Following up on our discussion in class on Tactical Media approaches, and especially after the Headline Remixing exercise using http://newsjack.in/, I remembered an article I wrote around two years ago for the English version of the Lebanese newspaper, Al-Akhbar. At the time, I was a weekly contributor for Al-Akhbar in a […]
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Come help social change organizations understand media conversations about topics they care about, and assess how their media campaigns are doing in changing media narratives. You’ll use our suite of quantitative media analysis tools built on MediaCloud to explore online media coverage of issues such as wellness and health and/or women’s rights […]
This is my first post here, so hello. I’m Raafat, here at MIT for a couple of years of research at the Art, Culture and Technology program. I’m on this blog because I’m taking the “Intro to Civic Media” class this semester. Speaking from a Contemporary Art vantage point, it […]
“Those who do not have the power over the story that dominates their lives, the power to retell it, rethink it, deconstruct it, joke about it, and change it as times change, truly are powerless, because they cannot think new thoughts.” – Salman Rushdie Story is powerful. Whether the his-stories […]
For the past few years, grime has been making a small but significant shift in the mainstream. Artists like Wiley, Dizzee and Tinie have spilled over into the realms of pop culture. Others, like Skepta, spilled over and pulled back again, wanting to forge their own way into the limelight […]