Publications - Alfred Hermida PhD

Alfred Hermida has gained an international reputation as an authority on new media, with more than 20 years of experience in digital journalism as an online news pioneer, scholar and educator. His research appearing in top tier journals such as the Digital Journalism, the Journal of Computer-Mediated Communication, Journal of Broadcasting and Electronic Media, Journalism Practice and Journalism Studies.

His latest book, co-authored with Mary Lynn Young, is Data Journalism and the Regeneration of News, published in 2019 by Routledge. He is the author of the award-winning book, Tell Everyone: Why We Share and Why It Matters, published in October 2014 by DoubleDay Canada. He is also co-editor of the SAGE Handbook of Digital Journalism, published in 2016, and co-author of Participatory Journalism: Guarding Open Gates at Online Newspapers, published in 2011 by Wiley-Blackwell.

His research projects span the academy and industry.

Books

Hermida, Alfred, and Mary Lynn Young. (2019) Data Journalism and the Regeneration of News. Routledge.
Witschge, Tamara, Anderson, C.W., Domingo, David and Hermida, Alfred eds. (2016). The Sage Handbook of Digital Journalism. New York: Sage.
Hermida, Alfred (2014). Tell Everyone: Why We Share and Why It Matters, DoubleDay Canada.
Singer, J.B., Hermida, A., Domingo, D., Heinonen, A., Paulussen, S., Quandt, T., Reich, Z., Vujnovic, M. (2011). Participatory Journalism: Guarding Open Gates at Online Newspapers. New York: Wiley-Blackwell.

