I’ve been experimenting with the method of network analysis using Twitter data to understand how Second World War slogans are being used by people in conversations. I’m focusing on those slogans created or made popular by the Ministry of Information,…
To explore the role of Second World War propaganda posters in British culture, I think it’s really important to understand how these images are used on the internet today. To do this, I am testing ways of tracking the different…
Some of the slogans coined during the Second World War by the Ministry of Information have become common phrases in British culture today. They are not always used in reference to the war or a related subject but can be…
Yesterday I attended the opening plenary session of the annual conference of the International Association of Media and Communication Research at the University of Leicester. I heard excellent speeches first from Professor Graham Murdock, Professor of Culture and Economy at Loughborough…
I went to a digital history seminar last week at the Institute of Historical Research entitled ‘The Challenge of Digital Sources in the Web Age: Common Tensions Across Three Web Histories, 1994-2015′. The speaker was Ian Milligan who is Assistant…