https://civic.mit.edu Creating Technology for Social Change Tue, 25 Nov 2014 13:56:00 +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/2014/11/25/unpacking-open-data-power-politics-and-the-influence-of-infrastructures/ Tue, 25 Nov 2014 13:56:00 +0000 http://civic-homepage.wordpress.brownbag.me/2014/11/25/unpacking-open-data-power-politics-and-the-influence-of-infrastructures/ https://civic.mit.edu/2014/06/24/joi-itos-9-principles-of-the-media-lab/ Tue, 24 Jun 2014 14:59:00 +0000 http://civic-homepage.wordpress.brownbag.me/2014/06/24/joi-itos-9-principles-of-the-media-lab/ https://civic.mit.edu/2013/11/19/thinking-ethically-about-our-relationships-with-social-robots/ Tue, 19 Nov 2013 13:18:00 +0000 http://civic-homepage.wordpress.brownbag.me/2013/11/19/thinking-ethically-about-our-relationships-with-social-robots/ https://civic.mit.edu/2013/11/05/clay-shirky-planning-shant-trump-reality/ Tue, 05 Nov 2013 18:50:00 +0000 http://civic-homepage.wordpress.brownbag.me/2013/11/05/clay-shirky-planning-shant-trump-reality/ Clay Shirky‘s on stage with Ginny Hunt at Harvard’s Institute of Politics discussing the lessons we can take away from the Healthcare.gov boondoggle (#netrevolution). Clay’s first point is that of all the criticism of Healthcare.gov and the Affordable Care Act, no one has argued that it’s a bad idea to rely on the web as the central component of citizen interaction with a government program. All of the other communications options, from phone to fax, […]]]> https://civic.mit.edu/2013/07/30/introducing-the-participatory-aid-marketplace/ Tue, 30 Jul 2013 12:45:00 +0000 http://civic-homepage.wordpress.brownbag.me/2013/07/30/introducing-the-participatory-aid-marketplace/ https://civic.mit.edu/2013/07/14/killing-people-still-morally-wrong/ Sun, 14 Jul 2013 04:44:00 +0000 http://civic-homepage.wordpress.brownbag.me/2013/07/14/killing-people-still-morally-wrong/ https://civic.mit.edu/2013/06/20/kickstopper-when-crowdfunding-pipes-money-to-projects-you-abhor/ Thu, 20 Jun 2013 18:16:00 +0000 http://civic-homepage.wordpress.brownbag.me/2013/06/20/kickstopper-when-crowdfunding-pipes-money-to-projects-you-abhor/ Like Facebook and other corporate social platforms, Kickstarter has been asked to further refine its policies governing which speech it will and will not accept on its platform. The catalyst for the conversation is a DoSomething.org petition with over 50,068 signatures (in just over a day) against Ken Hoinsky‘s successfully completed Kickstarter crowdfunding campaign. Hoinsky’s initial $2,000 goal was surpassed, reaching $16,639 before the campaign ended. (The reason people have taken issue with Hoinsky’s Above […]]]> https://civic.mit.edu/2013/06/06/robin-chase-and-nick-grossmans-hopes-for-the-sharing-economy/ Thu, 06 Jun 2013 18:11:00 +0000 http://civic-homepage.wordpress.brownbag.me/2013/06/06/robin-chase-and-nick-grossmans-hopes-for-the-sharing-economy/ https://civic.mit.edu/2013/04/11/encouraging-flexibility-from-social-media-giants-how-we-get-private-platforms-to-support/ Thu, 11 Apr 2013 14:47:00 +0000 http://civic-homepage.wordpress.brownbag.me/2013/04/11/encouraging-flexibility-from-social-media-giants-how-we-get-private-platforms-to-support/ There are many problems with using commercial technology platforms to host democratic, social, or activist content and communications. These problems came up in multiple sessions at the National Conference on Media Reform last weekend. There are also obvious reasons to continue using these platforms (audience reach, most notably), and so we do. Some activist efforts that silo communications on more open, but relatively unknown platforms strike me as irresponsible, if the goal is to reach […]]]> https://civic.mit.edu/2013/04/05/organizing-the-internet-to-protect-the-open-internet-ncmr13/ Fri, 05 Apr 2013 17:03:00 +0000 http://civic-homepage.wordpress.brownbag.me/2013/04/05/organizing-the-internet-to-protect-the-open-internet-ncmr13/ Josh Levy, Internet Campaign Director at Free Press, introduces the topic. The SOPA protest was the biggest online protest we’ve seen. Millions of people participated and made a real impact. For organizers who have been fighting on open internet issues, it was exciting to see so many people take action and recognize that the internet is something you have to proactively protect, or else the openess that you know and love and maybe didn’t think […]]]>