Journal articles

Mellado, Claudia, and Alfred Hermida. (2024). The Journalist on Social Media: Mapping the Promoter, Celebrity and Joker Roles on Twitter and Instagram. Digital Journalism 12.4 (2024): 494-515. https://doi.org/10.1080/21670811.2022.2151484
Lewis, Seth C., Alfred Hermida, and Samantha Lorenzo. (2024). Jobs-to-Be-Done and Journalism Innovation: Making News More Responsive to Community Needs. Media and Communication. 12: 1-15.
Hermida, Alfred, and Mary Lynn Young. (2024). Google’s Influence on Global Business Models in Journalism: An Analysis of Its Innovation Challenge. Special issue: Examining New Models in Journalism Funding, Merja Myllylaht and James Meese. Media and Communication, 12: 1-16.
Mellado, Claudia and Alfred Hermida. (2022). “A Conceptual Framework for Journalistic Identity on Social Media: How the Personal and Professional Contribute to Power and Profit.” Digital Journalism. Online first, May 5, 2021. (PDF)
Mellado, Claudia and Alfred Hermida. (2021). “The Promoter, Celebrity, and Joker Roles in Journalists’ Social Media Performance.” Social Media + Society. Online first, February 11, 2021.
Hermida, Alfred, and Claudia Mellado. (2020). “Dimensions of Social Media Logics: Mapping Forms of Journalistic Norms and Practices on Twitter and Instagram.” Digital Journalism: 1-21. (PDF download)
Kligler-Vilenchik, N., Hermida, A., Valenzuela, S., & Villi, M. (2020). Studying incidental news: Antecedents, dynamics and implications. Journalism, 21, 8: 1025-1030.
Hermida, Alfred (2020). “Post-Publication Gatekeeping: The Interplay of Publics, Platforms, Paraphernalia, and Practices in the Circulation of News.” Journalism & Mass Communication Quarterly 97, 2: 469-491. (Author’s accepted version)
Hermida, Alfred (2019). “The existential predicament when journalism moves beyond journalism.” Journalism 20, no. 1: 177-180.
Witschge, Tamara, C. W. Anderson, David Domingo, and Alfred Hermida (2019). “Dealing with the mess (we made): Unraveling hybridity, normativity, and complexity in journalism studies.” Journalism 20, no. 5: 651-659.
Young, Mary Lynn, Alfred Hermida, and Johanna Fulda (2018) “What makes for great data journalism? A content analysis of data journalism awards finalists 2012–2015.” Journalism Practice 12, no. 1: 115-135. (PDF)
Garcia de Torres, Elvira and Alfred Hermida (2017) “The Social Reporter in Action: An Analysis of the Practice and Discourse of Andy Carvin“, Journalism Practice, 11:2-3, 177-194. (PDF)
Hermida, Alfred and Mary Lynn Young, (2016) “Finding the Data Unicorn: A hierarchy of hybridity in data and computational journalism“, Digital Journalism, Online First, April 7, 2016.
Young, Mary Lynn and Alfred Hermida, (2015) “From Mr. and Mrs. Outlier to Central Tendencies: Computational Journalism and Crime Reporting at the Los Angeles Times”, Digital Journalism 3(3): 381 – 397 (PDF version).
Hermida, Alfred, (2015) Power Plays on Social Media. Social Media + Society, 1 (1), 1-2.
Callison, Candis and Alfred Hermida, (2015) “Dissent and Resonance: #Idlenomore as an emergent middle ground,” Canadian Journal of Communication, 40 (4): 695 – 716.
Zeller, Frauke and Alfred Hermida. (2015) “When Tradition Meets Immediacy and Interaction: The Integration of Social Media in Journalists’ Everyday Practices.” About Journalism, 4 (1), 106-119.
Herrera Damas, Susana and Alfred Hermida. (2014) “Tweeting But Not Talking: The Missing Element in Talk Radio’s Institutional Use of Twitter.” Journal of Broadcasting & Electronic Media, 58(4): 481 – 500.
Hermida, Alfred, Seth Lewis and Rodrigo Zamith (2014) “Sourcing the Arab Spring: A Case Study of Andy Carvin’s Sources on Twitter During the Tunisian and Egyptian Revolutions”, Journal of Computer-Mediated Communication, 19(3): 479 – 499 (preprint version PDF).
Hermida, Alfred (2013) “#Journalism: Reconfiguring Journalism Research About Twitter, One Tweet at a Time“, Digital Journalism, 1(3) 295-313. doi:10.1080/21670811.2013.808456. (First published online 21 June 2013). (Author’s accepted manuscript).
Lewis, Seth C., Rodrigo Zamith and Alfred Hermida, (2013) “Content Analysis in an Era of Big Data: A Hybrid Approach to Computational and Manual Methods”, Journal of Broadcasting & Electronic Media, 57 (1), 34-52. doi:10.1080/08838151.2012.76170 (preprint version PDF)
Hermida, Alfred (2012) “Tweets and Truth: Journalism as a Discipline of Collaborative Verification.” Journalism Practice, 6 (5-6), 659-668. (postprint version PDF)
Hermida, Alfred, Fred Fletcher, Darryl Korell and Donna Logan (2012) “Share, Like, Recommend: Decoding the Social Media News Consumer.” Journalism Studies, 13 (5-6), 815-824. (pre-print version PDF)
Hermida, Alfred, David Domingo, Ari Heinonen, Steve Paulussen, Thorsten Quandt, Zvi Reich, Jane B. Singer and Marina Vujnovic (2011) “The Active Recipient: Participatory Journalism Through the Lens of the Dewey-Lippmann Debate.” #ISOJ Journal: The Official Research Journal of the International Symposium on Online Journalism, 2 (2).
Hermida, Alfred. (2010) “E-democracy remixed: Learning from the BBC’s Action Network and the shift from a static commons to a participatory multiplex.” JeDEM – eJournal of eDemocracy and Open Government, 2 (2):119 – 130.
Hermida, Alfred and Bryson, Mary (2010). Review essay: Complexities of Networked Media Within the Transitive Spheres of Globalization. New Media and Society, August 2010 12: 855-860.
Hermida, Alfred (2010). “From TV to Twitter: How ambient news became ambient journalism.” M/C Journal, 13 (2) May 2010.
Hermida, Alfred (2010). “Twittering the news: The emergence of ambient journalism.” Journalism Practice, 4 (3), 297-308. (PDF)
Vujnovic, Marina, Jane B. Singer, Steve Paulussen, Ari Heinonen, Zvi Reich, Thorsten Quandt, Alfred Hermida and David Domingo. (2010).”Exploring the political-economic factors of participatory journalism: Views of online journalists in 10 countries.” Journalism Practice, 4(3), 285-296.
Hermida, Alfred (2009). “The blogging BBC: Journalism blogs at ‘the world’s most trusted news organisation’”. Journalism Practice, 3(3) 1-17.
Hermida, Alfred and Thurman, Neil (2008), “A clash of cultures: the integration of user-generated content within professional journalistic frameworks at British newspaper websites”, Journalism Practice 2(3), 343 – 356. PDF

