I had not planned on attending the O’Reilly conference Gov2.0 , an exposition and dialog about new forms of government and information technology. But at last week’s Foo Camp (another O’Reilly conference) I met a great number of people in the area, and I became pretty excited with what I […]
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Last June we held our Future of News & Future Civic Media conference, here at MIT, with many recipients of the Knight News Challenge meeting, speaking, and demoing their work. We chose to use the “barcamp” un-conference technique for most of the sessions, where all participants to the conference were […]
Last June we held our Future of News & Future Civic Media conference, here at MIT, with many recipients of the Knight News Challenge meeting, speaking, and demoing their work. We chose to use the “barcamp” un-conference technique for most of the sessions, where all participants to the conference were […]
How can NGOs working on diverse projects—including graffiti, rap music and education—better reach disadvantaged communities and youth in the barrios of Juarez? How can journalists in Juarez and across Chihuahua state better communicate the positive elements of the region, encouraging citizens to play an active role in civic life? How […]
One of the central shifts implicit in user-generated information is that in many cases the user will be closer to the subject than a reporter may have been. Journalists, like ethnographers or consultants, are separated from their subjects by factors like structures of reward (salary) and professional codes (organized skepticism, […]