Digital PR

99 New Social Media Stats for 2012 | The Social Skinny by @carapring thesocialskinny.com/99-new-social-… 1 week ago
International Economic Trends, May 2012: bit.ly/IITp6V via Google+ ow.ly/aMpLN & Charts, graphs & trends world wide. 1 week ago
World of Work Report 2012: Better Jobs for a Better Economy ow.ly/aMpIZ via Google+ ow.ly/aMpLN & ow.ly/aMpNu 1 week ago
The Emergence of a New Platform: Ubiquitous Real-time Video ow.ly/aDo73 via ow.ly/aDogs and ow.ly/aDok5 Enjoy! 2 weeks ago
A new take on connectivity ow.ly/aAfXm by astrophysicist Dr. Neil DeGrasse Tyson via ow.ly/aAfYu & ow.ly/aAfYK 3 weeks ago

Photography

How to make a Windex Bottle look beautiful. Post-production part. May 18, 2012
Recently we had a Google+ "Studio Photography Insights" Hangout assignment to shoot a Windex bottle. Below I will describe a post-production part of this project in outline way. Continue reading: How to make a Windex Bottle look beautiful. Post-production part. […]
alex@koloskov.com (Photigy.com)
G+ Photographer’s conference: the product shot announcement May 17, 2012
This is what I am going to shoot during the studio product shot during G+ Photographer's conference. Continue reading: G+ Photographer’s conference: the product shot announcement […]
alex@koloskov.com (Photigy.com)
Studio Photography Insights: shooting sunglasses May 17, 2012
This week assignment was a sunglasses shot. We even had a little demonstration from my one light shot during the hangout. Article featuring a weekly assignments results, the video from the hangout and the next assignment. Continue reading: Studio Photography Insights: shooting sunglasses […]
alex@koloskov.com (Photigy.com)
Bill Cahill BTS Video: sneak peek from the best shots May 17, 2012
This is an interesting BTS video compilation from a great studio product and advertisement photographer Bill Cahill. In this video, I found many little but very interesting things on how to achieve particular effect right from the camera. Continue reading: Bill Cahill BTS Video: sneak peek from the best shots […]
alex@koloskov.com (Photigy.com)
Alex Koloskov’s guest post on ScottKelby.com May 16, 2012
An announce of my guest post on ScottKelby.com: it is BTS from one of our latest shots, "the Milky iPhone". Continue reading: Alex Koloskov’s guest post on ScottKelby.com […]
alex@koloskov.com (Photigy.com)
Studio Photography Insights: An Audio speaker shot May 9, 2012
An Audio speakers shot assignment results., Curated by me and +Dave Nitsche on #studiophotographyinsights Thank you for all who participated on the assignment: +Timothy Kou +Steve Savoie +Paul Bartell +Mohammad Ali +Jeff Creech +Noah Katz +Nick Spirov +Chris Kryzanek +Sylvain Millier +Steven Scott +Jeremy Guinaugh +Keith Holdaway and +Terry Croom (I couldn’t […]
alex@koloskov.com (Photigy.com)
Dodge and Burn Technique and our little cartoonish family at a strawberry field. May 7, 2012
I like this cartoonish look, which I see on movie posters and advertisements, and I try to reproduce this look in my pictures. I used a different workflow for each image for experimenting, however the main technique for such a look is a Dodge and Burn. I will describe it below. Continue reading: Dodge and Burn Technique and our little cartoonish family at a […]
alex@koloskov.com (Photigy.com)