Book chapters

Hermida, Alfred, Varano, Lisa and Young, Mary Lynn. (2022). The University as a “Giant Newsroom.” (PDF). The Institutions Changing Journalism: Barbarians Inside the Gate. Patrick Ferrucci and Scott A. Eldridge II (eds.). Routledge.
Hermida, Alfred and Young, Mary Lynn. (2021). Journalism Innovation in a Time of Survival (PDF). In News Media Innovation Reconsidered, Maria Luengo and Susana Herrera-Damas (eds.). Hoboken, NJ:Wiley Blackwell. 40-52.
Westlund, Oscar, and Hermida, Alfred. (2021) Data journalism and misinformation (preprint). In Tumber, Howard, and Waisbord, Silvio (eds.), The Routledge Companion to Media Disinformation and Populism, Routledge.
Hermida, Alfred (2020). Why Trump’s determination to sow doubt about data undermines democracy. In Daniel Jackson, Danielle Sarver Coombs, Filippo Trevisan, Darren Lilleker and Einar Thorsen (eds.), U.S. Election Analysis 2020: Media, Voters and the Campaign (PDF), Centre for Comparative Politics and Media Research, Bournemouth University.
Young, Mary Lynn & Hermida, Alfred (2020). The Conversation Canada: Not for profit journalism in a time of commercial media decline. In Dubois, Elizabeth and Martin-Bariteau, Florian (eds.), Citizenship in a Connected Canada: A Research and Policy Agenda, Ottawa, ON: University of Ottawa Press.
Hermida, Alfred (2018) Social media and journalism. In Jean Burgess, Thomas Poell and Alice Marwick (eds), The Sage Handbook of Social Media.
Hermida, Alfred (2017) Twitter, breaking the news and hybridity in journalism. In Bob Franklin and Scott Eldridge II (eds), The Routledge Companion to Digital Journalism Studies
Hermida, Alfred (2016) Social media and the news. In Witschge, Tamara, Anderson, C.W., Domingo, David and Hermida, Alfred (eds), The Sage Handbook of Digital Journalism. New York: Sage
Hermida, Alfred (2015) Nothing But the Truth: Redrafting the Journalistic Boundary of Verification. In Matt Carlson and Seth Lewis (eds), Boundaries of Journalism, Routledge. 37-50.
Hermida, Alfred (2015) Filtering Fact From Fiction: A Verification Framework for Social Media in Lawrie Zion and David Craig (eds), Ethics for Digital Journalists; Emerging Best Practices, New York: Routledge.
Hermida, Alfred (2014) Twitter as an Ambient News Network (PDF), in Bruns, K. Weller, J. Burgess, M. Mahrt & C. Puschmann (eds.), Twitter and Society. New York, NY: Peter Lang.
Hermida, Alfred (2012) The Promise and Practice of Participatory Journalism (PDF), in Benoît Grevisse and Amandine Degand (eds), Online Journalism, De Boeck (in French).
Hermida, Alfred (2012) Social Journalism: Exploring How Social Media is Shaping Journalism, in Eugenia Siapera and Andreas Veglis (eds) The Handbook of Global Online Journalism. Wiley-Blackwell.
Hermida, Alfred (2011) Tweet the News: Social Media Streams and the Practice of Journalism (PDF) in Stuart Allan (ed) The Routledge Companion to News and Journalism, 2nd edition, Routledge.
Hermida, Alfred. (2011) Mechanisms of participation: How audience options shape the conversation, in Singer, Jane B., Alfred Hermida, David Domingo, Ari Heinonen, Steve Paulussen, Thorsten Quandt, Zvi Reich, Marina Vujnovic. Participatory Journalism: Guarding Open Gates at Online Newspapers. New York: Wiley-Blackwell.
Hermida, Alfred. (2011) Fluid spaces, fluid journalism: Lessons in participatory journalism, in Singer, Jane B., Alfred Hermida, David Domingo, Ari Heinonen, Steve Paulussen, Thorsten Quandt, Zvi Reich, Marina Vujnovic. Participatory Journalism: Guarding Open Gates at Online Newspapers. New York: Wiley-Blackwell.
Hermida, Alfred. Revitalizing Science Journalism for a Digital Age, (2010) in Science and the Media, Donald Kennedy and Geneva Overholser (eds), American Academy of Arts and Sciences, Cambridge, MA.
Hermida, Alfred (2010) New Challenges for Journalism in the 21st Century (PDF) in The New Journalist: Roles, Skills and Critical Thinking, eds. Benedetti, Paul, Tim Currie, and Kim Kierans, Emond Montgomery Publications.
Thurman, Neil and Hermida, Alfred (2010) Gotcha: How newsroom norms are shaping participatory journalism online (PDF) in Garrett Monaghan and Sean Tunney (Eds.) Web Journalism: A New Form of Citizenship. Eastbourne: Sussex Academic Press, 2010.
Hermida, Alfred (2010). Let’s talk: How blogging is shaping the BBC’s relationship with the public, in Garrett Monaghan and Sean Tunney (Eds.) Web Journalism: A New Form of Citizenship. Eastbourne: Sussex Academic Press.
Hermida, Alfred and Thurman, Neil (2008), A clash of cultures: the integration of user-generated content within professional journalistic frameworks at British newspaper websites, reprint in The Future of Newspapers, Routledge, 2009.
Hermida, Alfred (1994). Fear in Algiers, The Best of From Our Own Correspondent Vol. 5, ed. Tony Grant, IB Taurus.

