One feature of the Center that we love to, well, feature is our completely unique set of courses. This semester we have three of them — two taught by professor and Center co-principal investigator Sasha Costanza-Chock and the other, in his MIT class debut, by our director Ethan Zuckerman. Registration […]
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If you follow news about prisoner rights, court rulings and other news about prison issues, join us for this week’s Civic Lunch… Free Civic Lunch This Week RSVP for our [free] lunch this week with Paul Wright, editor of Prison Legal News And more civic media news this week… “Nutrition […]
Everything for me this week is relating to the late Vaclav Havel, and this “imbeciles” story makes me think of Havel’s 1965 speech/article “On Evasive Thinking”. He opens with an episode from earlier that year when a girl was crushed by a stone window ledge that fell after the state […]
The Center for Civic Media has opened its search for a community organizer/codesign facilitator. We hope you’ll spread the word to qualified candidates on the hunt for a great opportunity… The description is below, with application procedures on the MIT employment site. Regan St. Pierre, our community outreach manager who […]
Con este proyecto, intente aplicar algunas de las teorías y conceptos que vimos en nuestra clase de medios cívicos al contexto de Costa Rica. No es una investigación rigurosa que quiere sacar conclusiones específicas sobre las observaciones, sino más bien, quiere ser una mirada general para poder ejemplificar un poco […]