THE AMPLIFIED RESILIENT COMMUNITY

This evening's presentation for Amplified Leicester at Phoenix Square Film and Digital Media Centre is Thilo Boeck (photo above) on The Amplified Resilient Community. Thilo is a Research Fellow at De Montfort University, with special interest in social capital and community cohesion located within a social justice and social inclusion perspective embedded in ideologies of democratic empowerment and change that are sensitive to people’s rights and civil liberties. Thilo has been one of the central figures in Amplified Leicester since its beginning and is a regular contributor and commentator on issues to do with community cohesion in Leicester and beyond. In a nutshell, The Amplified Resilient Community is about how social networking increases a community's ability to absorb shock and bounce back, stronger than before. If ever there was a time when we need to consider such a topic ...