Comments on: Oxford Internet Institute: Continuing the conversation http://strange.corante.com/2008/02/12/oxford-internet-institute-continuing-the-conversation Picking out patterns in the chaos Mon, 21 May 2012 13:16:29 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.1 By: Northamptonist http://strange.corante.com/2008/02/12/oxford-internet-institute-continuing-the-conversation#comment-2827 Northamptonist Sat, 16 Feb 2008 20:53:39 +0000 http://strange.corante.com/2008/02/12/oxford-internet-institute-continuing-the-conversation#comment-2827 Kevin, first time commenting, always reading. great piece. Perceptive, insightful, and well deserving of passing around to my friends in the newspapers and blogs. Great stuff. Kevin,
first time commenting, always reading.

great piece. Perceptive, insightful, and well deserving of passing around to my friends in the newspapers and blogs. Great stuff.

]]> By: c.h.beckett@lse.ac.uk http://strange.corante.com/2008/02/12/oxford-internet-institute-continuing-the-conversation#comment-2826 c.h.beckett@lse.ac.uk Thu, 14 Feb 2008 22:02:56 +0000 http://strange.corante.com/2008/02/12/oxford-internet-institute-continuing-the-conversation#comment-2826 Dear Kevin, I know you are only joking but don't be put off by academic critique. Here at Polis@LSE my journalistic perspective is subjected daily to academic 'rigour'. As you say, we hacks are better at spotting trends than mounting critiques. But once ideas have been through the academic wash they do come out cleaner and fresher. And one of those ideas is new media and democracy. There are a lot of books (Sunstein et al) which try to rubbish the idea but the real world evidence keeps re-surfacing. Never mind Oxford, come over to the LSE for some serious media practitioner/theoretician interfacing! thanks for all the useful links - regards Charlie Beckett Dear Kevin,
I know you are only joking but don’t be put off by academic critique. Here at Polis@LSE my journalistic perspective is subjected daily to academic ‘rigour’. As you say, we hacks are better at spotting trends than mounting critiques. But once ideas have been through the academic wash they do come out cleaner and fresher. And one of those ideas is new media and democracy. There are a lot of books (Sunstein et al) which try to rubbish the idea but the real world evidence keeps re-surfacing.
Never mind Oxford, come over to the LSE for some serious media practitioner/theoretician interfacing!
thanks for all the useful links -
regards
Charlie Beckett

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