Between Research and Belonging – Reflections from a Community Media Placement in Leicester
It feels like just yesterday I started my placement with Decentered Media and announced my arrival in Leicester. Now, it’s time to leave – my […]
Research
Rediscovering My First Attempt at a PhD – A Reflection on A Pragmatic View of Value
Recently, while sifting through some old files, I stumbled upon a document I wrote back in July 2000 titled “A Pragmatic View of Value“. This […]
Evaluating Community Media as Sensemaking
In this post I want to explore the role of community media in fostering a sense of meaningfulness, belonging, purpose, and social connection among various […]
Community-Focussed Communication in the UK – Who Is Studying Impact and Social Gain?
I’ve been trying to pull together a list of researchers in the UK who are examining community media and the impact that forms of community-focussed […]
Listening and Learning – The Benefit of Collaborative Community Media for Research and Public Engagement
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 […]
Leicester Community Media Lockdown Challenges Draft Summary
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 […]
The Emergence of Wellbeing Radio
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 […]
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 […]
Knowledge Base of Covid-19 Reports and Policy Publications
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 […]
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 […]
Community Media – Changing the Frame of Reference?
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 […]
Digital Inclusion – Systems Versus Social
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 […]
Decentralised Media 001 – Notes on Blockchain
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 […]
MeCCSA Local and Community Media Network Inaugural Workshop
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 […]
Podcasting as Therapy 05
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. […]