I’m here at CSCW, the ACM conference for Computer Supported Cooperative Work (full publication list here). This morning, our session is on civic participation. Brian Keegan started out the session, introducing the three papers. update feb 24: @EthanZ found glitches in the liveblog, which I have corrected by finishing a […]
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People are often boggled when I follow up my research interest in the future of work with the name of my M.S. program: Comparative Media Studies at MIT. While I could go on about how economic security is the cornerstone for meaningful pursuits—including civic participation—here’s a direct media tie in. The […]
A few weeks ago, part of the Civic Media team traveled to Brazil to facilitate a set of workshops in São Paulo and Belo Horizonte (a city in the state of Minas Gerais) to explore how citizen monitoring might be useful in holding elected officials accountable for promises they make […]
The following is a guest post by Namasha Shelling, who works as a Project Coordinator at the Harvard School of Public Health. Namasha and I have collaborated to build on The Public Land Trust’s (TPL) metrics around parks and communities. TPL published their methodology and results openly, and this post is […]
In a room of urban planners, architects, engineers, data viz experts, designers, programmers, and media professionals, we asked, “how do we scale the unicorns?” Unicorns are those perspectives we need, the ones we easily demand but are hard to find. Women coders, technologists in local government, architects in humanitarian aid, […]