This Week in Civic Media: Hero Reports in the News
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.
This Week in Civic Media: Hero Reports in the News
Submitted by Andrew on September 26, 2011 - 1:42pm
Upcoming Events
- RSVP for our Civic Media Lunch with Zeega http://cot.ag/nMzel8
- 10/4: *Tuesday* Lunch: "Empowering Culture and Context": http://civic.mit.edu/event/tuesday-lunch-empowering-culture-and-context
- 10/6 Thursday Lunch: "Collectivities and Disappearance": http://civic.mit.edu/event/thursday-lunch-collectivities-and-disappearance
- 10/20 Civic Media Session: "Civic Maps": http://civic.mit.edu/event/civic-media-session-civic-maps
From civic.mit.edu/blog
(You can read a ton of insightful posts from Sasha Costanza-Chock's introduction to civic media students)
- @HighHolburn: "Community Radio: Radical Media Opening Channels For Communities" http://cot.ag/rnPwAJ
- @civicMIT supports MyDotTour, a multimedia youth-led tour of a Dorchester neighborhood http://cot.ag/qsvcXK
In the News
- Kudos to @huffingtonpost for covering our project @heroreports: http://cot.ag/oGLpXK
20 Sep
Patents and Policy
- "White House Petition to End Software Patents Is a Hit" http://cot.ag/qJmK9s /via @techreview
The Future of News
- A Journalist's Primer to Google+ http://cot.ag/pN66iu via @pbsmediashift
- Podcast: "Communications Forum: Local News in the Digital Age" http://cms.mit.edu/news/2011/09/podcast_communications_forum_l.php
Elsewhere
- "Fear of Repression Spurs Scholars and Activists to Build Alternate Internets" http://cot.ag/redd45 via @chronicle
- @knightfdn is at the 66th Annual Conference on Citizenship 2 discuss civic health & Soul of the Community http://kng.ht/oyjjIR @NCoc #ncoc
- Middle East activists: number one tech priority is safer cell phones http://cot.ag/qlcbce @Katrinskaya
- Photo: Independently detecting what exactly is emitted at a gas extraction site http://cot.ag/nsRKeQ
