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This past week in the northern Brazilian city of Belém do Pará, we had the pleasure of commemorating the first official collaboration between a civil society group and local government to monitor city issues using Promise Tracker. During a 2-day sprint, we teamed up with the Social Observatory of Belém […]

In the past month, I’ve been privileged to publish two articles in The Atlantic’s Technology section and several posts over at Microsoft Research’s Social Media Collective. I’m posting links to them here so anyone following on RSS or checking my archives can be aware of them. The Tragedy of the […]

This was liveblogged at the 2015 Allied Media Conference. Allen Kwabena Frimpong, Black Lives Matter Tammy Shapiro, Movement NetlabArielle Newton, Black Lives Matter In 2011, Occupy Wall Street held huge demonstrations in New York’s Zuccotti Park and around the world. But within months, many media outlets had proclaimed that the […]

Moderator: Susan Owusu, Director of Wheelock College’s Communications and Media Literacy program Panelists: Jabari Asim, Associate Professor of Writing, Literature, and Publishing at Emerson College, Editor-in-Chief of The Crisis magazine, the oldest publication in the United States pertaining to African-American issues. Author of children books that detail race and power in […]

This is a liveblog account created by Christina Wilson, Becky Michelson, Alex Eby and Jedd Cohen at the Boston Civic Media Metrics & Methods Conference. (Crossposted to the Engagement Lab blog) This panel will engage in a discussion on the role of institutions–universities, governments, public and private organizationsin civic media research […]