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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 […]

Reposted from the PBS MediaShift Idea Lab blog What does it mean to be truly literate with new media? Certainly, it means more than the ability to send email and browse websites. Recent commentaries on new media literacy have emphasized the importance of the ability to analyze media critically and […]

Here’s an (altered) image of an email communication from an hour ago. It’s a funny things to be proud of, but getting this email has me jumping up and down with optimism. Sure, I don’t have a day job. But I’m having fun stumbling through the process of making bilumi.org […]

I found this presentation by Matthew Hodgson a great overview of the ways “government 2.0” tactics are succeeding at home and abroad. Check out some of his screenshot examples online: FutureMelbourne (a wiki for citizens to design a better Melbourne), Powerhouse Museum (a Sydney museum that allows users improve its […]

From the Christian Science Monitor’s Centennial Conversation. The full playlist, including more clips of Ellen Hume, Mark Jurkowitz, Doug Smith, and Sree Sreenivasan is available here: http://www.youtube.com/view_play_list?p=424FDBD6EC61124F