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university wins funding for two year research project to find out how social media is changing the way we live

Anglia Research Centre in Digital Culture (ARC Digital) - a part of Anglia Ruskin

University - has won a bid for research funds from Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC) to complete a project to look at the way global digital communications is changing politics.

The two year project ‘Exploring New Configurations in Network Politics', beginning in October, has been awarded backing of £36,542 to help facilitate the research and generate a permanent on-line resource in network politics and culture.

Leading the research will be Dr Joss Hands, Senior Lecturer in Communication and Media and Dr Jussi Parikka, Reader in Media Theory and History and Pathway Leader for Media Studies. Both are Co-Directors of ARC Digital. Speaking about the research, Dr Hands said: ‘The traditional process of voting for a candidate every four years and letting the elected get on with it is changing, the fast flow of communication and the capacity of ordinary people to become their own source of information is creating many interesting and profound shifts in power and expectations of politics, and we want to explore how and with what consequences.'