One of the most energetic sessions at the MIT Knight Civic Media Conference last week was the Civic Media Ignite, which presented thirteen projects by MIT teams and our partners. (this session was reported with NewsPad, experimental software I’m building for collaborative live-editing of articles. Participation is currently anonymous. The […]
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I’m here at Microsoft Research in Seattle for the summer. Today, we had a visit from Nick Sousanis, who was opening an exhibition of his work. Nick is writing his dissertation (on visual and verbal discourse) entirely in graphic novel form. His project has recently been featured in the Chronicle […]
Work is a heartbreaking story, and a confusing one, too. Or at least the most familiar prescription of work in the U.S. I grew up in Silicon Valley, too young to understand the dot-com bust but old enough to see the sinking morale. Researcher Gina Neff (@ginasue) says, “Economic downturns, […]
This post written by: Becky Hurwitz (@bxhrz), Pedro Joel (@joelfilms), Rogelio Lopez (@Tochtli_exe) and Celso Mireles (@CelsoM3) The National Day of Civic Hacking seemed like the perfect event for UndocuTech to participate in. Framed as a weekend of hackathons held throughout the US, we expected to connect with other techies committed […]
We’re here at the 2013 MIT-Knight Civic Media conference here at the MIT Media Lab, where the theme is Insiders/Outsiders. Across the next two days, we’re going to be looking at this theme of institutions and innovators across the areas of government, media, and disaster response. Across the event, speakers […]