[ecrea] Mapping Community Media - 24th November University of Leicester

*What’s the Work that Community Media Does?*

The Community Media Association recognises the need to widen its 
research remit so that it can better support community media groups with 
evidence that can be used to assess the social impact that community 
media has. Community media activists and practitioners need an 
independent and recognised evidence base when talking with UK 
government, regulators, local government, NGOs, funding bodies, civic 
development groups.

Led by the University of Leicester's Dr Katie Moylan, and the Community 
Media Association's Dr Rob Watson, this event will bring together 
researchers and community media practitioners to assess and map where 
and how community media in the U.K. is being produced and studied, with 
a view to determining how it can more productively be evaluated.

Use this link to book a ticket:

https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/mapping-community-media-tickets-51010319238

Emphasis will be given to considering potential areas of future research 
collaboration between community media practitioners, community 
development advocates, civic engagement and social policy developers, 
digital engagement practitioners, social and civic services 
commissioners, and beyond.

We will be asking how researchers can identify:

  * What is the social impact of community media?
  * What is the role that community media plays in social integration,
    diversity, access to information & representation?
  * What is the role that community media plays in sustainable development?
  * How does community media imaginatively, creatively and inclusively
    respond to social change?
  * How is technology changing how we think about media participation?
  * What are the future business models?
  * What are the concerns of future generation of community media 
advocates?

*Mapping Community Media*

The aim of the workshop is to outline a set of further research 
questions and approaches that might help us to further understand the 
role of community media. We want to identify who is doing what in 
different places, how we might bring this work together, and how the 
evaluation of the role of community media can better explain the social 
impact that it has.

Potential questions might include:

  * How do we understanding the processes that drive social engagement
    and participation?
  * What are the forces and barriers that disrupt active participation?
  * What are the institutional and regulatory frameworks that shape
    access to platforms for self-defined media production?
  * How can we account for and assess the social impact of community media?

Our aim is to identify how we can:

  * Supporting a network of practitioners, community development
    advocates, teachers and researchers.
  * Working in partnership with existing research-focussed groups to
    identify resources to support mapping and evaluation.
  * Organise and communicate to develop a more detailed mapping exercise
    of existing research.

Thinking through and discussion of these issues will be developed in 
workshops, with plenty of opportunity for creative interactions and 
problem-solving, future-thinking and counter-intuitive ideas mapping.

Dr Rob Watson
(rob /at/ robwatsonmedia.net) <mailto:(rob /at/ robwatsonmedia.net)>

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