Conferences and Events
Social Media Strategies: guest workshop at the BIAD, Birmingham (20th of July, 2010)
On the 20th of July, I was invited to host a workshop at the Birmingham Institute of Art and Design (BIAD) Research Summer School about using Social Media to promote research. As promised, I’m sticking the presentation online so that those who were there can get a little bit more information based on the discussions that [...]
The Depth of Digital Participation: Measuring the Unmeasurable, BCU: 19th July, 2010
On the 19th of July, Birmingham City University hosted a seminar on “Measuring the Unmeasurable” – a discussion led event to explore the meaning and the measurement of digital participation, focusing on the areas of reach, breadth and depth set out by the Digital Britain report. The event was targeted towards academics from broad “digital” [...]
Presentation at MeCCSA PGN Conference 2010: Olympics 2.0: #Van2010 Edition
At the MeCCSA PGN Annual Conference (30th June – 1st of July, 2010), I presented a paper on Vancouver 2010 and Independent Media on the Mediating Sports on Screen panel. I sought to present a paper which explained the Olympic context and how the movement could be used to situate discussion relating to emerging media [...]
Live Blog: Access All Areas: Symposium on User Generated Content, 21st of May 2010 (Bristol, UK) #aaa
This is the record for the UWE’s symposium on User Generated Content (blog here: http://accessareas.wordpress.com, http://dcrc.org.uk)
Poster Presentation at UWS: Part 2
It’s been a week since I made my presentation at the UWS research student poster event last Friday and as promised, I am concluding the experience by writing up Part 2 of my reflections. Overall, the event was an excellent opportunity to meet other PhD students from my school and from other departments in the University – as well as being asked questions about research work from professionals and academics in the wider community.
New Publication: Amplified Staff Development
Published in ALT (Association for Learning and Teaching) Newsletter (Volume 19), Amplified Staff Development (Jennifer Jones, Jo Badge, Stuart Johnson, Alan Cann)
Poster Presentation at UWS: Part 1
Over the weekend you might have heard me tweeting constantly about creating a poster for University. Unfortunately this poster was not made from coloured card, highlighters and glitter glue (media studies yey!), it was for the upcoming postgraduate event at my university (University of the West of Scotland) where I will be presenting next week. [...]
Citizen media and the Olympics
On the 27th of March, I was asked to give a quick informal presentation on citizen media and the Olympics at Nottingham Media Camp II. I felt this was a good opportunity to begin working with Vancouver data and to try out new ideas (especially those related to the Olympics) in a space which was not purely focused on academic presentation.
Visualising the Olympics (at least for the next hour!)
Visuals are sweet- they help make sense of all that data swirling around. In terms of the Vancouver Games, I’m a little scared to check my archive as I fear that there may be hundreds of thousands of tweets, images and blog posts waiting for me to unpick when I get back to the UK [...]
Fresh Media Olympics Conference – and some afterthoughts
On very short notice, I was privileged to be asked to be on the “Harnessing social media for citizens” panel during the Fresh Media Olympics conference at W2 Arts and Culture House yesterday. After an inspiring and creative costume changing keynote from Andy Miah (@andymiah), discussing the past, present and future of Olympic media, this [...]
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