Last week was the first meeting of CMS.360/860: Introduction to Civic Media. This is the second time I’m teaching the course, this year with Becky Hurwitz on board as TA. We’ve been revising the syllabus, based on a combination of feedback from last year’s students, a massive sticky-note brainstorm by […]

Intro to Civic Media – course kickoff + first assignment

I have recently joined the Center for Civic Media/MIT Media Lab as a Research Assistant. My background is in visual and media arts, software development and higher ed. In the arts, one thing I always worked against was the notion that “Art” (capital A, fancy Art) is the product of […]

Introduction to Civic Media in 10 Twinkle Points

I’m blogging from Minneapolis, Minnesota, at the National Alliance for Media Arts and Culture (NAMAC) conference Leading Creatively 2012, where I’m representing the National Coalition Against Censorship (NCAC). Earlier today I presented on a panel entitled Digital Frontiers: Copyright, Censorship, the Commons, and Privacy. The panel description read: Can […]

Blogging the NAMAC Panel: Public Enemy and Private Intermediaries

This summer, a groundbreaking virtual meeting took place between two organizations dedicated to social justice and community empowerment: Los Angeles’ Vozmob and Boston’s Inquilinos Boricuas en Acción (IBA). In a previous blog I mentioned being a summer intern with Vozmob, a mobile phone blogging platform for low income day laborers […]

Mobile Blogging from Coast to Coast

Francis Steen, Associate Professor of Communication Studies at UCLA and Director of the UCLA Library Communication Studies Archive, spoke at the Media Lab for an event organised by the ICE (Imagination, Computation, and Expression) Lab today. Denise and I liveblogged it, so let us know where the errors are and we’ll […]