Rohan Jayasekera

Writer & Researcher

Fundraiser & Project Manager

Tech Consultant

Rohan Jayasekera

Writer & Researcher

Fundraiser & Project Manager

Tech Consultant

About Me

A writer & editor working in museums, publishing & digital culture R&D, with long experience in cultural programming, the journalism of conflict, and public advocacy. I am a skilled freelance fundraiser & project manager, currently researching digital information ecosystems.

  • Working: Freelance
  • My Trade: Digital Media
  • My Interests Technology & Culture
  • My Experience: Global
  • Based: London & Sussex
My Working Spaces
Concepts

Exploring built digital media information spaces; unnatural ecosystems where humans seek to live sustainably & well.

Research

Creative information project research & development for 'small media', and arts, cultural & museum sector partners.

Development

Delivering all kinds of media, cultural & technological projects; drawing on years of personal contacts, expertise & experience.

Vivarta

A digital media lab for small publishers and a creative advocate for free expression rights between the virtual, the real, and the actual.

A LinkedIn Recommendation
An excellent journalist, great writer, and a committed free expression advocate, he possesses huge amounts of energy and brings enthusiasm to any project he oversees, manages or commissions.
Natasha Schmidt
Natasha Schmidt
Editor
Recent Funding Partners
News in Brief
I am currently working on a book idea about platform media & journalism, called (provisionally) Artisan Reporters & Cyborg Journalists. On non-writing days I work part-time as a business support officer for a small post-Edwardian museum in Bexhill on the Sussex coast, a traditional place with modern aspirations in a changing world. On non-museum, non-writing days, I work in my digital media R&D 'virtual workshop', Vivarta, researching media theory & practice, tools & techniques. Vivarta is a non-profit limited company, registered in the UK.
Resume
Experience
Development Projects
2019-Present
Development Projects
Bexhill Museum

Leading new reorganisation & sustainability programmes

Digital producer
2017- Present
Digital producer
Vivarta

New programmes & projects for  media & cultural organisations.

Technology Advisor
2014 - 2017
Technology Advisor
Internews Europe

Development strategies for digital news verification tools & practices

Deputy Chief Executive
2000- 2013
Deputy Chief Executive
Index on Censorship

Defending free expression rights in the world’s toughest corners

Managing Editor
1999
Managing Editor
IWPR

Opened IWPR's first award-winning multilingual online news service

Education
Goldsmiths College
2017-2019
Goldsmiths College
London

Digital Media MA with distinction, in Technology & Cultural Form

Birkbeck College
2014-2016
Birkbeck College
London

Politics MSc, in Nationalist & Ethno-Religious Conflict Studies

ITC GAIN Programme
2004 - 2005
ITC GAIN Programme
London

Specialist training for high calibre BAME potential board members

Conflict Zone Survival
2002 & 2008
Conflict Zone Survival
AKE, Hereford

Level Four BTEC certificate in Surviving Hostile Regions

Skills & Expertise
Theory
  • Culture & Technology
  • Information Ecosystems
  • Culture & Nationalism
  • Freedom of Expression
  • Culture & Society
Practice
  • Digital Projects
  • Writing & Editing
  • Publishing & Production
  • Research & Analysis
  • Policy Development
Testimonials from LinkedIn
Projects
Lockdown Transition
Supported Works
Digital Realm
Concept R&D
plug.direct
Concept R&D
A Thousand Girls Like Me
Supported Works
Artraker Awards
Creative Advocacy
Riverside exhibition
Supported Works
Art and the Law
Creative Advocacy
Content & Context
Creative Advocacy
Tunisia Monitoring Group
Creative Advocacy
Past Articles
July 24, 2017 Capping the polluting effects of fake news
Concepts

Can we treat problems like fake news, native ads and ad-bot fraud as dangerous by-products of industrial scale content production online?

June 15, 2017 Artists coding emotional impact into data sets
Concepts

Should data scientists & artists ‘design in’ engineered capacity to induce human emotional responses to otherwise impenetrable data sets?

April 10, 2017 Audience data strip miners fail to deliver
Archives

Small ‘hyper-local’ publishers need access to hyper-local audience market data granular enough to make their businesses sustainable.

March 21, 2017 Exercising discretion in a war on extremist media
Archives

There are no good options for journalists co-opted into joining the ‘war’ on extremist narratives online – only bad or ineffective ones.

Get in Touch
  • London base: The Free Word Centre
    60 Farringdon Road
    London EC1R 3GA
  • Sussex base: Bexhill Museum
    Egerton Road
    Bexhill-on-Sea TN39 3HL
  • Email: rohan@vivarta.com
  • Mobile: +44 (0)795 682 7251
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  • Twitter: @rohanjay
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