Can I tell you about my first publishing family? It’s a network of independent publishers loosely known as Block by Block: These are your hyperlocals, some are citizen journalism based or use crowdsourcing tactics of different measure, and all are civically focused. There are many different definitions for “hyperlocal,” but the […]
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George Lakoff, Richard and Rhoda Goldman Distinguished Professor of Cognitive Science and Linguistics at the University of California at Berkeley, addressed Comparative Media Studies at an event organised by the ICE Lab on Tuesday (11th September). Molly, Sasha and I liveblogged his talk and the Q&A – as usual, please […]
Hi, I’m Alex Ho, and I’m an Ed.M. student at the Arts in Education program in the Harvard Graduate School of Education. My interest in civic media stems from assisting at an after school program at Philadelphia’s public radio member station WHYY, where we guided high school students to make […]
My name is M. C. McGrath. I am a student at Boston University who is taking the Intro to Civic Media class this fall. I have been around the Media Lab a bit for the past three years as a research intern in Affective Computing but lately I have gotten […]
I visited Cambridge Community Television (CCTV) today to do a Vojo workshop with CCTV staff and Neighbormedia reporters. We practiced posting stories, created accounts, and discussed how Neighbormedia will use Vojo on Friday’s PARK(ing) Day to collect stories from the CCTV parking space about Central Square. To see some of […]