Content tagged "government"
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Posted by Sasha Costanza-Chock
Design Justice, A.I., and Escape from the Matrix of Domination
Associate Professor Sasha Costanza-Chock: “What paths, then, might lead us out of the matrix of domination?”
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Posted by Lily Bui S.M., Comparative Media Studies, 2016
Topics: data, environment, government, sensors, smart cities, technology, urban planningSense and the City: Representations of Air Quality Data in the “Smart City”
Examining representations of air quality data intended for governmental to grassroots audiences, and how these representations may prove to be problematic in attempts to reconcile their myriad forms and meanings across contexts and constituencies.
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Event: Thursday, October 29, 2015 @ 5:00 pm
Global Internet Development Viewed Through the Net Vitality Lens
Unlike other comparative studies that rank countries quantitatively based on a simplistic assessment of broadband speeds, Stuart Brotman’s Net Vitality Index measures countries qualitatively to determine how well they are performing in a global competitive environment.
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Posted by Suruchi Dumpawar S.M., Comparative Media Studies, 2015
Topics: big data, civics, design, government, open data, open governmentOpen 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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Posted by Rodrigo Davies S.M., Comparative Media Studies, 2014
Topics: civic media, crowdfunding, entrepreneurship, government, IndieGoGo, KickstarterCivic Crowdfunding: Participatory Communities, Entrepreneurs and the Political Economy of Place
The potential benefits and challenges of using crowdfunding as a means of executing community-oriented projects in the built 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 Jing Wang and Andrew Whitacre
NGO 2.0: An Interview with Jing Wang
“We found that teaching them how to use the tools is probably less important than teaching them how to position themselves, how to brand themselves.”
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Posted by Andrew Whitacre
Podcast: Media in Transition 8, “Surveillance: Big Data and Other Watchers”
Do the ramifying surveillance systems for observing and recording our routine activities fundamentally threaten our privacy and freedom?
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Posted by Andrew Whitacre
Podcast: Media in Transition 8, “Oversharing: The End of Privacy?”
Amid disquiet over encroachments on privacy by government and corporations, are young people not respecting the traditional boundaries of privacy?
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Event: Thursday, February 10, 2011 @ 5:00 pm
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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Posted by Andrew Whitacre
Podcast: “Government Transparency and Collaborative Journalism”
What new ways of gathering and presenting information are evolving from the nexus of government transparency and digital connectedness?
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Event: Thursday, March 18, 2010 @ 5:00 pm - 7:00 pm
Government Transparency and Collaborative Journalism
Minnesota Public Radio’s Linda Fantin and Sunlight Foundation’s Ellen Miller discuss how new ways of gathering and presenting information are evolving from a nexus of government openness and digital connectedness.