On being in London, “doing the ‘lympics” and putting the brakes on.
The last time I wrote one of these blog posts was back at the end of January 2010, several days before I was due to head out – on my own – to the Vancouver Winter Olympic Games. I remember at the time...
View ArticleNew Project: Developing community-led media in Wester Hailes
Pre-amble-y bit that follows on from that blog post: Last week I wrote about how I had been recruited as a community media development worker at WHALE Arts Agency in Wester Hailes until January. I’ve...
View ArticleProject: Update on Wester Hailes #digitalsentinel community reporter taster...
Over the last few months through my freelance community media development role at WHALE Arts in Edinburgh, I’ve been facilitating several community media ‘taster’ sessions in Wester Hailes for the...
View ArticleProject: #digitalsentinel, towards the launch!
It has been a while since I have updated on the Digital Sentinel, a community news agency being developed in Wester Hailes, Edinburgh – and a lot has happened in the last few months. The project is...
View ArticleLeaving the Sentinel: 5 things I have learned about faciliatating...
Having spoken at a few conferences recently about the impact of social media and community-led media in terms of community engagement, I have been meaning to write this post for a while – especially as...
View ArticleOn Speaking to folk, Community Media Cafes, Challenges and Reflections
It’s been a busy two weeks. Last week, I gave 2 presentations at 2 events, a workshop on Citizen Journalism and Major Events (introduction to the Digital Commonwealth project) for the Social Media for...
View ArticleNew Article: Revealing the platform politics within community journalism
Originally posted on Centre for Community Journalism website, Cardiff University – 7th October, 2014. Revealing the platform politics within community journalism: what do we mean by empowerment in the...
View ArticleMedia in Scotland’s Communities – Prelude
I’ve been the chair of the Brilliant Scotland steering group for the last 2 years – the Media Trust ran project comes to an end in May – and it will end with a celebratory event in Craigmillar,...
View ArticleSocial Reporting and Civic/Citizen Activism – reflections from recent...
Back in April, I was invited over back over to Belfast by Democracy Society NI to deliver a day long workshop on ‘social reporting‘ with community groups who were connected to the Building Change Trust...
View ArticleWork update: So how was your summer?
I’m now 2.5 months into my 6 months stint of final ‘writing up’ of the PhD. It has been some summer (spent sitting in my PhD kitchen den) – where I’ve been doing a lot more than I thought I would by...
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