Civics in Difficult Places
A global call-in show featuring journalists, advocates, and programmers who use new technologies to gather information in contentious geographic regions.
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MIT Building 32 (Stata Center), Room 155 32 Vassar Street, Cambridge, MA, United States
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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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Media in Transition 8: Public Media, Private Media
Submissions accepted on a rolling basis until Friday, March 1, 2013.
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Civic Media Lunch: “The Promise of Civic Renewal” with Peter Levine
MIT Center for Civic Media 20 Ames St., Cambridge, MA, United StatesTufts University’s Peter Levine will offer strategies for reversing the decline of engagement and argue civic renewal will address our most serious national problems.
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Doris Sommer, “Welcome Back, to the Humanities as Civic Engagement”
MIT Media Lab, Room 633 75 Amherst St., Cambridge, MA, United StatesDoris 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.
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The Language of Civic Life: Past to Present
MIT Building 56, Room 114 Access via 21 Ames Street, Cambridge, MA, United StatesThe University of Texas' Roderick Hart argues that disagreements – endless, raucous disagreements – draw citizens in, or at least enough of them to sustain civic hope.