My original idea was to write a paper analyzing what makes civic movements that employ media and originate from repressed communities possible and successful. The intended goal of the project would be to give me and others a clue about what kind of conditions help enthusiasm to bring about change […]
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The Public Laboratory for Open Technology and Science a.k.a. “Public Lab” is a community of thousands of researchers, scientists, educators and makers that focuses on “civic science”. They create open source hardware and software, run workshops and foster DIY scientific engagement in environmental justice issues. Public Lab has been around […]
James Rojas gave a guest spot at the Codesign Studio a couple weeks back. The full entry is here, but I’m particularly pleased with the vizthink that came out of it:
These notes were liveblogged from the talk After Snowden: Towards Distributed Security in Cyberspace. Ronald Deibert, Professor of Political Science, and Director of the Canada Centre for Global Security Studies and the Citizen Lab at the Munk School of Global Affairs, University of Toronto, spoke at , Harvard Law School, Wasserstein Hall. The hashtag […]
co written by Aditi Mehta, Becky Hurwitz, Rodrigo Davies, Sasha Costanza-Chock, and Willow Brugh and cross-posted at codesign.mit.edu Today the potential project partners for the fall 2013 civic media: collaborative design studio came by to present a little bit about the work they do and the possible projects they’d like […]