Decentered Media Podcast
165 episodes - English - Latest episode: over 1 year ago -Conversations about community media in a decentralised world
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Dr Pat Kotchapakdee Discusses Documentary with John Coster
June 05, 2018 10:45 - 24.2 MBToday, John Coster and I were very fourtunate to spend the day with Dr Pat Kotchapakdee from Khon Kaen University in Thailand. John and Pat [...]
Khon Kaen Podcast
June 04, 2018 13:44 - 57.8 MBJohn Coster and I have been travelling in South East Asia visiting universities in Bangkok, Phnom Penh and Khon Kaen. In this podcast we talk about some of the challenges of understanding life in Thailand and Cambodia, and how we can use community and ...
DIY-DMU Podcast 017 International Community Media Expo
May 09, 2018 19:43 - 65 MBToday’s podcast was recorded as part of the first DMU International Community Media Expo. Sitting around the table was Julian, Kiaran, Ineke, Gerhart and myself. [...]
DIY-DMU Podcast 016 ART-AI Festival
May 02, 2018 14:37 - 67.3 MBThis week’s DIY-DMU Podcast was recorded at the Highcross Centre in Leicester, where young people were learning about the ART-AI Festival, and how Artificial Intelligence can be used creatively and artistically. John Coster and I chatted with Proffessor Tracy Harwood, from De Montfort University’s Institute of Creative Technology, and with some of her colleagues who [...]
Democratic Media Institutions
May 02, 2018 05:26BBC Media Action is the charitable arm of the BBC that seeks to support communication development in developing nations around the world. James Deane is the Director of Policy and Research, and in his latest blog he asks if we need to rethink how we build media organsations and institutions that support democratic accountability around [...]
Trusting Community Reporting?
May 01, 2018 07:02John Naughton writing in The Guardian makes a very powerful point about the need for trusted sources of information in developing communities. With the use of Facebook as a tool for promoting fake news, which has led to violence in Myanmar and Sri Lanka, Naughton suggests that: We have woken up to Facebook’s pernicious role [...]
Technology Addiction is a Real Problem
March 15, 2018 08:35As more evidence is emerging that our use of technology has negative effects on our mental well being, we might have to start thinking about how we can address some of the patterns of behavior and expectations about the way that we use social media and tech devices. Belinda Parmar, who was once a tech-advocate [...]
Social Media Influencers and Advertising
March 15, 2018 08:32It’s often thought that anything goes when it comes to social media, and that we are free to do and say pretty much whatever we want because there is no control. Obviously, this is an unfounded assumption. When we post material online we are subject to the same laws and standards as any other form [...]
TECH1002-18 Lecture Summary 023
March 13, 2018 07:48This is an overview of the topics that will be covered in the twenty third lecture for TECH1002 Social Media Innovation.
Trevor Baylis, Inventor of the Wind-Up Radio, Dies aged 80
March 05, 2018 15:39Community media isn’t just about programming, it’s also about the access that we have to different media. The death of Trevor Baylis is perhaps a moment when we can reflect on the contribution that his invention made to understanding, conflict resolution and disaster management around the world, allowing people to listen to radio when they [...]
Community Media and a Stronger Sense of Community
February 21, 2018 12:21There are two articles about community and community media that are worth reading from today’s Guardian. The first is a brief account by Anna Bawden of the role of community media in the UK, and the potential for a not-for-profit focus on the new Small Scale DAB proposals. “Lucinda Guy, chair of the Community Media [...]
Workplace Burnout – The Impact of Social Anxiety
February 21, 2018 08:22We live in a culture of so-called achievement, in which our jobs and our life experiences are accounted for in terms of the impact that they have and the results that we get from what we do. This can be measured in terms of cash that we earn, research papers that we produce, or the [...]
TECH3022-18 Lecture Summary 024
February 19, 2018 08:16This is an overview of the topics that will be covered in the twenty-fourth lecture for TECH3022 Social Media Practice.
TECH3022-18 Lecture Summary 023
February 19, 2018 08:15This is an overview of the topics that will be covered in the twenty-third lecture for TECH3022 Social Media Practice.
TECH1002-18 Lecture Summary 021
February 13, 2018 14:23This is an overview of the topics that will be covered in the twenty-first lecture for TECH1002 Social Media Innovation.