Community Media Cafes

Community Media Cafes Citizens’ Eye: empowering communities By Hannah Scarbrough | 5th Mar 2014 https://www.communityjournalism.co.uk/blog/2014/03/05/citizens-eye-community-media-cafe/ Yesterday Emma and I from the Centre for Community Journalism made the journey from Wales to Leicester to meet with John Coster, founder of the community media consultancy Citizens’ Eye. We wanted to find out more about the Community Media Cafés and Community Media Training School sessions held on a…

Continue reading →

DocFilm Festival

The Phoenix Square Film and Digital Media Centre today hosted the inaugural Leicester Documentary Film Festival called DocFilm Festival. The Festival, which has been organised by the Reportage Club in partnership with the Citizens’ Eye Community News Agency, has been running from 12pm and will go on until 11.30pm.A musical band will perform live from…

Museum of Community Media

The Museum of Community Media is the archive site for the Citizens Eye community media project. There are ‘Pages’ to cover each year e.g. 2008, 2009 etc and a ‘Links’ page that contains hyperlinks to articles written about Citizens Eye and its associated projects e.g. Doc Film Festival, Sky Ride etc. The aim is to…

Flickr

Flickr Photostream

Flickr Photostream Flickr (pronounced “flicker”) is an image- and video-hosting website and web services suite that was created by Ludicorp in 2004 and acquired by Yahoo on 20 March 2005. In addition to being a popular website for users to share and embed personal photographs, and effectively an online community, the service is widely used by photo researchers and by bloggers to host images that they embed in…

Flipboard

Flipboard – click here Flipboard is a personalized magazine app designed for phones and tablets, but you can access it on a PC, too. It takes stories from around the web based on your own interests and delivers them to you in an attractive visual feed. If you’re after creating something yourself, you can even…

YouTube

YouTube channel – CommMediaHub YouTube allows users to upload, view, rate, share, add to favorites, report, comment on videos, and subscribe to other users. It offers a wide variety of user-generated and corporate media videos. Available content includes video clips, TV show clips, music videos, short and documentary films, audio recordings, movie trailers, live streams, and other content such as video blogging, short original videos, and educational videos. Most of the content on…

Audioboom & iPadio

Podcasts on Audioboom & iPadio – click images below

iPhone App

Citizens’ Eye is a news agency for the people of Leicester. With John Coster at the helm they publish written stories on their blog, videos on YouTube, pictures on Flickr and radio programmes on Ipadio. They also run regular workshops about topics such as local democracy and citizens’ journalism. I wrote their iPhone app in my…

Facebook Page

Facebook Page – click here

Twitter

@citizenseye Twitter feed

Documentary Media Month

Documentary Media Month 1st-30th November 2014 Documentary Media Month (1st-30th November) is an annual programme of FREE events and workshops covering 4 areas: documentary film documentary photography documentary audio documentary new media The 2017 theme is global citizens dedicated to showcasing real people, real places and real events around the world. The documentary film programme is the Leicester Docfilm Festival.