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Dear Oliver, Thank you for alerting the list to the existence of the Institute of Opinion website. I have a couple of questions, if I may. You say the Institute of Opinion "provides a platform for young people to ... develop a sound grounding in journalism." Please can you explain the way in which it does this? Also, http://www.instituteofopinion.com/about/ contains the following sentence: "With a lack of platforms for young people to share their views, IOO was founded by Thomas Aldred and Luke Douglas in July 2012." Given that Wordpress, Tumblr, Blogger, Facebook, YouTube, MySpace, Twitter, Identi.ca, LiveJournal, and a great many other websites which are also free of charge, and which provide platforms for young (and old) people to share their views on the public Web, had been in existence for some time by July 2012 and were widely known about among the world's community of Web users, and also given that more traditional mechanisms of publication (e.g. "zines", i.e. self-published magazines; comment pages, such as the Guardian's CiF section, in established news outlets; self-hosted websites) also continued to provide platforms upon which young people could potentially share views, please can you explain why Thomas and Luke thought there was a lack of such platforms? Many thanks, Sam On 05/09/2013, Oliver O’Hanlon <[log in to unmask]> wrote: > Dear Psci-Commers, > > > > The Institute of Opinion is a non-partisan, grassroots blog dedicated to > providing political and economic analysis and opinion on the latest issues > and news stories. It provides a platform for young people to state their > views and develop a sound grounding in journalism. The website currently > receives up to 4,000 unique readers per week. > > > > We are looking for contributors from across the political spectrum, of any > age or experience to contribute. We would welcome articles on > science-related topics that have a political, economic environmental slant. > Ideally, we are looking for people who can contribute articles regularly (1 > per week). This is a voluntary role and so there is no pressure on you to > contribute to set deadlines or timescales. > > > > Please do contact me if you are interested in contributing. Please send us > your CV, a short covering letter about yourself and an example of an article > that you have written recently to > [log in to unmask]<mailto:[log in to unmask]>. Please also > visit the website > www.instituteofopinion.com<http://www.instituteofopinion.com/>. > > > > Feel free to pass this email on to anyone who you think would be interested. > I look forward to hearing from you and them. > > > > Best wishes > > > > Oliver > > Editor, Institute of Opinion > > > > ********************************************************************** > > Commands - send an email (any subject) to [log in to unmask] with one > of the following messages (ignoring text in brackets) > > • set psci-com nomail (to stop receiving messages while on holiday) > • set psci-com mail (to resume getting messages) > • signoff psci-com (to leave the list) > • Subscribe here https://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/cgi-bin/webadmin?A0=psci-com > > Contact list owner at [log in to unmask] > Small print and JISCMail acceptable use policy > https://sites.google.com/site/pscicomjiscmail/the-small-print > > ********************************************************************** > ********************************************************************** Commands - send an email (any subject) to [log in to unmask] with one of the following messages (ignoring text in brackets) • set psci-com nomail (to stop receiving messages while on holiday) • set psci-com mail (to resume getting messages) • signoff psci-com (to leave the list) • Subscribe here https://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/cgi-bin/webadmin?A0=psci-com Contact list owner at [log in to unmask] Small print and JISCMail acceptable use policy https://sites.google.com/site/pscicomjiscmail/the-small-print **********************************************************************