The last two days of the Truthiness conference, co-hosted by the Berkman Center for the Internet & Society and MIT’s Center for Civic Media, exposed a rich cross-section of people, research, and applications dedicated to fighting misinformation in its many forms. We spent the day Tuesday discussing the wide world […]
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In democratic countries, activists of social movements tend to create adversarial or controversial scenes to attract attention from media and expand their influence in society. This strategy aims to generate pressure from the public to the authority, and thus increase the possibility of success of the movements. However, scholars of […]
The following is a summary of an interview with Nancy Meza regarding a project with the Center for Civic Media at MIT on the role of Media and Technology in Social Movements. Nancy Meza is a graduate of University of California, Los Angeles and an immigrants’ rights activist. She received […]
How can designers imagine innovative technologies for news and journalism? I think I know the answer. In this post, I propose a model and demonstrate it by picking apart the “Profile article” for innovative ideas. The resulting design is a browser plugin which can attach writers’ tools to any text […]
Our Civic Lunch this week featured Jake Shapiro, CEO of Public Radio International (PRX), as well as guest John Bracken from the Knight Foundation (which funds the Center for Civic Media). MIT Tech TV Download this video. Ethan Zuckerman frames the conversation by characterizing our beloved but stultified public media institutions as the […]