Twitter The Week in Tweets A landmark week in a number of ways, caught in a handful of Tweets… Adam Tinworth Oct 30, 2022 2 min read
business models The Canary becomes a flock: left-wing site reforms as a workers’ co-operative The politics site's former management is gone, and the staff are now collectively running the title. Can they align their business model with their values? Adam Tinworth Oct 4, 2022 2 min read
politics Cummings and goings Two years ago, Dominic Cummings' blog went silent — at the request of the Prime Minister. Now, he's giving us insights into the workings of government again via Substack — but with an agenda. Adam Tinworth Jan 19, 2022 5 min read
facebook Social & Digital coffee break: escaping the Facebook shadow It’s not really a surprise that Facebook can’t be trusted — but are we really taking the steps we need to end our additions to it? This, and many other useful topics in today’s digest. Adam Tinworth Oct 29, 2020 7 min read
comments The need for intelligent skepticism, proved through links Can you trust your commenters? Can you trust your transcription service? In the digital world, here be dragons… Adam Tinworth Oct 9, 2020 4 min read
politics Schadenfreude as a personal indulgence, not a public performance You might be enjoying Trump's illness — but does posting about it actually help anyone? Adam Tinworth Oct 5, 2020 1 min read
Members only politics Social & Digital lunchbreak: inflection points in politics and subscriptions Lots of simmering tensions in politics and social media are coming to a head. Interesting timing… Adam Tinworth May 27, 2020 4 min read
engaged reading digest Engaged Reading Digest: 17th Birthday Edition This blog may by 17 years old, but that's no excuse for stopping the links coming! Adam Tinworth Mar 5, 2020 4 min read
BBC General Election 2019: the news media failed profoundly — but not in the way you think Reuters Institute research shows that most of what we believe about the general public and politics news is wrong — and that we are profoundly failing to engage them. Adam Tinworth Feb 5, 2020 6 min read
tiktok TikTok is the social media hype cycle on speed TikTok stars are “fading” already - and the reason why suggests the challenge ahead for the platform. Adam Tinworth Feb 4, 2020 1 min read
politics Dominic Cummings’ blogpost, direct dialogue and its threat to mainstream political journalism The Prime Minster's Chief Special Advisor outlined a new vision for the civil service in a blogpost — and with it, a new way of communicating policy, in way we need to pay attention to. Adam Tinworth Jan 7, 2020 7 min read
politics Three questions about the UK's journalism landscape after the General Election result A major shift in the political landscape of the UK raises some critical questions about the role of truth and journalism in the social media mindscape. Adam Tinworth Dec 13, 2019 4 min read
misinformation Election Watch 2019 #1: Lies, Leaks and Dead Squirrels Connecting up some of the reporting about the use of misinformation and propaganda during the 2019 UK general election. Adam Tinworth Dec 11, 2019 5 min read
journalism The dangers of under-estimating complexity Research shows that climate skepticism comes from a distinct part of the political spectrum. But is journalism making those same connections? Adam Tinworth Sep 9, 2019 2 min read
chat apps Engaged Reading Digest: a changing language, unfluencers and dodging state surveillance Some interesting reading on how the internet is changing language, reverse influencer psychology and apps in pretests. Adam Tinworth Sep 4, 2019 3 min read
politics Prorogue — or prorogation? Applying Google Trends to today's big political news… Adam Tinworth Aug 28, 2019 1 min read
privacy We'll regret surrendering our ambient privacy You don't know what you've got til it's gone. They paved paradise and put up a Facebook lot. Adam Tinworth Jun 20, 2019 1 min read
Twitter Guilt by Twitter association — how Labour Left Voice blocked swathes of Twitter One Corbynite Twitter account has been blocking great swathes of Twitter - and thus created a manual filter bubble. Adam Tinworth Jun 17, 2019 3 min read
facebook What would happen if journalists got the hell off Facebook? Adam Tinworth May 14, 2019 2 min read
comicsgate Right-wing activists are using Twitter's trans policies to silence their critics The next wave of online tactics used by the alt-right are being deployed, right now, in the world of comics. How long before they hit the mainstream? Adam Tinworth May 14, 2019 3 min read