On the project workshop session with professor Sasha Costanza-Shock, he suggested the reading of Ian Bogost texts about games and “gamification”, in the light of my final project, which aims to develop a project to create a tool to measure individual civic participation on the web, which I named Civindex. […]
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The Sudden Realization Romney image macro that emerged during the aftermath of the election. Hey all! It’s been a while since my last post on the Civic Media blog, and as we enter the home stretch of the semester, it seems appropriate for me to give an update on my […]
What the Transition to a Digital Society Means for Those at the Bottom Earlier today the W.E.B. Du Bois Institute at Harvard University hosted Dr. Ernest J. Wilson III to give a lecture as part of the Exclusion and Inequality in Digital Societies: Theories, Evidence, and Strategy series. The […]
Last Tuesday, Vojo hosted an “office hours” session where anyone who hadn’t taken off for Thanksgiving was welcome to dial in with their questions. The Vojo team met Luís Cotto, a Cantabrigian originally from Hartford, CT. Luis is an arts administrator by trade. He founded Center Without Walls in 2008, […]
CORRECTIONS via Deborah Hurley: The organizers of the event were Deborah Hurley and Ron Rivest. The event was co-sponsored by MIT Cryptography and Information Security Group and the Computers, Freedom and Privacy Conference (cfp.org). I invited Bill Binney to give his talk and invited Carol Rose, ACLU of Massachusetts, to […]