One of the underlying themes of a few projects here at the Center for Civic Media is the idea that we can increase awareness and engagement in local communities by bringing already-centralized public information to people when and where they need it. As part of this goal we’ve created a […]
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When Ashoka’s Changemakers launched Citizen Media: A Global Innovation Competition with Google a few weeks back, we were intentionally broad in our instructions – and were correspondingly unsure about how entrant would respond. “What do we mean by [citizen media]?” we wrote. “Well, we’re waiting for you to tell us.” […]
Sasha Costanza-Chock is joining the faculty of the Comparative Media Studies program at MIT as Assistant Professor of Civic Media, and is one of the three principal investigators (along with Ethan Zuckerman and Mitchel Resnick) of the Center for Civic Media. He caught up with his new colleague Ethan Zuckerman […]
From the Center My Dot Tour @ReganStP: My Dot Tour kicks off today in Fields Corner – add your voice! timenesia.org @deptofplay @civicMIT @DotNews @DorchesterNews Dorchester walking tour strengthening youth leadership skills http://mydottour.org/?page_id=2 AAGO AAGO: an iPod app for engaged youth http://cot.ag/pHPRfL Hero Reports Cronicas de Heroes moving toward bi-national […]
For the past seven months the Center for Civic Media has advised on a campaign of positive thinking in Cd. Juárez, Mexico: CRÓNICAS DE HÉROES. The blog post “Cd. Juárez, Mex, CRONICAS DE HEROES OTRA CARA, OTRA HISTORIA”, summarizes to a great extent the development of this initiative in that […]