Has Twitter changed the world? Social media and Scottish politics
Thursday August 25
1.30 – 2.30pm Room P1.02
Scottish Parliament, Holyrood Road
This event is free to attend
(Registration required at www.festivalofpolitics.org.uk )
This year’s Festival of Politics in Edinburgh runs from 20 – 27 August and presents a diverse programme of events bringing together politics, media and the arts through performance, discussion and debate. One theme of this year’s Festival is an exploration of how technological and cultural revolutions are influencing politics in an increasingly transparent and interactive world. The Hansard Society will be hosting an event which will consider whether the use of Twitter (and other social media) by participants in events such as the Arab spring has lessons for parliamentary democracies like Scotland.
Chair:
- Lesley Riddoch – journalist and broadcaster
Speakers:
- Andy Williamson – Hansard Society Director of Digital Democracy,
- Peter Cruickshank – Research Fellow, International Teledemocracy Centre, Edinburgh Napier University.
- Joan McAlpine MSP – SNP
- Kezia Dugdale MSP – Scottish Labour
For further information on the Hansard Society event at the Festival of Politics, contact Virginia Gibbons, Head of Communications at the Hansard Society on 020 7438 1225 or mediaprog@hansard.lse.ac.uk
Editors’ Notes
- Find out more about the Festival of Politics programme and tickets :
- Online from www.festivalofpolitics.org.uk
- By telephone: 0131 473 2000 (calls via RNID Typetalk: 18001 0131 473 2000)
- By post: to the Festival of Politics, Hub Tickets, The Hub, Castlehill, Edinburgh, EH1 2NE.
- In person: The Scottish Parliament or The Hub.
- Full details of the festival programme are available from www.festivalofpolitics.org.uk
- The Hansard Society is the UK’s leading non-partisan political research and education charity which exists to strengthen parliamentary democracy and encourage greater public involvement in politics. (http://www.hansardsociety.org.uk/)