Jigar Mehta is a documentary filmmaker and a journalist who came to address the MIT Open Doc Lab and the Center for Civic Media about the collaborative documentary project, #18 Days in Egypt. The project, which tells the story of the ongoing Egyptian revolution, is a collaborative web-native documentary project […]
Daily Archives: September 18, 2012
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Last week’s topic in Intro to Civic Media was Digital Inequality. Aviva and Alexander wrote a great summary post of our readings and conversation. As they describe, we traced the evolution of thinking around digital inequality from its inception as a “digital divide” – a binary of being online […]
PREVIOUSLY, ON CMS.360… Last week, the Intro to Civic Media class tackled the issue of digital inequality, first by looking at how the discourse around universal access has evolved over time. In the 90s, the dominant narrative was that of “the digital divide”—a binary classification that separates the haves from […]
Last class we discussed the crisis in journalism and digital inequality. Digital inequality is extremely important to discuss in the context of civic media because without wide access (in the broadest sense) to technology and the internet, civic media will at best provide a skewed perspective. What does access mean? […]