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Mediating community: practice and research in community media in Govan. (2016)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Macleod, K. (2016, January). Mediating community: practice and research in community media in Govan. Paper presented at Meccsa Annual Conference, 2016, Christchurch University, Canterbury

This paper will discuss the author’s ongoing practice and research in participatory community based media in the Govan area of Glasgow. It explores the methodological, ethical and personal issues associated with practice and research in communities a... Read More about Mediating community: practice and research in community media in Govan..

You play your part & with a song in your heart screened and followed by audience discussion at the only way is ethics festival, Glasgow. (2015)
Exhibition / Performance
Macleod, K. You play your part & with a song in your heart screened and followed by audience discussion at the only way is ethics festival, Glasgow. Exhibited at The Old Hairdressers, Glasgow. 30 November 2015 - 1 December 2015

Film Screenings & Audience discussion: The Only Way is Ethics Festival, Glasgow. - You Play Your Part & With a Song in Your Heart (produced & directed by me, with Plantation Productions) 30/11/15.- The Govan Banners (as above) 1/12/15.

You Play Your Part – Older Women on Screen and in Production (2015)
Book Chapter
Macleod, K. (2015). You Play Your Part – Older Women on Screen and in Production. In E. Thorsen, H. Savigny, D. Jackson, & J. Alexander (Eds.), Media, Margins And Popular Culture (28-40). Palgrave Macmillan. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137512819_3

This chapter draws on the author’s practice-led research in community-based media to explore how participatory production techniques and strategies create opportunities to increase older women’s visibility on screen and in production. Through examini... Read More about You Play Your Part – Older Women on Screen and in Production.

I film therefore I am: process and participation, networks and knowledge – examples from Scottish community media projects. (2015)
Book Chapter
Macleod, K. (2015). I film therefore I am: process and participation, networks and knowledge – examples from Scottish community media projects. In Routledge Companion to Alternative and Community Media (505-516). Routledge

This chapter examines community media projects in Scotland as social processes that nurture knowledge through participation in production. A visual and media anthropology framework (Ginsburg, 2005) with an emphasis on the social context of media prod... Read More about I film therefore I am: process and participation, networks and knowledge – examples from Scottish community media projects..

You play your part - joint screening of film alongside Red Skirts of Clydeside at Pearce Institute, Govan. (2015)
Exhibition / Performance
Macleod, K. You play your part - joint screening of film alongside Red Skirts of Clydeside at Pearce Institute, Govan. Exhibited at Pearce Institute, Govan, Glasgow, UK. 4 June 2015 - 4 June 2015

You Play Your Part - Joint screening of mydocumentary film alongside Red Skirts of Clydeside at Pearce Institute, Govan. Screening and public discussion of impact of the films and the events portrayed in them. In association Document Film Festival an... Read More about You play your part - joint screening of film alongside Red Skirts of Clydeside at Pearce Institute, Govan..

“The Caledonian Turn – People’s Protest and Alternative Media in the Run up to the Scottish Referendum, 2014” (2014)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Macleod, K. (2014, October). “The Caledonian Turn – People’s Protest and Alternative Media in the Run up to the Scottish Referendum, 2014”. Paper presented at ‘Sites of Protest’ MeCCSA Protest Network Conference, Canterbury Christchurch University

The Caledonian Turn – people’s protest, alternative media and campaigning in the run up to the Scottish Referendum, 2014.

The Scottish Referendum has provided the opportunity for a groundswell of people’s protest and involvement in political camp... Read More about “The Caledonian Turn – People’s Protest and Alternative Media in the Run up to the Scottish Referendum, 2014”.

“We had never heard of feminism: Older women and the production of knowledge in participatory production.” (2014)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Macleod, K. (2014, April). “We had never heard of feminism: Older women and the production of knowledge in participatory production.”. Paper presented at Doing Women’s Film & Television History

This paper explores women’s participation in the filmmaking process in participatory community based media production in the Govan area of Glasgow. In this paper I will discuss my ongoing work with older women and in particular discuss the production... Read More about “We had never heard of feminism: Older women and the production of knowledge in participatory production.”.

I film therefore I am: Mediating Island Identity through community based filmmaking (2014)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Macleod, K. (2014, January). I film therefore I am: Mediating Island Identity through community based filmmaking. Paper presented at Community Filmmaking Conference, British Film Institute, 2014

This paper will discuss Community Media as a networked knowledge practice through which participants mediate identity. It draws on examples from a community video project directed by the author on the Isle of Bute on the West coast of Scotland, supp... Read More about I film therefore I am: Mediating Island Identity through community based filmmaking.

“We had never heard of feminism”: older working class women on screen and in production. (2014)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Macleod, K. (2014, January). “We had never heard of feminism”: older working class women on screen and in production. Paper presented at MeCCSA (Media, Communication & Cultural Studies) Annual Conference, University of Bournemouth (2014)

“We had never heard of feminism”: older working class women on screen and in production.

How can media production techniques enhance the participation and representation of marginalized groups and communities? In this paper I will draw on my resea... Read More about “We had never heard of feminism”: older working class women on screen and in production..