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From the Center/MIT Podcast: Sasha Costanza-Chock, “Se Ve, Se Siente: Transmedia Mobilization in the Los Angeles Immigrant Rights Movement” http://cot.ag/gtTsgI Podcast: Gabriella Coleman, “Anonymous, the Politics of Spectacle, and Geek Protests against the Church of Scientology” http://cot.ag/gtIF7H Re-Imagining Gaza/Youth Visions of Jerusalem: Photography Exhibit http://events.mit.edu/event.html?id=12785485 Save $50! National Conference for […]

The Center for Future Civic Media is a proud member of the local host committee for the National Conference for Media Reform (April 8-10, here in Boston). As such, we want to encourage everyone to take advantage of early registration pricing, which ends Friday ($125 vs. $175 afterward). Here’s why […]

Sasha Costanza-Chock is a scholar and mediamaker who works in areas including: social movements and ICTs; participatory technology design and community based participatory research; the transnational movement for media justice and communication rights; comunicación populár; mobile phones and social change; digital literacies and digital inclusion; race, class, and gender in […]

Trained as an anthropologist, Gabriella (Biella) Coleman examines the ethics of online collaboration/institutions as well as the role of the law and digital media in sustaining various forms of political activism. Between 2001-2003 she conducted ethnographic research on computer hackers primarily in San Francisco, the Netherlands, as well as those […]

In response to the Haiti earthquake a year ago, MIT Media Lab students Aaron Zinman and Greg Elliott participated in a (partially Center-sponsored) independent activities period class to develop technologies that could work both in the immediate aftermath of the crisis itself and in the future, by seeding ideas and […]