Content tagged "civics"
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Podcast: Anushka Shah, “How Entertainment Can Help Fix the System”
Anushka Shah asks, our trust in politics and public institutions is falling globally — can entertainment and pop culture be a way out?
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Play for Change: Educational Game Design for Grassroots Organizing
We need some of those interventions to come in the form of games, not necessarily because they are fun but because they contain crucial elements that are missing from the civic technologies that support engagement today.
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Podcast: Roderick Hart, “The Language of Civic Life: Past to Present”
The University of Texas’ Roderick Hart argues that disagreements – endless, raucous disagreements – draw citizens in, or at least enough of them to sustain civic hope.
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The Language of Civic Life: Past to Present
The University of Texas’ Roderick Hart argues that disagreements – endless, raucous disagreements – draw citizens in, or at least enough of them to sustain civic hope.
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The Print that Binds: Local Journalism, Civic Life and the Public Sphere
Local journalism is critical as a tool for informing citizens so they can be civically engaged and hold the powerful accountable, as well as keeping communities together.
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Children’s Civic Engagement in the Scratch Online Community
“By supporting channels for dutiful citizenship by way of policy, design decisions, or changing governance models, designers can create channels that foster dutiful citizenship while connecting with youth interests.”
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Open Government Data Intermediaries: Mediating Data to Drive Changes in the Built Environment
Less attention has been focused on a configuration of actors that facilitate the use of data by aggregating open government data and enhancing it.
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Podcast: Doris Sommer, “Welcome Back, to the Humanities as Civic Engagement”
Doris 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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Doris Sommer, “Welcome Back, to the Humanities as Civic Engagement”
Doris 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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Better the Data You Know: Developing Youth Data Literacy in Schools and Informal Learning Environments
We need to support the public — especially youth — in developing data literacy, so that they are equipped to think critically and ethically about data.
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Podcast and Liveblog: Zeynep Tufekci, “The Boom-Bust Cycle of Social Media-Fueled Protests”
Zeynep Tufekci discusses features of boom and bust protest movements, drawing upon Gezi, the Arab Spring, and the Occupy and M15 movements.
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Civic Media Lunch: “The Promise of Civic Renewal” with Peter Levine
Tufts 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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Media in Transition 8: Public Media, Private Media
Submissions accepted on a rolling basis until Friday, March 1, 2013.
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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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Podcast: Nitin Sawhney, “Media and Resilience: Creative DIY Cultures and Civic Agency among Marginalized Youth”
Nitin Sawhney on youth digital storytelling in the West Bank and Gaza and participatory media for resilience and civic agency among youth in conflict.
