Chugging away quietly in the background since late summer has been a new development blog for Center projects, available at http://dev-civic.media.mit.edu. The blog features a more technical discussion of project plans, hopes, benchmarks, and solicitations for advice—in contrast to the outward facing posts at civic.mit.edu and the primetime posts at […]
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Center fellow Mako Hill makes a great argument today for increased focus on making Wikipedia more easily editable. Seems counter-intuitive. Sure, Wikipedia is obviously editable. But, as Mako says in his post and in the video below, many tools being developed to support reading Wikipedia seem to forget that the […]
MIT Center for Future Civic Media Director Chris Csikszentmihalyi presents the Center’s most recent projects. From community mapping to news tracking, from collective action to rural empowerment, from cultural mixing to carbon consciousness, civic media is any technology or technique that strengthens a geographic community. Civic media researchers will demonstrate […]