Internet Politics

The latest title in the Oxford University Press book series I... May 9, 2012
The latest title in the Oxford University Press book series I edit, Oxford Studies in Digital Politics, has just been published: The MoveOn Effect: The Unexpected Transformation of American Political Advocacy, by David Karpf. Click here for more detail on the book. Click here for more detail on the book series and forthcoming titles. Happy reading! Amazon U. […]
On Instagram and Temporal Authenticity March 1, 2012
Last night, Tom Standage tweeted a link to an interesting piece about the merits or otherwise of the popular photo editing and sharing service, Instagram. I retweeted Tom’s link and followed this up with the point that the main problem with Instagram is that these retro effects look great now, but will you really want to look at these photos in five or ten y […]
The latest title in the book series I edit, Oxford Studies in... February 23, 2012
The latest title in the book series I edit, Oxford Studies in Digital Politics, has just been published: News on the Internet: Information and Citizenship in the 21st Century, by David Tewksbury and Jason Rittenberg. Click here for more detail on the book. Click here for more detail on the book series and forthcoming titles. The book is available now in the […]
My Newly-Published Article in "Connecting Democracy" January 9, 2012
My 2009 journal article, “Web 2.0: New Challenges for the Study of E-Democracy in an Era of Informational Exuberance,” which originally appeared in I/S: A Journal of Law and Policy for the Information Society 5 (1), pp. 9-41, has now been reprinted in Stephen Coleman’s and Peter Shane’s excellent new edited volume, Connecting Democracy: Online Consultation a […]
Workshop: Digital Methods: Tools for Analysis November 10, 2011
Workshop: Digital Methods: Tools for Analysis: I can’t make it up to Manchester for this conference due to a clash with teaching, but Rob Procter and Rachel Gibson are presenting some preliminary findings from a pilot study of mining public opinion on Twitter, on which I’ve collaborated: “An Experiment in Opinion Mining Tweets” by Rob Procter, Manchester eRe […]
November 2: Speaking at Hansard Society/University of Manchester Debate on Social Media and Campaigning October 24, 2011
Building an Effective Social Media Campaign: A Roundtable Debate 2.00–6.00 pm, 2 November, The Attlee Suite, Portcullis House, Westminster Organised by the University of Manchester and the Hansard Society This roundtable, organised as part of the ESRC Festival of Social Science and taking place during Parliament Week (Oct 31 – Nov 6) brings together academic […]
"The Hybrid Media System"—My Paper for the ECPR Next Week August 20, 2011
Update: You can now download my paper here. Here’s the abstract. And here’s the panel I’m on, ably assembled by Bruce Bimber and Lance Bennett. I’ll also be a discussant on a further panel in the Internet and Politics section. This paper combines theory and empirical analysis to explore recent systemic change in the nature of political communication. Drawing […]

e.politcs

Democrats Worried about Big Money Skewing Congressional Races: Organize Online, and Do It Now May 20, 2012
Saturday’s Washington Post article about big conservative money flooding into House and Senate races is just the latest sign of this year’s changing post-Citizens United political landscape. The fear among Democrats? That wealthy Republicans will pour so much money into down-ballot races that Democratic congressional candidates will be blown out of the water […]
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Key 2012 Tech Trends, Part Three: Twitter Duels, Faster Politics, and the Importance of Integration May 18, 2012
This is the third of four parts of a larger article I wrote for the Campaigns & Elections special edition on the CampaignTech conference, which is shipping with the current issue of the magazine. This piece appeared earlier in the C&E blog, and see also Part One, Retail vs. Wholesale Online Politics, and Part Two, [...]New Epolitics.com e-book " […]
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Key 2012 Tech Trends, Part Two: Data-Driven Politics and an Advertising Explosion May 17, 2012
This is the second of four parts of a larger article I wrote for the Campaigns & Elections special edition on the CampaignTech conference, which is shipping with the current issue of the magazine. This piece appeared earlier in the C&E blog, and see also Part One, Retail vs. Wholesale Online Politics Data-Driven Politics: Should [...]New Epolitics.co […]
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Key 2012 Tech Trends, Part One: Retail vs. Wholesale Online Politics May 16, 2012
This article is the first of four parts of a larger article I wrote for the Campaigns & Elections special edition on the CampaignTech conference, which is shipping with the current issue of the magazine. This piece also appeared in the C&E blog. If C&E's CampaignTech conference is any indication, online politicos are going to [...]New Epolit […]
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Republican Vice Presidential Contenders on Social Media: By the Numbers May 15, 2012
This just came in over the proverbial transom: basic social media numbers on several politicians being mentioned as potential Romney Vice Presidential picks. These data were compiled by experienced digital marketer Al DiGuido, about whom you can learn more at AlDiGuido.com. Note that Marco Rubio leads the pack, for what it’s worth — as we’ve [...]New Epoliti […]
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