MIT Tech TV MIT Center for Future Civic Media Director Chris Csikszentmihalyi presents the Center’s most recent projects. From community mapping to news tracking, from collective action to rural empowerment, from cultural mixing to carbon consciousness, civic media is any technology or technique that strengthens a geographic community. Civic media […]

Communications Forum: “What’s New at the Center for Future Civic …

Last time, I shared with you some of the work being done by Harvard University’s Web Ecology Project, specifically focusing on the use of Twitter in the aftermath of the Iran Elections and around the death of Michael Jackson. Through qualitative and quantitative research, the team is seeking to develop […]

Counting on Twitter: Harvard’s Web Ecology Project (Part Two)

Anyone who has read my blog long knows that I am not big on counting things. Some of it is that I have math anxiety — a serious vulnerability for someone who spent the first 20 years of his career at MIT! Some of it is that I think people […]

Counting on Twitter: Harvard’s Web Ecology Project (Part One)

Rick Borovoy, Visiting Scientist at the MIT Media Lab and the Center for Future Civic Media, proudly unveils the first Lost in Boston sign. LostInBoston.org is a general-purpose web tool that cities can use to get citizens involved in civic improvement projects. It’s about helping Bostonians work together to make […]

Rick Borovoy unveils first LostInBoston.org sign outside MassArt

MIT Tech TV Rick Borovoy, Visiting Scientist at the MIT Media Lab and the Center for Future Civic Media, proudly unveils the first Lost in Boston sign. LostInBoston.org is a general-purpose web tool that cities can use to get citizens involved in civic improvement projects. It’s about helping Bostonians work […]