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Andy Dickinson

Andy Dickinson

Andy is a Senior lecturer in Journalism at Manchester Metropolitan University where he is the program lead for the MA Multimedia Journalism.

📍 Manchester

The connected middle class: Ofcom and civic internet use

OFCOM have released their Adults’ media use and attitudes report for 2015 [http://stakeholders.ofcom.org.uk/market-data-research/other/research-publications/adults/media-lit-10years/] . It’s a report that is always worth a read through. This is the ten year anniversary edition with a good deal of

Open data: What can we expect from the conservatives?

We have a conservative government in the UK for the next five years. I’ve been looking at open data a lot for some research that I’m doing so I wanted to cast a proper eye over their manifesto [https://www.conservatives.com/manifesto] to see what was on

Open data overload:yorkopendata and #localdata15

For the last week it’s feels like my life has been all about opendata. My immersion into the world of open data that started last Friday with my trip up to Leeds for the DataDive [http://digidickinson.net/2015/04/20/refelcting-on-the-leeds-datadive/], continued with two

Reflecting on the Leeds #Datadive

Last Friday night, I found myself in a sun filled loft workshop in Leeds. All the people in the room seemed to be in one corner, but that’s where the (free) bar was. Tables are set out in rows. Solid wood and rubber topped refugees from the re-fit

How can you spot a digital native? Check their little finger.

Apropos of nothing really, I got into an interesting chat with some of the third-year journalism students about how our use of social media would evolve. I wondered aloud about how the physical way we access information might change us. [https://i1.wp.com/res.cloudinary.com/digidickinson/image/

The most important code you can learn: the hyperlink

<a href="http://andydickinson.net" > Andy's site </a> It’s amazing isn’t it? How something so simple can be so fundamental. In this world of content management systems, data journalism, javascript, python and all the other coding and technological innovations we

Oborne and the fetish for old school journalism

Like many in the media industry I’ve been confronted with a wall of coverage around Peter Oborne’s resignation from the Telegraph [https://www.opendemocracy.net/ourkingdom/peter-oborne/why-i-have-resigned-from-telegraph] . I read his piece when it came out but have sat on my thoughts.

Light the flaming torches and stand back: Are you a good leader of your social media mob?

I’m pulling together my yearly online journalism ethics lecture. It’s the fifth-ish lecture on this module (some previous ones online [http://digidickinson.net/?s=ethics]) and the fast-moving nature of this stuff means I’m really starting from scratch but I always go back to previous

On #adviceforyoungjournalists

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Data Journalism: Meyerism and Vox's new data team.

A few weeks back I wrote a post about Data Journalism and how it was defined [http://digidickinson.net/2015/01/23/when-is-data-journalism-not-data-journalism/] (on Wikipedia at least). So I was interested to read Vox’s take on it when they announced, last Wednesday, that