Presentation: Occupying the Olympics, the use of social media to subvert the course of justice.
On Friday 24th February, I presented a paper that was accepted at the 6th Annual Politics, Sport and Media Conference at Southampton Solent University. I presented the prelim ‘findings’ of a paper that reflects the thought piece that I wrote for the British Library and I aim to review and use as a wider, ongoing study in the coming months. The slides, mainly visuals prompts more than anything, are below: Occupying the Olympics: The Use of social media to subvert the course of justice. View more presentations from Jennifer Jones.
Countering the Olympics: Reflections from Saturday’s meeting.
Tweets and media from counter the olympics meet 28th Jan 2011
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 …
Olympic Media: An Overview (Guest lecture for Ithaca College London)
As part of a series of workshops delivered around the Olympics to visiting students from Ithaca Collage in the states, I was invited to speak about Olympic media and give an overview of its history and its challenges. The session was roughly two hours long and covered media contexts, history of Olympic media, media technology and the games and some of the research case studies that I’ve been working on around Vancouver 2010 and London 2012. The prezi from the workshop is below: Olympic Media:: An Overview on Prezi