In my “hello world” post for this blog, I tried to define Civic Media as …a set of tools, technologies and practices that enable wider and more active participation in a democratic process. While writing this post, I remember trying to unpack the concept of “democratic process”, but I wasn’t […]
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This week, we were asked to re-read our first blog post for Intro to Civic Media, and to reflect upon whether or not our views have changed. What remained the same? My definition was “Any medium that creates information flow to a community or communities in order to foster participatory […]
On the Civic Media blog, Matt Stempeck and I have been arguing about the relative importance of learning from failure or success. Matt urges us to be honest about failure and learn from it. I think success is a better teacher. Underlying this debate is a somewhat flawed assumption: that […]
Today, we had lunch with Bob Filibin and Stephanie Han-yu Shih of DoSomething.org. They started off by telling us that smartphones with touchscreens and Siri aren’t going to drive social change, but that texting is a much more viable approach. To help frame the possibilities, they shared a slide with […]
Ethan’s mic comes on and we begin. He says that the Center for Civic Media’s event topics are becoming progressively more fun as the semester continues, especially this week, with Civic Games. How does the world of games intersect with the world of civic media, with how media and […]