https://civic.mit.edu Creating Technology for Social Change Sun, 22 Dec 2013 05:46:00 +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/2013/12/22/sight-unseen-uncovering-carcinogens-in-cosmetics/ Sun, 22 Dec 2013 05:46:00 +0000 http://civic-homepage.wordpress.brownbag.me/2013/12/22/sight-unseen-uncovering-carcinogens-in-cosmetics/ https://civic.mit.edu/2013/11/09/conversations-in-intro-to-civic-media-3-different-topics-1-goal/ Sat, 09 Nov 2013 14:31:00 +0000 http://civic-homepage.wordpress.brownbag.me/2013/11/09/conversations-in-intro-to-civic-media-3-different-topics-1-goal/ https://civic.mit.edu/2013/10/01/buy-the-change-you-wish-to-see-in-the-world/ Tue, 01 Oct 2013 02:38:00 +0000 http://civic-homepage.wordpress.brownbag.me/2013/10/01/buy-the-change-you-wish-to-see-in-the-world/ Media has shaped the culture of cancer in the United States, and even more broadly, it has changed the country’s general sense of social responsibility. For my final project for Intro to Civic Media, I want to explore this further. After someone close to me was diagnosed with breast cancer, I found myself drowning in pink ribbon products—pink t-shirts, pink pens, pink socks, a pink hairdryer. The sale of pink ribbon products is a form […]]]>