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Mind the Map: Toward a Handbook for Journalists

Submitted by kanarinka on May 16, 2013 - 5:35pm

by Luisa Beck and Catherine D’Ignazio, with suggestions from the Participatory News class

“What is it we want our maps to be now, if no longer a single authoritative view or the world?”
- Brooke Gladstone, Host of NPR’s On the Media

Hackathons don't solve problems

Submitted by cfd on May 16, 2013 - 2:09pm

Qualcomm, a company known for their manufacture of semiconductors, stopped by the Center for Civic Media a few weeks ago to interview people about hackathons. Today, they released the video, which features Nathan Matias and I:

Thankfully, all of the words that I say on the screen in the video are words that I actually said. But the edit and framing message that they present is literally the opposite of what I said in the interview.

What is Video for Change -- and Its Forms?

Submitted by cheekay5 on May 15, 2013 - 11:27pm

[Cross-posted on the EngageMedia blog]

Over at the v4c.org blog, the video4change Impact Research team have begun blogging about some of the issues, questions and lessons from the preliminary literature review. In a series of three blog entries, they have explored the definition of using video to impact and influence social change, and how organisations, individuals and social movements have done it.

In the first entry, Video for Change: What is It and Who Does It? the researchers have come up with the broadest possible definition:

“any initiative that emphasises the use of video for creating change, whether that change is at a personal or individual level, is focused on a group or a specific issue or is at a broader social level.”

How Close to Home? Crisis, Attention and Geographic Bias

Submitted by kanarinka on May 14, 2013 - 4:45pm

Boston Marathon Bombings, April 15, 2013 Lushan Earthquake, April 20, 2013

(Credit: AFP/Getty Images, National Geographic)

A Critical Geography of the News Coverage of the Boston Marathon Bombings

By Catherine D'Ignazio and Luisa Beck

A simple idea, a well-crafted prompt, a beautiful collaborative storytelling project

Submitted by beckyh on May 13, 2013 - 8:03pm

What are the elements of an appealing invitation to participate in a collaborative storytelling piece? What would motivate you to share a personal story with an unknown audience? How do we prompt people in a way that elicits contributions of a kind we are imagining?

from http://olganunes.com/

My dear friend Olga Nunes recently ran a beautiful and enormously successful campaign, a simple call for memories relating to smell to which people responded with touching and deep memories. She says, “We are all made of stories” and underlying all of her artwork is some expression of this sentiment. She’s an artist who draws you into semi-fictitious lives that she spins through songs, poems, visual art, experiences. In this project, she helps draw stories from you through your memories, making apparent the fabric of stories that weave us together.

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