Center for Future Civic Media

What is Civic Media?

Civic media is any form of communication that strengthens the social bonds within a community or creates a strong sense of civic engagement among its residents. Civic media goes beyond news gathering and reporting.

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Featured Project from the Center

Newsflow

Newsflow is a dynamic, real-time map of news reporting, which displays both the latest top stories as well as the news organizations which covered them. All articles are from the last few minutes.

Viewing news in this way lets us see how the choice of 'top stories' by news bureaus is geographically unequal, or rather, what areas of the world are neglected by various national news sources.

Arcs link the location of the news organizations' headquarters to the places mentioned in a given article.

Built with HTML5 on the dynamic mapping framework Cartagen, Newsflow draws on real-time data from over 200 news organizations as well as Google, Yahoo, and other sources.

How might communities use it?
The ability to view such data in real time offers viewers a chance to see how journalists shape national attention as stories unfolds.

Additional collaborators: David Small

Links:

http://newsflow.cartagen.org/

Links:

http://cartagen.org/

Project team:

Jeffrey Warren

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EveryBlock

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EveryBlock is a new experiment in journalism, offering a Web "newspaper" for every city block in a number of American cities.

Enter any address, neighborhood or ZIP code in those cities, and the site shows you recent public records, news articles and other Web content that’s geographically relevant to you. To our knowledge, it’s the most granular approach to local news ever attempted.

http://www.everyblock.com/