If you’ve spent any time in the American south — or at the food court in Burlington Mall, ten miles outside Boston — you’ve likely gone weak at the knees at the mention of Chick-fil-A. The waffle fries. The sweet tea. And tops, the spicy chicken sandwich. And you too […]
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First thoughts from Center staff about yesterday’s (mercifully finished and legitimate) election: Andrew Whitacre, Communications Manager: A series of [packed] tubes. An unpredicted consequence of Citizens United was complete mass media saturation. In the run-up to 2014 and ’16, we’ll see even more money spent, but far more will go […]
Yesterday, Denise, Royal, and I conducted an introductory Vojo workshop with youth at Cambridge Community Television (CCTV). Denise Cheng is a CMS Graduate Student and a Researcher at Center for Civic Media, and Royal Morris is an MIT undergraduate working with Vojo through the Undergraduate Research Opportunities Program (UROP). We […]
Civic Games This week in class, we were visited by Scot Osterweil of Education Arcade. He started out by challenging us to play a few quick games of tic-tac-toe with our seatmates. This generated a fair amount of noise, laughter, and intensity, despite the fact that, as Scot pointed out, […]
I had the chance to join a Bay Area Doula Project (BADP) salon event the other week. They were gathering at Rock Health (http://rockhealth.com/) in SF, an incubator for health-IT projects and the new host space for the salon series that previously met at Million Fishes. I’ve been paying attention […]