Volunteer With the Evington Echo – Help Share the Stories of Our Community
Every neighbourhood has stories that deserve to be heard. They might begin with someone organising a local activity, a resident sharing a memory, a young […]
Community Reporting
Becoming a Community Reporter – What Volunteering for the Evington Echo Involves
The Evington Echo is more than a magazine delivered through local letterboxes every two months. It is a continuing record of community life: the people […]
Build Community Reporting Experience At Riverside Festival
Decentered Media is inviting volunteers to gain practical, hands-on experience as community reporters by supporting Soar Sound’s presence at Leicester Riverside Festival on Saturday 6th […]
Building Community Reporting Experience at Riverside Festival
Soar Sound and the Evington Echo is inviting volunteers to take part in a practical community reporting opportunity at Riverside Festival on Saturday 6th and […]
Who Serves Local Democracy? Rethinking the Local Democracy Reporter Scheme from a Foundational Perspective
The Local Democracy Reporter (LDR) scheme was launched in 2017 to address a growing democratic deficit: the shrinking capacity of local news providers to report […]
The Case for Community Reporting – Engaging the Public in Civic Services Through Participatory Media
Public authorities and civic services face an enduring challenge: how to connect meaningfully with the communities they serve. Traditional methods of engagement, such as surveys, […]
Leicester Stories of Belonging – Capturing Our City’s Stories
The Leicester Stories of Belonging project aims to give a platform to the diverse and experiences of different people in Leicester. By capturing and recording […]
Community Reporting Session – Saturday Heritage Fair 28th October
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 […]
Leicester Stories of Belonging – Saturday Heritage Fair 28th October
Share Your Leicester Story at the Saturday Heritage Fair on 28th October Venue: Leicester Adult Education College, Belvoir Street, City Centre Leicester is a city […]
Inviting Collaboration: The Leicester Stories of Belonging Project
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
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
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
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
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
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, […]