https://civic.mit.edu Creating Technology for Social Change Fri, 03 Apr 2020 20:42:44 +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/2020/04/03/coverage-of-covid-19-and-political-partisanship-comparing-across-nations/ Fri, 03 Apr 2020 20:42:43 +0000 https://civic.mit.edu/?p=2771 By Fernando Bermejo, Luigi Reggi, Simona Tiribelli, Ethan Zuckerman In US media, virtually every national or international news story is seen through a partisan lens. It’s reasonable to hypothesize that the novel coronavirus and COVID-19, the disease it causes, would follow a similar pattern. In particular, given President Trump’s attempts to minimize the impacts of the disease, we might expect to see less attention from right wing media than from more mainstream sources popular with […]]]> https://civic.mit.edu/2019/10/02/whose-deaths-matter-new-research-on-black-lives-matter-and-media-attention/ Wed, 02 Oct 2019 17:05:59 +0000 https://civic.mit.edu/?p=2597 What influences do social movements like Black Lives Matter, MeToo or Occupy have on society as a whole? One hope movement leaders express is that a successful movement can change how we think and talk about key social issues. Champions of Occupy argue that one of the movement’s achievements was getting Americans to talk about economic issues in terms of inequality and the power of the 1%. But it’s difficult to quantify claims like this: […]]]> https://civic.mit.edu/2019/02/07/the-narrative-of-public-criticism/ Thu, 07 Feb 2019 20:13:38 +0000 https://civic.mit.edu/?p=2440 Joy Buolamwini, a doctoral student at the Center for Civic Media at the MIT Media Lab, and Deborah Raji, an undergraduate at the University of Toronto, released an important piece of research on January 25, an analysis of commercial facial analysis tools that indicated that most of these tools perform better on white male faces than they do on black female faces. Specifically, Buolamwini and Raji tested to see whether machine learning models could identify […]]]> https://civic.mit.edu/2015/08/26/understanding-media-coverage-media-cloud-experiments/ Wed, 26 Aug 2015 22:06:00 +0000 http://civic-homepage.wordpress.brownbag.me/2015/08/26/understanding-media-coverage-media-cloud-experiments/ https://civic.mit.edu/2015/03/06/mike-evans/ Fri, 06 Mar 2015 11:26:00 +0000 http://civic-homepage.wordpress.brownbag.me/2015/03/06/mike-evans/ https://civic.mit.edu/2014/02/25/danah-boyd-its-complicated/ Tue, 25 Feb 2014 15:01:00 +0000 http://civic-homepage.wordpress.brownbag.me/2014/02/25/danah-boyd-its-complicated/ https://civic.mit.edu/2013/09/09/how-to-apply-as-grad-student/ Mon, 09 Sep 2013 13:44:00 +0000 http://civic-homepage.wordpress.brownbag.me/2013/09/09/how-to-apply-as-grad-student/ It’s early September and a new crew of master’s students are starting work at Center for Civic Media. If you’re interested in becoming part of next year’s team, this is a great time to start working on your application, and you likely have some questions about how one gets accepted to work at Center for Civic Media. This post tries to offer some answers. Who gets accepted to work at Center for Civic Media? We […]]]> https://civic.mit.edu/2011/08/15/sasha-costanza-chock-on-move-to-mit-its-the-most-exciting-possible-place/ Mon, 15 Aug 2011 11:18:00 +0000 http://civic-homepage.wordpress.brownbag.me/2011/08/15/sasha-costanza-chock-on-move-to-mit-its-the-most-exciting-possible-place/ Sasha Costanza-Chock is joining the faculty of the Comparative Media Studies program at MIT as Assistant Professor of Civic Media, and is one of the three principal investigators (along with Ethan Zuckerman and Mitchel Resnick) of the Center for Civic Media. He caught up with his new colleague Ethan Zuckerman to talk about his background and his plans at MIT. “I’m a scholar and activist as well as a media maker,” explains Costanza-Chock. “My scholarship […]]]>