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Brown Moses - Investigating Conflict Zones Through Social Media Tuesday 13 May, 18:00-20.00 Birkbeck Main Building Torrington Square, London WC1E 7HX Speaker: Eliot Higgins This talk will explore the growing importance of open source information, in particular from social media sites such as YouTube, Twitter, and Facebook, in reporting and analyzing conflict. Eliot Higgins is an independent conflict analyst who has attained global recognition through his "Brown Moses <http://brown-moses.blogspot.co.uk/> " blog on the Syrian conflict, and last week he was named in Time magazine's list <http://time.com/83485/brown-moses-twitter-feeds-follow-2014/> of the most influential Twitter feeds of 2014. Drawing on extensive Arabic language Facebook, YouTube pages and Twitter feeds, his research focuses on collating, filtering and analyzing images and text from social media platforms that have, among other things, provided evidence of supplies of arms to various Syrian opposition groups, as well as chemical weapon usage by the Syrian armed forces. His investigations and research have been widely covered in global media. Admission is free but booking is essential - book here <http://brownmoses.eventbrite.co.uk/> Best, Tim Markham -- Dr Tim Markham Reader in Journalism and Media Head of Department, Film, Media and Cultural Studies Programme Director, MA/PGCert Journalism, BA Media and Business Applications Director of Graduate Research, Film, Media and Cultural Studies Assistant Dean for Retention, School of Arts Birkbeck, University of London 43 Gordon Square London WC1H 0PD tel: (020) 3073 8380 [log in to unmask] http://www.bbk.ac.uk/culture/our-staff/tim_markham http://birkbeck.academia.edu/TimMarkham Twitter: @TimMarkham -------------------------------------------------------- MeCCSA mailing list -------------------------------------------------------- To manage your subscription or unsubscribe from the MECCSA list, please visit: https://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/cgi-bin/webadmin?SUBED1=MECCSA&A=1 ------------------------------------------------------- MeCCSA is the subject association for the field of media, communication and cultural studies in UK Higher Education. This mailing list is a free service and is not restricted to members. It is an unmoderated list and content reflect the views of those who post to the list and not of MeCCSA as an organisation. MeCCSA recommends that the list be used only for posting of information (for example about events, publications, conferences, lectures) of interest to members or to promote discussion of current issues of wide general interest in the field. Posts to the MeCCSA mailing list are public, indexed by Google, and can be accessed from the JISCMail website (http://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/lists/meccsa.html). Any messages posted to the list are subject to the JISCMail acceptable use policy, which states that users should avoid engaging in unreasonable behaviour, or disrupting the general flow of discussion on a list. For further information, please visit: http://www.meccsa.org.uk/ --------------------------------------------------------