How are networks and technologies being used to organise social movements in Mexico? Andrés Monroy Hernandez organised a panel to look at this question in the case of the Mexican #YoSoy132 movement. Andrés is a social computing researcher at Microsoft Research and an affiliate at Harvard’s Berkman Center for Internet & […]
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What if residents could allocate their town’s spending like some people do their 401(k)’s? I’ve been a homeowner for a little over a year, so for the first time I’m tracking town expenditures and, as important, listening to other residents’ town-solvable needs and frustrations. Arlington’s issues can feel piddly. (The […]
Jigar Mehta is a documentary filmmaker and a journalist who came to address the MIT Open Doc Lab and the Center for Civic Media about the collaborative documentary project, #18 Days in Egypt. The project, which tells the story of the ongoing Egyptian revolution, is a collaborative web-native documentary project […]
Last week’s topic in Intro to Civic Media was Digital Inequality. Aviva and Alexander wrote a great summary post of our readings and conversation. As they describe, we traced the evolution of thinking around digital inequality from its inception as a “digital divide” – a binary of being online […]
PREVIOUSLY, ON CMS.360… Last week, the Intro to Civic Media class tackled the issue of digital inequality, first by looking at how the discourse around universal access has evolved over time. In the 90s, the dominant narrative was that of “the digital divide”—a binary classification that separates the haves from […]