Integrating Decentered Media Blog with Discourse Forum and Steemit Blockchain Community
I’m not a very technical person, more of a power-user who likes to tinker a little under the bonnet of my websites. I can figure […]
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Last Day Teaching Social Media Classes at SWU Bangkok – Music on da Moon Podcast
It was my last teaching session today at Srinakharinwirot University, and the last session looking at social media with the concert engineering students. Our focus […]
Seventh Day Teaching Social Media Classes at SWU Bangkok
We spent the afternoon working on developing our writing skills for social media and blogging. To do this each of the students recorded a short […]
Fifth Day Teaching Social Media Classes at SWU Bangkok
Today’s social media session focused on the development of a project management plan so that the students are ready to cover the Maho Rasop music […]
Fourth Day Teaching Social Media Classes at SWU Bangkok
Today’s social media session at SWU focussed on writing blogs, and techniques for making it easier to outline ideas in a logical, coherent, yet simple […]
First Day Teaching Social Media Classes at SWU Bangkok
Today was the first day I’m teaching social media classes at Srinakharinwirot University (SWU) in Bangkok. It’s only a small class with four students, but […]
Is This Enough? Ofcom’s Annual Report on the BBC 2019
The latest report from Ofcom reviewing the BBC’s performance highlights three main areas of ongoing concern. The way that young people engage with the BBC’s […]
Media Democracy Festival 2019 – Making Better Media
Media Democracy Festival 2019 16th March 2019. The Media Reform Coalition organise the Media Democracy Festival each year, with the help and support of Professor […]
What Creates a Toxic Work Culture?
Should we be surprised at the news that seven members of the executive management team of Amnesty International have resigned after an independent report highlighted […]
Shaping the Weather or Selling Umbrellas?
It is a truism to say that we live in interesting times. As is clear, we are living through a period of great change with […]
Participation In Creative Arts Drives Value-Led Social Change
Today I visited Bristol to attend the ArtWorks Alliance forum meeting. Taking place at the Acta Centre a short walk from the city centre, the […]
Mapping Community Media – Reflections
Keeping the ethos of community media relevant in a changing world was at the heart of the discussion that took place during the Mapping Community […]
Emphasising Social Gain – My Personal Thoughts on David Lloyd’s Report
I’ve just given David Lloyd’s Radiocentre commissioned report, ‘Small-Scale Radio in the UK – How Local Commercial and Community Radio can Co-Exist,’ a more detailed […]
Is it Possible to Develop an Alternative to Community Radio Advertising?
The Problem with Advertising: Community media advocates have for many years been seeking a solution to the funding challenges of running not-for-profit media projects. Funding […]
Unhealthy Communities With No Local Voice
It’s widely reported today that British highstreets with the highest concentration of fast-food shops, betting shops and nailbars, correspond with the greatest ill-health and shortest […]