https://civic.mit.edu Creating Technology for Social Change Thu, 11 Apr 2013 13:21:00 +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/2013/04/11/building-the-ngo-tech-network-in-china/ Thu, 11 Apr 2013 13:21:00 +0000 http://civic-homepage.wordpress.brownbag.me/2013/04/11/building-the-ngo-tech-network-in-china/ On March 22 and 23, 2013, NGO2.0, Google Developers Community Guangzhou, the School of Software of Sun Yat-sen University, and TechSoup Global held the first Nonprofit Hackathon in Guangzhou. About 30 Chinese software developers and 10 NGOs participated in this two-day event. At the end, four teams came up with three web applications and one mobile app. A collection of pictures taken during the event can be found at our Netease album. The first day […]]]> https://civic.mit.edu/2013/03/07/more-females-on-sina-weibo-but-less-influential-than-males/ Thu, 07 Mar 2013 08:04:00 +0000 http://civic-homepage.wordpress.brownbag.me/2013/03/07/more-females-on-sina-weibo-but-less-influential-than-males/ https://civic.mit.edu/2012/09/29/what-chinese-ngos-want-to-learn-about-internet/ Sat, 29 Sep 2012 22:32:00 +0000 http://civic-homepage.wordpress.brownbag.me/2012/09/29/what-chinese-ngos-want-to-learn-about-internet/ How do Chinese NGOs integrate new technologies to their work? What are the biggest barriers for them to fully take advantage of new technologies? Are information communication technology(ICT) infrastructures still the barriers for grassroots NGOs? What type of assistance they might need to develop integrated practices of the internet to advance their causes? Aiming at answering these questions, NGO2.0 is launching our third ICT capacity survey! (Scene of 2012 Chengdu Web2.0 Training Workshop, China) The […]]]> https://civic.mit.edu/2012/07/24/network-analysis-of-sina-weibo/ Tue, 24 Jul 2012 16:47:00 +0000 http://civic-homepage.wordpress.brownbag.me/2012/07/24/network-analysis-of-sina-weibo/ Sina Weibo is one of the major micro-blogging services in China. According to a recent news report, Weibo has over 300 million users, and 100 million posts are generated everyday. In contrast with its counterpart in the West, a large number of studies on Twitter has been done, but the number of studies on Weibo is rather limited. Some researchers are constrained in studying Weibo because of language issues. For those who are sufficient in […]]]> https://civic.mit.edu/2012/04/04/summary-of-posts-about-berkman-centers-workshop-understanding-the-new-wave-of-social/ Wed, 04 Apr 2012 13:07:00 +0000 http://civic-homepage.wordpress.brownbag.me/2012/04/04/summary-of-posts-about-berkman-centers-workshop-understanding-the-new-wave-of-social/ https://civic.mit.edu/2012/03/06/research-proposal-civic-media-in-china/ Tue, 06 Mar 2012 23:43:00 +0000 http://civic-homepage.wordpress.brownbag.me/2012/03/06/research-proposal-civic-media-in-china/ In democratic countries, activists of social movements tend to create adversarial or controversial scenes to attract attention from media and expand their influence in society. This strategy aims to generate pressure from the public to the authority, and thus increase the possibility of success of the movements. However, scholars of Chinese studies find the strategy of resistance in authoritarian countries is not explicitly adversarial. Activists often position themselves in line with the official ideology so […]]]> https://civic.mit.edu/2011/11/23/mapping-out-civic-actions-in-china-adding-a-dimension-of-media-centralization/ Wed, 23 Nov 2011 14:36:00 +0000 http://civic-homepage.wordpress.brownbag.me/2011/11/23/mapping-out-civic-actions-in-china-adding-a-dimension-of-media-centralization/ https://civic.mit.edu/2011/11/23/routine-civic-actions-in-china/ Wed, 23 Nov 2011 14:10:00 +0000 http://civic-homepage.wordpress.brownbag.me/2011/11/23/routine-civic-actions-in-china/ https://civic.mit.edu/2011/11/16/media-ecosystems-on-twitter-and-weibo/ Wed, 16 Nov 2011 03:46:00 +0000 http://civic-homepage.wordpress.brownbag.me/2011/11/16/media-ecosystems-on-twitter-and-weibo/ In the article “The Revolutions Were Tweeted: Information Flow During the 2011 Tunisian and Egyptian Revolutions”, Gilad Lotan, Erhardt Graeff and others use the term ecosystem by referring to the relationships between different actors in a networked online environment. Providing snapshots of the information flow in 2011 Tunisian and Egyptian Revolutions, they point out that the nature of news work is experiencing the shift from the era of mass media to the networked digital media. […]]]> https://civic.mit.edu/2011/10/25/chinese-scholars-on-internet-and-civil-society/ Tue, 25 Oct 2011 02:57:00 +0000 http://civic-homepage.wordpress.brownbag.me/2011/10/25/chinese-scholars-on-internet-and-civil-society/