As part of our electronic outreach efforts, we plan to video-cast many more Embassy events. We will also allow viewers to post questions to those events which have audience partication such as our recent U.S. Elections 2008 panel discussions.
16th July 2008
As part of the Embassy's focus on the U.S. Presidential elections, YouGovStone, the Financial Times and Embassy London co-sponsored Politics & Pundits – The Influence of Talk Media on Elections and Democracy". Stephanie Miller and Neal Boortz -- stars of U.S. talk radio -- as well as Yasmin Alibhai-Brown and Nick Ferrari of the UK shared their own views on how talk radio affects their listeners' political decisions.
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15 May 2008
The Embassy's Public Affairs section held the first of a three event series on U.S. Election 2008 themes organized with the partnership of local opinion pollster and events organizer YouGovStone. For this inaugural event, Digital Politics - Effects of the Information Age on the 2008 U.S. Election and Beyond, a panel of U.S. and UK experts examined how the internet and other forms of "new media" (blogging, social networks, video sharing, etc) are influencing the conduct of the 2008 U.S. presidential campaign, as well as electoral politics in the UK.
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