https://civic.mit.edu Creating Technology for Social Change Thu, 23 May 2013 18:39:00 +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/2013/05/23/in-response-hackathons-dont-solve-big-problems/ Thu, 23 May 2013 18:39:00 +0000 http://civic-homepage.wordpress.brownbag.me/2013/05/23/in-response-hackathons-dont-solve-big-problems/ https://civic.mit.edu/2013/05/16/hackathons-dont-solve-problems/ Thu, 16 May 2013 14:09:00 +0000 http://civic-homepage.wordpress.brownbag.me/2013/05/16/hackathons-dont-solve-problems/ https://civic.mit.edu/2013/04/09/why-intertwinkles/ Tue, 09 Apr 2013 11:38:00 +0000 http://civic-homepage.wordpress.brownbag.me/2013/04/09/why-intertwinkles/ https://civic.mit.edu/2013/02/08/leadership-in-horizontal-movements/ Fri, 08 Feb 2013 17:42:00 +0000 http://civic-homepage.wordpress.brownbag.me/2013/02/08/leadership-in-horizontal-movements/ https://civic.mit.edu/2012/11/19/charts-from-the-floor-of-the-us-senate/ Mon, 19 Nov 2012 11:24:00 +0000 http://civic-homepage.wordpress.brownbag.me/2012/11/19/charts-from-the-floor-of-the-us-senate/ The recent fun tumblr “Charts from the floor of the US Senate” (and Orrin Hatch’s gem) brought this story to mind: One of the formative moments of my youth came from a town hall meeting with Hatch’s colleague, senator Bob Bennett, on the topic of wilderness protection of federal land in Utah. I had come to the meeting with a petition of around 1000 signatures that I had gathered at my high school supporting wilderness, […]]]> https://civic.mit.edu/2011/11/16/occupy-streams-map/ Wed, 16 Nov 2011 15:42:00 +0000 http://civic-homepage.wordpress.brownbag.me/2011/11/16/occupy-streams-map/ With the growth of the 99 Percent movement and occupations all over the world, a large number of citizen journalists and activists have turned to real-time video casting services such as livestream, ustream, and justin.tv. Live streaming offers a compelling way to experience a protest on-the-ground as it’s happening – and it has even trickled up to more traditional media services. Time.com published the live feed from The Other 99 on its front page last […]]]> https://civic.mit.edu/2011/10/03/between-the-bars-new-site-design/ Mon, 03 Oct 2011 16:12:00 +0000 http://civic-homepage.wordpress.brownbag.me/2011/10/03/between-the-bars-new-site-design/ Between the Bars has been busy in the last six months: We now have over 300 writers, and are regularly receiving 100 letters per week We’ve published over 1500 blog posts and profiles. We now have a paid part-time staff person, thanks to the Center for Civic Media’s support, to help us with operations We’ve accrued a wait-list of over 500 additional writers in prison who want to blog – and we’re working on growing […]]]> https://civic.mit.edu/2011/06/23/the-importance-of-stakeholders-as-designers/ Thu, 23 Jun 2011 15:03:00 +0000 http://civic-homepage.wordpress.brownbag.me/2011/06/23/the-importance-of-stakeholders-as-designers/ https://civic.mit.edu/2011/04/04/between-the-bars-back-online/ Mon, 04 Apr 2011 10:02:00 +0000 http://civic-homepage.wordpress.brownbag.me/2011/04/04/between-the-bars-back-online/ https://civic.mit.edu/2010/03/10/bike-maps-triumph-of-corporate-solutions-over-grassroots/ Wed, 10 Mar 2010 10:21:00 +0000 http://civic-homepage.wordpress.brownbag.me/2010/03/10/bike-maps-triumph-of-corporate-solutions-over-grassroots/