Upcoming Events RSVP for our Civic Media Lunch with Zeega http://cot.ag/nMzel8 10/4: *Tuesday* Lunch: “Empowering Culture and Context”: http://civic.mit.edu/event/tuesday-lunch-empowering-culture-and-context 10/6 Thursday Lunch: “Collectivities and Disappearance”: http://civic.mit.edu/event/thursday-lunch-collectivities-and-disappearance 10/20 Civic Media Session: “Civic Maps”: http://civic.mit.edu/event/civic-media-session-civic-maps From civic.mit.edu/blog (You can read a ton of insightful posts from Sasha Costanza-Chock’s introduction to civic media […]
Daily Archives: September 26, 2011
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This post was written in response to three readings: Radical Media, by John Downing, This is the Voice of Algieria, by Frantz Fanon, and Influencing Public Policy in the Digital Age (PDF), by the Alliance for Justice. “The technical instruments, when they contain a sufficient charge to threaten a society, […]
The 2007 report Packet Forgery By ISPs: A Report on the Comcast Affair by the Electronic Frontier Foundation talks about the practices of Comcast (the second largest Internet Service Provider in the United States) to control and differentially prioritize the flow of information through their network. This “interference”, as the […]
The report on Latino Congreso 2011 reveals how a group of Latino community scholars are forging conversations regarding media justice (internet freedom) to address larger societal problems. These conversations have empowered and inspired Latinos to strategize on how to solve these inequalities. The report is here: http://centerformediajustice.org/2011/03/27/and-life-and-the-people-neve… The author observes […]
Radical Media, according to Robert D.H. Downing, are “media, generally small-scale and in many different forms, that express an alternative vision to hegemonic policies, priorities and perspectives” (v, 2001). In chapter IV of his book, Radical Media: Rebellious Communication and Social Movements, Downing asks how radical media can strengthen democratic […]