Content tagged "civic media"
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Posted by Catherine D’Ignazio and Rahul Bhargava
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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Posted by Rogelio Lopez S.M., Comparative Media Studies, 2013
Topics: civic media, Farm Workers Movement, Immigrant Youth Movement, immigration, media, protest, rights, social movements, youthFrom 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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Posted by Chelsea Barabas, Julie Fischer, Ainsley Sutherland and Yu Wang S.M., Comparative Media Studies, 2015
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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Event: Thursday, September 26, 2013 @ 12:00 pm - 1:30 pm
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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Posted by Andrew Whitacre
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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Posted by Andrew Whitacre
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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Event: Sunday, June 17, 2012 - Tuesday, June 19, 2012
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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Posted by Andrew Whitacre
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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Event: Wednesday, November 2, 2011 @ 5:00 pm - 7:00 pm
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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Event: Thursday, October 20, 2011 @ 5:00 pm - 7:00 pm
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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Event: Thursday, October 20, 2011 @ 5:00 pm - 7:00 pm
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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Posted by Andrew Whitacre
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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Posted by Ethan Zuckerman
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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Event: Wednesday, March 9, 2011 @ 5:00 pm - 7:00 pm
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.