Community Reporting

Community Reporting Session – Saturday Heritage Fair 28th October

16/10/2023 Rob Watson 0

Thanks to Leicester Community Radio, and supported by DMU Engage, I’m working on a project to collect stories about belonging in Leicester. The aim of […]

Inviting Collaboration: The Leicester Stories of Belonging Project

04/10/2023 Rob Watson 0

Leicester Community Radio is reaching out to invite people and community groups to take part in an interesting local initiative: The Leicester Stories of Belonging […]

AI in Smart Cities: A Discourse on Inclusion, Engagement, and the Human Condition

23/06/2023 Rob Watson 0

On the 22nd of June, Decentered Media took part in a dynamic and invigorating workshop, “Empowering Communities: How to Design a Smart City that Works […]

Community Media Discusion – AI Tools and Community Reporting – The Balance of Technology and Truth

14/06/2023 Rob Watson 0

In our next community media discussion, we will be looking at how AI tools can help community media makers tell stories and report on things […]

Community Media Discussion – Testing Our Community Reporting Toolkit

17/05/2023 Rob Watson 0

In this week’s community media discussion, we are going to look at a toolkit for community reporting that I’ve been working on with Professor Edward […]

Community Media Discussion – Community Reporting and AI

13/05/2023 Rob Watson 0

In this week’s community media discussion, we are going to think about how AI and generative media systems, like ChatGPT and Midjourney, will change the […]

Community Media Discusion – Community Reporting Model

09/05/2023 Rob Watson 0

In this week’s community media discussion we are going to think about how we can develop an autocatalytic model for community reporting. In other words, […]

Leicester Smart City Community Reporters Call-Out

26/07/2022 Rob Watson 0

Leicester Stories is looking to train four community reporters to find, record and share stories about what it means to live in a Smart City. […]

Raising Awareness of Community Reporting

19/05/2022 Rob Watson 0

What’s the kind of stories that help foster a sense of community and belonging in our neighbourhoods? Last week I met up with some of […]

When National Radio Comes to Town

10/12/2021 Rob Watson 0

Yesterday BBC Five Live ran a series of reports over the course of Thursday 9th December from Leicester, about the impact of the cost of […]

Decentered Media Podcast 118 – Running the Evington Echo with Helen Pettman

02/12/2021 Rob Watson 0

Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 46:32 — 42.6MB) | Embed

https://decentered.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2021/12/Decentered-Podcast-117-2021-12-02-Mixdown.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 46:32 — 42.6MB) | EmbedWhat are the challenges of running a community newspaper? What’s the best way […]