Upcoming Events
- RSVP for our Civic Media Lunch with Zeega http://cot.ag/nMzel8
- 10/4: *Tuesday* Lunch: “Empowering Culture and Context”: http://civic.mit.edu/event/tuesday-lunch-empowering-culture-and-context
- 10/6 Thursday Lunch: “Collectivities and Disappearance”: http://civic.mit.edu/event/thursday-lunch-collectivities-and-disappearance
- 10/20 Civic Media Session: “Civic Maps”: http://civic.mit.edu/event/civic-media-session-civic-maps
From civic.mit.edu/blog
(You can read a ton of insightful posts from Sasha Costanza-Chock’s introduction to civic media students)
- @HighHolburn: “Community Radio: Radical Media Opening Channels For Communities” http://cot.ag/rnPwAJ
- @civicMIT supports MyDotTour, a multimedia youth-led tour of a Dorchester neighborhood http://cot.ag/qsvcXK
In the News
- Kudos to @huffingtonpost for covering our project @heroreports: http://cot.ag/oGLpXK
20 Sep
Patents and Policy
- “White House Petition to End Software Patents Is a Hit” http://cot.ag/qJmK9s /via @techreview
The Future of News
- A Journalist’s Primer to Google+ http://cot.ag/pN66iu via @pbsmediashift
- Podcast: “Communications Forum: Local News in the Digital Age” http://cms.mit.edu/news/2011/09/podcast_communications_forum_l.php
Elsewhere
- “Fear of Repression Spurs Scholars and Activists to Build Alternate Internets” http://cot.ag/redd45 via @chronicle
- @knightfdn is at the 66th Annual Conference on Citizenship 2 discuss civic health & Soul of the Community http://kng.ht/oyjjIR @NCoc #ncoc
- Middle East activists: number one tech priority is safer cell phones http://cot.ag/qlcbce @Katrinskaya
- Photo: Independently detecting what exactly is emitted at a gas extraction site http://cot.ag/nsRKeQ