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I’m off to Greenbelt Festival at the weekend, and this year I’m on the team creating a print newspaper for the festival. I blogged last year (when I was just starting out here) about the newspaper they gave out at the festival – a 16-page freesheet called While We Were Here, made possible only at [...]
What I wanted to do today was to write a blog post about how authorial identity affects the construction of meaning in articles published online. I wanted to use @caitlinmoran’s brilliant interview with Lady Gaga to talk about how Roland Barthes‘ 1977 essay on the Death of the Author might apply (a) to construction of [...]
Alison Gow recently wrote an excellent post suggesting that newsrooms should get rid of the dummy – the page plan that tells print new teams what space we need to fill in the paper and where. She said: Everywhere I’ve worked it’s been called something different – The Book, The Plan, The Dummy, the Flatplan [...]
Download now or preview on posterous HSHletter9.pdf (1283 KB) There’s a cake shop next door, a giant hamster over the road and soldiers are fighting zombies on the roof. MARY HAMILTON welcomes you to the new-look Evening News. Breaking news: the postman has delivered a letter. That’s how most of the news comes in to [...]
This blog is called Metamedia after a term coined in 1964 by Marshall McLuhan to talk about the hypothetical effects of mass media. Metamedia refers to the hybridising and cross-pollination of media and technologies. It implies a multi-discipline approach, breaking down traditional barriers between disciplines and collaborating across multiple media. This space will, I hope, [...]
Forgive me, Internet. It has been one week since my last confession. In my defence I’ve been on holiday, seeing small children, visiting zoos, discussing at length the appropriate naming of Lego Star Wars characters with jetpacks and purple lightsabers (Mace Fett or Bobba Windu, we decided), and going to Greenbelt. Greenbelt. Britain’s least-known and [...]
Mary Hamilton is an award-winning journalist, constant learner, asipring coder, casual hardcore gamer and enthusiastic amateur data wrangler. You can contact her via Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn or email her at mary at maryhamilton dot co dot uk.
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