Content tagged "civic media"
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Video and podcast: “Race, Politics, and American Media”
Following Obama’s election, are the harsh realities of race and class in the U.S. clearer now or murkier?
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CMS: Born for Collaboration
From its early days the Comparative Media Studies program has worked with partners from all over MIT. It has collaboration written in its genes.
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Video: Media in Transition 6: “New Media, Civic Media”
As old media die, new forms are emerging, but it’s not clear they will serve such vital civic functions.
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Center for Future Civic Media: Connecting community projects online
This fall, MIT’s Center for Future Civic Media launched an ambitious new website civic.mit.edu.
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Ellen Hume on the Future of Journalism
The full playlist, including more clips of Ellen Hume, Mark Jurkowitz, Doug Smith, and Sree Sreenivasan is available here.
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Help for landowners who could be victimized by natural gas drilling
“Landman Report Card will help landowners in any state navigate the government and corporate databases.”
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Landman Report Card highlighted in Good Clean Tech, PC Magazine
“MIT is working on a suite of software applications that helps aggregate all the necessary information about land deals, along with input from citizens in the affected areas, in a clear, user-friendly format.”
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New website launched for the Center for Future Civic Media
The new Center for Future Civic Media site, at civic.mit.edu, not only serves as the public face of C4 but also reflects its collaborative mission.
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Henry Jenkins at the Aspen Institute, Forum on Communications and Society
CMS Co-Director Henry Jenkins last month joined the likes of Madeleine Albright, Craig Newmark, and Former U.S. Solicitor General Theodore Olson for a panel on how public policy and private initiatives can better meet the public’s information needs.
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Center for Future Civic Media / Communications Forum Conversation
The Center for Future Civic Media is collaborating with the MIT Communications Forum to host an ongoing series of conversations about media and civic engagement.
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MIT Center for Future Civic Media Welcomes Ellen Hume
Owing to her early involvement, few were surprised to learn that Ellen Hume would be spearheading the center and articulating its vision.
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Connecting the Future: The MIT Center for Future Civic Media
In May 2007, MIT had emerged as the top winner in the first Knight News Challenge, with CMS and the Media Lab together receiving $5 million to fund a Center for Future Civic Media.
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Podcast and video: “What Is Civic Media?”
A collaboration between the MIT Media Lab and Comparative Media Studies (CMS) program and is the first in a series of events designed to focus attention on the relationship between emerging media and civic engagement.
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In Medias Res, Fall 2007
During the academic year, GAMBIT is allowing CMS to reinvent itself, to better achieve our goals inside both the classroom and the research laboratory.
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CMS, Media Lab Take Top Prize in Knight News Challenge
CMS and the MIT Media Lab were awarded a $5 million Knight News Challenge Grant to fund a Center for Future Civic Media, where researchers will experiment with new technologies to empower community news. Read the Boston Globe story.
