This weeks guest podcast is from John Mair, who is Broadcaster and Academic.

In this podcast John discusses how he helped to orchestrate a media campaign to stop lorries using the B430 in Weston-on-the-Green. They had been using it as a rat-run to avoid congestion on the M40, causing all kinds of issues within the Oxfordshire village. 

John talks about how by using just a laptop, some hard facts, doing journalists work for them and making sure the right people were involved helped the campaign to be successful.

Get Your Facts Straight and Keep Going - John Mair

Documentary film 'Just Do It' lifts the lid on climate activism and the daring troublemakers who have crossed the line to become modern-day outlaws.

Documented over a year, Emily James' film follows these activists as they blockade factories, attack coal power stations and glue themselves to the trading floors of international banks despite the very real threat of arrest.

In this talk, recorded after a screening of the film, Emily speaks to our Media students at Coventry University

Just Do It - exploring the world and tactics of Climate Activists with Emily James

Charles Tsai is a journalist, writer, speaker and consultant for social entrepreneurs. 

A former reporter and producer for CNN, Charles ventured into the social sector to help youth design and implement their own solutions for change. He helped Ashoka launch its first global campaigns to support youth-led social ventures. Now, he has launched SOCIAL Creatives, a new framework to learn, teach and practice social entrepreneurship. He also works with the Creative Visions Foundation.

In this podcast he discusses along with some useful tips for activists who want to get their messages heard and acted on.

You can find out more about Charles Work on his website http://www.charlestsai.com/

Social Entrepreneurship and Creative Visions - Charles Tsai from Social Creatives

In this talk comedian James Cook explores the role of comedy as a part of public debate, as well as taking a look through how comedy has responded and reacted to politics and issues in society. He also talks through a few useful techniques to get you thinking about using comedy in your creative work.

You can find out more about James by following him on Twitter or check out the News With Jokes podcast series that he has created.

If you'd like to find the links to the material that James was discussing please visit the Creative Activism Website http://www.creativeactivism.net/2012/02/guest-workshop-comedy/

Comedy, Satire and Change with James Cook, Stand-up Comedian

Matt Mason currently serves as Executive Director of Marketing at BitTorrent, a creator of advanced, innovative technologies designed to efficiently deliver large files across the Internet. BitTorrent currently boasts over 150 million active monthly users, and moves 20-40% of all Internet traffic on a daily basis.

Mason is also the bestselling author of The Pirate’s Dilemma, the first book in the history of the world to hit the number one spot on Amazon’s economics/free enterprise bestseller list and the rap bestseller list at the same time. It has since been published in ten countries and counting. He is also a board member at PopTech, a global community of innovators, working together to expand the edge of change.

Mason began his career as a pirate radio and club DJ in London, going on to become founding Editor-in-Chief of the seminal music magazine RWD. In 2004, he was selected as one of the faces of Gordon Brown’s Start Talking Ideas campaign, and was presented the Prince’s Trust London Business of the Year Award by HRH Prince Charles.

Mason has written and produced TV series, screenplays, comic strips, apps and records, not to mention award-winning, global advertising campaigns. His journalism has appeared in The Guardian, The Independent, The Observer Music Monthly, Dazed & Confused, Adweek, VICE, Complex, Liberation and other publications in more than 20 countries. His short story Hard Times was published by Penguin as part of the We Tell Stories project, which won Best in Show at SXSW and was shown in the Talk To Me exhibition at the MOMA in New York City in 2011.

Mason regularly speaks on creativity, disruptive innovation, copyright infringement and the promise of P2P technologies all over the world. In this conversation with the Creative Activism class Matt discusses some of his work: covering issues around piracy and control in the creative industries, new ways of working and thinking about engagement, corporate responsibility and changes in advertising, transmedia storytelling and how creatives need to be thinking through working with emerging ecologies and ecosystems for the sustainability of their practice.

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