Community Solutions for Vaccine Rollout
In a world that is fraught with anxiety about the Covid-19 pandemic, we do not need to be fighting another pandemic of misinformation at the […]
Community Media
Covid-19 Vaccine Community Media Response Planning
Mass vaccinations for Covid-19 are offering a glimmer of hope for communities around the world. To be successful and reach those that need a vaccine […]
We’ll Need Community Media if we are to Roll Out a Covid-19 Vaccine
The Covid-19 pandemic has seemed like a long-haul for everyone, especially with the appalling news that over fifty thousand deaths have now been reported in […]
What’s the Motivation for Podcasting?
Yesterday I delivered an online training session about podcasting for the WOTBOX Heritage Project. It was really nice to be able to spend time with […]
Why I Have Resigned from the CMA
Today I have resigned my membership of the Community Media Association. At the extraordinary general meeting that was held today a new constitution was agreed […]
Leicester Community Media Challenges – Draft Survey Observations
Over the period of the lockdown I have been tracking how community media groups and organisations in Leicester have been responding to the challenge of […]
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 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 […]