
Journalism
Peter Pula

The time to move well beyond representative democracy as the way we 'do democracy' is well upon us. Representative democracy has been found wanting. It has become the bastion of professional politicians, and the limits of its usefulness to the every day citizen are increasingly apparent. A strong argument can be made that worse than not being particularly useful, it has ensconced us in a system in which the political and state apparatus, in its habitual pattern, actually interferes with citizenry in a detrimental way. That does not mean that it must be abandoned, but it must be transcended. We must do better. And that means proliferating democracy into spaces where we as citizens can experience both agency and efficacy.
Peter Pula

During the last eight months, a small group of Appreciative Inquiry practitioners has been exploring Generative Journalism.
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4 days 5 hours ago@DemeMove @AxiomNews @CormacRussell 😂😂 it's really got me thinking about local dialect... there's a magic in it that too often is smoothed over. Although being understood probably is important too, I suppose!
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4 days 6 hours ago@hannah_ellis89 @AxiomNews @CormacRussell Our Wigan friend experiences the same vibrancy 😉
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4 days 16 hours ago@hannah_ellis89 @CormacRussell @AxiomNews @DemeMove Sounds fantastic
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4 days 16 hours ago@hannah_ellis89 @AxiomNews @DemeMove That's so wonderful to hear, Hannah;) Ever onwards✊
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4 days 17 hours ago@hannah_ellis89 @CormacRussell @DemeMove Happy transcribing! 😉
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4 days 17 hours ago@AxiomNews @CormacRussell @DemeMove 😁 Furiously typing up the transcript from the audio because our dialect is too vibrant for technology put into text 😂. Watch this space! I'll send it over once I've tidied it up & my friend is happy for it to be shared. There's some absolutely beautiful content, I think.
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4 days 18 hours ago@hannah_ellis89 @CormacRussell @DemeMove Woohoo! Looking forward to hearing more about this, @hannah_ellis89!
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Humans are not isolated beings. We are somewhere, in a place. We make choices about where to live and those choices bring about a set of conditions that change and shape us, says Kessels and Smit human geographer and organizational journalist, Marijke Boessenkool.