“Civic media” refers to the tools and technologies that facilitate the exchange of information and ideas between people, often in pursuit of common goals. Today, traditional forms of media (print, radio, etc.) have been overpowered by their digital successors: online journalism, blogging, and a vast range of other social networks […]
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My name’s Matt, and I’ve just started as a Master’s student here at the Center for Civic Media. If I can sufficiently answer our blog post prompt, “What is Civic Media?”, I expect to take part in extracurriculars for the next two years. Civic media is, as far as I’ve […]
Para que una democracia funcione, la participación es clave. Si votar es el alcance de nuestra participación, podemos de una vez concluir que vivimos en una farsa democrática. Por eso, aún no existe la democracia, sólo el anhelo a ella. Para lograr en verdad llegar a la democracia, debemos ir […]
Hi, My name is Mary and I am a junior at Wellesley College. I am a History major and Middle Eastern Studies minor. When I saw this course listing I became very excited. This area of media is not one that I know a lot about, but have wanted to […]
Today was the first session of the new Introduction to Civic Media course that I’m teaching at MIT’s Comparative Media Studies program (CMS.360/860). It’s been interesting to develop the syllabus in public, which I’ve been doing using etherpad. I started putting up ideas for the course several weeks ago at […]