Women on the internet are often on the receiving end of abuse on social media a recent study has shown. A cross party campaign has started to tackle the growing issues of online abuse.
Women on the internet are often on the receiving end of abuse on social media a recent study has shown. A cross party campaign has started to tackle the growing issues of online abuse.
South Yorkshire’s very own Ray Hearne visited the Sheffield Live! studios. As well as performing a couple of songs he spoke to us about his influences and what inspires him to write.
Sheffield Live, South Yorkshire Filmmakers’ Network, Kinematic Media and The Sheffield College have come together to offer a new series of creative media skills workshops for filmmakers and broadcast journalists. This series is supported by Sheffield City Region – Skills Bank.
Industry Day – Film, TV and New Media (25th March)
Calling all filmmakers and broadcast journalists. Have an idea for a film production or a TV series? Want to find out more about pitching, commissioning and distribution? This one day long free workshop will help you develop your idea into a viable production for film, TV or new media – from concept to treatment, audience and distribution opportunities, including Sheffield Live TV. You will get to pitch your idea to an expert panel and gain industry advice on commissioning and funding.
Entry requirements: open to freelancers and independent producers, free
Natz from the Local Talent Show spoke to Philippa Hanna about current tour with Leona Lewis and upcoming projects.
Sheffield Live! is seeking an ambitious business development manager to help support our existing radio and TV clients and recruit new advertising, sponsorship and production business. You will be capable of working with local businesses, social enterprises, public sector and voluntary organisations, identifying their marketing and business goals and creating and pitching relevant sponsorship, advertising and production opportunities with Sheffield Live! radio, TV and online.
Sheffield Live! has attracted significant new business over the past two years, increasing our radio revenue and developing new opportunities with Sheffield Live! TV and online. You will ideally have previous local sales experience and contacts and a desire to move forward in your career by taking on a business development management role. We will offer you an attractive performance based remuneration.
Please email your CV and a covering letter stating why you want to work at Sheffield Live! to jobs@sheffieldlive.org
Deadline: 31 March 2016.
Social Haunting Image – Max Munday
Can our communities’ pasts haunt us? Are there traces of ideas and ways of living from that past that are not simply done and gone, but could be brought to life again? And how does the past impress itself on us in the present?
Social Haunting: talking to the ghosts of our past is a new radio documentary about an ambitious research project that uses arts practice to explore the idea of “social haunting.” You can hear it at 9am on Wednesday 10th February, here on Sheffield Live.
A “social haunting” is said to occur in circumstances where there’s been repression or trouble in society and as a result, the past presses in to the present in ways that aren’t obviously visible.
“Ghosts” appear when the pressing concerns of the past have not been attended to.
The Working with Social Haunting project explored the usefulness of this concept with two groups of people, those involved in the cooperative movement in Lancashire, and in trade unionism in the former coalfields of South Yorkshire.
The 30 minute radio documentary Social Haunting: Talking To The Ghosts Of Our Past will be broadcast on Sheffield Live radio (93.2FM and online) on Wednesday, 10th February at 9am.
Tune in to the show – and engage with the programme’s producer, Max Munday on twitter: #socialhauntinglive and @mouthpiece4shef and on Facebook (On social media, please do not refer by name to any of the participants who you may know; comments will be moderated).
You can also email comments to Max Munday via mouthpiece@sheffieldlive.org. Your feedback is encouraged and welcomed.
For Children in Need, Meadowhall hosted a Skate A Thon to raise money for the charity. The centre invited lots of people including Sheffield’s Lord Mayor, Talib Hussain, retailers and customers to challenge themselves by skating on what they referred to eight hour relay to help raise thousands of pounds. Darren Pearce, the centre director was there to take part…
SLTV first hit your screens on 23 September 2015 so we celebrated with a special edition of Talking Sheffield hosted by Simon Thake in front of a live audience. The guests were Steve Buckley, Chair of SLTV, Sara Hill from Opus Magazine and Lia Nici from Estuary TV.
My first encounter with Game Over was a Facebook invitation.
“Here we go…” I thought, “I can’t wait to decline this!”
I’m quite picky with events I go to, a general rule I follow is – if it’s not gigs, I’m not interested! I don’t even visit the cinema, and as somebody who spends hours alone rejecting social invitations on a regular basis in favour of being at one with my Xbox, I was at first reluctant to go to an event that would require me actually speaking to other human beings (and not down a mic).
Why do I need to go to a bar to play video games when I can just merrily sit here, check my phone (for the texts I’m not going to receive) and eat some custard creams in the comfort of my own crumb riddled bed?
This is why…
I realised almost immediately that Game Over has been the type of social activity I have been looking for. I was lucky to meet some of the nicest people I have ever interacted with and it was genuinely one of the most enjoyable experiences I have had in a long time. There is something quite brilliant about being complimented on your t-shirt because somebody knows it’s actually the vault boy and not TinTin!
What makes this night even better is that you don’t have to be some powernerd who spends all day on COD shouting at four year olds and throwing their controllers at the wall. Nope, this was for anybody who has an interest in anything games related new and old. I sometimes find that myself and others are put off by these events on the basis that there will be some know-it-all fedora wearing guy going around trying to educate people on the history of video games. Every single person I spoke to was down to earth and friendly.
And what better way to make some friends than virtually shooting them in the head?!
Not only can you kick some serious backside on Mario Kart, but you can eat a slice of pepperoni and neck a beer at the same time.
I really struggle to fault this event.
For those of you who would like to visit and beat me at some games, check out the latest event on Facebook Game Over – Battle Of Seven Hills and like and join the page here: Game Over – Facebook Page
Please also remember to tune in to Gamers Rule on Sheffield Live! – every Saturday from 11am to 12noon!
IMAN FM has celebrated one year of its existence this October. The community radio which is based in Attercliffe, broadcast into many different languages including English, Urdu, Punjabi and Bangali. I spoke to Hafiz Anwar Zahidy, to find out more about the radio station since it started in 2014.