You are especially interested in issues of bodily presence and affective immediacy that arise in response to immersive environments, qualities which make our experiences in such worlds expecially intense and memorable. Yet there’s a long tradition of science fiction writing which worries about the use of such devices for propaganda […]
Daily Archives: June 25, 2010
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Please to enjoy the visual fruits of last week’s Future of News and Civic Media conference plenaries. Below–available for viewing, downloading, and reusing–are the three plenary videos… Announcement of the 2010 Knight News Challenge winners Available for download at MIT TechTV. “Crowd Building” with Gabriella Coleman and Karim Lakhani Available […]
MIT Tech TV Our lives are increasingly mediated by computers and data – a shift that is becoming more and more natural to us. From Data.gov to real-time municipal bus information, data in many forms from many sources is being made available and recombined in ways we could not have […]
More about the conference: http://civic.mit.edu/conference2010 MIT Tech TV For years, news organizations have been ambivalently confronting the idea of crowdsourcing. In contrast to other forms of “user innovation” that feature collaborations by highly skilled professionals, crowdsourcing exploits a largely untrained group of contributors. Is crowdsourcing a solution to declining revenue […]
MIT Tech TV The John S. and James L. Knight Foundation–sponsor of the MIT Center for Future Civic Media–in June 2010 announced their 2010 Knight News Challenge winners. Together, these winners form another ground-breaking, visionary class of civic media developers, inventors, and entrepreneurs. This is video of the announcement by […]