This blog has moved to……

 
……. www.beyondproject.wordpress.com

Over there you will find all of the posts from here, and more.
I may bring back this CMSW blog at some point, but with multiple writers and not only me.  Until then, please visit the Beyond Project: Community Media notebook blog.  Be great to have your comments.
Many thanks, all the best and see you [...]

The multiple faces of Media Literacy

I attended the informative “Your Media, Your Tools” dissemination event at Leicester’s De Montfort University run by the Community Media Association (CMA) last Friday. It included a presentation by Ofcom talking about their media literacy agenda, as well as radio and video groups from across the UK showcasing the results of their involvement in CMA’s [...]

THE CLASS: Teacher/Student relationships, and systems as oppression in schools

An analysis of the film ‘The Class’, from the perspective of critical pedagogy.  I will be extending this article into a chapter for my PhD, where I will use data from interviews I conducted with participants of community media education activity to explore the notion of critical pedagogy further within this context.  But for now, [...]

Latest Ofcom Media Literacy Audits

Ofcom today published its second audit of adult and children’s Media Literacy in the UK.
The Media Literacy Audits are part of a wide programme of Ofcom research into Media Literacy in the UK. They provide a base of evidence to develop new policies and initiatives to help citizens and consumers access and use digital media [...]

Sir Ken Robinson – Do schools today kill creativity?

Street-Level Youth Media – Chicago

Interesting videos on a community media organisation from Chicago.
What is Street-Level Youth Media?

CMW INTERVIEW – PART ONE

CMW INTERVIEW – PART THREE (couldn’t find part 2)

TV Digital Switchover – DCMS Response

Yesterday morning I received a reply from my local MP regarding a campaign to get MP’s to sign the early day motion on ring-fencing a channel on Freeview for local/community programming, anticipating the digital switch over.
With her response she enclosed a letter from the DCMS regarding my request. I don’t know if the DCMS letter [...]

IPPR report – Behind the Screen: The hidden life of youth online

Last July a group of us met with Kay Withers from the IPPR (Institutefor Public Policy Research) at Watershed, Bristol to feed into a reportshe was writing. We discussed how young people use digital media and thefunding that is available for community media organisations working withyoung people.
The report has now been published – it’s called [...]

Taste of the Future

Local Public Service Television

Early Day Motion for Local Public Service TelevisionArticle from Community Media Association
 
On 21 February 2008, Ian Stewart MP, Chair of the All-Party Parliamentary Group tabled an Early Day Motion (EDM 1013) calling on Ofcom to ensure access to local television for every household across the UK on Freeview. This comes exactly one year after Ian [...]