Reflection: Education for the crisis? Notes from #e4c, 29th March
This blog post has been burning in my head since last week, feeling (rightly so) equally troubled, inspired and generally itchy about the whole subject area so excuse me if I get all ramble-y in places, I’m still working this out in my own head. Last week I was invited along (with around 40 others) to be part of a discussion group that was looking at education for the crisis. There were some people there who are good friends, people who I had never met but been following for twitter (in some cases, for years), some who I had came …
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 …
#media2012: Citizen Media and the Olympic Games (Presentation for DMU, 9th Feb)
On the 9th of February, I was invited to give a paper as part of the open research seminar series at De Montfort University’s Media and Communications department. It’s been a timely week to speak some more about #media2012 (following our involvement with the Podium Olympics, HE and FE conference on the 8th – more to follow) – and I was really excited to present to and (finally) meet with some of the other people from my department (I work a couple of hours a week at DMU, but I rarely get the chance to participate in school activities…) I gave a …