After a productive weekend discussing how community radio practitioners and university researchers can effectively work together, to support richer forms of public engagement, I’ve processed […]
I’ve put together a summary compiled from responses to a survey I produced of community media and civic society groups in Leicester following the second […]
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 […]
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 […]
The last couple of months has been overwhelming, not only because of the ongoing lockdown here in Leicester, but also because every day brings a […]
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 […]
One of the major problems when it comes to thinking about community media is that approaches to the study and analysis of media interaction are […]
There were two broad approaches to digital inclusion discussed at this years Digital Inclusion Research and Policy Conference, organised by Professor Simeon Yeats, and the […]
I’ve started to collate some notes about blockchain with the intention of learning about this radical and disruptive technology, and how it is going to […]
How do we ensure that our ideas of local and community media are relevant to the times we live in? That was one of the […]
I’ve posted in previous blogs some thoughts and notes about the way that conversational forms of podcasting might be considered akin to a therapeutic process. […]
In a world dominated by celebrity, hyper-individualism and look-at-me models of political and business success, it’s no surprise that those who find it most easy […]
In my last couple of posts, I’ve offered some thoughts about the way that podcasting might be thought of as a form of therapy, or […]
I’m sharing some notes on my thoughts about how some forms of podcasting have an experiential element to them that is akin to therapy. I’ve […]
The Social Value Act of 2012 was introduced by the UK government as a way of shapping the commissioning criteria for public and government services. […]