Projects at the Center for Civic Media
PageOneX is a tool to visualize the evolution of stories on newspaper front pages. Newspaper front pages are a key source of data about our media ecology. Newsrooms spend massive time and effort deciding what stories make it to the front page. PageOneX makes coding and visualizing newspaper front page content much easier, democratizing access to newspaper attention data. Communication researchers have analyzed newspaper front pages for decades, using slow, laborious methods.
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 Media Cloud is a platform for studying media ecosystems — the relationships between professional and citizen media, between online and offline sources. By tracking millions of stories published...
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 Erase the Border is a web campaign and voice petition platform. It tells the story of the Tohono O'odham people whose community has been divided along 75 miles of the US-Mexico border by a fence. The...
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 Have you ever been forwarded an email that you just can’t believe? Our inboxes are rife with misinformation. The truth is out there, just not when we actually need it. LazyTruth is a Gmail gadget...
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 Mapping the Globe is a set of interactive visualizations and maps that help us understand where the Boston Globe directs its attention. Media attention matters – in quantity and quality. It helps...
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 The Toy Interface Construction Kit Learning Environment (T.I.C.K.L.E.) is a universal construction kit for the rest of us. It doesn't require 3D printers or CAD skills. Instead, it's a DIY social...
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Social Mirror transforms social science research by making offline social network research cheaper, faster, and more reliable. Research on whole life networks typically involves costly paper forms...
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