The Week in Civic Media: Mapping Media Ecosystems
Andrew Whitacre
Communications Director
Andrew conducts the communications efforts for the MIT Comparative Media Studies program (websites, press relations, and project and event publicity), including those of the Center for Civic Media and the Singapore-MIT GAMBIT Game Lab. A native of Washington, D.C., he holds a B.A. in communication from Wake Forest University and an M.F.A. in creative writing from Emerson College. His marketing and P.R. skills were honed first at Houghton Mifflin and later at Tufts University. He was also the long-time fiction editor for Identity Theory.
The Week in Civic Media: Mapping Media Ecosystems
Submitted by Andrew on October 31, 2011 - 3:56pm
Events This Week
- "Mapping Media Ecosytems". Civic Media Session, Wednesday 5pm w/ Hal Roberts, Erhardt Graeff, Gilad Lotan cot.ag/uad5Sz
- Mitch Resnick joins us Thursday for free lunch (RSVP). "Launching Projects into the World": cot.ag/uwCU4G
- Join Nathan Matias, Matt Stempek, and Daniel Schultz at the Civic Media London Social Thu 3 Nov @ 6:00pm bit.ly/uUzVK6
Civic Videos and Podcasts
- Video: Civic Media Session: "Civic Maps" cot.ag/vwolZi
- Video: Ethan Zuckerman on "Networks Understanding Networks" cot.ag/tCdCFc
- Video: Benjamen Walker talks "Too Much Information" at our Civic Media Lunch: bit.ly/vKJvyv (Great example of "civic fiction" as a genre…)
- Podcast: "Surveillance and Citizenship" cot.ag/saThfE
- Molly Sauter interviewed by BBC4 about Anonymous and hacktivism cot.ag/vwfnHR (~13:50)
From the Civic Blog
- What are the building blocks of a social or political movement? cot.ag/tObbWX
- "Collaborative Design!", a lit review from Molly Sauter cot.ag/siDjln
- Did modernity start with the telegraph? cot.ag/t4jpXG by Nathan Matias
- Occupy obsession with consensus may be key to movement-wide coherent message cot.ag/sNFMSW
- Enjoy Ethan Zuckerman's write-up of "Civic Media Lunch: Telling stories about Occupy Wall Street" cot.ag/uRwsVE
- Social Media & Mass Media: Looking at BBC's guidelines for using pictures from Social Media cot.ag/sV9RYt
- Examining Participatory Journalism in the NYTimes cot.ag/rtg3Kv
Data Cycles
- We need "data cycles" says Open Knowledge Foundation: cot.ag/rCdj4r Gov't data --> citizen improvements to that data --> Improved data back to gov't
Occupy and More
- Iraq War veteran at #occupy in critical condition after clash with Oakland police cot.ag/rvYYIP
- Public deliberation as viable alternative to radical electoral democracy in China: cot.ag/vUM03q
- Example of inexpensive community mapping beating the pants off Google Maps' image quality cot.ag/soHVLr via @grassrootsmapping
