Community Media Week
The next Community Media Week takes place from 6th-12th June 2012 and forms part of the Community Media Centre 2012 (cmc2012) project.
There will be many events planned including Community News Cafes taking place across the city and county so we are inviting your community or organisation to get involved.
Please let us know if you are holding regular meetings that we can add to our timetable.
We would like you to contact us during or after the event and let us know what happened so we can help spread the word about the great work done day in day out across Leicester and Leicestershire.
Contact editor@citizenseye.org or use the big green SUBMIT NEW button opposite.
Thanks
John Coster Editor of Citizens’ Eye
Below is the detailed timetable of our last Community Media Week from 2nd-8th November 2011.
Partners supporting Community Media Week include the following:
Background: Citizens Eye organized a whole week of events in November 2010 from Monday 8th to Saturday 13th, June 2011 from Wednesday 1st to Tuesday 7th and November 2011 from Tuesday 2nd to Wednesday 8th.
The Community Media Week involved events hosted by many partners.
Locations involved in the week included: Leicester Mercury, BBC Radio Leicester, Phoenix Square, Independent Arts Organisation, LCB Depot, Central Lending Library, Panj Pani Radio studios, DMU Centre for Journalism, Curve Cafe, Thurnby Lodge Community Centre, Hamilton Library, Eyres Monsell, Westfield House Hotel in Blaby, Kona Blue Coffees in Highcross, Willowbrook Primary School, Migraine Action and Leicestershire County Council County Hall.
Community internet & FM radio stations broadcasted interviews and news updates throughout Community Media Week. These included Oak FM, Hilltop Radio, Demon FM, EAVA FM, Kohinoor Radio FM, 103 The Eye
Definition of Citizens Journalism: Where members of the public participate in the reporting of news events. Often this is when people are the first witnesses on the ground as events take place.
Community Journalists / Community Media – provide coverage of news stories and events that they witness in their locality.
It is clearly incompatible with a healthy democracy to allow a handful of powerful and often politically ambitious media owners to set the news and information agenda. We run the risk of limiting the diversity and range of opinion given public expression.
The idea behind Citizens Journalism is that people without professional journalism training can use the tools of modern technology and the global distribution of the internet to create, augment or fact check media on their own or in collaboration with others.
Examples:
- Write about a council meeting and send the content to Citizens Eye for online viewing
- You could fact-check a newspaper article from the mainstream media and point out factual errors or bias on Citizens Eye
- You might snap a digital photo of a newsworthy event happening and post it on the site
- You might digitally record a similar event and post it on the site
Citizens Journalists are the people formerly known as the audience. We were on the receiving end of a media system that ran one way, in a broadcasting pattern, with high entry fees and a few firms competing to speak very loudly while the rest of the population listened in isolation from one another – and who today are not in a situation like that at all.
Citizens Journalism is a growing trend throughout the world and below are a few websites worth looking at:
OhMyNews (South Korea)
http://www.worldvoicereport.com/
http://www.cctvcambridge.org/node/685/play/
http://www.localjournalism.net/
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