Reports

Young, Mary Lynn, Hermida, Alfred & Castaneda, Camila (2024). Novel Directions in Media Innovation and Funding, Global Journalism Innovation Lab, University of British Columbia. https://dx.doi.org/10.14288/1.0440952
Hermida, Alfred (2016). “The New Information Power-Brokers: Gatekeeping in a Digital Age,” SSHRC Knowledge Synthesis report.
Hermida, Alfred, Fred Fletcher, Darryl Korell and Donna Logan. (2011) “Social Networks Transforming How Canadians Get the News“, Canadian Media Research Consortium.
Logan, Donna, Fred Fletcher, Alfred Hermida and Darryl Korell (2011). “Canadian Consumers Unwilling to Pay for News Online”, Canadian Media Research Consortium.
Fletcher, Fred, Donna Logan, Alfred Hermida and Darryl Korell (2011). “Even in the Digital Era, Canadians Still Have Confidence in Mainstream News Media”, Canadian Media Research Consortium.
Korell, Darryl, Fred Fletcher, Alfred Hermida and Donna Logan (2011). “Canadians Value Home Internet Connection More Than Other Media Devices”, Canadian Media Research Consortium.

Other publications:

Twitter, The International Encyclopedia of Communication, Wiley-Blackwell, 2012.
Web 2.0 and the News, The International Encyclopedia of Communication, Wiley-Blackwell, 2011.
How participatory is journalism?, Association for Journalism Education UK website, June 27, 2011,
Social media is inherently a system of peer evaluation, LSE Impact Blog, June 27 2011.
Telling stories together, one tweet at a time. UBC Reports, 57(1) . Dec. 29, 2010
Review of What’s Next in the Media by Christopher Harper. Journalism: Theory, Practice and Criticism, 12 (2). (2011).
“Web 2.0 and the News“, The International Encyclopedia of Communication, Wiley-Blackwell, 2011.
The communications revolution. World Agenda. July/August 2006, 8 – 11.

Other research activities:

Conference proceedings

Hermida, Alfred (2010). “Application of visualization technologies in journalism to enhance public knowledge“. In Proceedings of the 2010 Conference of the Center for Advanced Studies on Collaborative Research (CASCON ’10). ACM, New York, NY, USA, 399-401.

Refereed conference papers:

