This Week in Civic Media: New Name, Funds, Leader, and Site
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: New Name, Funds, Leader, and Site
Submitted by Andrew on June 27, 2011 - 4:07pm
New Name, New Funds, New Leader, New Site
- A kick in the future. @c4fcm is now @civicMIT, reflecting our new moniker
- @knightfdn announces new round of funding for us: $3.76m over three years
- Ethan Zuckerman to lead MIT Center for Civic Media http://cot.ag/m8yasp @ethanz #civicmedia
- #Civicmedia rule number 1: It's all about the Zuckermans. http://cot.ag/mQ2lfu
- Quietly, sneaking into your life as you think about the #civicmedia conference and #NewsChallenge, is our new site http://civic.mit.edu
MIT-Knight Civic Media Conference
- VIDEO: "Lightning talks" by all of this year's #NewsChallenge winners http://cot.ag/jqMFTH #civicmedia @knightfdn
- Visions of civic media, from Chris Csikszentmihalyi (@csik) and Sasha Constanza-Chock (@schock) http://cot.ag/kUoJlq via @ethanz
- Offshoot of MIT Center for #CivicMedia work, Public Lab, wins huge $500k #NewsChallenge grant! http://cot.ag/jWdojj
- Props to our bud @chrysoara: "#NewsChallenge grantee Awesome Foundation wants to fund journalism at the micro level" http://cot.ag/jVwA9B
- @NiemanLab: Get to know this year's 16 Knight #NewsChallenge winners http://nie.mn/lEliNF
- @csik: Humbled by the #civicmedia projects C4 students presented today. What great people to work with.
- Official #civicmedia conference Twitter list: http://bit.ly/mvmKAk 60+% of registrants tweet.
- @akwhitacre My #civicmedia conference photoset is up http://cot.ag/kkJ626 Share yours!
Civic media blog: Add your comments...
- The Importance of Stakeholders as Designers: http://cot.ag/lDtCoc #civicmedia blog from @cdetar
- Digital Signage on the Cheap in Somerville's Union Square, via @rahulbot http://cot.ag/kbDdKy #civicmedia #lostinboston
- @ReganStP reports on "Sameboat" rollout, solutions to the difficulty in accessing information about social services http://cot.ag/lXJErS
Funder's take on Center's first four years
- @knightfdn's assessment of the Center for [Future] Civic Media http://cot.ag/lBjpU8 #civicmedia
Fracking
- @propublica: "Critics Find Gaps in State Laws to Disclose Hydrofracking Chemicals" http://cot.ag/jpwieP #extract
New models, new ethics?
- Sharing content and staff between local news stations: a public interest violation? @freepress thinks so: http://cot.ag/ikndfT
- Facebook apparently blocking citizen activism website, offering no recourse http://cot.ag/kOR8sG
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- @futureJproject: gannett to lay off 700. largest cuts since july 2009: http://tumblr.com/xc333svon6
Elsewhere
- @digiphile: "the FBI now has illegal possession of nearly all of @Instapaper’s data"-Marco Arment http://nie.mn/kChsUc /HT @NiemanLab
- Give The Onion a Pulitzer Campaign Gaining Steam http://cot.ag/mLMNiv
- "The Amnesty Crowd: Mapping Saudi Arabia" http://cot.ag/iYXIxL via @ushahidi
