I’ve been working with Ethan Zuckerman and Matt Stempeck on an alpha version of Terra Incognita: 1000 Cities of the World, a news game and recommendation system designed to help you discover relevant, fun, weird, interesting or stereotype-busting information about 1000 global cities. We are getting veeeeeery close to an […]
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This is the talk I delivered for the “Civic Media Geography: Experiments In Cosmopolitanism, Citizenship and Accountability” panel I organized at Place, (Dis)Place and Citizenship: Eleventh Annual Conference in Citizenship Studies at Wayne State University, Detroit, MI on March 21, 2014. Today, I’m going to talk about a tool I’m building. […]
These are the prefatory remarks I made as moderator during the panel “Balancing Deep and Wide Impacts in the Design of Civic Tech” at the Digital Media and Learning Conference, Boston, MA on March 8, 2014. I’m working on a project called Action Path. Similar to Promise Tracker, which will […]
This is text of the talk I delivered for the “Click, Meme, Hack, Change: Civic Media Theory and Practice” panel I organized at the Digital Media and Learning Conference, Chicago, IL on March 14, 2013. What do I mean by memes? Well I’m talking about internet memes: cultural artifacts that […]
Civic crowdfunding is the beginning of a new type of participatory democracy for communities.”“Civic crowdfunding is a triumph of individualism over the collective good.”“Civic crowdfunding is the result of a crisis in government.” These three divergent intepretations are among the most common responses to civic crowdfunding. I hear them in […]