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 […]
Community Media
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 […]
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 […]
Community Media and Recurring Archetypal Roles
According to Carl Jung the roles that we play, as we live our lives in each of the unique social situations in which we are […]
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, […]
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 […]
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 […]