Resources and Links 19/06/09

1. “Food is the new fur” – Jay Rayner on the enduring value of using celebrities to endorse campaigns.  Greta Scacchi, Jamie Oliver and Paul McCartney all discussed with a particular focus on food-related campaigns.
2. Some strategic advice in the form of an open letter from Paul Richards to Gordon Brown’s new Director of Communications Simon Lewis.
3. FutureGov posting - press release…or blog post…or both?
4. Online exposure of oppressive regimes (please do check out my joint research paper** with James Stanyer at Loughborough) – the situation in Iran and the headache that Twitter presents for the censor – via Jeff Jarvis.
5. 10 ways universties are teaching social media to journalism students

** Stanyer, James. Davidson, Scott. “The internet and the hyper-visibility of oppression in non-democratic states: Oppressive regimes and the online exposure of human rights abuses and other repressive acts” Paper presented at the annual meeting of the APSA 2008 Annual Meeting, Hynes Convention Center, Boston, Massachusetts, Aug 28, 2008

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