Content tagged "civic media"
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Video: Max Ogden, from Cities, Code, and Civics: “Enhanced serendipity”
Max Ogden of Code for America discusses taking “treasure troves” of government datasets to bring citizens and friends together.
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Video: Civic Media Session, “Bustling with Information: Cities, Code, and Civics”
How can information systems rewrite civics, governance, and communication, to solve old problems and create new opportunities in our communities?
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Bustling with Information: Cities, Code, and Civics
How can information systems rewrite our understanding of civics, governance, and communication, to solve old problems and create new opportunities in our communities?
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Video: “Communications Forum: Civic Media and the Law”
What about media and the law do citizens need to know when they publicly address legally challenging or dangerous topics?
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Podcast: “Civic Media and the Law”
What about media law do citizens need to know when they publicly address legally challenging or dangerous topics?
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Podcast: Eric Gordon, “How Neighborhoods Can Use Local Engagement Games to Build Community and Plan for the Future”
Whether it’s a game built around a town hall meeting or a government planning process, LEGs scaffold local processes to foster community and commitment to civic life.
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Civic Media and the Law
Micah Sifry and Daniel Schuman address the question: “What are the legal dangers for publishing secrets in the crowdsourced era?”
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Podcast: Jing Wang, “NGO2.0: When Social Action Meets Social Media”
Professor Jing Wang discusses the genesis and implementation of a civic media project that she conceptualized and launched in China in May 2009.
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NGO2.0: When Social Action Meets Social Media
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.
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2010 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.
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New Medium, New Practice: Civic Production in Live-Streaming Mobile Video
Mobile phone users are exploring personal broadcasting through live-streaming mobile video, but little is known about the type of content being produced.
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Chris Csikszentmihalyi at Cambridge Public TV on “Using the Web to Connect Your Community and Encourage Civic Engagement”
Whether you want to raise awareness about an important local issue or gather people for a community event, you can make use of web tools that are inexpensive and often easy to use, to organize those in your community.
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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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Video: Thesis Presentations 2010. Audubon Dougherty: “New Medium, New Practice: Civic Production in Live-streaming Mobile Video”
Audubon Dougherty explores the ways grassroots organizations can use accessible media tools to expand their online outreach, harness advocacy capabilities and communicate more effectively with their constituencies.
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Center for Future Civic Media speed-develops tech for Haiti
CMS’s sister group, the Center for Future Civic Media, was uniquely positioned to respond to communication needs in Haiti following last week’s devastating earthquake.
