This blog post was written with Luis Capelo. Our Introduction to Civic Media class this week focused on civic maps and heard 4 civic mappers speak about their projects. Introduction The class first began with Luis Capelo talking about ICCM and Becky talking about the Center for Civic Media and […]
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First thoughts from Center staff about yesterday’s (mercifully finished and legitimate) election: Andrew Whitacre, Communications Manager: A series of [packed] tubes. An unpredicted consequence of Citizens United was complete mass media saturation. In the run-up to 2014 and ’16, we’ll see even more money spent, but far more will go […]
Henry Jenkins gave the closing keynote at the International Communications Association Latin American Conference in Santiago de Chile two weeks ago. His talk was titled “From Participatory Culture to Participatory Politics by Way of Participatory Learning.” This post contains live notes by @schock w/additional links by “mariel.” If you’d like to […]
Yesterday, Denise, Royal, and I conducted an introductory Vojo workshop with youth at Cambridge Community Television (CCTV). Denise Cheng is a CMS Graduate Student and a Researcher at Center for Civic Media, and Royal Morris is an MIT undergraduate working with Vojo through the Undergraduate Research Opportunities Program (UROP). We […]
Imagine an expressive object. A book, a painting, or a website will do. This object, in literary terms, constitutes a text, with a meaning to be interpreted by readers. Assume that a given audience would like to read this text (that is, the text is not already subject to some […]