Thanks to “The Crime Report” for their coverage of Charlie DeTar’s Center project, Between the Bars: Reentry and reform can take root when prisoners are able to maintain connections with their families and communities. One website is making great strides in building those bridges online. BetweentheBars.org aims to humanize prisoners […]
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In the article “The Revolutions Were Tweeted: Information Flow During the 2011 Tunisian and Egyptian Revolutions”, Gilad Lotan, Erhardt Graeff and others use the term ecosystem by referring to the relationships between different actors in a networked online environment. Providing snapshots of the information flow in 2011 Tunisian and Egyptian […]
This week in Co-Design I’m looking at the field of Participatory Design. Participatory Design has a much more establish history than most of the other sub-genres of co-design I’ve been looking at. It had its start in Scandinavia in the 1970’s, emerging from trade union movements. It shares an ideological […]
Here’s your breakdown of news in civic media this week… VIDEO Mapping Media Ecosystems Hal Roberts, Erhardt Graeff, and Gilad Lotan FEATURED EVENTS Fandom Unbound: Otaku Culture in a Connected WorldMimi Ito at MIT, Wednesday 5pm Civic Media Lunch: ZUMIX Thursday 12pm VOIP Drupal Hackathon Saturday 12pm CIVIC.MIT.EDU/BLOG Visual Approaches […]
Costa Rica puede ser un reflejo, un microcosmo, de lo que acontece en forma global con respecto a los medios de comunicación, el periodismo, la libertad de expresión, y la democracia. Siempre contiene sus idiosincracias internas, pero en el escenario globalizado, ocurren patrones que se repiten alrededor del mundo. Por […]