Workshop: Social Media for ASBCI Student/University Network (on behalf of @SkillsetSSC)
Through my recent work as part of the UWS Skillset Media Academy, I was recommended by Skillset Scotland to Association of Suppliers to the British Clothing Industry (ASBCI) to lead workshops on Social Media to their student and College / University Network at the University of Huddersfield and De Montfort University. Today (8th Feb) I spoke at Huddersfield. The overall aim of the sessions are to give an introduction to social media in the context of fashion and textiles industry, by demonstrating forms and practices through the use of free (and easy to use) online platforms. Rather than focusing on …
Social Media for Research: Open Resource and Reflection for #MASocialMedia
I would like to share the session that I had prepared for a guest workshop that I was to deliver to this year’s MA in Social Media. Something, judging on last year’s session – and the 6 other sessions that I’ve delivered over the last 3-4 weeks, I was looking forward to trying out and exploring using social media as a research context. As it never got past the initial discussion “what is research?” I can safely say that it didn’t work well for this particular cohort’s expectations. What I can do, instead, is offer up the entire workshop as a resource …
Hacking Contemporary Screen Acting: Pedagogy of “doing stuff” #uwsltas
This is the second year that Stuart Hepburn has asked me to guest lecture as part of his Contemporary Screen Acting (CSA) degree at University of the West of Scotland. CSA is different from say, a general acting qualification, because it asks the students to see beyond simply doing a vocational course in becoming an actor. It is designed by Stuart, to provide a well-round introduction to media production industry, whilst empowering students to take control of their own careers, rather than assuming that a degree in acting is enough, they learn how to put themselves out there. They do this by learning the …
Archiving Social Media Contexts: Article published in FUMSI
A few months I was approached by Joanna Ptolomey, the contributing editor for FUMSI USE magazine to contribute a guest article based on a previous blog post I wrote about social media archiving (just after the changes to Twitter’s API service regarding archiving.) The article was published last week (and it was strangely the first thing the corporate marketing department of my University have promoted of mine – I must be mellowing out…) An extract of the article is below – the rest can be rest on the FUMSI website. Introduction It’s always surprised me as a researcher that microblogging platform …
Social Media Surgery for @UniWestScotland on 24th May (10-12pm)
Next week is our school’s (Creative and Cultural Industries) showcase week- with a number of undergraduate and postgraduate activities happening and on show at the Centre of Contemporary Arts in Glasgow. As part of this, I’ve decided to run a “social media surgery” for the University on the 24th May (10-12), in order to offer a informal space for staff and students to ask questions/get solutions around social media and web 2.0 within their department and faculty. All I ask is people keep me in black coffee… Similarly, if anyone wants to help out and volunteer with the surgery, let …
Social Media for @UniWestScotland PhD Students: Overview of Workshop (21st April, 2011)
This 3 hour workshop broadly explored the role of new media within academia from writing, research and dissemination perspective. It tracked the ongoing history of social online technologies, unpick the common myths associated with web 2.0 platforms and discuss the cycle of activity required in order to create and maintain an academic profile online. This workshop provided an opportunity to brainstorm strategies surrounding the use of social media for promoting independent and group work. This was recommended for all levels and is a trans-disciplinary activity (and is not exhaustive) The workshops was split into three sections, lasting 45 minutes each: …
What the hell is #mc539? (Week 1-9)
We’ve now hit week 9 of mc539 (the 2nd year web and alternative media module I teach at Birmingham City University), the last week before the end of term and the class go off to fulfil their project manifestos over the coming weeks. The entire course is available online and in public under creative commons. Here is a recap for those who are interested in the little world of #mc539, but may have missed it: Course introduction: “Alternative media is not new, but the web has provided an increased opportunity for alternative-ness. This course addresses alternative media practices, and explore …