Hello everybody! As you may have noticed, this is not my first time posting to the Civic Media blog—previously, I liveblogged ROFLcon III as well as the 2012 MIT-Knight Civic Media Conference. However, I’ve never had an opportunity to formally introduce myself to the Center for Civic Media and the […]
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Last Wednesday was the first day of Introduction to Civic Media, taught by Comparative Media Studies Professor Sasha Costanza-Chock. As part of our first assignment, we were instructed to tell a little about ourselves to our fellow classmates using a blog, to reflect on the first day of class, and […]
I have to come clean: I don’t really know anything about civic media. As a graduate student in MIT’s science writing program, I am permitted to take only one elective each semester and CMS.860 was just one of many classes that got shoehorned into an ambitious course-shopping schedule. I have […]
This summer, a groundbreaking virtual meeting took place between two organizations dedicated to social justice and community empowerment: Los Angeles’ Vozmob and Boston’s Inquilinos Boricuas en Acción (IBA). In a previous blog I mentioned being a summer intern with Vozmob, a mobile phone blogging platform for low income day laborers […]
What geeked-out little changes to our voting system would you make to result in huge benefits to representative government? On Becky‘s recommendation, I’ve been reading Elinor Ostrom’s Governing the Commons. The extraordinarily fun part of the book is how quickly it gets you out of the “government is either the […]