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Read more at: Guest posts on parliamentary select committee evidence for social media inquiry published on LSE blogs

Guest posts on parliamentary select committee evidence for social media inquiry published on LSE blogs

24 August 2014

The LSE Media Policy Project blog recently published a post I wrote entitled, ' Four Things Policy Makers Need to Know about Social Media Data ,' which was then reposted by the LSE Impact of Social Sciences blog. This post was a summary of the written evidence that Anne Alexander , my colleague from the Cambridge Digital...


Read more at: Society for Latin American Studies' 50th Anniversary Conference

Society for Latin American Studies' 50th Anniversary Conference

11 August 2014

In April, I presented a paper at the Society for Latin American Studies' 50th Anniversary Conference at Birkbeck, University of London. The paper, 'Human Rights NGOs’ Access to the Public Sphere in Mexico: Collaborations with and Circumnavigations of the Mainstream Media,' was on an interesting panel on media and public...


Read more at: Social Media Knowledge Exchange conference 2013

Social Media Knowledge Exchange conference 2013

23 July 2014

In 2012-13, I was one of the scholars for the Social Media Knowledge Exchange , ' a collaborative project that aims to give postgraduate students and early career researchers in the Arts and Humanities opportunities for knowledge exchange with social media practitioners in academia, museums, archives and libraries, and the...


Read more at: New Social Media, New Social Science workshop on social media research ethics

New Social Media, New Social Science workshop on social media research ethics

23 July 2014

In February, I participated in the #NSMNSS (New Social Media, New Social Science?) network's workshop on the ethics of social media research. I gave a short case study overview of my research as concerns the ethics of verification, particularly with respect to security risks and to hierarchies of power. At the workshop, I...


Read more at: Media and Governance in Latin America conference at Sheffield

Media and Governance in Latin America conference at Sheffield

23 July 2014

In May, I was a key speaker for the inaugural Media and Governance in Latin America conference on 'Exploring the Role of Communication for Development.' It was hosted by the Department of Journalism Studies , Department of Hispanic Studies and Sheffield Institute for International Development at the University of Sheffield...


Read more at: International Communication Association 2014 conference

International Communication Association 2014 conference

23 July 2014

I presented two papers at the 2014 International Communication Association 's conference in Seattle. The first was ' The Use of Social Media Information at Advocacy Organizations: The Evidence Model Versus the Engagement Model' on a panel entitled ' Spaces of Contestation: Information, the Press, Advocacy, and Elites' in...


Read more at: Article published in the American Behavioral Scientist

Article published in the American Behavioral Scientist

23 July 2014

My article, “ Advocacy Organizations’ Evaluation of Social Media Information for NGO Journalism: The Evidence and Engagement Models ,” was published online first in July in the American Behavioral Scientist. It is part of a special issue on social media, collaboration and organizations edited by Dhiraj Murthy .


Read more at: Critical Coding course

Critical Coding course

23 July 2014

In June, I participated in the inaugural Critical Coding course put on by Cambridge's Digital Humanities Network and Computer Laboratory . Our background reading included the Critical Engineering Manifesto , which includes the statement: " The greater the dependence on a technology the greater the need to study and expose...


Read more at: CGHR Research Group discussant

CGHR Research Group discussant

23 July 2014

In May, I was the discussant for Gabriela Martinez Sainz 's talk, ' Human rights education and training programmes in Mexico: A cross-case analysis of practitioners' professional knowledge and practice .' This interesting talk was part of Cambridge's Centre of Governance and Human Rights' Research Group 's seminar series...


Read more at: New Approaches to Managing the Evolving Conflict Environment

New Approaches to Managing the Evolving Conflict Environment

23 July 2014

In April, I was a guest speaker for the MA course, 'New Approaches to Managing the Evolving Conflict Environment,' at the School of Diplomacy and International Relations at Seton Hall University. Making the connection in the classroom between social media's role in human rights reporting and social media's role in conflict...


About this website

This is the website for Ella McPherson's work related to her 2014-17 ESRC-funded research project, Social Media, Human Rights NGOs, and the Potential for Governmental Accountability.