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 …
Roundup of Leicester’s Community Media Week 2011
This week I’ve been busy taking part in my second community media week (CMW) in Leicester (hosted by Citizen’s Eye and their amazing volunteers) Last year’s CMW I organised an Olympic Conversations discussion (as part of #media2012) at the Pedestrian Arts space in Leicester’s cultural quarter, which was very usual in terms of what the next steps would be in terms of kick starting a national network of citizen reporters working on amplifying alternative stories around the London 2012 Olympics (part of my PhD research project.) Let’s Talk I’ve been involved in a few events this time, the first being …
#Media2012 EastMidlands (6th June, 2011 – Leicester)
I will be co-organising (alongside citizen’s eye) a #media2012 event in Leicester on the 6th of June. If you are interested in participating in or organizing your own media centre as part of the nationwide citizen media network during the 2012 Olympics, the 6th of June would be a good place to start. Event Schedule There will be a meeting of the #media2012 network on the 6th of June at the Phoenix Square Digital Media Centre in Leicester. The event will be hosted by Citizen’s Eye and will form part of a week’s worth of activities for Community Media Week. The time table will be as …