EngageMedia is a citizen video sharing platform, as well as a training, network development, software and research project based in Southeast Asia and Australia. We welcomed Andrew Lowenthal, co-founder and Executive Director, who outlined EngageMedia’s work, focusing on the nature of scaling, in particular developing strategic networks and open source […]
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Last Wednesday, we all made a 30 second blurb about our what our final projects will be. I made a video that combines all of our ideas, with some relaxing Jazz music. Enjoy! Since Youtube frustratingly removed the option to use the old embed code, I also have a link […]
As my Civic bio says, in a former life I directed web communications for MITAdmissions. A big part of my job was running the blogs. While many colleges now have student blogs, the MITAdmissions blogs, founded by Ben Jones, are famous for being honest, uncensored avenues of student expression. On […]
The poetry of human journeys has been an enduring reservoir of human experience since our earliest days–arresting and inspiring even the most cynical among us. It siezed my imagination as a teenager reading Egil’s saga. It led me through six years of academic study on literature and writing. Today at Harvard, listening to […]
Video Activism, Free Software, and Human Rights in the Asia-Pacific region. During this week’s class session on Introduction to Civic Media, we invited two guest speakers: Andrew Lowenthal (Co-Founder and Director of Engaged Media) and Professor Fox Harrell (CMS/CSAIL at MIT). The course bagan with Andrew talking about his work […]