2010 trends to influence higher education
Several weeks ago I was asked to deliver a talk that would describe trends and issues in the media in the following five years that I believed would influence higher education. As I believed the topic to be too broad and media as a term…
MeCCSA-PGN: UK media framing of the Beijing 2008 Olympics
Last week I have delivered my last conference presentation for this academic year and conference season. It’s been a busy year, recipe the MeCCSA paper being in fact my 4th for this year (after 2 in Vancouver and 1 in the US at the Power…
ISDPA Power of Sport Summit – Olympism sessions
There were two Olympism sessions at the ISDPA Power of Sport Summit touching mainly on two major topics: youth (as in the Youth Olympic Games and Olympic Education) and Human Rights (as in the Charter as a human rights promotion mechanism and one on the…
Katho New Media course evaluation – May 2010
The two weeks of the Katho New Media course came and passed quickly. I had a smaller class this time which enabled me to better interact with the students and follow closer their progress. This also meant that the course was more intense (and intensive)…
Aspects of Olympic Media
A guest lecture on using social media in communication environments I was invited again by Byron T. Scott, pills Professor Emeritus of Journalism at the University of Missouri – Columbia, cure to talk to a new group of Mizzou students in London. As the group of…