2010 Future of News and Civic Media Conference
MIT Media Lab 75 Amherst Street, Cambridge, MA, United StatesThe John S. and James L. Knight Foundation and MIT's Center for Future Civic Media will host the Future of News and Civic Media Conference.
The John S. and James L. Knight Foundation and MIT's Center for Future Civic Media will host the Future of News and Civic Media Conference.
Professor Jing Wang will discuss the genesis and implementation of a civic media project, NGO2.0, that she conceptualized and launched in China in May 2009.
Micah Sifry and Daniel Schuman address the question: "What are the legal dangers for publishing secrets in the crowdsourced era?"
How can information systems rewrite our understanding of civics, governance, and communication, to solve old problems and create new opportunities in our communities?
See 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.
Insights, tools, and practices from gaming are increasingly integrated across different areas of life, leading to talk of the 'gamification' of everything -- including civic media.
Laura Kurgan and Jeff Warren discuss the steps developers, practitioners, and researchers can take to help build the field of civic mapping.
How do we understand, map, visualize, and ultimately shape the flow of texts across an increasingly diverse and complex media ecosystem?
On June 17-19, the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation and MIT's Center for Civic Media will host the 2012 MIT-Knight Civic Media Conference: "The Story and the Algorithm".
At this Civic Media lunch, give feedback on Chris Altchek's program to crowd-source public policy for the White House, launching in October 2013.
Doris Sommer's new book "The Work of Art in the World: Civic Agency and Public Humanities" revives the collaboration between aesthetic philosophy and democratic development.
Erik Loyer's award-winning work explores new blends of game dynamics, poetic expression and interactive visual storytelling.
Brazilian journalist Daniel Bacchieri and his StreetMusicMap collaborators are exploring the creative possibilities of collective story-telling through performance.
Marisa Morán Jahn is a multi-media artist, writer, educator and activist, whose colorful, often humorous uses of personae and media create imaginative pathways to civic awareness of urgent public issues.
