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  • June 2010

  • Wed 16

    2010 Future of News and Civic Media Conference

    Wednesday, June 16, 2010 - Friday, June 18, 2010
    MIT Media Lab 75 Amherst Street, Cambridge, MA, United States

    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.

  • October 2010

  • Thu 14
    Jing Wang

    NGO2.0: When Social Action Meets Social Media

    Thursday, October 14, 2010 @ 5:00 pm - 7:00 pm
    MIT Building 4, Room 231 Cambridge, MA, United States

    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.

  • November 2010

  • Thu 4
    Micah Sifry

    Civic Media and the Law

    Thursday, November 4, 2010 @ 5:00 pm - 7:00 pm
    MIT Media Lab, Room 633 75 Amherst St., Cambridge, MA, United States

    Micah Sifry and Daniel Schuman address the question: "What are the legal dangers for publishing secrets in the crowdsourced era?"

  • February 2011

  • Thu 10

    Bustling with Information: Cities, Code, and Civics

    Thursday, February 10, 2011 @ 5:00 pm
    MIT Media Lab, Room 633 75 Amherst St., Cambridge, MA, United States

    How can information systems rewrite our understanding of civics, governance, and communication, to solve old problems and create new opportunities in our communities?

  • March 2011

  • Wed 9

    Civic Tools: The Latest from the Center for Future Civic Media

    Wednesday, March 9, 2011 @ 5:00 pm - 7:00 pm
    MIT Building 32 (Stata Center), Room 141 32 Vassar Street, Cambridge, MA, United States

    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.

  • September 2011

  • Thu 15

    Protected: Representing Islam

  • October 2011

  • Thu 20
    Colleen Macklin

    Civic Games

    Thursday, October 20, 2011 @ 5:00 pm - 7:00 pm
    MIT Media Lab, Room 633 75 Amherst St., Cambridge, MA, United States

    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.

  • Thu 20

    Civic Maps

    Thursday, October 20, 2011 @ 5:00 pm - 7:00 pm
    MIT Media Lab, Room 633 75 Amherst St., Cambridge, MA, United States

    Laura Kurgan and Jeff Warren discuss the steps developers, practitioners, and researchers can take to help build the field of civic mapping.

  • November 2011

  • Wed 2
    Visualization of interconnected media sources

    Mapping Media Ecosystems

    Wednesday, November 2, 2011 @ 5:00 pm - 7:00 pm
    MIT Media Lab, Room 633 75 Amherst St., Cambridge, MA, United States

    How do we understand, map, visualize, and ultimately shape the flow of texts across an increasingly diverse and complex media ecosystem?

  • June 2012

  • Sun 17

    2012 MIT-Knight Civic Media Conference

    Sunday, June 17, 2012 - Tuesday, June 19, 2012
    MIT Media Lab 75 Amherst Street, Cambridge, MA, United States

    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".

  • September 2013

  • Thu 26

    Civic Media Lunch: Chris Altchek on “PolicyMic’s Experiment in Crowd-Sourcing Public Policy”

    Thursday, September 26, 2013 @ 12:00 pm - 1:30 pm
    MIT Center for Civic Media 20 Ames St., Cambridge, MA, United States

    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.

  • October 2014

  • Thu 16
    Doris Sommer

    Doris Sommer, “Welcome Back, to the Humanities as Civic Engagement”

    Thursday, October 16, 2014 @ 5:00 pm
    MIT Media Lab, Room 633 75 Amherst St., Cambridge, MA, United States

    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.

  • September 2018

  • Thu 13
    Illustration of Erik Loyer

    Civic Arts Series: Erik Loyer

    Thursday, September 13, 2018 @ 5:00 pm - 6:30 pm
    MIT Building E15, Room 001 ("The Cube") 20 Ames Street, Cambridge, MA, United States

    Erik Loyer's award-winning work explores new blends of game dynamics, poetic expression and interactive visual storytelling.

  • October 2018

  • Thu 4
    Illustration of Daniel Bacchieri

    Civic Arts Series: Daniel Bacchieri

    Thursday, October 4, 2018 @ 5:00 pm - 6:30 pm
    MIT Building E15, Room 001 ("The Cube") 20 Ames Street, Cambridge, MA, United States

    Brazilian journalist Daniel Bacchieri and his StreetMusicMap collaborators are exploring the creative possibilities of collective story-telling through performance.

  • Thu 18
    Illustration of Marisa Morán Jahn

    Civic Arts Series: Marisa Morán Jahn

    Thursday, October 18, 2018 @ 5:00 pm - 6:30 pm
    MIT Building E15, Room 001 ("The Cube") 20 Ames Street, Cambridge, MA, United States

    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.

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