What group of people do we hardly ever listen to, but hear about all the time? Question Bridge is a project about the radical power of asking a question, and then listening to the answer. MIT Tech TV Question Bridge is a project to allow black males to self-define their […]
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This is a writeup of our Civic Lunch event today. Come join us next week! Sarah Wolzin of MIT’s Comparative Media Studies department introduces Judy Richardson, one of the producers of the award-winning Eyes on the Prize documentary series, a history of the Civil Rights movement. Richardson went on to […]
MIT Tech TV Today’s lunch featured a graduate of the Center for Civic Media and MIT Media Lab, Leo Bonanni, and his beloved SourceMap project. He channels Hiroshi Ishii’s description of the ideal Media Lab project being one that could go in a museum, an academic paper, and could be a […]
The last two days of the Truthiness conference, co-hosted by the Berkman Center for the Internet & Society and MIT’s Center for Civic Media, exposed a rich cross-section of people, research, and applications dedicated to fighting misinformation in its many forms. We spent the day Tuesday discussing the wide world […]
Our Civic Lunch this week featured Jake Shapiro, CEO of Public Radio International (PRX), as well as guest John Bracken from the Knight Foundation (which funds the Center for Civic Media). MIT Tech TV Download this video. Ethan Zuckerman frames the conversation by characterizing our beloved but stultified public media institutions as the […]