Bustling with Information: Cities, Code, and Civics
How can information systems rewrite our understanding of civics, governance, and communication, to solve old problems and create new opportunities in our communities?
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Civic Media Session
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MIT Media Lab, Room 633 75 Amherst St., Cambridge, MA, United States
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Civic Tools: The Latest from the Center for Future Civic Media
MIT Building 32 (Stata Center), Room 141 32 Vassar Street, Cambridge, MA, United StatesSee open-to-the-public demos of the latest, greatest civic media tools from researchers at the MIT Center for Future Civic Media, the leader in cutting-edge community-based technology.
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Cultural Resistance
MIT Media Lab, Room 633 75 Amherst St., Cambridge, MA, United StatesA talk with Steve Kurtz about models and techniques for public interventions and soft subversions aimed at undermining authoritarian tendencies.
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Design for Vulnerable Populations
MIT Media Lab, Room 633 75 Amherst St., Cambridge, MA, United StatesWhat can designers do to better connect with the communities and individuals they wish to serve? How can design projects avoid patronizing attitudes and economic colonialization? How can a designer be effective in promoting social change while following their conscience?
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Civic Disobedience
MIT Media Lab, Room 633 75 Amherst St., Cambridge, MA, United StatesAre changes in the communications environment enabling protest in a way we've not seen before? Is civic disobedience easier, or perhaps more effective?
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Amplified Streets, from Print to Tweets: Social Movement Media Across Platforms
MIT Media Lab, Silverman Skyline Room 75 Amherst Street, Cambridge, United StatesJason Pramas and Steve Meacham on how the rapid spread of digital literacies allows participation in movement media making by everyday participants.
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Civic Games
MIT Media Lab, Room 633 75 Amherst St., Cambridge, MA, United StatesInsights, tools, and practices from gaming are increasingly integrated across different areas of life, leading to talk of the 'gamification' of everything -- including civic media.
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Civic Maps
MIT Media Lab, Room 633 75 Amherst St., Cambridge, MA, United StatesLaura Kurgan and Jeff Warren discuss the steps developers, practitioners, and researchers can take to help build the field of civic mapping.
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Mapping Media Ecosystems
MIT Media Lab, Room 633 75 Amherst St., Cambridge, MA, United StatesHow do we understand, map, visualize, and ultimately shape the flow of texts across an increasingly diverse and complex media ecosystem?
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Mapping Media Ecosystems
MIT Media Lab, Room 633 75 Amherst St., Cambridge, MA, United StatesHow do we understand, map, visualize, and ultimately shape the flow of texts across an increasingly diverse and complex media ecosystem?
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Mimi Ito, “Fandom Unbound: Otaku Culture in a Connected World”
MIT Media Lab, Room 633 75 Amherst St., Cambridge, MA, United StatesMimi Ito, cultural anthropologist, discusses how this once marginalized popular culture came to play a major role in Japan’s identity at home and abroad.
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Fandom Unbound: Otaku Culture in a Connected World
MIT Media Lab, Room 633 75 Amherst St., Cambridge, MA, United StatesBy exploring the rich variety of otaku culture from multiple perspectives, Mimi Ito will provide fascinating insights into the present and future of cultural production and distribution in the digital age.
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Engaging Your Audience in Co-Creation: The Power of the Crowdsourced Documentary
MIT Media Lab, Room 633 75 Amherst St., Cambridge, MA, United StatesJigar Mehta is a documentary filmmaker and a journalist and currently co-creator of the collaborative documentary project, 18 Days in Egypt, about the ongoing Egyptian revolution.