games

Games can be an effective and compelling way of teaching and learning about the issues facing communities and individuals. They afford a method of engagement that is fun, active, and that encourages participants to think more deeply about issues and challenges.
See also <a href="/topics/education">education</a>.

The Politics behind Babycastles

Submitted by natematias on September 21, 2012 - 6:54pm

 Babycastles curates, hosts, and install independent games made by small groups of people or individuals around New York City and around the world, creating an arcade setting for people of all ages and identities to experience games.

 
Babycastles

Speaking to us about Babycastles is Syed Salahuddin, an adjunct professor at the NYU Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences and NYU Polytechnic and instructor at the Institute of Play. He has also taught at the MoMA Teens Program and the Museum of the Moving Image. Syed joins us for the MIT Media Lab's diversity speakers series.

Leo Bonanni exposes the backbone of globalization with SourceMap

Submitted by mstem on March 8, 2012 - 3:51pm

MIT Tech TV

Check out the new My Dot Tour video!!

Submitted by leoburd on September 21, 2011 - 12:02pm

The My Dot Tour video is now live on YouTube at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pKpICauLQ9E or embedded at http://mydorchester.org/youth/mydottour. Have look:

Shot and edited by Igor Kharitonenkov in very short order, this 4-minute documentary gives an excellent summary of the My Dot Tour initiative. Props to Kate Balug (GSD alum, co-founder of the Dept. of Play, and a good friend of the Center) for all of her incredible work on this project!

The MIT Center for Civic Media contributed in the overall planning of the project and with the implementation of the technical infrastructure that supported the neighborhood tours. In particular, this project proved to be a good application of the Center's VoIP Drupal platform, an open source framework that makes it easier to build communication systems that integrate phone, SMS and web together (http://drupal.org/project/voipdrupal).

GoMap

Interactive and social Map for local communities to empower news, petitions, building project discussions, tweets and display them in geographic context

http://www.gomap.org
Kristofs Blaus
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Topics: 
activism
social networks
environment
technology solutions
local communities
media
games
journalism
decision-making
networks
Civic media

BLITZ BAZAAR, Community Service Re-Energized

Unpublished

Blitz Bazaar offers enterprise software to universities, schools, corporations and religious institutions seeking to harness the power of new social technology to: (1) increase public service & civic engagement, (2) strengthen relationships and 'service values' in the community.

Blitz Bazaar is a unique social technology application combining social gaming, social networking and social media into one simple and engaging user experience. We help community service programs exceed their operating goals while reigniting excitement around 'doing good'.

http://www.blitzbazaar.com
Lloyd Nimetz
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Topics: 
technology solutions
local communities
games
Civic media

Communications Forum: "What's New at the Center for Future Civic Media"

Submitted by Andrew on November 16, 2009 - 11:34am

MIT Center for Future Civic Media Director Chris Csikszentmihalyi presents the Center's most recent projects. From community mapping to news tracking, from collective action to rural empowerment, from cultural mixing to carbon consciousness, civic media is any technology or technique that strengthens a geographic community. Civic media researchers will demonstrate their projects in a lightning-round format, with time for discussion and questions following each presentation listed below.

Presentations include:

NOT::Boston (Concluded)

Status: 
Standby

NOT::Boston is a real-time, location-based game, that lasts for six weeks. During that time, players are assembled into three teams and they compete to create their neighborhood five years in the future.

Round-up of all the Knight News Challenge fun

Submitted by Andrew on June 19, 2009 - 2:35pm

We've had to remain largely mum on the Future of News and Civic Media Conference, just held this week here at MIT--such is the reality of a popular-but-invitation-only conference and one whose big news, the announcement of the 2009 Knight News Challenge winners, was embargoed until the last minute.

But I'd like to use this here website that I manage to thank the 200+ attendees, especially those from the Knight Foundation, for an amazing three days of barcamps, camaraderie, invention, and, of course, prize-giving.

Here, assembled, is but a slice of news about the conference.

The winners: http://www.newschallenge.org/winners/2009
The attendees: http://civic.mit.edu/knightconf/attendees
Photos by Knight's Kristen Taylor of new Challenge winners...

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