Professor Helen Margetts, Professor Peter John, Dr Scott Hale, and Dr Taha Yasseri have won the W. J. M. Mackenzie Book Prize at the Political Studies Association (PSA)’s Annual Awards in Westminster on 5 December 2017. Now in its 16th year, the PSA Awards pays tribute to those that have made outstanding contributions to politics in the past year. Political Turbulence: How Social Media Shape Collective Action investigates political mobilization in a digital world. As people go about their daily lives using social media, such as Twitter and Facebook, they are invited to support myriad political causes by sharing, liking, [...]

Rhys Crilley reviewed Political Turbulence in "Political Studies Review" One of the major strengths of Political Turbulence includes the authors' ability to make complex concepts from a variety of disciplines easily understandable and applicable to analysing social media. They manage to navigate the reader deftly through disciplinary borders and a deep ocean of data while never losing sight of the political significance of their findings. Indeed, such an inter-disciplinary perspective is exactly what is needed when making sense of politics in the age of social media. ...more The full review appears in Crilley, R. (2017). Book Review: Helen Margetts, Peter [...]

Author Helen Margetts spoke to Hendrik Lehmann of Digital Present on the opportunities and risks for politics in the age of social media. The article, in German, is available on the website of Digital Present. Für eine bessere Politik müssen wir Forderungen an Facebook und Twitter stellen Die Oxford-Professorin Helen Margetts spricht im Interview über Chancen und Risiken von Politik im Zeitalter von Social Media. Frau Margetts, in Ihrem Buch »Political Turbulence« argumentieren Sie, dass sich politische Systeme, ähnlich wie das Wetter, immer chaotischer verhalten. Warum? Zum einen generieren politische Systeme heute in einer Art Daten, wie sie es vorher [...]