Yesterday MassINC, along with a number of partners, hosted the event “Big Data and the Future of Journalism”. Here’s an excerpt from the event announcement: “From 2008 to 2012, Nate Silver popularized a new category of media content, with readable and entertaining applications of data analysis to news stories and […]
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This is a summary of the article “The Battle for ‘Trayvon Martin’: Mapping a Media Controversy Online and Offline,” co-authored by Erhardt Graeff, Matt Stempeck, and Ethan Zuckerman and appearing as the lead article in the February 2014 issue of First Monday: http://firstmonday.org/ojs/index.php/fm/article/view/4947. News coverage about the killing of Trayvon Martin […]
On Thursday, February 6th, the Civic Art Initiative recently partnered with the List Gallery at MIT to host a lunch and participatory art event with artist Kambui Olujimi. Here’s a brief excerpt about his project which is installed in the Bakalar Gallery until Feb 23rd: Kambui Olujimi works in a […]
Last week a group of us from Civic returned from a two-week trip in Brazil, where we were busy testing the initial prototype of a project called Promise Tracker. Our work involved creating a mobile phone application that enables citizens to collect data on infrastructure developments related to promises made […]
ICANN 47 Gala Dinner I’m here at the Berkman Center for Internet and Society for a talk by Veni Markovski, ICANN vice-president for Russia, who’s talking to us today about issues in Internet governance. (This post was written with Ethan Zuckerman and Tim Davies) Ethan introduces Veni, who was very involved […]