[cma-l] Guardian Letter: John ‘Hoppy’ Hopkins continued to promote the idea of community media

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John “Hoppy” Hopkins
<http://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2015/feb/15/john-hoppy-hopkins>
made an important contribution to community video in Britain. After
pioneering work in Notting Hill, west London, he drew on Canadian
experience in a report for the Home Office, Video in Community Development
(1972). Keen to learn more of the possibilities, I took a tutorial with
Hoppy at the New Arts Lab and wrote an article for New Society about the
opportunity that small-scale video presented to the experimental cable
licences then on offer from the Heath government. Certainly Bristol
Channel, Swindon Viewpoint <http://www.swindonviewpoint.com/history>
and Channel
40 in Milton Keynes <http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-23906703> were
influenced by Hoppy’s ideas.

He continued to promote the idea of community media when, after most of the
cable stations closed, Comcom (the Community Communications Group, the
forerunner of the present day Community Media Association
<http://www.commedia.org.uk/what-we-do/>) was formed. His publication
JCATS, the Journal of the Centre for Advanced TV Studies, produced from the
Fantasy Factory base in central London, carried articles on the topic from
around the world.

By Peter Lewis, London Metropolitan University

Source:
http://www.theguardian.com/society/2015/mar/26/letter-john-hoppy-hopkins-obituary
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