What’s been the relationship between social media and social movement activity during the current global cycle of protest? Our own Sasha Costanza-Chock says it’s time to find out…

Media Culture in the Occupy Movement From the People’s Mic to GlobalRevolution.tv

Thursday 5pm @ MIT

Sasha Costanza-Chock is Assistant Professor of Civic Media in the Comparative Media Studies program at MIT. He is a Fellow at the Berkman Center for Internet & Society at Harvard University, co-principal investigator of the MIT Center for Civic Media, and cofounder of the Occupy Research Network.

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Free Civic Lunches, this Thursday and next
Jake Shapiro and Public Radio Exchange [RSVP required]
Sourcemap and Supply Chain Transparency, with Leo Bonanni, Founder and CEO of Sourcemap.com [RSVP required]
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Tomorrow: Data Therapy Webinar
Techniques for Creative Data Presentation

Data getting you down? Today is your last day to register to learn techniques for creative data presentation

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And more civic media news this week…

Videos
“What’s Your Information Diet?”
One Year after Mubarak: Wadah Khanfar on Networks, Journalism, and Democracy
“How to Amplify Community Voices”: miss the conversation between our Ethan Zuckerman and Knight Foundation President Alberto Ibargüen? Watch them at last week’s Media Learning Seminar

2012 Knight News Challenge opens! Apply for your slice of $5 million for media innovation

Want more? Take advantage of three great Twitter lists of our favorite researchers, reporters, and practitioners: michelemclellan/bxb, civicMIT/civicmedia2011, and civicMIT/civicmedia-plus-one.