I am looking to recruit a part-time RA to assist Dr Dima Atanasova and I on the CascEff project. This position will run for the next few months with the successful candidate helping transcribe interview data and develop a project wiki.
Further information on this role (including salary and closing date) can be found here
For more information on CascEff please see the project website and the university press release
For the past two years I have been using #actandprotest to share resources with my students on the third year undergraduate module ‘Activism and Protest in the Information Age.’ This has been identified by the Leicester Learning Institute as an example of good practice. You can find some more information on this (and a contribution from me on how to use social media in teaching) here
Just found out that another screencast project that I will be involved in has been awarded £2002.00 from the University’s Teaching Enhancement Fund. I will be a co-investigator on ‘Screencasts in Engineering,’ a project led by Dr Hugo Williams and Dr Andrew Norman (Engineering). This project will build on the work on Screencasts in Media Studies, exploring how screencasts can be used to support Engineering students at the University. I look forward to working with Hugo and Andrew over the next few months on what should be a very interesting project.
Last night I participated in a great event on conflict reportage organised by John Coster as part of Documentary Media Month.
I spoke about the role of social media in the reporting of parades and protests in Northern Ireland and thoroughly enjoyed the discussions about the ways in which protests are digitally mediated. A few pics of my talk (kindly provided by John) are below:
Many thanks to John and everyone else involved for the invite and organisation- very much appreciated.
The Documentary Media Month runs until 30th November and further information about upcoming events can be found here
A few updates to share this week:
1) Reportage Club, Documentary Media Centre, 26th November, 6-8pm
I will be participating in an event on conflict reportage organised by John Coster (Citzens’ Eye) next Wednesday. Amongst other things, we will discuss my research on new media and citizen journalism in ‘post-conflict’ Northern Ireland.
Full details on the reportage club can be found here: http://citizenseye.org/2014/10/15/reportage-club-events-in-doc-media-month/
2) New role
I have recently taken on the role of Deputy Director of Research in the Department of Media and Communication. My role will involve giving feedback on external grant proposals and helping our Director of Research Professor Helen Wood in shaping the Department research strategy. As REF Impact Coordinator, I will be responsible for the identification of potential case studies for REF2020 and will work with the College of Social Science to capture evidence of the impact of research conducted within the Department. Therefore, you should expect more REF-related tweets in my stream than usual in the next few months…(apologies in advance!).
I have just had an essay entitled “The Battle of Stokes Croft on YouTube: The ethical challenges associated with the study of online comments” published in a ‘Book of Blogs.’
More details on the Book of Blogs (published by NatCen in conjunction with SAGE) can be found below:
An earlier version of this essay can be found here
This blog have been included in the Leicester Learning Institute’s training materials on lecture capture.
Full details on this can be found here: http://www2.le.ac.uk/offices/lli/tel/lecture-capture-1/lecture-capture
Pete Warzynski from the Leicester Mercury interviewed me about the death of Brenda Leyland yesterday.
The interview transcript can be accessed here: http://www.leicestermercury.co.uk/Gggg/story-23050540-detail/story.html
Worth a read – Andy McStay on telekinetic media and Google Glass.
A busy week in London seeing analytics companies and developers, but in one standout meeting I took my first photo by means of telekinesis. This was on Wednesday at ThisPlace, the developers of MindRDR. A massive thanks go to Russell Plunkett (Innovations Director) for generosity of time and installing MindRDR on my Glass unit. Much appreciated.
Having been somewhat underwhelmed with Glass the MindRDR app grants insight into the potential for Glass. Despite the mass-market push (will or won’t Google launch it, how much will it cost, what will people do with it, will they be beaten to the UK market by other headsets, and so on), I’ve been fairly sceptical about its adoption. I’ve yet to meet a wearer who feels comfortable with them in public and who does not recognise the potential for making other people around them feel uncomfortable. We began by discussing some of the opportunities…
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Dima Atanasova and I are currently working on two work packages as part of the EC FP7 funded project ‘CascEff: Modelling of dependencies and cascading effects for emergency management in crisis situations.’ We will be posting regular updates on the project on Twitter between now and the completion of the tasks in December 2015.
Our research has recently been highlighted in two magazines:
Research to examine role of media in aftermath of crisis situations, ScienceDaily, 11 August 2014, Available at:http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2014/08/140811124624.htm
Disaster media could aid decisions, Professional Security, 15 August 2014, Available at: http://www.professionalsecurity.co.uk/news/case-studies/disaster-media-could-aid-decisions/
For more on #CascEff, please see the project website
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