(For MIT undergraduates only.) With the increasing proliferation of mobile digital media tools and online video distribution, there is a need for secure easy-to-use platforms for sharing and organizing media content among youth. While capturing and tagging digital media with time and location is possible, editing and organizing it for […]
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For a recent Civic Media Lunch, we welcomed the co-founder and radio coordinator from ZUMIX, Madeleine Steczynski and Elena Botkin-Levy. ZUMIX is a twenty-year-old East Boston-based nonprofit that builds community through music and the arts. Their core constituency is low-income youth — picture a Boys and Girls Club filled with […]
It was our great pleasure last Friday to host GZA/The Genius of seminal hip-hop group Wu-Tang Clan. How it came about was serendipitous. A past Knight Science Journalism Fellow became GZA’s science liaison. So she looked for labs at Harvard and MIT that he might be interested in, and came […]
When I talked about what I thought civic media before we began our course, I made an emphasis on participation and process. Participation in the creation of our own tools and expressions, so we don’t have to passively rely on those that are given to us. The process of participating […]
The outline for the project, in a very disorganized way, and very late, and the order of things could change later. Any suggestions? I. Media overview of Costa Rica (http://civic.mit.edu/blog/ericfrenchmonge/panorama-de-medios-en-costa-rica) II. Problems (concepts based on class, general overview of each, and examples within Costa Rica) A. Crisis of journalism and […]