CBAA Women's Rep Anna Wheildon has established a Facebook group for women involved in community broadcasting.
This is a place for discussion of news and ideas, to share support and inspiration, and cover concerns or issues that arise. Your input is valued by your Womens’ Representative.
If you are interested join the group, available here, feel free to invite anyone who may be interested. If you are not a Facebook user, Anna can be still reached by email.
Abstract
As the early 21st century society evolves into a hybrid world of digital and physical environments, a new generation of users is traversing seamlessly between online and offline dimensions in these emerging communicative ecologies. This paper explores what happens when young people re-create their human identity in these spaces. How they use the tools of new technologies to capture and share their experiences, and how they represent themselves in relation to the world they live in. We analyse the practices of these users and the changing digital landscapes they occupy to then discuss lessons and potential benefits to strengthen the ability of non-profit and community organisations to engage and interact with young people and other constituents in a Web 2.0 era.
We caught up with outgoing CBAA Youth Rep, Pip Younes, to ask her what she's learnt and what you might expect in the role.
Abstract
In 2007, it cannot be denied that Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs) have had a transformative impact on communities in Australia. Unfortunately, a results-oriented development framework often continues to advocate what Iris Marion Young calls a ‘distributive paradigm’, without a holistic overview of the outcomes for communities.
In this paper I outline some of the ways that community-practitioners can avoid some of these pitfalls in planning and evaluating their projects. It entails looking beyond the project's practical outcomes which may mask deeper levels of unintended consequences or lack of effectiveness. Central to this process is a need for detailed stakeholder engagement and active management of donor and funder expectations.
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