Project: Stories and Streams, week 8: #media2012 as an assignment brief...
After the classroom restructuring in the previous session, this week was used to define the #media2012 west midlands brief for the remaining alternative media and web production (AM and WP) students to...
View ArticleEngaging #citizenrelay reporters? Scotland, we need your help!
On Monday we held the first stage of training for the #citizenrelay project; an ambitious attempt to follow the Olympic torch relay across Scotland during two weeks in June, capturing the alternative...
View ArticleOn being in London, “doing the ‘lympics” and putting the brakes on.
The last time I wrote one of these blog posts was back at the end of January 2010, several days before I was due to head out – on my own – to the Vancouver Winter Olympic Games. I remember at the time...
View ArticleWhat is it that you do?
Hullo. Long time, no write. Question. What AM I doing? Folk keep asking me what is it I actually do. It’s good. I’m living in one place now, not everywhere and nowhere. I can firmly announce that I’m...
View ArticleWriting Retreats; or how a trip to the mountains helped me restart my PhD.
Inspired by this call to action from Jessica on collecting the stories of mental health and PhD students, and the fact I am looking forward to working on ‘it’ through the enforced Christmas annual...
View ArticleWhat I need to write about during January 2014
First post of 2014, a particularly important year for me as I’m working full time on a project with “Glasgow 2014″ in the job description. Eek. Secondly, 4 years after I initially collected my data...
View ArticleOutcomes of Writing Retreat Number 2: Returning to the Ethics Form
I’m writing this blog post during the final 30 minutes of my second writers’ retreat. It has been great to be able to return to the retreat so soon after the last one in November. This time Kieran was...
View Article#DigitalAngus – Citizen Journalism and the Commonwealth Games
Last Saturday, I awoke at a time where most of Glasgow was going to sleep (5am!) to catch the first train to Dundee to meet my lift to Forfar for the Digital Angus conference being organised by Third...
View ArticlePanel discussion: Birmingham School of Media Production Event (1st February,...
Last week I was invited to speak on an industry panel at the launch of the Birmingham School of Media production event at Fazeley Studios, Digbeth. The Production Event is a first year module in the BA...
View ArticleProject: Help Me Investigate the Olympics #media2012
Through the work that I have been doing at Birmingham City University and collaboration with Paul Bradshaw on the Online Journalism and Alternative Media module, we have launched a new Help Me...
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