Since January, we have been monitoring the social media accounts of the groups contesting the EU referendum, for both content and the way that they frame their arguments. The killing of Jo Cox on Thursday last week provided a natural experiment of the worst kind, with all sides halting campaigning from approximately Thursday lunchtime to […]
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This post might annoy you. It might annoy you because I’m not going to give you a simple “how I think you should vote” piece, even though you’re probably sick to your back teeth of such pieces. This referendum has been marked as much by questions of who to trust as it has on any […]
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With last than a week to go until the EU referendum, the campaigns on both sides are now in overdrive. Since late January, we have been following the social media campaigns, particularly on Twitter, to understand better the messages that different groups are making, the way in which they frame and the extent to which […]
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One of the greatest inventions of human civilisation is democracy. A system of managing our common affairs through debate, compromise and consensus, the willingness to pursue a peaceful way to settling our differences is surely something that we should applaud. It is also something we should fight for. The murder of Jo Cox yesterday was […]
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If you’re whether we’re near the end of this campaign, then our first chart should deal with any residual doubts. The past week has seen an explosion of activity by all groups, far in excess of any other point since our monitoring began in late January. Not only did the two official groups produce over […]
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Looking around in these final weeks before the 23 June vote, there hasn’t much reason to feel that the EU referendum has come to occupy a central place in the lives of the British public. While the papers and the news programmes have been full of stories and arguments, this hasn’t seemed to fully translate […]
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