Yesterday, we launched The People’s Bot, offering scholarships, media fellowships, and an auction for people to attend and report on events where they are not physically present, including CHI 2014 and a 13 year retrospective on wearable computing and Google Glass. Together with Nathan Matias, we’re imagining uses of robotic […]
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Livebloggers: Sasha, Nathan, Erhardt Today, we’re joined by Stephan “tomate” Urbach from the activist group & think tank Telecomix, which works to circumvent surveillance, and to promote internet freedom and human rights. During the 2011 uprisings in North Africa, Telecomix activists helped to bypass technologies of censorship and communication-interruption. They […]
Pablo is a force to be reckoned with. That crazy energy that seeps possibility into the most jaded of souls. He doesn’t just pull you out of yourself – he gives you somewhere to go. And even more incredibly is that he seeks to make the things he has made […]
Ethan and I have been exploring the concept of monitorial citizenship in the pursuit of a definition or roadmap for “effective citizenship.” We are working on related projects trying to operationalize Michael Schudson’s idea of monitorial citizenship from his book The Good Citizen, but using slightly different definitions. Ethan’s project […]
Here at the Center for Civic Media, we’re exploring the use of smartphone apps for civic engagement. I’m really excited about using geo-fences for civic engagement; my project Action Path uses them to trigger push notifications about opportunities to participate as you walk down the street. But it’s still an […]