Dr Linda Papadopoulos launches her review on the effects of the sexualisation of young people today. She shows the connection with violence against women and girls. Dr Linda is joining us at Not Just A Pretty Face to help us have a better conversation about this very important social issue. Please make time to be part of the conversation. We can't do it without you.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/8537757.stm
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Friday, 26 February 2010
Saturday, 20 February 2010
Social Networking
On Wednesday we had a conversation which was described in the visitor's book “As sweet as a cupcake, as heart-warming as a cuppa, and as controversial as the Boston Tea Party", so we seem to be getting the pot boiling nicely. Here are the notes from the conversation...
Social networking and the internet
What we love
Social networks are empowering! You can connect with anyone, anywhere. You can access the “long tail” of information. You can learning about anything. It’s free! There are no barriers to getting in / getting involved. It enables people in remote and poor countries in new ways. It provides unprecedented choice. It has the potential to affect massive social change. It’s transparent.
What we’re not so sure about
There are a lot of nutcases out there... You don’t know who’s who. Working out who is “for real” requires different skills and behaviours online than face to face. Some of us are afraid that if we engage too much online, we / society will forget how to engage in person. It sometimes feels “too easy” - all that access, all that information, has all that opportunity has exacerbated our culture of instant gratification and superficiality?
Some thoughts
How different is interacting on the web from interacting face to face? We filter, based on certain characteristics – when face to face, we filter by look, body language, etc and sometimes those visual triggers get in the way of our connecting with the other person. On the web, those layers don’t exist – or do they? How do we know who’s authentic in person? How do we know who’s authentic online? In each case, we decide based on lots of factors... That won’t ever change.
Is it possible to get to know someone well through the web? Is it only our “best selves” that tweet, email and blog, and is that a fair or realistic perspective on someone?
Some of us have head great experiences, some of us have had weird experiences... That’s true virtually and live! Some of us have made friends online, and met them only a year later! Some of us have met boyfriends or husbands online, was he/she what we expected?
Our questions
what are the new codes of behaviour for a mixed media world?
how do we learn how to use social networks in a productive way?
how do we work out who is “safe” and who is not?
how is it really affecting society, especially younger generations who have grown up with it?
Social networking and the internet
What we love
Social networks are empowering! You can connect with anyone, anywhere. You can access the “long tail” of information. You can learning about anything. It’s free! There are no barriers to getting in / getting involved. It enables people in remote and poor countries in new ways. It provides unprecedented choice. It has the potential to affect massive social change. It’s transparent.
What we’re not so sure about
There are a lot of nutcases out there... You don’t know who’s who. Working out who is “for real” requires different skills and behaviours online than face to face. Some of us are afraid that if we engage too much online, we / society will forget how to engage in person. It sometimes feels “too easy” - all that access, all that information, has all that opportunity has exacerbated our culture of instant gratification and superficiality?
Some thoughts
How different is interacting on the web from interacting face to face? We filter, based on certain characteristics – when face to face, we filter by look, body language, etc and sometimes those visual triggers get in the way of our connecting with the other person. On the web, those layers don’t exist – or do they? How do we know who’s authentic in person? How do we know who’s authentic online? In each case, we decide based on lots of factors... That won’t ever change.
Is it possible to get to know someone well through the web? Is it only our “best selves” that tweet, email and blog, and is that a fair or realistic perspective on someone?
Some of us have head great experiences, some of us have had weird experiences... That’s true virtually and live! Some of us have made friends online, and met them only a year later! Some of us have met boyfriends or husbands online, was he/she what we expected?
Our questions
what are the new codes of behaviour for a mixed media world?
how do we learn how to use social networks in a productive way?
how do we work out who is “safe” and who is not?
how is it really affecting society, especially younger generations who have grown up with it?
Wednesday, 17 February 2010
Candied Thinking - Social Networking
Thanks to everyone who made the time to come to The London Sketch Club and to share their views of social networking and its risks and rewards. We'll be updating the blog shortly - check back again soon.
Thursday, 11 February 2010
Not Just A Pretty Face
Candied Thinking in association with Funny Women invites you to a conversation entitled:
‘Not Just A Pretty Face’
If women were running things, how would the world be different?
A Cultural Forum at the New Players Theatre Doors open 5.00pm, Conversation 5.30pm to 7.30 p.m.
Part of the ‘See You Next Tuesday’ cultural festival
Produced by Funny Women and Candied Thinking
These are tough times - we are faced with broken social support structures, a volatile economic system, continued violence against women, religious conflict and war.
Women are a powerful force in affecting change in the world. But we need to learn how to get our views heard, lead and influence at all levels. It’s not just about making decisions, but how we explain those decisions, communicate them, and use our psychological, emotional and intellectual strength to make a difference.
