-hacking-exploring-media-omerta.html

Major Paul Smyth is one of the people responsible for changing the Ministry of Defence’s approach to social media particularly in the context of front line operations. I’ve spoken to him p...

http://www.dsbennett.co.uk/2012/02/social-media-from-front-line.html

I like this line in 'What is News ' by Harcup and O'Neill on the makings of a good newspaper story: > "...our findings...suggest that certain combinations of news values > appear almos...

http://www.dsbennett.co.uk/2012/01/heady-brew.html