Creative Citizens joined forces with NESTA Scotland to commission a film for the AHRC Connected Communities Showcase event in Edinburgh on 4 July 2013. The film, led by NESTA Scotland, showcases the Make It Local programme and depicts the advantages of using open data to offer community services. It focuses on 2 local authority partners [...]
Creative Connections in Edinburgh
July 12th, 2013 by Katerina Alexiou in Community-led Design | no comments
Hyperlocals in Scotland
July 4th, 2013 by Dave Harte in Hyperlocal | no comments
As part of our project’s participation in the Connected Communities Research Showcase event in Edinburgh on 4th July, we commissioned a short film focusing on two hyperlocal websites in Scotland. The film was produced by our research partners, Talk About Local with the help of multimedia journalist Tom Allan. In the film we hear from [...]
Exchange Stories
July 1st, 2013 by Tamara Edyta West in Creative Networks Research | no comments
Digital storytelling with Moseley Exchange, in addition to a Creative Citizens project appearance at Moseley Festival Street Fair, July 13th.
Creative citizenship: a question of two halves (and then some)
June 24th, 2013 by Jerome Turner in Research | no comments
At a recent research meeting of the project, we workshopped the idea of creative citizenship, taking a number of real world example activities, and applying them to a matrix of creativity and citizenship scales. The results were maybe not conclusive, but did definitely generate worthwhile discussion.
Ask Five: Blogger Brownhills Bob interviews Lichfield Lore
June 19th, 2013 by Jerome Turner in Ask Five Creative Networks Hyperlocal | no comments
Brownhills Bob interviews local history blogger Lichfield Lore in our ongoing Ask Five series of posts exploring creative citizens.
10 recommended hyperlocal reads – in tweets – w/c 10th June 2013
June 10th, 2013 by Damian Radcliffe in Hyperlocal | no comments
@llantwit @daveharte @jezturner missed this at the time but “is it hyperlocal?” bit.ly/11GBWzh (ht @damianradcliffe) — Glyn Mottershead (@egrommet) June 6, 2013 If you love the idea of a healthy local media landscape you’ll need to read this blog from @willperrin ow.ly/lI0nH #hyperlocal… — @comms2point0 (@comms2point0) June 5, 2013 Make Your Local News Work - [...]
10 recommended hyperlocal reads – in tweets – w/c 27th May 2013
May 27th, 2013 by Damian Radcliffe in Hyperlocal | no comments
Five UK hyperlocal news websites receive £10k funding from the Carnegie Trust ow.ly/lh7vx — Press Gazette (@pressgazette) May 22, 2013 Wonderful piece on the growth of co-operative, community-owned newspapers. Tis the future I feel…pioneerspost.com/news/20130523/… #hyperlocal — Jamie Summerfield (@jvictor7) May 24, 2013 Interesting development: @addiply piloting ‘virtual walkthrough ads’ for #hyperlocal sites journalism.co.uk/news/addiply-p… from @journalismnews [...]
10 recommended hyperlocal reads – in tweets – w/c 20th May 2013
May 20th, 2013 by Damian Radcliffe in Hyperlocal | no comments
Couple of new hyperlocal-related reports from Nesta: on advertising and on search: nesta.org.uk/publications/a… and nesta.org.uk/publications/a… — Dave Harte (@daveharte) May 17, 2013 new research for @nesta_uk #destinationalocal on demand for #hyperlocal - leisure and weather, bbc crowds out news ow.ly/l8iKS — William Perrin (@willperrin) May 17, 2013 neighbourly.com is looking for UK community projects needing [...]
Ask Five: WV11 blogger James Clarke interviews Brownhills Bob
May 14th, 2013 by Jerome Turner in Ask Five Hyperlocal | no comments
James Clarke of hyperlocal blog WV11.co.uk interviews Brownhills Bob about his approach to local blogging.