Any change will be aided and abetted by those things that reflect our culture – like media, music, art, film, theatre and sport. What we read, watch and talk about in our everyday lives is conveyed to our friends, family and colleagues via a new generation of social networks, both real and imagined.
As women we have to accept our own complicity in this cultural conundrum – the media reflects what we demand: celebrity, diets, fashion, cosmetics… Media content is revenue driven, so we can’t expect it to change our culture unless we demand it – until we insist on something else, we will just get more of the same.
It’s time to start changing the culture. Our discussion starts where the anger and violence ends and focuses on the future. Whether you are a creative or business person, social worker or stay-at-home mother, man or woman, you are a necessary part of this conversation: If women were running things, how would the world be different?
The line up of speakers includes:
DR. LINDA PAPADOPOULOS, is one of the foremost counselling psychologists in the UK, and is well known as a media psychologist, author, magazine columnist and corporate consultant. She recently published a review of the ‘sexualisation of women and children’ for the Home Office.
KAREN DARBY, social entrepreneur and founder of the price comparison business Simply Switch, she recently created Call Britannia and through it, is on a mission to create 10,000 jobs for the UK's unemployed.
DR. MALCOLM EVANS, semiotician, consults to major brands on cultural issues, helping them to communicate in a relevant and progressive way. Malcolm is twice winner of the Market Research Society's conference awards and winner of WPP's Atticus Grand Prix Award for outstanding published work.
DAVINA JAMES-HANMAN, director of the Greater London Domestic Violence Project. She was a Home Office advisor, and worked on the government’s strategy to stop violence against women – she has worked in the field for over 15 years.
MARAI LARASI, director of Imkaan, a national organisation that supports and advocates for Black, Asian, Minority Ethnic and Refugee services as well as those experiencing violence and abuse.
DIANNE NELMES, is one of Britain’s leading lifestyle television creators. She launched the award winning This Morning; Stars in their Eyes and You’ve Been Framed and was the first Controller of Daytime television at ITV where she created the iconic daytime panel show, Loose Women.
KRESSE WESLING, is an environmental entrepreneur, founder of Bio-Supplies, Baballo, Yew Clothing and EaKo. She won the Entrepreneurial Woman of the Future award in 2007 and EaKo won the 2008 HSBC Start-Up Stars Green Award.
This forum is being hosted by leading female comedy producers, Funny Women, in partnership with the social impact initiative Candied Thinking. The event takes place on Monday, 15th March during a two week festival to celebrate International Women’s Day, See You Next Tuesday, which runs from 8th to 20th March and plays host to a programme of cultural activities based at the New Players Theatre.
Funny Women has been at the forefront of cultural change within the comedy industry for eight years. With the launch of the 2010 Funny Women Awards, there has never been more talented women active on the comedy scene. The competition has gone from strength to strength and now attracts over 250 new female comedy acts a year from across the UK and beyond. We’ve seen hundreds of new and established performers over the last eight years and shown that women really can be funny. A small, but significant step in changing comedy culture.
Candied Thinking is a social impact initiative that brings together groups of sweet natured, serious minded people to discuss important issues in a fun and light spirited way. Its main objective is to create safe environments for people to engage in issues that may be controversial or challenging. This approach, conversation not combat, supports the idea that through the right kind of conversations, we can affect social change and build the right kind of world. Candied Thinking is run by Sarah Farrugia & Noël Theodosiou, two friends and colleagues, who bring their professional experience of research and planning to real world issues.
See You Next Tuesday has been conceived by the producers of V-Day London 2008 and 2009, and is part of the global V-Day movement to end violence against women and girls in which local artists produce events and performances to raise awareness and funds. In the last two years the festival has featured innovative re-imaginings of the controversial classic The Vagina Monologues and the new collection A Memory, A Monologue, A Rant and A Prayer, by writer, campaigner and V-Day founder Eve Ensler.
The festival showcases fantastic feminine and feminist talent for an action-packed two weeks, and aims to encourage discussion about all aspects of violence against women, including gender, sexuality, identity, equality and more in a lavish and experimental playground of fancy.
If you have a view about the future, a passion for conversation and a desire to make change happen, join us.
Tickets £25 to include tea and cake. FOR MORE INFORMATION about this event and other shows within the festival please check out the See You Next Tuesday website www.newplayerstheatre.com. www.funnywomen.com or email stuff@sarahfarrugia.co.uk
‘Not Just A Pretty Face’
If women were running things, how would the world be different?
A Cultural Forum at the New Players Theatre Doors open 5.00pm, Conversation 5.30pm to 7.30 p.m.
Part of the ‘See You Next Tuesday’ cultural festival
Produced by Funny Women and Candied Thinking
These are tough times - we are faced with broken social support structures, a volatile economic system, continued violence against women, religious conflict and war.
