Are You Wondering Why We Are Heading for a Second Lockdown?
I was in a shop in Nottingham today, and Gem106 was playing in the background. During the commercial break a government message was played. The […]
Decentered Media Podcast 092 – Community Radio Perspectives of the Pandemic
How have community radio stations dealt with the pressure of the lockdown and responded to the pandemic? How has community radio continued to support local […]
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The Emergence of Wellbeing Radio
I’ve posted an article to the Decentered Media Knowledge Base about the emergence of wellbeing Radio. It’s a summary of discussions I’ve had with community […]
What is Mindful Communication?
The phrase mindfulness is thrown about a lot these days, particularly as it relates to the practice of personal attention to wellbeing, social engagement and […]
It’s Bloody Complicated – Progressive Politics and Community Media
Over the last couple of weeks I’ve been catching up with the Compass podcast It’s Bloody Complicated. They started being posted each week back in […]
Decentered Media Podcast 091 – Parallel Lives with Gail Brown
As part of the Documentary Media Centre Parallel Lives Newsday, John and I chatted with Gail Brown from Leicester Coffee House about her trips to […]
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Decentered Media Podcast 090 – Participative Arts with Jojo Spinks and Xenia Horne
What’s the value of participative arts, and how do different creative practitioners engage with people through direct, action-based activities? Joining me to discussing how participative […]
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Community Media Development Problems
I’ve been sorting through some old files and folders, and I came across a paper I’d written in 2017, about how community media is faced […]
Community Media Archetypal Roles
In establishing the importance of archetypal structures and patterns within the collective unconscious, it’s necessary to start to look at how these roles can be […]
Decentered Media Podcast 089 – Media Reform with Natalie Fenton and Des Freedman
Do we get the media we deserve or the media we are given? This was one of the topics discussed by Professor Natalie Fenton and […]
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Archetypes and Meaningfulness
The persistence of social patterns of association, and the roles that are designated within those patterns of association, according to Carl Jung, are archetypal. That […]
Decentered Media Podcast 088 – Parallel Lives with John Coster
Parallel Lives is a project that aims to connect people who create and produce documentary forms of media across the world. As the lockdown is […]
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Behavioural Sciences During the Lockdown
We’ve heard and read a lot in recent months about behavioural sciences, and how they are being used to inform the response to the Covid-19 […]
Media Reform Manifesto Review
Media reform is a pressing issue as corporate consolidation and globalisation bring sweeping changes in the capacity of the UK to sustain a pluralistic, locally […]
Leicester Community Media – Post-Lockdown Survey
With the news that we are finally leaving lockdown here in Leicester, I’ve been asked to put together a quick survey about how community-focussed media […]