Panel discussion: Birmingham School of Media Production Event (1st February, 2012)
Last week I was invited to speak on an industry panel at the launch of the Birmingham School of Media production event at Fazeley Studios, Digbeth. The Production Event is a first year module in the BA Media and Communication degree at The Birmingham School of Media within Birmingham City University. As part of their studies all first year media students (around 180 of them) will be involved in organising a one day “event” which is based around a different theme each year. The idea is to give them an opportunity to practise the skills they have learned so far …
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 …
#Education (or what the University could learn from teh internetz) (Presentation @TeessideUni, 3rd March 2011)
I was invited by Derek Harding to speak at the University of Teesside last Thursday around the broad topic of my research and teaching practice. Based on the things that I’m up to at the moment, I decided to propose an argument around the basis of a hashtag learning environment (linking both my work on #media2012 and the 2nd Year alternative media module #mc539) and more recently discussions around open and co-operative education environment – partly through resistance to the cuts, partly through activities emerging through online environments, partly as a much needed reaction to outdated (and often unquestioned) rituals. …