https://civic.mit.edu Creating Technology for Social Change Fri, 14 Dec 2012 08:12:00 +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/methods-of-connecting-with-voters-in-the-2012-presidential-election-campaigns/ Fri, 14 Dec 2012 08:12:00 +0000 http://civic-homepage.wordpress.brownbag.me/2012/12/14/methods-of-connecting-with-voters-in-the-2012-presidential-election-campaigns/ https://civic.mit.edu/2012/11/20/email-targeting-in-2012-political-campaigns/ Tue, 20 Nov 2012 20:12:00 +0000 http://civic-homepage.wordpress.brownbag.me/2012/11/20/email-targeting-in-2012-political-campaigns/ An article from The Atlantic about the bearded geeks behind Obama’s campaign recently caught the attention of many — as of today, more than 12,000 people have liked it on Facebook and over 3,000 people have tweeted about it. Part of the story’s intrigue was the campaign’s ability to collect massive amounts of data on voters and volunteers and use that data to target their messages. This week’s blog post will focus on ProPublica’s Message […]]]> https://civic.mit.edu/2012/11/16/obamas-grassroots-calling-campaign/ Fri, 16 Nov 2012 01:18:00 +0000 http://civic-homepage.wordpress.brownbag.me/2012/11/16/obamas-grassroots-calling-campaign/ How many emails, texts, or phone calls from an organization can you stand until you start automatically labeling the entire operation as spam? For my final project, I will focus on mass communication from organizations with the intention of driving civic action, particularly methods and frequency of communication. With the 2012 elections, many found themselves the target of mass communication. This blog post will focus on one example of mass communication from a political campaign […]]]> https://civic.mit.edu/2012/11/08/intro-to-civic-media-week-7-civic-mapping-recap/ Thu, 08 Nov 2012 13:04:00 +0000 http://civic-homepage.wordpress.brownbag.me/2012/11/08/intro-to-civic-media-week-7-civic-mapping-recap/ https://civic.mit.edu/2012/10/17/link-spamming-during-the-2008-south-korean-beef-protests/ Wed, 17 Oct 2012 02:38:00 +0000 http://civic-homepage.wordpress.brownbag.me/2012/10/17/link-spamming-during-the-2008-south-korean-beef-protests/ https://civic.mit.edu/2012/10/09/the-magic-school-bus-goes-link-spamming/ Tue, 09 Oct 2012 01:49:00 +0000 http://civic-homepage.wordpress.brownbag.me/2012/10/09/the-magic-school-bus-goes-link-spamming/ At the end of our last Intro to Civic Media class, we split up into groups to develop models of theory of change. And for the second time doing this type of activity in this class, I was in the group that came up with a reference to nature — this time, we modeled change with… the water cycle. And since water cycles remind me of one of my favorite childhood books — The Magic […]]]> https://civic.mit.edu/2012/10/01/project-proposal-an-analysis-of-current-commenting-systems/ Mon, 01 Oct 2012 22:31:00 +0000 http://civic-homepage.wordpress.brownbag.me/2012/10/01/project-proposal-an-analysis-of-current-commenting-systems/ https://civic.mit.edu/2012/09/17/digital-inequality-in-the-52246/ Mon, 17 Sep 2012 23:49:00 +0000 http://civic-homepage.wordpress.brownbag.me/2012/09/17/digital-inequality-in-the-52246/ For Intro to Civic Media this week, we talked about and created a model for digital inequality. My group came up with a cute representation of digital inequality using a tree, where its roots represent components that add to digital equality, the leaves represent the fruit of digital equality, and falling fruit represents the idea that digital equality can fuel itself, just like a real ecosystem. Before heading east to Cambridge, Massachusetts to come to […]]]> https://civic.mit.edu/2012/09/10/civic-media-civic-media/ Mon, 10 Sep 2012 22:04:00 +0000 http://civic-homepage.wordpress.brownbag.me/2012/09/10/civic-media-civic-media/ “You should take Sasha’s class, Intro to Civic Media.” It started with a suggestion from Nathan Matias, a research assistant from the Center for Civic Media. I was sitting in Starbucks right off MIT’s campus, hearing about his projects and talking about potential projects I could work on for a senior project that I’d have to complete in the spring. As a computer science major with an interest in journalism, the future of news, and […]]]>