Friday, July 03, 2009

New media,social media and politics

News of a conference taking place next week from Twentieth century network


The world of the media is changing as fast as everything else. A politician makes a speech ignored by the conventional media and it gets 1 million hits on utube. The world of Blogs forces a resignation of a chief government adviser before the daily newspapers know what is going on! The new social media is challenging the conventional news elites as never before. Politicians and their established lobbies are running scared. The new social media has blown a hole through the existing elites. What does this mean for the future?


Speakers include the Tory MEP Daniel Hannan whose berating of Gordon Brown at the European Parliament made him a star earlier in the year and proves the point of the conference

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