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Item Open Access Allow for Uncertainty - Indeterminacy & Radio – Radio Research 2013(2013-09) Watson, RobRadio is faced with the challenge of rapidly changing technology and social practices. How can the study of radio be adapted to account for these changes, and what issues will need to be prioritised in the future.Item Embargo C4D Evaluation Approaches(Community Media Association, 2018-04-28) Watson, RobThe use of ethnographic evaluation techniques can illicit stories of social change that other forms of evaluation are unable to identify. The EAR method of evaluation is a tested technique that is used to evaluate community media projects around the word, and can provide useful insight into the development needs and the reporting requirements of community media projects. This presentation outlines the main charactersitics and aims of the EAR approach.Item Embargo Community Media and Digital Inclusion(2018-06-22) Watson, RobThis civic engagement model is comprehensibly embedded in the ethos of the community media move-ment, but the role of community media, however, tends not to be recognised within state and govern-ment-led community development policies and practices, either at a local, regional or national level. The mass-communications model of social engagement predominates in civic policy development, service planning and service delivery, which often leaves participatory forms of community media as an adjunct to marketing-defined engagement. So, rather than seeing community media as a primary component of community development practice, skills development, literacies and identity expression, community de-velopment practices tend to view community media as an afterthought, or worse, as a plaything. The point that is worth making here, however, is that by Incorporating community media at the planning and service development stage of civic engagement projects, it will be possible to add a further strategic instrument to digital inclusion policy and practice that will enhance civic and social engagement more comprehensively.Item Open Access Community Media and Sustainable Development(De Montfort University, 2018-03-28) Watson, RobThis paper outlines issues relevant to social and ecological sustainability and the relationship between large-scale media organisations and small-scale, grass roots community media organisations. This paper was presented at the American University of Phnom PenhItem Metadata only Community Media Association Conference 2016(Community Media Association, 2016-08) Watson, RobI was the host of the Community Media Association annual conference. This is an opportunity for community media practitioners, advocates, policy developers and supporters to meet and discuss issues and development in community media and to network with colleagues and collaborators.Item Open Access Community Media Association UK Government Consultation on Civic Engagement(Community Media Association, 2018-05-20) Watson, RobThe civic engagement model is embedded in the ethos of the community media movement, but the role of community media tends not to be recognised within government-led community development policies and practices, at a local, regional or national level. The mass-communications model of social engagement predominates in policy development, service planning and service delivery, often leaving participatory forms of community media as an adjunct to marketing-defined engagement, rather than as a primary component of community development practice. Incorporating commu-nity media at the planning and service development stage of civic engagement projects will add a further strategic in-strument that will enhance civic and social engagement.Item Open Access Community Media Association Wiki Development Planning(Community Media Association, 2016-06-04) Watson, RobThis paper outlines key principles and practices in the use of wikis as a development tool for community media.Item Open Access Community Media Development Challenges(Intellect, 2017-03-28) Watson, RobThis paper sketches issues of concern for the development of community media as a field of participatory engagement. It is argued here that there is a need to reconceptualise community media using pragmatic models of community development that are able to account for shifting and changing technologies, practices and expectations of social representation and communication. This paper suggests that the present framing of the participatory model of community media engagement needs to be understood in more ways than a deterministic ‘trade-off’ between industry and civic expectations. The prospect is raised of a pragmatic and generative approach to community development using forms of community media as a tool for social interaction and sustainability. Drawing on the pragmatist tradition of Dewey and Rorty, the suggestion here is that attention has to be given to the changing framework of expectation in which community media’s relevance is being questioned in the shift from the arbolic to the rhizomic, the participative to the generative, and the media studies model of analysis to the community development model of accomplishment.Item Open Access Is Participation in Community Media an Agent of Change?(MeCCSA, 2018-01-11) Watson, RobIn accounts of community media, participation is often described as a social process that is linked with social change. By encouraging participation, it is often argued, it should be possible to achieve socially progressive aims, such as civic democracy, social sustainability and the equitable redress of power imbalances. However, different conceptual frameworks of participation relate in different ways to the variable circumstances, practices and outcomes that are encompassed in community media. These differences are difficult to reconcile, as they relate to a wide range of dispositions and social phenomenon, which are themselves variable and indeterminate. The significance of participation as a conceptual tool, then, which is useful in the study of community media, must therefore be tested and re-examined in situ, and as it is related to the social practices that are observable. Using Herbert Blumer’s concept of neutral social processes, this paper draws on empirical evidence that was gathered from an extended period of ethnographically informed participation in Leicester’s community media networks. This study was undertaken as part of a doctoral thesis at the Centre for Commuting and Social Responsibility, De Montfort University, which sought to account for community media practices that were negotiated by agents acting in creative networks and situations. The conceptual underpinning of this study is an adaptation of Herbert Blumer’s assertion that social processes are neutral, and thereby necessitate a revaluation of our understanding of the frameworks of expectation that are associated with participative practices (Baugh, 1990; Blumer, 1990; Lauer & Handel, 1983).Item Open Access Is Participation in Community Media an Agent of Change?(2018-04-20) Watson, RobThe question of what motivates people to contribute to community media is an idea that media scholars and teachers are increasingly drawn to, both in its general context as a form of civic engagement, and in specific instances in which people experience community media as a set of social practises and roles situated in identifiable community lifeworlds. This paper explore if it is possible to establish a model, or models, of goal-driven engagement that can demonstrate the diversity and multiplicity of people’s motivations as they volunteer and contribute to different community media projects in diverse situations and circumstances.Item Open Access Leicester Peoples Photographic Gallery Network Visits Report, Joseph Rowntree Foundation(Joseph Rowntree Foundation, 2013-09-10) Watson, RobA report and recommendations following site visits to UK photographic galleries in support of Leicester People's Photographic Gallery.Item Embargo Report to Tuol Sleng Genocide Museum - Social Media Development(2018-03-31) Watson, RobThis paper summarises observations and recommendations to the Tuol Sleng Genocide Museum in Phnom Penh, about their use of social media and techniques to establish an enhanced social engagement with supporters of the museums mission.Item Open Access The Tram and the Town(Community Media Association, 2017-03-25) Watson, RobThis presentation was submitted as part of a panel discussion relating to the development opportunities associated with Small Scale Digital Audio Broadcasting.Item Open Access Voices for Change - Panel Dicussion CMA Conference 2017(Community Media Association, 2017-09-24) Watson, RobThis was a panel discussion held as part of the Community Media Association confernece 2017 in Bristol, UK. The topic of discussion was Voices for Change. Contribotors included: Saoussen Ben Cheikh, Internews; Mary Dowson, Director, Bradford Community Broadcasting (BCB); Dr Lawrie Hallett, Senior Lecturer in Radio, University of Bedfordshire; Alec Saelens, Operations & Media, The Bristol Cable