PERPETUAL ENGAGEMENT: the potential and pitfalls of using social media for political campaigning (a new POLIS paper)

We live in an age where the citizen feels increasingly sceptical about and disconnected from those people who run our lives. Paradoxically, this is also an era when the communicative power of new media technologies mean that the potential for interaction between voter and politicians has never been greater. In this new POLIS report, to be launched at our Media and Power conference this Friday, Stella Creasy MP attempts to square that circle.