My final project has been about art as civic media.

In my paper, I talked about:
1) Theoretical models for civic art.
2) The practical component of my project.
3) Examples of civic art.
4) How and why civic art might work as a medium for information conveyance.

This week I read Fred Fejes’ “Murder, Perversion, and Moral Panic: The 1954 Media Campaign against Miami's Homosexuals and the Discourse of Civic Betterment” (http://www.jstor.org.libproxy.mit.edu/openurl?volume=9&date=2000&spage=3... ) and Gyorgy Kepes’ “Toward Civic Art” (http://www.jstor.org.libproxy.mit.edu/stable/1572235?seq=5& ).

Although “Murder, Perversion, and Moral Panic” focused mostly on the politics, the Miami Herald and One Magazine, and the historical context (busy nightlife, including gay clubs; recent crimes adding to the atmosphere of fear, etc.) that contributed to the campaign against Miami’s homosexual community, there was some mention of the use of art in the campaign.