Welcome to my scrapbook of things I’ve said about politics and social media, most of which are probably a bit embarrassing now.
Scroll down past that to read about the books and film I am featured in. Some more mortifying than others – but I have embraced my cringe.
The A-Z of Modern Research Podcast – Millennial Research Methods – 27/06/2017
DTTT – 32 defining challenges for DMOs – 24/02/2017
Global 387 – Top 3 mistakes digital marketers make – 09/02/2017
The Celebrity Cafe – How To Declutter Minds, Bodies, Homes for 2017 – 30/01/2017
Innovation Enterprise – Digital marketing mistakes to drop in 2017 – 06/01/2017
Ignyte – A Guide To Powering Your Product – 29/10/2016
The Haggerston Times – A Stellar Social Panel Discusses Tech and Humanity – 13/10/2016
Ditch The Label – GIRL POWER: Meet the girls planning world domination – 30/06/2016
BIMA 100 2016 – Rising Stars category – 12/05/2016
OZY – Please, stop calling us millennials – 03/04/2016
Kodework – 10 costly digital marketing mistakes you could be making – 28/02/2016
CIO: – 14 digital marketing mistakes and how to avoid them – 18/01/2016
Brid.tv – Industry experts: How will video marketing change in 2016? – 16/12/2015
Business News Daily – 10 Instagram Marketing Mistakes You Need to Stop Making – 14/12/2015
Time Magazine – What Men Share On Social Media But Not With You – 24/02/14
Emporium England – Jessica Riches: Style Icon – 10/12/13
PR Week – 30 Under 30 – 15/11/13
Channel 4 News – Live debate on Twitter’s IPO – 13/09/13
More! Magazine – Does Facebook Have You Under The Thumb? – 12/11/12
Pamflet – Fuck! I’m In My Twenties book launch – 11/09/12
Hound Magazine – The Birth of Political Consciousness – 01/03/12
Transition Voice – Twitter crucial to revolutions, but can it make us better people? – 09/01/12
London Stories – Jessica: Life as a “Twitter Guru” – 02/12/11
East London Lines – Activism event relights desire for radical change – 21/11/11
VisionOnTV – Little Miss Wilde at The Real Social Network premiere (video) – 02/11/11
Reuters – Analysis: Wall Street action part of Arab Spring? – 11/10/11
The Voice of Russia – Social Media behind Riots and Clean-Up (audio) – 11/08/11
Twin Magazine – Female Activists Feature – Issue IV
You Generation – ‘If people knew about Twitter, there’d be no need for newspapers’ – 01/04/11
The New Statesman – No drugs. No sex. And no leaders. (photo) – 31/01/11
Reuters – Protesters Prepare for Rising Anti-Cuts Action – 11/01/11
Putney Debater – ‘The Writing on the Wall is on the Web’ (video) – 11/01/11
The Guardian – ‘We need the Tories in power to unite the Left’ (video) – 10/01/11
Off The Cuff – Don’t Let the Tail Wag the Dog – 10/01/11
Kieronam – Online Activism is Useless if it Doesn’t Lead to Real-World Action – 10/01/11
Inter Kant – Report on Netroots UK Conference – 09/01/11
Channel 4 News – Tuition Fees Plans for Poor Students ‘Won’t Work’ (video) – 08/01/11
The New Statesman – How Twitter Changed the Face of Dissent – 20/12/10
Reuters – Twitter Gets Political – 08/12/10
ITV London News – Student Protests (video) – 07/12/10
London Review of Books – Inside the Occupation – 06/12/10
The Guardian – The New Age of Student Protest – 29/11/10
Journalist Marie Le Conte‘s brilliant 2022 book Escape: How a generation shaped, destroyed and survived the internet is a fascinating insight into growing up online. We had some great conversations about how we experienced this, relating to our political activism, and also the strange pain of the things we’ve lost to internet evolutions.
I feature in former BBC Newsnight / Channel 4 News economist Paul Mason‘s 2012 book Why It’s Kicking Off Everywhere: The New Global Revolutions – talking about my Internet use for social change and general socialising. It also has my overly honest quote ‘I tweet in my dreams’ as a chapter title.
Kitchen Sink Films and Quark Films have made a wonderful 2012 documentary called The Real Social Network about the use of new media and technology in our ‘new generation of protest’. I’m quite a main character in it and awkwardly refer to myself as ‘the Queen of Twitter’. Read about it here.
Jessica Riches 