DigitalCommon
Wealth
DigitalCommon
Wealth
Professor David McGillivrayProject LeadUniversity of the West of Scotland
Jennifer Jones, Project CoordinatorAlison McCandlish, Educational Coordinator
Participatory ethos
@digCW2014 #digCW2014
DigitalCommon
Wealth
DigitalCommon
Wealth
Professor David Mc
Project Lead
DigitalCommon
Wealth
DigitalCommon
Wealth
Creative response to the Commonwealth(Games) from across Scotland, involving diverse range of individuals/communities
Community media clusters-community media cafes and digital storytelling workshops (open badge enabled)
Schools programme - in-school digital storytelling workshops with primary and secondary learners in Scotland’s 32 local authorities-(open badge enabled)
Creative voices- documentary film, creative writing and community songwriting around UWS campuses
DigitalCommon
Wealth
DigitalCommon
Wealth
Themes
Place - local, national, international, virtual
People- diversity, migration, participation
Culture- language, art, music, film, literature, sport
- Exchange- common-weal, values, learning
Project principles
‘common-weal’
Common (s) purpose
Ownership
Collaboration
Sharing
Accessibility
Archiving
ample space within the saturated established media landscape for citizen-owned and led initiatives, based on the philosophy of a low threshold for involvement using everyday digital technologies, effective coordination and amplification of key messages
participatory media practices can help establish new collectives which are sustained beyond mega event spectacle
in more complex media environment, citizen media need not simply oppose the established media but instead co-exist, occupying at different times each other’s traditional spaces and using similar newsgathering and distribution techniques
Access to content, people and stories, provoking data from target communities
Visualising and coding content/data - telling research stories with social media content
Archiving in context, 2014 as rich resource for researchers - but also empheral