Mellado, Claudia and Alfred Hermida. The promoter, the celebrity, and the joker: Operationalizing emerging journalistic roles in new media logics. International Communications Association annual conference, Gold Coast, Australia, May 21-25. (Virtual conference due to COVID-19).
Hermida, Alfred, and Mary Lynn Young. Founders, journalism startups and saving the media. International Communications Association annual conference, Gold Coast, Australia, May 21-25. (Virtual conference due to COVID-19).
Young, Mary Lynn, and Alfred Hermida. Who benefits? Winners and losers in Canada’s media policy. International Communications Association annual conference, Gold Coast, Australia, May 21-25. (Virtual conference due to COVID-19).
Hermida, Alfred, and Mary Lynn Young. Transition or transformation? The precarity of responses to journalism market failure. The Future of Journalism Conference, Cardiff, Wales. September 11-13, 2019.
Hermida, Alfred and Mary Lynn Young. From peripheral to integral: Negotiated gatekeeping in not-for-profit journalism. Inaugural Symposium on Media, Professions and Society. Volda, Norway: June 17-20, 2019.
Young, Mary Lynn, and Alfred Hermida. The potential and promise of nonprofit journalism: A case study of The Conversation Canada. Congress for the Humanities and Social Sciences, Canadian Communication Association (CCA). Vancouver, BC: June 3-6, 2019.
Hermida, Alfred, and Mary Lynn Young. A breath of fresh air: How nonprofit journalism is exposing the gaps in elite audience models of news. Congress for the Humanities and Social Sciences, Canadian Communication Association (CCA). Vancouver, BC: June 3-6, 2019.
Young, Mary Lynn and Alfred Hermida. How to launch a national media startup and not ‘save’ journalism.” World Economics and Media Management Conference (WMEMC), Cape Town, South Africa: May 6-9, 2018.
Young, Mary Lynn, Alfred Hermida, and Johanna Fulda. Free tools, limited resources: A content analysis of Canadian Data Journalism awards, 2012-2015, World Journalism Education Congress, Auckland, NZ: July 2016.
Anderson, C.W., David Domingo, Alfred Hermida, and Tamara Witschge. How Soon is Now? Normative, historical and critical approaches to the study of digital journalism, International Communication Association annual conference, Fukoka, Japan, 9-13 June 2016.
Hermida, Alfred and Mary Lynn Young. Negotiating Cultures Conference, Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism, University of Oxford, October 2015.
Young, Mary Lynn, Alfred Hermida, and Emi Sasagawa. A Twitter influence analysis of #dylanfarrow, #woodyallen, over allegations of historic child sexual abuse, the Gender and Communication Section, International Association for Media and Communication Research (IAMCR) 2015, Montreal, QC: July 2015.
Young, Mary Lynn, Alfred Hermida, and Emi Sasagawa. Twitter influence analysis of #dylanfarrow, #woodyallen, over allegations of historic child sexual abuse, Social Media & Society, 2015 International Conference, Toronto, ON: July 2015.
Callison, Candis and Alfred Hermida, Voices of dissent: #Idlenomore as a contested space, Social Media and Society Conference, Ryerson University, Toronto, September 27, 2014.
Callison, Candis and Alfred Hermida, Hashtag dissent: Finding meaning in the counter-narrative of the #Idlenomore protests in Canada, International Communication Association annual conference, Seattle, May 23, 2014.
Herrera, Susana and Alfred Hermida, Tweeting but not talking: The missing element in Canadian talk radio’s use of Twitter paper, IAMCR annual conference, Dublin, June 26, 2013.
Zeller, Frauke and Alfred Hermida, Tradition meets immediacy and interaction: The influence of social media on journalism practices paper, Rethinking Media Journalism Practice conference, University of Winchester, May 31, 2013.
Hermida, Alfred, Seth Lewis and Rodrigo Zamith “Sourcing the Arab Spring: A Case Study of Andy Carvin’s Sources During the Tunisian and Egyptian Revolutions” (PDF), International Symposium on Online Journalism, UT Austin, April 2012.
Venkatachary, Ranga and Hermida, Alfred (2011). “New Literacies, New Media and New Journalism? An Institutional Perspective on Transformative Pedagogy in Journalism Education”. ISSOTL 2011 conference, Oct 20 – 23, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, USA.
Hermida, Alfred (2011) “Tweets and Truth: Journalism as a Discipline of Collaborative Verification.” Future of Journalism conference, Cardiff University, September 2011.
Hermida, Alfred, Fred Fletcher, Darryl Korrell and Donna Logan (2011) “Your Friend as Editor: The shift to the personalised social news stream,” Future of Journalism conference, Cardiff University, September 2011.
Hermida, Alfred, David Domingo, Ari Heinonen, Steve Paulussen, Thorsten Quandt, Zvi Reich, Jane B. Singer and Marina Vujnovic, “The Active Recipient: Participatory Journalism Through the Lens of the Lippmann-Dewey Debate” (PDF), International Symposium on Online Journalism, UT Austin, April 2011.
Hermida, Alfred and Amanda Ash (2010) “Wikifying the CBC: Reimagining the remit of public service media,” (PDF), International Symposium on Online Journalism, University of Texas, Austin, April 2010.
Hermida, Alfred. “Twittering the News: The Emergence of Ambient Journalism“, Future of Journalism conference at Cardiff University, September 2009
Hermida, Alfred. 2008 ‘The BBC goes blogging: Is Auntie finally listening?’, 9th International Symposium on Online Journalism, University of Texas, Austin, USA, April 2008
Hermida, Alfred. and Thurman, Neil. (2007) ‘A clash of cultures: The integration of user-generated content within a professional journalistic framework at British newspaper websites’ paper presented to the Future of Newspapers Conference, Cardiff University, Wales, September 12-13 2007
Hermida, Alfred and Thurman, Neil (2007) ‘Comments please: How the British news media is struggling with user-generated content’ paper presented to the 8th International Symposium on Online Journalism, University of Texas, Austin, USA, March 31st (‘top rated paper’). Download PDF

