Social Media for Research: Open Resource and Reflection for #MASocialMedia
I would like to share the session that I had prepared for a guest workshop that I was to deliver to this year’s MA in Social Media. Something, judging on last year’s session – and the 6 other sessions that I’ve delivered over the last 3-4 weeks, I was looking forward to trying out and exploring using social media as a research context. As it never got past the initial discussion “what is research?” I can safely say that it didn’t work well for this particular cohort’s expectations. What I can do, instead, is offer up the entire workshop as a resource …
Occupying the Olympics: What can be done? (From @tentcityuni) #occupy2012
It was timely to hold a session at the Tent City University within the Occupy London camp on the notion of occupying the Olympics a day prior to the Independent reporting that the government are looking to ban demonstrations during the games next year. It emphasised completely what is going to happen, and what will happen, as the government cannot afford to allow for the games to fail (both financially, politically and internationally) – they will move the (*cringe for sports-related metaphor*) goalposts, whatever they are currently, to ensure that when the eye of the (carefully briefed and paying-customers) world’s media is upon …
On Citizen Media: Types, Governance and Education. #media2012
One of the groups who have got behind the #media2012 project in the North-West are a arts and media organisation called Let’s Go Global, based in Old Trafford, Greater Manchester . They’ve been using the #media2012 initiative as a mechanism for providing ‘citizen journalism’ training to volunteers from around the region, specifically focussing on covering arts and culture in the northwest during the Cultural Olympiad 2012 festival. This evening I was invited to Manchester’s Cornerhouse, under my role as #media2012 coordinator, to give a quick talk about citizen media and the Olympics to the group and their volunteers and introduce …
Occupying the Olympics: The Future of Education and #OccupyLSX
#occupylsx (photo credit: @andymiah) Reposted from the Creative Futures Research Centre blog: On Saturday 19th November, cf. Associate Jennifer Jones will give a talk at Tent City University, a space within the #OccupyLSX where people can “learn, share knowledge and develop skills through a wide series of workshops, lectures, debates, films, games, praxis and action.” The Occupy movement has captured the attention of the world’s media in the last few months, drawing attention to the need for governments to reconsider how they organize the global economy. cf. Director Professor Andy Miah said: “At the cf. we are committed to thinking of more …
On why I will never *teach* social media again. #RP2NOTT #uwsltas
This is the second year that I’ve delivered social media workshops to the PhD student community at UWS through the Innovation and Research Office (IRO) – last year, I reflected on the content of the workshop, which although I encouraged IRO to let me teach people in the bar area of the student union (instead of in a classroom – I wanted to break the hierarchy that is enforced through teaching space, I was student teaching students and I was experimenting with what we had), it was still very much a workshop where I talked at people for 3hrs and …
Media Publication: In support for #nov9 #solidarity (for Guardian Higher Education Network)
Last week Eliza Anyangwe from the Guardian Higher Education network got in touch, asking if I would provide a vox-pop for an article “Professional perspectives on the student protests” (I’m a professional, lol!) – which I am always happy to oblige, especially in support for the recent protest on the 9th and the forthcoming strike action on the 30th of November. For me, as a final year PhD student, and part of the early career researcher community, we need to show a united front and work together to raise awareness in the discrepancies in not only the provision of cheap post-graduate labour, but …
Update on @UWSDigital & Social Media for the South of Scotland Surgeries
We are at the half-way point of the first part of the research project I’ve been assisting with, providing social media support to communities in the south of Scotland. In the last 2 weeks, I’ve visited two locations, as part of the UWSDigital team in Dumfries and Galloway (Aston Hotel, Dumfries and The CatStrand (a community arts venue in New Galloway)) to provide one-to-one dedicated support to over 30 businesses in 4 days. We have two more sessions to run in The Town House Hotel, Melrose, situated in the Scottish Borders, at the end of November – but so far, we have …