Women are a powerful force in affecting change in the world. But we need to learn how to get our views heard, lead and influence at all levels. It’s not just about making decisions, but how we explain those decisions, communicate them, and use our psychological, emotional and intellectual strength to make a difference.
Any change will be aided and abetted by those things that reflect our culture – like media, music, art, film, theatre and sport. What we read, watch and talk about in our everyday lives is conveyed to our friends, family and colleagues via a new generation of social networks, both real and imagined.
As women we have to accept our own complicity in this cultural conundrum – the media reflects what we demand: celebrity, diets, fashion, cosmetics… Media content is revenue driven, so we can’t expect it to change our culture unless we demand it – until we insist on something else, we will just get more of the same.
It’s time to start changing the culture. Our discussion starts where the anger and violence ends and focuses on the future. Whether you are a creative or business person, social worker or stay-at-home mother, man or woman, you are a necessary part of this conversation: If women were running things, how would the world be different?
The line up of speakers includes:
DR. LINDA PAPADOPOULOS, is one of the foremost counselling psychologists in the UK, and is well known as a media psychologist, author, magazine columnist and corporate consultant. She recently published a review of the ‘sexualisation of women and children’ for the Home Office.
KAREN DARBY, social entrepreneur and founder of the price comparison business Simply Switch, she recently created Call Britannia and through it, is on a mission to create 10,000 jobs for the UK's unemployed.
DR. MALCOLM EVANS, semiotician, consults to major brands on cultural issues, helping them to communicate in a relevant and progressive way. Malcolm is twice winner of the Market Research Society's conference awards and winner of WPP's Atticus Grand Prix Award for outstanding published work.
DAVINA JAMES-HANMAN, director of the Greater London Domestic Violence Project. She was a Home Office advisor, and worked on the government’s strategy to stop violence against women – she has worked in the field for over 15 years.
MARAI LARASI, director of Imkaan, a national organisation that supports and advocates for Black, Asian, Minority Ethnic and Refugee services as well as those experiencing violence and abuse.
DIANNE NELMES, is one of Britain’s leading lifestyle television creators. She launched the award winning This Morning; Stars in their Eyes and You’ve Been Framed and was the first Controller of Daytime television at ITV where she created the iconic daytime panel show, Loose Women.
KRESSE WESLING, is an environmental entrepreneur, founder of Bio-Supplies, Baballo, Yew Clothing and EaKo. She won the Entrepreneurial Woman of the Future award in 2007 and EaKo won the 2008 HSBC Start-Up Stars Green Award.
This forum is being hosted by leading female comedy producers, Funny Women, in partnership with the social impact initiative Candied Thinking. The event takes place on Monday, 15th March during a two week festival to celebrate International Women’s Day, See You Next Tuesday, which runs from 8th to 20th March and plays host to a programme of cultural activities based at the New Players Theatre.
Funny Women has been at the forefront of cultural change within the comedy industry for eight years. With the launch of the 2010 Funny Women Awards, there has never been more talented women active on the comedy scene. The competition has gone from strength to strength and now attracts over 250 new female comedy acts a year from across the UK and beyond. We’ve seen hundreds of new and established performers over the last eight years and shown that women really can be funny. A small, but significant step in changing comedy culture.
Candied Thinking is a social impact initiative that brings together groups of sweet natured, serious minded people to discuss important issues in a fun and light spirited way. Its main objective is to create safe environments for people to engage in issues that may be controversial or challenging. This approach, conversation not combat, supports the idea that through the right kind of conversations, we can affect social change and build the right kind of world. Candied Thinking is run by Sarah Farrugia & Noël Theodosiou, two friends and colleagues, who bring their professional experience of research and planning to real world issues.
See You Next Tuesday has been conceived by the producers of V-Day London 2008 and 2009, and is part of the global V-Day movement to end violence against women and girls in which local artists produce events and performances to raise awareness and funds. In the last two years the festival has featured innovative re-imaginings of the controversial classic The Vagina Monologues and the new collection A Memory, A Monologue, A Rant and A Prayer, by writer, campaigner and V-Day founder Eve Ensler.
The festival showcases fantastic feminine and feminist talent for an action-packed two weeks, and aims to encourage discussion about all aspects of violence against women, including gender, sexuality, identity, equality and more in a lavish and experimental playground of fancy.
If you have a view about the future, a passion for conversation and a desire to make change happen, join us.
Tickets £25 to include tea and cake. FOR MORE INFORMATION about this event and other shows within the festival please check out the See You Next Tuesday website www.newplayerstheatre.com. www.funnywomen.com or email stuff@sarahfarrugia.co.uk
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