March 17, 2011
by Lotte Agten, Christina Schraml
AstroTurfing – a way of advertising or promoting a product, service, or idea, but designed to mask its origins and create the impression of being spontaneous and popular.
Champions: to get conversations started in an online community, a group of enthusiast people is needed to get things moving by posting stuff, interacting, and helping each other: the champions!
read more »
Posted in DIY |
Leave a Comment »
March 17, 2011
by Robert Ruggiero, Wilson Sherwin, Linus Vanhellemont
and contributions from Lotte Agten
A brief history
Toward the end of 2008, Matt Booth had had enough. Tired of comparisons to London, Booth seized the opportunity to create what Manchester was desperately missing: a casual meetup for digital-creatives in Manchester.
Using twitter and Meetup, it took all of fifteen minutes to sow the seeds of what would become Northern Digitals. With no expectations, agendas, or even nametags, the first meeting consisted of about 40 designers, developers and freelancers gathering at a quiet pub in the Northern Quarter.
read more »
Posted in Meet-up |
Leave a Comment »
March 15, 2011
by Robert Ruggiero, @blobot
The data for this network map was obtained via Twitter.
We used arandom sample of 100 followers from each of the three networks: CING, Northern Digitals, Social Media Cafe. The overwhelming majority choose to list a location on their Twitter profiles. This informationwas extracted and visualised on the map. Locations within the UK were left as indicated on the followerâs profiles, in a few international cases, we chose to group them by country.
Identity is a contentious issue, even on the internet, hence the overlapping of locations (England and the UK, or Lancashire and North England).

â Cool ha !? (Feel free to comment in a constructive way)
|
Posted in Digital in Manchester |
Leave a Comment »
March 15, 2011
“2011#mcr digital creatives analog blog” and “mcrdigipaper” are part of a research project for POLIS 2010/2011
POLIS 2010/2011 is:
Lotte Agten
Ashley Allen
Valentin Dellieu
Kaija-Luisa Kurik
Valérie Lecocq
Robbert Ruggiero @blobot
Olivia Sandri
Maria-Valerie Schegk @valerie_schegk
Wilson Sherwin
Christina Schraml
Martina Schwab @00mascha
Linus Vanhellemont @Lyneus
Jeroen Van Looy
Andreas Wagner @whysthatso
Graphics
Valentin Dellieu
Editing
Ashley Allen
Wilson Sherwin
Graphic design & maps
Robbert Ruggiero @blobot
Martina Schwab @00mascha
Blog design & engineering
Jeroen Van Looy
Andreas Wagner @whysthatso
Posted in About POLIS |
Leave a Comment »
March 15, 2011
Polis MMU Research Project 2011
Joint M.A. European Urban Cultures
Estonian Academy of Arts
Manchester Metropolitan University
Tilburg University
Vrije Universiteit Brussel
www.polismaster.eu
@mcrpolis2011
Posted in About POLIS |
Leave a Comment »
March 15, 2011
By Steven Flower
At the start of every calendar year a team of international students studying on the MA in European Urban Cultures*, visits Manchester to explore the linkage between the cultural and creative economy and urban regeneration. Over a period of three months, the students take in a set list of facts and figures, failures and success stories of culture led regeneration strategies in North West England, before moving over to Tallin, Estonia to complete the formal side of their Masters degree.
This has been taking place for the past 15 years, resulting in a rich body of evidence and research. Â When the course started, the study of cultural and creative industries was still emerging from the margins. Â Equally, there was also no Twitter, Facebook or YouTube, amongst others. Together with Dr Katie Milestone and Dr Robert Grimm, we felt the âset-listâ had started to miss some of the exciting and emerging dynamics of Manchester.
read more »
Posted in Uncategorized |
Leave a Comment »
March 15, 2011
by Valentin Dellieu
The common sense argues now that ICT are really challenging the way to encounter and to keep in touch with people. Â Is it so true? Â There is of course no black or white answer but some reflexion to have and to keep in mind. Â Debates are diverse and hard to be solved regarding the way those media are now part of our daily life.
But whose daily life?
read more »
Posted in Academic background |
Leave a Comment »
March 14, 2011
by Ashley Allen
On a cold Tuesday night in February, looking for something interesting, and unique to do in Manchester, I stumbled into âMadLabâ where a graphic-novel meet-up was underway. After shyly refusing some delicious looking pizza and taking in the minimalist white concrete, and comiccrazed atmosphere, I started to ponder all the potentials this practically hidden gem in the Northern Quarter, could offer.
The Manchester Digital Laboratory, affectionately known as âMad-Labâ is a non-profit community hub which caters to âcreative-typesâ and technology-enthusiasts by providing a meet-up space for people to come together, share skills, and ideas.
read more »
Posted in Digital in Manchester |
Leave a Comment »
March 14, 2011
by Martina Schwab, @00mascha
Some of Manchesters digital creatives hotspots
Posted in Digital in Manchester |
Leave a Comment »
March 14, 2011
by Maria-Valerie Schegk, @valerie_schegk
and contributions from Olivia Sandri, Christina Schraml
How does the theory of Richard Floridaâs creative class work in practice? How do digital creatives in Manchester intermingle? How important are face-to-face meetups like CING (Creative Industry Networking Group) in the time of Twitter and Facebook? Speaking with Phil Northall, co-organizer of CING, one of the biggest monthly meetups for creative digitals in Manchester, helps us get to the bottom of these questions:
read more »
Posted in Meet-up |
Leave a Comment »