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  • February 1, 2012
    Social media, disability, welfare, work and calculating 'benefit'

    In recent months social media has proved its worth against some harping critics. The uprisings across the Middle East, the worldwide Occupy protest against unsustainable corporate neo-capitalism and the Spartacus Report revolt of disabled and sick people over punitive welfare cuts and changes: all these movements for change have benefited in a variety of ways from web 2.0 and beyond, from online crowd-sourcing, from twitter, from virals, and from 'internetworking'.

  • August 11, 2011
    The riots, the media and Twitter

    I have recently spent the night reading about and watching the (in the first instance) London riots unfold from my hotel room in India. I have lived in Lewisham since 1998 and to see aerial images of cars along the main streets on fire and shops I know well looted has been surreal.

  • July 9, 2011
    Cyberspace extends scope of Methodist conferring

    The 2011 Methodist Conference has closed in Southport after six days of lively debate. Social media played a significant role in the gathering.

  • April 6, 2011
    Trees and tweets planned to build World Sunday for Peace

    Christians and churches across the world are being encouraged to plant trees and to use social media to share the peace message with others.