We had a BCU School of Media “Away Day” today – though it was just a few blocks up the road in another university building called The Pavilions, at our sports ground. Food and coffee and an opportunity to do a bit of blue sky thinking with a bunch of colleagues you don’t always get [...]
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My work with Punch Records on Protest, the internet and the notion of Remixhibitions took an interesting turn today. Local community radio station New Style Radio is in the midst of a battle between its staff and the board. Station volunteers have been locked out of the building and are trying to raise awareness of [...]
Categories: Birmingham,University
Photo by “lapolab” I’ve been talking about this a lot recently, and it seemed appropriate to try and capture my thoughts about it here in blog form while it’s still pretty fresh. Most of the ideas aren’t mine, but like all academics, I’m standing on the shoulders of giants in order to see a little [...]
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Photo by mfophotos Without wanting to tread on the toes of any of my colleagues – notably Paul Bradshaw, who is a world-beating expert on all things online journalism – I had a thought today about the crossover between newspapers and the internet. Don’t think of this so much as an “idea” like the other [...]
Tagged: Internet, journalism, media, newspapers
Our glamorous campus. Photo courtesy Birmingham City University Birmingham Centre for Media & Cultural Research Research Studentship worth £16,680 Popular music and radio in the digital age The Birmingham Centre for Media & Cultural Research is a rapidly developing centre of research excellence based at Birmingham City University with a community of over thirty academics [...]
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