Charlie Tims
Associate
Charlie Tims recently co-wrote Video Republic, a look at the social and political significance of internet videos. He is currently involved in producing a part of the TED prize in London.
- hello mr primeminister my name's adam and i'm 14 There are so many ways to be cynical about ask the pm on youtube, but I think it rules. This is a video of Adam talking to the Prime Minister about how he wants to vote, which is sort of illogical if you think about it. This type of thing, and alot of the other semi-political content on youtube definitely isn't representative democracy... and er, it doesn't quite fit into participatory democracy either. Expressive Democracy? Any takers? This is the conundrum that the Children of Europa project... continue reading on 18th June 2008 in Video Republic
- english language video This is celia and susan. They were interns at Demos last summer, when they reinterpreted As You Like It and made this video about the future of the English Language. Seems to have inspired some rather odd comments on our youtube page. continue reading on 8th January 2008
- top of the demos christmas tree yup, Their Space: education for a digital generation is the top Demos download of 2007, clocking nearly 60,000 downloads. continue reading on 21st December 2007
- Podcast: The Dreaming City/Glasgow 2020 Glasgow 2020 was a project to imagine the future of Glasgow through storytelling, wish-making and a series of discussions with people across Glasgow. I know this sounds cheesy, but we tried to focus on 'imagination' rather 'consultation'. The project trod a thin dividing line between political representation, and cultural expression. Basically i'm not sure if a load of stories, wishes and discussions can be considered to democratically 'represent' the entire populous of a city, but at the very... continue reading on 21st December 2007 in Demos Podcasts
- Podcast: Out Of Step There's a new pamphlet around the corner about the future of the British Armed Forces - available from here on Nov 5th. "Out of Step - The case for change in the British Armed forces" argues that the armed forces are constrained from responding to the 21st century challenges by tradition and hierarchy. You can listen to the free Demos podcast...1. VIA THE I-TUNES STORE!2. By subscribing via feedburner3. Listening via the Internet Archive4. Downloading the file (5.78MB) 5.... continue reading on 26th October 2007 in Demos Podcasts
- Podcast: One healthy conversation Last Thursday, we hosted a conversation among various people interested in the changes to the ways that patients talk to doctors and to each other. We were delighted to have Harry Cayton and Angela Coulter to prompt the discussion. They have both been at the heart of debates about patient engagement in health for years - Harry as patient tsar at the Department of Health and formerly head of the Alzheimers Society and Angela as head of the Picker Institute.We have recorded their talks for a... continue reading on 19th October 2007 in Demos Podcasts Healthy Conversations
- Podcast: So, er, what *do* you do? Ages ago the dpt for Culture Media and Sport set up a series of working groups of experts and professionals to look at the future of the Creative Industries - these groups were supposed to be feeding into the production of a Green Paper, due to be published back in the Spring. It still hasn't materialised. The Creative Industries (graphic design, music, media etc) matter because (a) they are a large part of where our expressive culture comes from - having the skills to access it isn't just... continue reading on 12th October 2007 in Demos Podcasts
- top demos downloads jan - june 2007 no podcast this week. sorry. we have a new stats tool for the back end of our website which can tell us everything we ever wanted to know about our website, like how many people in Uzbeckistan are interested in the future of dentistry. It also tells us that the best part of half a million pamphlets were downloaded from the demos website in the first half of 2007. Here are our top 10 downloads from the first 6 months of 2007.1. Atlas of Ideas Reports: (combined): 85 7202. The... continue reading on 31st August 2007
- Podcast: Catching up in an age of global english We're all off for a week now, so if you try and call the office, you'll probably get the irritating voicemail that we can't change that just says "DEMOS" in a rather sinister fashion. Sorry in advance. As a parting shot, here's a Demos podcast. It's Samuel Jones and Peter Bradwell talking about their pamphlet "As you like it" which was launched to a chorus of "what absolute drivel, what rubbish, what poppycock" back in March. Sitting outside St. Paul's Cathedral a... continue reading on 17th August 2007 in Demos Podcasts
- Pubcast: in the red corner, weighing in at 50 pounds of emotional value... National Treasures began this Wednesday on Radio 4. It features panelists including Robert Hewison, who is a Demos associate, debating the relative cultural value of different British landmarks, art-works and institutions. On Wednesday it was The Thames Estuary (forwarded by Germaine Greer) vs Stonehenge (forwarded by Tristram Hunt). You can catch it after the Today programme on Wednesdays or keenos can listen again.These kinds of open civitasYou can listen to the... continue reading on 9th August 2007 in Demos Podcasts