Anabel Vasquez Rodriguez and Rafael Angel introduce the exhibit. On Fri 27, together with Jenny Larios Berlin, and Sasha Costanza-Chock, I attended the opening event at Inquilinos Boricuas en Accion (IBA) for Rafael Angel’s exhibit, “Puerto Rico en Reflejos.” IBA is the community organization of the Villa Victoria community in […]
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Citizen journalism and social media have become major sources for the news, especially after the Arab uprisings of early 2011. From Al Jazeera Stream and the NPR’s Andy Carvin to the Guardian’s Three Pigs advert, news organisations recognise that journalism is just one part of a broader ecosystem of online […]
On Friday, Becky Hurwitz, Paolo Rogerio, and I had the opportunity to conduct mobile media-making workshops with two community based organizations (CBOs) that form part of Boston’s large and vibrant Brazilian community. The first workshop was with staff from the Brazilian Immigrant Center (here’s their new Vojo group), and the […]
This summer I have been working with IDEPSCA, The Institute of Popular Education of Southern California, through an internship provided by the Center for Civic Media. As stated in their name, IDEPSCA is an organization that works under the premise of popular education. Popular Education is a practice and […]
The recent Supreme Court ruling on SB1070 and ongoing campaigns to raise awareness around biased policing codified at national, state, and local levels have led to some similar communication tech projects. I’ve been talking to people involved in various campaigns about their work and the tech projects they’ve developed. In […]