Project: Stories and Streams, week 8: #media2012 as an assignment brief revisited
After the classroom restructuring in the previous session, this week was used to define the #media2012 west midlands brief for the remaining alternative media and web production (AM and WP) students to take them through the processes to complete their final 100 percent portfolio task due in May. The brief The AM&WP cohort will now be working together as a group (rather than part of an online journalism investigation) and will form the basis of the #media2012 west midlands hub for during the Olympics and Paralympic Games. In this task, each member of the group is given a title and …
Project: Help Me Investigate the Olympics #media2012
Through the work that I have been doing at Birmingham City University and collaboration with Paul Bradshaw on the Online Journalism and Alternative Media module, we have launched a new Help Me Investigate site focusing on the Olympic Games, to provide support, help and resources for people exploring critical aspects of the mega events. Along with Paul, I’ll be curating submissions and adding posts relating to documents, data, links, questions and other information relating to all aspects of the Olympic Games, beyond the remit of sport. More details about Help Me Investigate is available on Paul’s website, the online journalism …
Project: Stories and Streams, Week 3 – Incorporating Feedback, (27-4) Support & Learning Outcomes.
For more context and posts on the Stories and Streamsproject, check out the website. Today’s class was the first week that it felt that the majority of the students had a clear understanding of their role in the group and how they are working as a class as a whole, with most of them having already published aspects of their investigation online, using a content management system and linking to distribution social media accounts (albeit a personal or investigation specific twitter or Facebook account) There are three points of interest that have emerged on reflection of today: Feedback and Evolving …
Presentation: What does a Citizen Journalist want?: Alternative Media and Activist Rhetoric in Cyberculture (#virtualfutures University of Warwick, 19th-20th June, 2011)
Last weekend saw the return of Virtual Futures, a cult conference at the University of Warwick that 15 years ago addressed some of the leading discussions in cyberculture and emerging technologies. I was honoured have a abstract accepted as part of the event, on a panel entitled “Socially Mediated Futures.” The first draft of the paper is on my PhD notebook (where I hope to expand some of these early ideas into some activities, rather than simply ‘research’ as part of the Third University) and the abstract and slides are below. What does the citizen journalist want? Alternative Media and …