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

[Marilyn Hyndman]

…and founded BIT, probably with others of course, which was ahead of its time in distributing information, I wish I had saved my copies, they got lost over the years.
The Arts Labs were also way ahead of their time in working with the community. There was one in Belfast…. you can imagine what Belfast was like in 1971 in terms of the violence.
Thank you for this post Peter.
Marilyn
www.nvtv.co.uk



On 27 Mar 2015, at 13:34, CMA-L <cma-l at commedia.org.uk> wrote:

> 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 and Channel 40 in Milton Keynes 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) 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
> 
> \\
> 
> Community Media Association
> -- 
> http://www.commedia.org.uk/
> http://twitter.com/community_media
> https://www.facebook.com/CommunityMediaAssociation
> 
> Canstream Internet Radio & Video
> http://www.canstream.co.uk/
> https://twitter.com/canstream
> _______________________________________________
> 
> Reply - cma-l at commedia.org.uk
> 
> The cma-l mailing list is a members' service provided by the Community Media Association - http://www.commedia.org.uk
> Twitter: http://twitter.com/community_media
> http://www.facebook.com/CommunityMediaAssociation
> Canstream Internet Radio & Video: http://www.canstream.co.uk/
> _______________________________________________
> 
> Mailing list guidelines: http://www.commedia.org.uk/about/cma-email-lists/email-list-guidelines/
> _______________________________________________
> 
> To unsubscribe or manage your CMA-L mailing list subscription please visit:
> http://mailman.commedia.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/cma-l






-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: <http://mailman.commedia.org.uk/pipermail/cma-l/attachments/20150327/638923f8/attachment.html>