Stories and Streams, Week 1: Exploring the Education and Olympic Context @BCUMedia #media2012
Today kicked off the first ever joint Online Journalism and Alternative Media 2nd year production module at Birmingham City University. After spending some time (re)developing the model for delivery, this morning was where we put our shared google documents into practice. Process: News Conference and Forming of Groups After an hour long news conference (video above shows format), where students were encouraged to explore the potential issues and research questions to aid their future investigations, they were asked to complete a short questionnaire (based on skills and interests) in order to establish which role they were be given for the …
Stories and Streams: Introduction to Alternative Media and Web Production @BCUMedia #media2012
Following on from last year’s #mc539 Alternative Media and Web Production (AM&WP) module at Birmingham City University, which I had an active role in developing as a course and was encouraged to be shared online beyond the classroom through a class blog and the #media2012 network - this year we (Jon Hickman and myself) have collaborated with Paul Bradshaw and his 2nd year Online Journalism (OJ) module to produce, what we hope, is an innovative approach to teaching both OJ and AM&WP as a working newsroom behind an online content management system, where both sets of students from each module will work …
Countering the Olympics: Reflections from Saturday’s meeting.
Tweets and media from counter the olympics meet 28th Jan 2011
Talk at Leicester’s @docfilmfestival: Olympic Games and the rise of social media documentary
via Community Media Hub Flickr This weekend I was asked by John Coster, editor of Citizen’s Eye and the curator of Leicester’s Documentary Film Festival to give a talk around the forthcoming Olympics and the rise of social media documentary around megaevents. Using a couple of slides from this presentation and showing a number of clips from a youtube playlist I prepared earlier, I gave an hour-long talk (which could have been much longer tbh) around themes of citizen media and resistance around the games. Ambrose Musiyiwa very kindly interviewed me after the talk as part of his CivicLeicester project [video …
Social Media for the School of the Midwifery Workshop #uwsltas
Yesterday I had the absolute pleasure of running a session about social media for the school of midwifery at the University of the West of Scotland, something, based on my experiences when trying out new contexts, that I thought would be an unusual request and a challenging topic to deliver. It turns out that it was actually one of the most engaging sessions that I had done in a long time, and so far removed from the backlash that I am used to hearing from at least within my own discipline. Although I had prepared some materials, I decided that …
How to use social media as a London 2012 gamesmaker (remixed) #media2012 #occupy2012
Over the past couple of days, the London Organising Commitee of the Olympic Game’s (LOCOG) official guidelines for social media policy has emerged publicly. There have been some reports relating to the Olympic Gamesmakers, the voluntary labour force who are essential to the smooth running of the event this summer, and their use of social media. That being, not to use it. Especially if they are going to document their personal stories as gamesmakers in a journalistic way. Although the document is apparently shared on a volunteer-only training site, so difficult to access, the BBC, the official media broadcaster for …