https://civic.mit.edu Creating Technology for Social Change Wed, 16 May 2018 19:11:45 +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/2017/09/26/data-for-equity-the-power-of-data-to-promote-justice-liveblog/ Tue, 26 Sep 2017 18:28:00 +0000 http://civic-homepage.wordpress.brownbag.me/2017/09/26/data-for-equity-the-power-of-data-to-promote-justice-liveblog/ https://civic.mit.edu/2016/06/03/a-primer-on-non-binary-gender-and-big-data/ Fri, 03 Jun 2016 15:32:00 +0000 http://civic-homepage.wordpress.brownbag.me/2016/06/03/a-primer-on-non-binary-gender-and-big-data/ https://civic.mit.edu/2016/03/22/missing-women-blank-maps-and-data-voids-what-gets-counted-counts/ Tue, 22 Mar 2016 18:56:00 +0000 http://civic-homepage.wordpress.brownbag.me/2016/03/22/missing-women-blank-maps-and-data-voids-what-gets-counted-counts/ https://civic.mit.edu/2015/12/01/feminist-data-visualization/ Tue, 01 Dec 2015 19:10:56 +0000 http://civic-homepage.wordpress.brownbag.me/?p=2165 Seeing the whole world is a fantasy that Michel DeCerteau calls the “totalizing eye” and Donna Haraway calls “the God Trick”. This is the first image taken of the whole earth in 1967. From Wikipedia. While there is a lot of hype about data visualization, and a lot of new tools for doing it (my colleague Rahul Bhargava and I have counted over 500!), fewer people are thinking critically about the politics and ethics of […]]]> https://civic.mit.edu/2015/11/17/data-transparency-lab-industry-panel/ Tue, 17 Nov 2015 14:05:00 +0000 http://civic-homepage.wordpress.brownbag.me/2015/11/17/data-transparency-lab-industry-panel/ https://civic.mit.edu/2015/04/06/storytelling-and-data-why-how-when/ Mon, 06 Apr 2015 18:59:00 +0000 http://civic-homepage.wordpress.brownbag.me/2015/04/06/storytelling-and-data-why-how-when/ https://civic.mit.edu/2015/04/06/openvisconf-keynote-by-jeffrey-heer/ Mon, 06 Apr 2015 10:22:00 +0000 http://civic-homepage.wordpress.brownbag.me/2015/04/06/openvisconf-keynote-by-jeffrey-heer/ https://civic.mit.edu/2014/10/30/speculative-civics-a-lunch-talk-with-carl-disalvo/ Thu, 30 Oct 2014 13:45:00 +0000 http://civic-homepage.wordpress.brownbag.me/2014/10/30/speculative-civics-a-lunch-talk-with-carl-disalvo/ https://civic.mit.edu/2014/10/24/algorithms-data-driven-storytelling-panel-at-the-computation-journalism-symposium-at/ Fri, 24 Oct 2014 11:45:00 +0000 http://civic-homepage.wordpress.brownbag.me/2014/10/24/algorithms-data-driven-storytelling-panel-at-the-computation-journalism-symposium-at/ https://civic.mit.edu/2014/07/06/serendipity-beyond-personalization/ Sun, 06 Jul 2014 12:34:00 +0000 http://civic-homepage.wordpress.brownbag.me/2014/07/06/serendipity-beyond-personalization/