Gulf Oil Spill @CrisisMappers: CM*Net Webcast: Grassroots Mapping Gulf #OilSpill w Balloons & Kites! w Jeffrey Warren http://bit.ly/9PRm5h B.P. on the hook for $10b in civil penalties–though would take years to collect http://cot.ag/blQzvy Boston Globe runs photo of #oilspill taken by our Jeff Warren during a #grassrootsmapping trip http://cot.ag/9FqBko @BPGlobalPR: […]
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From the MIT Communications Fourm, which co-hosted last month’s Civics in Difficult Places “call-in” show with us and Ethan Zuckerman: In a live demonstration of globe-straddling communication technologies like Skype, this forum connects to citizen journalists and activists around the world, some of whom frequently test the limits of governmental […]
In a live demonstration of globe-straddling communication technologies like Skype, this forum connects to citizen journalists and activists around the world, some of whom frequently test the limits of governmental authority. Moderator Ethan Zuckerman wonders if these new digital forms are fundamentally liberating, providing users access to public spaces they […]
From the Center A tease-peak: attendees for this year’s Future of News and Civic Media conference http://cot.ag/amkL35 (A tease b/c it’s invite-only) @mizzdmartin: @c4fcm @MITCoLab: Wanna Come Out and Play? Community Engagement & Tech Development http://cot.ag/950iSC or @MITNews @PBSIdeaLab: Nice post from @akwhitacre: Balloon Mapping the Oil Spill Proves Responsive, […]
[This post originally appeared on the MIT CoLab Radio blog, in Danielle Martin’s Media Mindfulness column.] When my old friend and collaborator Leo Burd returned to MIT as a research scientist for the Center for Future Civic Media (C4FCM), we started to gather some like-minded folks to discuss how media […]