[MEDIA] Keep calm and carry on: a slogan for an age of crisis in @ConversationUK

October 26, 2017 by Second World War Posters

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With my book officially released today, I wrote a piece for The Conversation ('Academic rigour, journalistic flair'). The piece starts: The slogan Keep Calm and Carry On has been ubiquitous within newspaper headlines in 2017 as the UK careered from one crisis to another. It seems to sum up a very British character – yet it is used the world over to represent the fight against adversity. Some people may be getting sick of it…

Social media: helpful or hurtful in a crisis like #Manchester, Drive with @DelaneyMan, @TalkRadio

May 23, 2017 by Digital Fingerprint

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Thanks to all those who responded on Facebook regarding the story of 'how problematic is social media for the kind of event that happened in Manchester (at the Ariana Grande concert)', does it add to the drama, and what is the responsibility of social media companies in all this? Especially interested in this academic paper from Cardiff University in which the following stages of social media response to a crisis appear evident: reporting, requesting, responding/recruiting, risking,…