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, [...]

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 [...]

Visit our new website!

Please go and visit our new website at www.cmsw.weebly.com
We are in the process of moving the proper cmsw.co.uk address there, but in the meantime please look at the new site at Weebly and send us your comments.
Thanks!
Shawn

MAKING IT WORK

UPDATE: Community Media South West have published a new report:

MAKING IT WORK:
An Enquiry into how companies in the Community Media Sector recruit and
retain skilled freelancersPublished by – CMSW / Blueboard – Jan 2007
Research by Ella Bissett Johnson
Edited by Shawn Sobers, and Steve Gear
Synopsis
This report is a timely and original development in the analysis of social [...]