PARTICIPATORY VIDEO HUBS. Building global media networks with a difference

InsightShare, a UK-based social enterprise, works with participatory video as a methodology to enable and include everyone to share knowledge and stories. Its methodology is based on collective action, learning from doing and gaining the ability to shape a common future. Usual “side effects” include having fun and building solidarity

Star image, celebrity reality television and the fame cycle

In this article, I discuss the phenomenon of celebrity reality television and explore its function for those participating in it. Drawing on the success of their non-celebrity counterparts, programmes such as Celebrity Big Brother, I’m a Celebrity… Get Me Out of Here and Dancing With the Stars have become popular globally and, although arguably no longer at their peak, continue to attract large audiences and significant amounts of publicity. In the article I discuss the role these shows can serve for celebrities at different levels of their careers. I argue that reality television appeals in different ways to celebrities at different points in the fame ‘cycle’: ‘ordinary’ people or ‘pre-celebrities’ seeking to become known through it; proto-celebrities who wish to expand their fame; celebrities engaged in the work of promotion for their other endeavours; celebrities who wish to remake their existing star image through using reality television as a rehabilitative strategy or an opportunity to develop new skills; and those whose careers are in a period of ‘post-celebrity’ who seek to renew their fame. I explore how a successful reality show cast is one that combines celebrities who are at a range of points in the fame cycle as the interactions between the cast members and their debates about fame and hierarchy prove a key attraction for audiences

Visioning Lunch; Design think activity post-its and transcript

Contains photos of the Post-its, and an accompanying transcript, that emerged from the Design Think brainstorming activity at the Integration & Belonging Hub\u27s Visioning Lunch, held on November 9th, 2022. This visioning lunch was held for Clark University colleagues whose work (whether teaching, research, and/or practice) aligns with refugee and immigrant integration and belonging. The goal was to seek input from these colleagues in driving the next steps and future funding for the Hub. The Design Think exercise contained categorized questions, ranging from the broad to the motivational to the narrow, to facilitate conversation and ideas. The Post-its transcript is the primary document. The supplementary materials are jpgs of the Post-its as they appeared at the lunch

Sam\u27s Harbor Lunch, 1982

1982 Menu from Sam\u27s Harbor Lunch, 109 Commercial Street. In 1984, the restaurant relocated to 210 Commercial Street (Central Wharf). 1988 Photographs of Sam\u27s Harbor Lunch can be seen at this link.https://digitalcommons.portlandlibrary.com/menus/1051/thumbnail.jp