For those of us who miss Henry Jenkins’ familiar figure around the MIT campus, last night’s Farewell at the MIT Communications Forum was a delight. For those of you who missed it you’ll just have to wait until the audio and video appear on the Communications Forum website. It’s worth […]
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The latest C4FCM post from the Idea Lab blog: I’m getting ready for day five of a two-week workshop for high schoolers at Beaver Country Day School in a suburb of Boston. The subject is my project, Grassroots Mapping, which helps teach people — often young people — around the […]
We’re stoked to hear our friend Scott Rosenberg and his colleagues have unveiled MediaBugs, a Knight News Challenge-funded project. The MediaBugs idea is simple: take the bug-tracking methodology used by software developers and apply it to reporting. MediaBugs is one of those unique developments of the Internet age: in the […]
This global call-in show, hosted by MIT Center for Future Civic Media fellow Ethan Zuckerman, featured a number of journalists, advocates and programmers who utilize new technologies to gather information in contentious geographic regions: Cameran Ashraf, Iran Mehdi Yahyanejad, Iran Georgia Popplewell, Haiti Huma Yusuf, Pakistan Ruthie Ackerman, Liberia Brenda […]
By now, hopefully, you have read Peter Ludlow’s account of recent events in Second Life and perhaps have also followed along with the comments and disputes that have surrounded this post. By now, hopefully, you’ve started to form your own opinion about what happened, why it happened, what it all […]