27/02/11
So I thought it’s probably about time I updated this page… In two days time it’ll have been three years since the accident, and I’m well on the way to returning to normal life. I’m back PhDing part time, so that I have time to continue getting physical fitness back, and also because the field of study has changed a lot over the past three years… I’m also back doing a bit of teaching at the University of Bristol Department of Drama:Film Theatre and Television, and I’ve been making and editing films for the Digital Cultures Research Centre at UWE.
After nearly three years of operations, painkillers, crutches and general misery it’s great to be living a near normal life again.
21/05/2008
Hi…
I’m a PhD student and visiting lecturer at the University of Bristol, with my doctoral research examining ways that new media technologies can be understood to allow new methods of co-creative and democratic knowledge creation, exchange and diffusion. My research focuses on recent technologies such as open publishing, wikis and social networking softwares, looking at how these technologies are used by activist communities to try and effect social and ecological change.
I also work as a filmmaker around Bristol, am associated with Bristol Indymedia, an open media platform for local news which is part of the worldwide Indymedia network and the Cube Microplex, a local co-operative run cinema, theatre and artspace. In a slightly bizarre parallel existance i also work as a fire dancer with a group called Chimaera, which is a lot of fun… Currently however I’m recovering from being knocked off my bike by a car, which has dramatically altered the way my year was going, and as I can’t currently get about and enjoy many of the activities I normally partake in, I thought I’d start a blog.
This blog is a place for me to share some thoughts and ideas around ecology, media, democracy and activism with the world, and hopefully get some feedback from activists rather than academics on some of my thoughts.
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Hi
We’re curating a week of events in The Freeword Centre in London, 10th-13th May on the book HOW POWER CORRUPTS by Dr Ricardo Blaug. There will be one panel debate about the possibility of consensus decision making online, and practical ways of facilitating activism online. The panel will include Dr David Graeber (Goldsmiths), Dr Ricardo Blaug (Westminster), Tim Hardy (beyondlclicktivism) and Dr Lee Salter (UWE). We will structure the debate to include as much participation from those not on the panel, and would like to have an audience with practical experience and ideas that can be shared – I imagine you would have a lot to contribute. Please come if you’re interested. If you know others who will be interested, please forward the details to them also.
The event will be free, but you can book here to reserve a place: http://www.freewordonline.com/events/?event_id=246
Full details of all events are here: http://roundhousejournal.org/how-power-corrupts/events-timetable/
Best
Evan Harris
Roundhouse Journal
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