Who and what?

Henffych. I’m Rhodri ap Dyfrig (and also go by Nwdls online), and I’m studying for a PhD at Aberystwyth University (Dept. of Theatre, Film and TV Studies: my staff page) and also work a few hours a week on my previous job coordinating the Department’s partnership with Boomerang+. My area of study is participatory media and online collaboration/collective intelligence in the context of minority languages.

I’m fortunate to have been awarded a KESS scholarship which is co-funded by the ESF, The Welsh Government, Aberystwyth University and Boomerang+ to carry out the work. I’ve also have gained the Owen Edwards award from the Welsh Broadcasting Trust to fund the production of the project work associated with the PhD. Yay to them for helping me to do what I love to do!

This blog will be used to discuss some of the ideas and projects that I hope to tackle during the 3 years of study, as well as being a place to offer my opinion on whatever subject irritates or thrills me. I want to try to be open about what I’m doing and try to open the discussion out, but I’m not sure how succesful I’ll be in doing that. This blog may be a fits-and-starts type of thing. But one thing is certain, comments are like morsels of food to any blogger, so please do feed the hungry internaut.

I usually blog only in Welsh, but in order to be able to speak to some different people I’ll try to communicate in my second language as well. I may blog in other languages if I’m feeling cocky. I also blog over at Haciaith, fideobobdydd and Blog Dolgellau.

I’d love to hear from anybody else working on the academic side of minority language internet media or culture specifically, but I’d be happy to hear from anybody who’s interested in what I’m doing.

You can contact me through any of the communication technologies listed on the contact page.

And what does Dyfeisgar mean? It means “innovative” but read literally it means “lover of gadgets”. I’m aspiring to the former, but am probably only the latter in reality.