DigitalCommon

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DigitalCommon

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Professor David McGillivrayProject LeadUniversity of the West of Scotland

Jennifer Jones, Project CoordinatorAlison McCandlish, Educational Coordinator

Participatory ethos

@digCW2014 #digCW2014

DigitalCommon

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DigitalCommon

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Professor David Mc

Project Lead

DigitalCommon

Wealth

DigitalCommon

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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