Practical Participation

[Summary: New book provides great discussion starters for youth groups on online content sharing and digital footprints] Last week at the OII we were treated to an enchanting presentation by Viktor Mayer-Schonberger on his new book ‘Delete – The Virtue of Forgetting in a Digital Age‘. You ...

Tomorrow morning I’m heading out to Egypt to join the Diplo/IKM team to help facilitate youth-led social reporting of the Internet Governance Forum (IGF). ...

[Summary: Introductory guide on youth participation with social media now available] One of the curious things I’ve discovered in seeking to equip practitioners to engage with social technology is that, the more I explore about digital media, the more I end up creating printed resources, or at l...

[Summary: Reconnecting Fairtrade with activism, thinking about Fairtrade and data, and how social reporting can transform events] The Fair Trade Futures conference that took place in Oxford on Saturday has been well reported and captured, but, before I head over to start tidying up and re-posting...

If you’re reading this before 6pm on Saturday 7th November – then head over to the Amplified website to catch some of the blogging, tweeting and AudioBoo coverage from the Fair Trade Futures conference – taking place throughout the day. If y...

I’ve explored some of the possibilities connected to digital media and Fair Trade on this blog before, but never had chance to get into really good dialogue about the potential and challenges of digitally enabled Fair Trade Futures. ...

I was recently asked to write an article for Children and Young People Now on ‘Youth Work in a Digital Age’. The resulting article was published in last weeks issue (15th – 21st October 09) and you can find it on the Children and Young People Now website here. I’m ...

I’ve just made it to the end of the first week of term on the MSc course I’m taking full time for the next year. I’...

Decisions are made by those who turn up. Often, those looking to engage people in decision making and shaping services make the shaky leap from the fact that over 70% of people have internet access, to the idea that the internet offers the straightforward opportunity to engage 70% of the people...

There is a lot of talk right now around the rushed legislation proposed by Peter Mandelson, and being consulted on by BIS, that would allow households suspected of illegally downloading copyright material through peer-to-peer filesharing or other methods to have their internet access cut off...

[Summary: I'm heading into full time study, and Practical Participation welcomes Bill Badham as our work continues to grow] I’ve been informally sharing the news in tweets and conversations for a while now – but I realise I’ve been remiss in keeping readers of this blog up-to-date with a coupl...

(and a bonus reflection on the network society) If you write a title of the form ‘Five interesting things about X’ at the top of a page or blog post, where X is an event, a workshop you’ve run, or a paper you’ve just read, chances are you can fairly quickly distil a page or post full of, well, f...

[Summary: the 'Future Connect' paper on Social Networking and AIDS Communication has just been published by Communications for Social Change Consortium] Back in February I mentioned a project I was working on with Pete Cranston for AIDS2031, through Communications for Social Change Consortium...