Fifteen years ago, author and business executive Tim O’Reilly coined the term “Web 2.0” to describe a new wave of networked communication and information technologies that were emerging on...
C’ est un cliché, mais le paysage médiatique est en constante transformation. Les médias d’information sont en perte de vitesse partout dans le monde, et le Canada ne fait...
Les gouvernements et partis politiques de nombreux pays sont aujourd’hui confrontés à des électeurs imprévisibles et désabusés. Ce sentiment d’une classe politique indifférente à leurs préoccupations ou incapable de...
The four years between elections is time enough for the resources, technology and tactics available to both the media and the political parties to change significantly. That alters the...
When the Senate expenses scandal hit in 2012, it left the parties scrambling to reform the deeply unpopular institution. Then-Prime Minister Stephen Harper had taken small steps over the...
The threat posed by disinformation on elections is well known. At First Draft, we have monitored false and misleading content that emerged in the lead-up to the 2016 US...
“Politicians like to tell people what they want to hear — and what they want to hear is what won’t happen.” Paul Samuelson In September 2006, a then relatively...
« Pourquoi n’as-tu pas serré les genoux [pour éviter de te faire agresser] ? » avait demandé le juge Robin Camp à une jeune victime d’agression sexuelle en 2017. « On peut...
