The Globe and Civic recently announced a partnership funded by the Knight Foundation. Yesterday, at the invitation of GlobeLab director Chris Marstall, I visited the headquarters of my home town newspaper for the first time. I was accompanied on my visit by a group of reporters from The Tech, MIT’s […]
Daily Archives: October 10, 2012
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As I mentioned in an earlier post, we not only have immeasurable amounts of information available about the human experience in the planet, but are generating much more than we can possibly digest. The suggestive term “digital exhaust” is a common description of that phenomenon in today’s academic literature. […]
As I mentioned in an earlier post, we not only have immeasurable amounts of information available about the human experience in the planet, but are generating much more than we can possibly digest. The suggestive term “digital exhaust” is a common description of that phenomenon in today’s academic literature. […]
What is social change? In simplest terms, in signals an alteration to some pre-existing social order, not necessarily for a progressive cause. Last week, the students of Introduction to Civic Media were instructed to break into groups and develop their own model that would outline some theory of social change. […]
In class last week, my group proffered a somewhat poetic vision of social change. We called it “The Floods of Change.” Change is natural, inevitable, ongoing. In our model, the “mountain” of society constantly interacts with the “river” of ideas flowing down it. This river shifts over time, with some […]