Selected presentations:

Hermida, Alfred (2013), “Rewiring journalism: The new literacies of networked communication architectures,” ICA annual conference, London, June 20.
Hermida, Alfred (2013), “#Journalism: Reconfiguring journalism, one tweet at a time,” MIT Media in Transition conference, MIT Cambridge, May 3.
Hermida, Alfred (2012), “The Ambient News Network: Twitter and the reconfiguration of journalism,” keynote, Neo-Journalism conference, Brussels, Oct. 4.
Hermida, Alfred, Lewis, Seth and Zamith, Rodrigo (2012), “Sourcing the Arab Spring: A case study of Andy Carvin’s sources during the Tunisian and Egyptian revolutions,” International Symposium on Online Journalism, University of Texas, Austin, April 21.
Hermida, Alfred, Fred Fletcher, Darryl Korrell and Donna Logan (2011), “Share, like, recommend: Decoding the social media news consumers, Journalism Interactive conference, University of Maryland, October 2011.
Reich, Z., Singer, J. B., Hermida, A., Domingo, D., Quandt, T., Heinonen, A., Vujnovic, M., Paulussen, S.: Gatekeeping user comments: The traditional versus the citizen-space models. Paper presented at the Research Workshop of the Israel Science Foundation “What is newsworty. Reexamining news criteria”, University of Haifa, Israel, October 25.
The promise and practice of participatory journalism keynote, Screen Futures Conference, Melbourne. July 2011.
The active recipient: Participatory journalism through the lens of the Dewey-Lippmann debate, International Symposium on Online Journalism, University of Texas, Austin. April 2011.
How UBC scholars are responding to human rights issues within and beyond the West, The Laurier Institution, UBC Robson, Nov. 2010.
The digital narrative in social media, The International Digital Media Arts Association Conference, Emily Carr University, Nov. 2010.
Application of visualization technologies in journalism to enhance public knowledge, IBM CASCON conference, Toronto, Nov. 2010.
Wikifying the CBC: Social software at CBC Radio 3, Northern Voice, UBC, May 2010.
When journalists join the media revolution, Second Annual Journalism Ethics Conference, School of Journalism & Mass Communication, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, April 2010.
Twittering the news: The emergence of ambient journalism, Future of Journalism conference at Cardiff University, Cardiff, September 2009
Tweets and transformation: How social media is changing journalism panel, Northern Voice conference, University of British Columbia, February 22 2009
Transformative journalism education for the 21st century, (co-authored with Mary Lynn Young), presented at the Convergence and Society conference: The Participatory Web, University of South Carolina, Columbia, United States. Oct. 2008.
When journalists go backstage: Reassessing privacy for social media, presented at AEJMC annual conference August 9 2008 in Chicago.
Researching the Attitudes of Online News Editors towards Participatory Journalism, with Neil Thurman, presented at the ICA annual conference, May 2008.
‘Re:engage – Beyond the online civic ghetto’, presented at The Future of Public Institutions – New Media, The Press, and the Museum, organised by the Pierre Elliott Trudeau Foundation, at UBC, May 2008
‘Towards new models of civic engagement online’, presented at When Citizens Decide: The Challenge of Large Scale Public Engagement (PDF), organised by the Centre for the Study of Democratic Institutions, at UBC, May 2008
‘Capture the wow: Telling multimedia science stories’, presented at the Knight 25th Anniversary Symposium: The Future of Science Journalism at MIT, Feb. 2008
Keynote speaker, Future Directions in Science Journalism conference: Reimagining Science Journalism (PDF), Nov. 2007
‘Threat and Opportunity: The British Press and Participatory Journalism’, presented at the Third International Symposium: Information Communication Technologies Towards a Knowledge Society, University of Nueva Leon, Monterrey, Mexico (in Spanish), Oct. 2007
Co-principal investigator on Prototype of an Educational Podcasting Infrastructure, 2006-2007 project at UBC.
Moderator: Covering Science in Cyberspace seminar, Knight New Media Center, Annenberg School for Communication (March, 2007)
Presenter: Election ‘08: Covering Politics in Cyberspace, Knight New Media Center, Annenberg School for Communication (April, 2007)

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