Events This Week
- “Mapping Media Ecosytems”. Civic Media Session, Wednesday 5pm w/ Hal Roberts, Erhardt Graeff, Gilad Lotan cot.ag/uad5Sz
- Mitch Resnick joins us Thursday for free lunch (RSVP). “Launching Projects into the World”: cot.ag/uwCU4G
- Join Nathan Matias, Matt Stempek, and Daniel Schultz at the Civic Media London Social Thu 3 Nov @ 6:00pm bit.ly/uUzVK6
Civic Videos and Podcasts
- Video: Civic Media Session: “Civic Maps” cot.ag/vwolZi
- Video: Ethan Zuckerman on “Networks Understanding Networks” cot.ag/tCdCFc
- Video: Benjamen Walker talks “Too Much Information” at our Civic Media Lunch: bit.ly/vKJvyv (Great example of “civic fiction” as a genre…)
- Podcast: “Surveillance and Citizenship” cot.ag/saThfE
- Molly Sauter interviewed by BBC4 about Anonymous and hacktivism cot.ag/vwfnHR (~13:50)
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From the Civic Blog
- What are the building blocks of a social or political movement? cot.ag/tObbWX
- “Collaborative Design!”, a lit review from Molly Sauter cot.ag/siDjln
- Did modernity start with the telegraph? cot.ag/t4jpXG by Nathan Matias
- Occupy obsession with consensus may be key to movement-wide coherent message cot.ag/sNFMSW
- Enjoy Ethan Zuckerman’s write-up of “Civic Media Lunch: Telling stories about Occupy Wall Street” cot.ag/uRwsVE
- Social Media & Mass Media: Looking at BBC’s guidelines for using pictures from Social Media cot.ag/sV9RYt
- Examining Participatory Journalism in the NYTimes cot.ag/rtg3Kv
Data Cycles
- We need “data cycles” says Open Knowledge Foundation: cot.ag/rCdj4r Gov’t data –> citizen improvements to that data –> Improved data back to gov’t
Occupy and More
- Iraq War veteran at #occupy in critical condition after clash with Oakland police cot.ag/rvYYIP
- Public deliberation as viable alternative to radical electoral democracy in China: cot.ag/vUM03q
- Example of inexpensive community mapping beating the pants off Google Maps’ image quality cot.ag/soHVLr via @grassrootsmapping