Content tagged "civic media"
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Video: Jon Rubin on Conflict Kitchen
Jon Rubin is co-creator of Conflict Kitchen, a restaurant that serves food from countries with which the U.S. is in conflict as a way to engage the public in discussions about politics, culture, and social relations.
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From Huelga! to Undocumented and Unafraid!: A Comparative Study of Media Strategies in the Farm Worker Movement of the 1960s and the Immigrant Youth Movement of the 2000s
Rogelio Lopez’s thesis, examining media strategies by emphasizing concrete media practices of movement actors.
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Podcast and Liveblog: Ethan Zuckerman, “Digital Cosmopolitanism and Cognitive Diversity”
Media technologies have increased the number of people able to create and disseminate content, but may not be leading to a more diverse media environment.
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Civic Media Lunch: Chris Altchek on “PolicyMic’s Experiment in Crowd-Sourcing Public Policy”
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.
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Ian Condry on “How Virtual Pop Star Hatsune Miku Blew Up in Japan”
Associate Professor Ian Condry — a specialist on anthropology in Japan — spoke with Wired Magazine about one of his favorite topics, the virtual pop star Hatsune Miku.
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Podcast: Kelley Kreitz, “Yellow Journalism as Civic Media?: Rewiring an Experiment with Nineteenth-Century News”
Revisiting the activist impulse behind yellow journalism provides a window on a changing media ecology in which the future of news was under debate.
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2012 MIT-Knight Civic Media Conference
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”.
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Video and podcast: “The Future of the Post Office”
The post office’s once indispensable role in fostering civic discourse has been challenged by the Internet and mobile telephony. How is it coping?
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Mapping Media Ecosystems
How do we understand, map, visualize, and ultimately shape the flow of texts across an increasingly diverse and complex media ecosystem?
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Civic Games
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.
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Civic Maps
Laura 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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Protected: Representing Islam
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UROP position available with AAGO, “Mobile Media Diaries for Youth Citizen Journalists”
Are you an MIT undergrad with a coding background and interest in media? Check out this great opportunity with the AAGO project.
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Faculty Expands with Civic Media Scholar, Sasha Costanza-Chock
Sasha Costanza-Chock is joining the faculty of the Comparative Media Studies program at MIT as Assistant Professor of Civic Media.
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Civic Tools: The Latest from the Center for Future Civic Media
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.
