Refunctioning Community Media – Metamodernism
Anselm Strauss suggests that our social and “group life is organised around communication.” At face value the apparent certainty of this statement is not controversial, […]
Articles by Rob Watson
Decentered Media Podcast 083 – Lockdown Communications Review with Paul Reilly
The impact of the Covid-19 lockdown is not yet fully understood, but it will bring about change in many ways, not least the way that […]
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Decentered Media Podcast 082 – Sustainable Living and Ponderlife with Julia Ford
Julia Ford is developing Ponderlife as a community of like-minded people who aim to value and practice a more sustainable life. Julia’s day job is […]
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Learning Lessons of Community Communication in the Pandemic
Finally, we are starting to see online communication about the Leicester Lockdown being shared in some of the many languages that are spoken here in […]
Community Media and Recurring Archetypal Patterns
In his examination of the process of industrialisation, Herbert Blumer argues that is often easier to detect one set of social process that are at […]
Decentered Media Podcast 081 – Marie Lefebvre and Community Solutions for Breaking Taboos About Childhood Sexual Abuse
“The Quetzal is a South American bird which was caught for its beautiful head and tail feathers and caged. Legend has it that it dies […]
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Exploring Socialmeaning
Herbert Blumer’s symbolic interactionist approach to social enquiry proposes that social arrangements and meaning are linked. Blumer recognised that social arrangements and social meanings are […]
Are We Communicating Effectively About Leicesters Lockdown?
The public communications around the Covid-19 pandemic have been, by necessity, quickly produced and immediate in their aim. To encourage people to abide by the […]
Leicester Lockdown – Should We Be Concerned About Behaviourism?
Leicester has gone back into lockdown following a spike in the infection rate of the Covid-19 virus. The city council and the public health and […]
Leicester City Mayor Media Briefing Friday 3rd July
This is an audio feed taken from the online press conference held by Leicester Mayor Sir Peter Soulsby on Friday 3rd July 2020. Additional clips […]
We Are Leicester
This is a great video that really helps to get across the range of support and mutual aid by people in Leicester many communities.
Building Back Better – Community Focused Action
A lot of focus is on Leicester at the moment, and the reasons that the city has been pushed back into lockdown. One part of […]
Changing the Frame – Mythological Thinking
If community media is to be understood as a multi-dimensional social experience, then focussing on alternative ways to gather evidence, and alternative ways to frame […]
Decentered Media Podcast 080 – Film Leicester with Andy & Alex
Leicester has been put back into lockdown because the spread of the Covid-19 virus has not been sufficiently contained. So John Coster and I hastily […]
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Questions About Leicester’s Lockdown Communications?
The Government’s announcement that Leicester is the first UK city to go back into full Lockdown are sensible when considered as a public health action. […]