https://civic.mit.edu Creating Technology for Social Change Mon, 21 Jul 2014 16:49:00 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=5.4.2 https://civic.mit.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/28/2018/03/cropped-CivicMedia_Symbol_K_RGB-32x32.png https://civic.mit.edu 32 32 https://civic.mit.edu/2014/07/21/hopex-community-owned-and-operated-cellular-networks-in-rural-mexico/ Mon, 21 Jul 2014 16:49:00 +0000 http://civic-homepage.wordpress.brownbag.me/2014/07/21/hopex-community-owned-and-operated-cellular-networks-in-rural-mexico/ https://civic.mit.edu/2014/07/21/hopex-daniel-ellsberg/ Mon, 21 Jul 2014 16:45:00 +0000 http://civic-homepage.wordpress.brownbag.me/2014/07/21/hopex-daniel-ellsberg/ https://civic.mit.edu/2014/07/21/hopex-thomas-drake-and-vivian-weisman/ Mon, 21 Jul 2014 16:42:00 +0000 http://civic-homepage.wordpress.brownbag.me/2014/07/21/hopex-thomas-drake-and-vivian-weisman/ https://civic.mit.edu/2014/07/21/hopex-chatting-live-with-edward-snowden/ Mon, 21 Jul 2014 16:37:00 +0000 http://civic-homepage.wordpress.brownbag.me/2014/07/21/hopex-chatting-live-with-edward-snowden/ https://civic.mit.edu/2014/02/20/manuel-castells-the-space-of-autonomy-cyberspace-and-urban-space-in-networked-social/ Thu, 20 Feb 2014 00:21:00 +0000 http://civic-homepage.wordpress.brownbag.me/2014/02/20/manuel-castells-the-space-of-autonomy-cyberspace-and-urban-space-in-networked-social/ https://civic.mit.edu/2013/10/09/the-passion-of-chelsea-manning-chase-madar-and-noam-chomsky/ Wed, 09 Oct 2013 23:48:00 +0000 http://civic-homepage.wordpress.brownbag.me/2013/10/09/the-passion-of-chelsea-manning-chase-madar-and-noam-chomsky/ https://civic.mit.edu/2013/10/03/after-snowden-towards-distributed-security-in-cyberspace/ Thu, 03 Oct 2013 22:36:00 +0000 http://civic-homepage.wordpress.brownbag.me/2013/10/03/after-snowden-towards-distributed-security-in-cyberspace/ These notes were liveblogged from the talk  After Snowden: Towards Distributed Security in Cyberspace. Ronald Deibert, Professor of Political Science, and Director of the Canada Centre for Global Security Studies and the Citizen Lab at the Munk School of Global Affairs, University of Toronto, spoke at , Harvard Law School, Wasserstein Hall. The hashtag for the talk was #BlackCode. Live blog by @schock, @erhardt, and various anonymous pandas (tweet at us to add your name if you contributed). All […]]]> https://civic.mit.edu/2013/09/28/from-story-to-action-liveblogging-the-camden-international-film-fest/ Sat, 28 Sep 2013 12:56:00 +0000 http://civic-homepage.wordpress.brownbag.me/2013/09/28/from-story-to-action-liveblogging-the-camden-international-film-fest/ Liveblog by @schock and @scrumbly1. All errors ours! It’s day two of the Camden International Film Festival’s Points North Documentary Film Forum, and we’re liveblogging the session “From Story to Action.” From the program: “Since the days of Grierson, documentary filmmakers have been driven by a desire to affect social change through storytelling. Today’s filmmakers have more tools at their disposal than ever before to engage audiences and close the gap between inspiration and action. […]]]> https://civic.mit.edu/2013/09/23/how-digitally-inclusive-is-your-neighborhood/ Mon, 23 Sep 2013 21:29:00 +0000 http://civic-homepage.wordpress.brownbag.me/2013/09/23/how-digitally-inclusive-is-your-neighborhood/ The picture above is a rough sketch of digital inclusion (we’ll return to this below.) In Introduction to Civic Media, last week we read several texts about digital inequality. We traced the transformation of this conversation since the 1990s, when many still talked about a binary ‘Digital Divide,’ to the present day, when digital access inequality is thought of in terms of a more complex set of factors. Digital inequalities are still reflected in access […]]]> https://civic.mit.edu/2012/12/15/linking-designers-and-organizers-christine-gaspar-center-for-urban-pedagogy/ Sat, 15 Dec 2012 15:00:00 +0000 http://civic-homepage.wordpress.brownbag.me/2012/12/15/linking-designers-and-organizers-christine-gaspar-center-for-urban-pedagogy/