Wonks and War Rooms
Where political communication theory meets on the ground strategy. Host, Professor Elizabeth Dubois, picks a political communication theory, explains it to a practitioner, and then they have a chat about whether or not it makes sense at all out in the world of politics and communications. She chats with political staffers, journalists, comms experts, lobbyists, activists and other political actors. Elizabeth quizzes them on pol comm theory and they tell her how ridiculous (or super helpful) that theory actually is.
Wonks and War Rooms
Assemblages with Naomi Sayers
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Elizabeth chats with lawyer Naomi Sayers about Assemblages. From @IndigiBot to bad date reporting to corporate complaint hierarchies, they've got lots of examples of Assemblages. They show how thinking about the system of people, organizations, tools, technology, and the relationships between each can be pretty useful.
Additional resources:
- This academic article by Chadwick: The political information cycle in a hybrid news system: The British prime minister and the “Bullygate” affair
- The Hybrid Media System: Politics and Power, tumblr site
- The Wikipedia article on Assemblages Theory is a start. Follow the references.
Check out www.polcommtech.ca for annotated transcripts of this episode in English and French.
