https://civic.mit.edu Creating Technology for Social Change Fri, 14 Dec 2012 06:53:00 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=5.4.2 https://civic.mit.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/28/2018/03/cropped-CivicMedia_Symbol_K_RGB-32x32.png https://civic.mit.edu 32 32 https://civic.mit.edu/2012/12/14/stories-products-consumers-people/ Fri, 14 Dec 2012 06:53:00 +0000 http://civic-homepage.wordpress.brownbag.me/2012/12/14/stories-products-consumers-people/ https://civic.mit.edu/2012/10/30/marketplace-storytelling/ Tue, 30 Oct 2012 13:37:00 +0000 http://civic-homepage.wordpress.brownbag.me/2012/10/30/marketplace-storytelling/ My final project for Intro to Civic Media is about storytelling in the capitalist marketplace. I am focusing on the production and reception of stories of origin printed on commercial product packages: brief narratives produced by copy writers and packaging designers working toward an institutional goal to sell products. These texts interest me both as information sources that can be fact-checked and as literary productions that reflect in their language and form the structures and […]]]> https://civic.mit.edu/2012/10/24/resources-for-civic-mapping-toolkits-and-how-tos/ Wed, 24 Oct 2012 01:14:00 +0000 http://civic-homepage.wordpress.brownbag.me/2012/10/24/resources-for-civic-mapping-toolkits-and-how-tos/ https://civic.mit.edu/2012/10/10/modular-theory-of-change/ Wed, 10 Oct 2012 12:33:00 +0000 http://civic-homepage.wordpress.brownbag.me/2012/10/10/modular-theory-of-change/ In coming up with theories for change in Intro to Civic Media last week, many of us started or ended with the goal of policy change at the highest levels of government. My final project for the class, collecting and interpreting marketplace stories of origin, does not have a specific built-in policy goal, but rather attempts to analyze and participate in an existing cultural phenomenon. So I started thinking about the relationship between policy change […]]]> https://civic.mit.edu/2012/10/02/studying-marketplace-stories-of-origin/ Tue, 02 Oct 2012 19:48:00 +0000 http://civic-homepage.wordpress.brownbag.me/2012/10/02/studying-marketplace-stories-of-origin/ I plan to complete research for a critical study that will inform a project I am currently working on, a web-based framework for collecting and analyzing stories of origin printed on product packages (ex. “Born in 1908 to a Jewish family that had been making soap since 1858, Emanuel Bronner was the third generation certified as a master-soapmaker under the guild system of the time. …”). The primary goal of the collection is bring together […]]]> https://civic.mit.edu/2012/09/11/creator-consumers-relationships-between-people-whole-earth-littlesis/ Tue, 11 Sep 2012 07:11:00 +0000 http://civic-homepage.wordpress.brownbag.me/2012/09/11/creator-consumers-relationships-between-people-whole-earth-littlesis/