Burns, Alex

Contributions

• Oblique Strategies for Ambient Journalism
  Articles
  Alfred Hermida recently posited ‘ambient journalism’ as a new framework for para- and professional journalists, who use social networks like Twitter for story sources, and as a news delivery platform. Beginning with this framework, this article explores the following questions: How does Hermida define ‘ambient journalism’ and what is its significance? Are there alternative definitions? What...Read more
  M/C Journal Vol. 13 No. 2 (2010): ambient
• Doubting the Global War on Terror
  Articles
        Photograph by Gonzalo Echeverria (2010)Declaring War Soon after Al Qaeda’s terrorist attacks on 11 September 2001, the Bush Administration described its new...Read more
  M/C Journal Vol. 14 No. 1 (2011): doubt