The Center for Future Civic Media is a proud member of the local host committee for the National Conference for Media Reform (April 8-10, here in Boston). As such, we want to encourage everyone to take advantage of early registration pricing, which ends Friday ($125 vs. $175 afterward). Here’s why […]
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Sasha Costanza-Chock is a scholar and mediamaker who works in areas including: social movements and ICTs; participatory technology design and community based participatory research; the transnational movement for media justice and communication rights; comunicación populár; mobile phones and social change; digital literacies and digital inclusion; race, class, and gender in […]
Trained as an anthropologist, Gabriella (Biella) Coleman examines the ethics of online collaboration/institutions as well as the role of the law and digital media in sustaining various forms of political activism. Between 2001-2003 she conducted ethnographic research on computer hackers primarily in San Francisco, the Netherlands, as well as those […]
In response to the Haiti earthquake a year ago, MIT Media Lab students Aaron Zinman and Greg Elliott participated in a (partially Center-sponsored) independent activities period class to develop technologies that could work both in the immediate aftermath of the crisis itself and in the future, by seeding ideas and […]
Nitin Sawhney, Ph.D. is a Research Fellow and Lecturer with the Program in Art, Culture and Technology (ACT) in the School of Architecture and Planning at MIT. His ongoing research, teaching and creative practice engages the critical role of arts interventions in contested spaces and participatory media with marginalized youth. […]