Brief overview of my PhD project, given as part of the PGR Student Speakers Society in March 2016

1. Alison McCandlish
@crenellatedarts
Creative techniques in
community engagement;
digital cultural asset mapping
Alison McCandlish
@crenellatedarts
alison.mccandlish@uws.ac.uk

2. Alison McCandlish
@crenellatedarts

3. Alison McCandlish
@crenellatedarts
choir
hall to book
toddler reading group
arts studiokeyboard group
dance crew
pop up gallery
support group
heritage society
volunteer guideknitting group
upcycling workshop
leisure course
UK’s largest youth theatre
animation workshop
anime manga society
craft cafe
recording studio
One of oldest ice hockey clubs in UK
The Paisley Pattern
Oldest photographic club in Scotland

4. Alison McCandlish
@crenellatedarts
Digital storytelling- telling the untold story
Participatory video (Garrett, 2011)
Digital ethnography/ Web 2.0 (Murthy, 2008)
YouTube archives intangible heritage (Pietrobruno, 2013)
Camera phones telling the story of place (Hjorth and Pink, 2014)

5. Alison McCandlish
@crenellatedarts
References
• Garrett, B. L. (2011) Videographic geographies: Using digital video for
geographic research. Progress in Human Geography. Vol.35 (4),
pp.521–541.
• Hjorth, L. and Pink, S. (2014) New visualities and the digital wayfarer:
Reconceptualizing camera phone photography and locative media.
Mobile Media & Communication. [Online] Vol.2, pp.40–57. Available:
http://mmc.sagepub.com/content/2/1/40.short.
• Murthy, D. (2008) Digital Ethnography: An Examination of the Use of
New Technologies for Social Research. Sociology. [Online] Vol.42 (5),
pp.837–855. Available:
http://soc.sagepub.com/cgi/doi/10.1177/0038038508094565nhttp:/
/soc.sagepub.com/content/42/5/837.short.

6. Alison McCandlish
@crenellatedarts
References
• Pietrobruno, S. (2013) YouTube and the social archiving of intangible
heritage. New Media & Society. [Online] Vol.15 (8), pp.1259–1276.
Available: http://nms.sagepub.com/content/15/8/1259.abstract.
• Renfrewshire Council (2014) Paisley Town Centre Asset Strategy & Action
Plan.
• Sacco, P. L., Blessi, G. T. and Nuccio, M. (2008) Culture as an Engine of Local
Development Processes: System-Wide Cultural Districts. Venice. No. DADI/
WP_5/08.