Last Wednesday was the first day of Introduction to Civic Media, taught by Comparative Media Studies Professor Sasha Costanza-Chock. As part of our first assignment, we were instructed to tell a little about ourselves to our fellow classmates using a blog, to reflect on the first day of class, and […]
Daily Archives: September 10, 2012
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“You should take Sasha’s class, Intro to Civic Media.” It started with a suggestion from Nathan Matias, a research assistant from the Center for Civic Media. I was sitting in Starbucks right off MIT’s campus, hearing about his projects and talking about potential projects I could work on for a […]
I have to come clean: I don’t really know anything about civic media. As a graduate student in MIT’s science writing program, I am permitted to take only one elective each semester and CMS.860 was just one of many classes that got shoehorned into an ambitious course-shopping schedule. I have […]
Hi Sasha, Becky, Class, and World, My name’s Arlene Ducao. I’m a second year Media Lab student in the Info Eco (http://eco.media.mit.edu) group. I’m looking forward to participating in the class in some way, particularly in the civic maps session; maps are at the central part of my thesis OpenIR […]
Hello everyone, my name is Kyle Yuan! I am a freshman here at MIT and Intro to Civic Media is my first HASS class of my college career. I had originally signed up for a different course, but due to a scheduling conflict, I added CMS.360 last week, so I […]