Celia Hannon
Researcher
Celia Hannon joined Demos as a researcher in 2005. Her research interests include gender, childhood, new media and public space.
- When in Rome.. As you can probably tell from all our blog posts, we're getting excited about the launch of Video Republic on Monday. Last week Charlie Tims and I went to Amsterdam to PICNIC to give a preview of the research, and ended up having a brilliant discussion with a film futurist and an executive from MTV. It was the only conference I've ever been to where most surfaces were covered in real turf (it took me a while to make the link: PICNIC = grass).So, having spent the last year immersed in the weird... continue reading on 2nd October 2008 in Video Republic
- Anthropology of ourselves Having just been reminded of the 'mass observation' project, founded back in 1937, I was struck by how the same impulses drive us to collect and document everyday life now. The difference now is simply in the tools we use. The Mass Observation website describes how the original project worked, and it sounds like a weighty undertaking: 'In Bolton, a team of paid investigators went into a variety of public situations: meetings, religious occasions, sporting and leisure activities, in the... continue reading on 31st March 2008 in Video Republic
- Thorny Questions While we've been researching this project we've tried to keep some sceptical questions at the forefront of our minds. Charlie Tims has collected them together and then I asked Tommi Laitio from the ECF and the organiser of the Stranger Festival to give us his responses. Please feel free to post your own answers to any of these questions which might grab your attention.1. Young people making and exchanging videos isn't happening in large enough numbers for it to be considered significantly... continue reading on 19th March 2008 in Video Republic
- Living in the Expressive Democracy Young people have more ways to express themselves than at any point in history. Cheap digital technology combined with internet cafes and free social software have put the power of the publishing house, the TV station and the record label at the finger tips of young people across Europe. continue reading on 10th March 2008 in Video Republic Comments (1)
- Helsinki workshop video When Celia and I were in Helsinki we made a video of some of our initial thoughts on the process and research, and of our conversations with to two of the young filmmakers and one of the facilitators. Here's the short piece of film from our trip. continue reading on 29th February 2008 in Video Republic
- Helsinki, 18-22 February 2008 Celia and I have just got back from a fantastic week in Helsinki, where we were visiting week-long video workshops at the Kiasma Museum of Contemporary Art. It was the first of our research trips to Stranger Festival workshops, designed to help young people across Europe make videos about themselves and their impressions of the world around them. continue reading on 23rd February 2008 in Video Republic Comments (2)
- A lost generation.. Blanket media converage greeted the news that the UK has come bottom in a Unicef study of children's well-being in 21 economically advanced nations. This report will make sobering reading for a government which in 1999 committed itself to eradicating child poverty in the next twenty years. Jim Murphy defended their record on Newsnight last night, pointing out that elements of the report are based on out of date information on issues such as the reduction of teenage pregnancy in the UK. But, as... continue reading on 14th February 2007 Comments (1)
- Conscientious objector? 'The rights of conscience cannot be made subject to legislation, however well meaning'. So said the two Archbishops of the Church of England last night. Correct me if I'm wrong, but I thought that we were all subject to the same legislation as everyone else in society - whatever our conscience tells us. Apparently it's acceptable to discriminate against gay people if your conscience told you to. So if you really hate gay people (and you've thought about it a lot) you should be provided with a... continue reading on 24th January 2007 Comments (9)
- Joining up the dots The more we find about young people's changing relationship with digital media the more questions this raises about their future as students and employees. Just as some schools find it difficult to capitalise on the creative and technological skills of many of their pupils, so organisations risk overlooking the new skills of young graduates. As the recent Demos publication Working Progress demonstrated, employers think new graduates are arriving without with the skills needed to navigate the... continue reading on 30th August 2006 in Digital Curriculum - Their Space