Events This Week “Mapping Media Ecosytems”. Civic Media Session, Wednesday 5pm w/ Hal Roberts, Erhardt Graeff, Gilad Lotan cot.ag/uad5Sz Mitch Resnick joins us Thursday for free lunch (RSVP). “Launching Projects into the World”: cot.ag/uwCU4G Join Nathan Matias, Matt Stempek, and Daniel Schultz at the Civic Media London Social Thu 3 […]

The Week in Civic Media: Mapping Media Ecosystems

BBC is one of the few mass media outlets that has a worldwide footprint, and as someone who used to live in a region which is heavily covered by the BBC, it was very interesting to see the “outside perspective” that it brought in for issues which had a strongly […]

Social Media & Mass Media : Looking at BBC’s guidelines …

For Intro to Civic Media this week we were asked to pick a media news outlet and examine how they incorporated participatory media into their practices and work. Being a regular New York Times reader, I decided to look back at my own personal observations of the NYTimes’ online interaction […]

Examining Participatory Journalism in the NYTimes

This week’s readings were particularly relevant to my project research, so it was exciting to read these having just returned from the [extremely chilly pre-snow] OccupyBoston site. I only got two interviews in before I had to head out (I’ll be returning for more soon), but I think I gained […]

From Small To Big And In Between

Project Update: In writing my introduction, I had to ask myself some important questions: Why does my project matter? Why should we care about the impact of ICTs in Ukraine? I came across an interesting article by Michael McFaul suggesting that the 2004 Orange Revolution in Ukraine may have been […]