September 2018
Open Civic Meeting
We host weekly meetings every Thursday that are open to the public (except for the first Thursday of the month). This is a place to come with a question, request for feedback, or just to listen. At the start of the meeting you can bid for time, requesting things like a minute for an announcement or 5 minutes to introduce your project and ask for suggestions on folks to talk to about it.
Find out more »Civil Discourse in an Uncivil Age (Alex Heffner)
We’re hosting our first Civic Media Lunch of the year tomorrow starting at 12pm in the Civic space: E15-344. Our topic is “Civil Discourse in an Uncivil Age.” Our speaker, Alex Heffner,* host of “The Open Mind” on PBS, will discuss the effects of divisiveness on discourse and governance and the impact of social media, fake news and filter bubbles that polarize information intake. What are possible prescriptions to correct this vicious cycle? How can…
Find out more »Open Civic Meeting
We host weekly meetings every Thursday that are open to the public (except for the first Thursday of the month). This is a place to come with a question, request for feedback, or just to listen. At the start of the meeting you can bid for time, requesting things like a minute for an announcement or 5 minutes to introduce your project and ask for suggestions on folks to talk to about it.
Find out more »Open Civic Meeting
We host weekly meetings every Thursday that are open to the public (except for the first Thursday of the month). This is a place to come with a question, request for feedback, or just to listen. At the start of the meeting you can bid for time, requesting things like a minute for an announcement or 5 minutes to introduce your project and ask for suggestions on folks to talk to about it.
Find out more »October 2018
Open Civic Meeting
We host weekly meetings every Thursday that are open to the public (except for the first Thursday of the month). This is a place to come with a question, request for feedback, or just to listen. At the start of the meeting you can bid for time, requesting things like a minute for an announcement or 5 minutes to introduce your project and ask for suggestions on folks to talk to about it.
Find out more »Open Civic Meeting
We host weekly meetings every Thursday that are open to the public (except for the first Thursday of the month). This is a place to come with a question, request for feedback, or just to listen. At the start of the meeting you can bid for time, requesting things like a minute for an announcement or 5 minutes to introduce your project and ask for suggestions on folks to talk to about it.
Find out more »Open Civic Meeting
We host weekly meetings every Thursday that are open to the public (except for the first Thursday of the month). This is a place to come with a question, request for feedback, or just to listen. At the start of the meeting you can bid for time, requesting things like a minute for an announcement or 5 minutes to introduce your project and ask for suggestions on folks to talk to about it.
Find out more »Fighting 21st Century Hate – ADL
Fighting 21st Century Hate: A 360 view with the ADL, hosted by Ethan Zuckerman Monday, October 29, 2018, 4:00pm — 5:30pm MIT Media Lab, E14 - 633, 75 Amherst Street, Cambridge, MA "To MIT and Harvard communities: Adam Neufeld, ADL’s VP Innovation and Strategy, looks forward to speaking about the state of online hate. He will talk about ADL’s Center for Technology, some of its latest cutting edge, published research and its collaborative work with tech…
Find out more »November 2018
Open Civic Meeting
We host weekly meetings every Thursday that are open to the public (except for the first Thursday of the month). This is a place to come with a question, request for feedback, or just to listen. At the start of the meeting you can bid for time, requesting things like a minute for an announcement or 5 minutes to introduce your project and ask for suggestions on folks to talk to about it.
Find out more »Open Civic Meeting
We host weekly meetings every Thursday that are open to the public (except for the first Thursday of the month). This is a place to come with a question, request for feedback, or just to listen. At the start of the meeting you can bid for time, requesting things like a minute for an announcement or 5 minutes to introduce your project and ask for suggestions on folks to talk to about it.
Find out more »Open Civic Meeting
We host weekly meetings every Thursday that are open to the public (except for the first Thursday of the month). This is a place to come with a question, request for feedback, or just to listen. At the start of the meeting you can bid for time, requesting things like a minute for an announcement or 5 minutes to introduce your project and ask for suggestions on folks to talk to about it.
Find out more »December 2018
Open Civic Meeting
We host weekly meetings every Thursday that are open to the public (except for the first Thursday of the month). This is a place to come with a question, request for feedback, or just to listen. At the start of the meeting you can bid for time, requesting things like a minute for an announcement or 5 minutes to introduce your project and ask for suggestions on folks to talk to about it.
Find out more »February 2019
Open Civic Meeting (Spring 2019)
During the semester we host weekly meetings every Thursday that are open to the public (except for the first Thursday of the month). This is a place to come with a question, request for feedback, or just to listen. At the start of the meeting you can bid for time, requesting things like a minute for an announcement or 5 minutes to introduce your project and ask for suggestions on folks to talk to about…
Find out more »Open Civic Meeting (Spring 2019)
During the semester we host weekly meetings every Thursday that are open to the public (except for the first Thursday of the month). This is a place to come with a question, request for feedback, or just to listen. At the start of the meeting you can bid for time, requesting things like a minute for an announcement or 5 minutes to introduce your project and ask for suggestions on folks to talk to about…
Find out more »Open Civic Meeting (Spring 2019)
During the semester we host weekly meetings every Thursday that are open to the public (except for the first Thursday of the month). This is a place to come with a question, request for feedback, or just to listen. At the start of the meeting you can bid for time, requesting things like a minute for an announcement or 5 minutes to introduce your project and ask for suggestions on folks to talk to about…
Find out more »March 2019
Lunch Talk: Reclaiming the Internet as a Force for the Common Good
Reclaiming the Internet as a Force for the Common Good: The PublicSpaces Coalition with Geert-Jan Bogaerts Thursday, March 7, 2019 12:00pm – 1:00pm Comparative Media Studies, E15-318 (3rd floor of E15, opposite side of the building from Civic!) 20 Ames Street, Cambridge, MA 02412 PublicSpaces (publicspaces.net) is reclaiming the internet as a force for the common good by building, deploying and supporting a software ecosystem that’s based on public values. We are advocating a new…
Find out more »Open Civic Meeting (Spring 2019)
During the semester we host weekly meetings every Thursday that are open to the public (except for the first Thursday of the month). This is a place to come with a question, request for feedback, or just to listen. At the start of the meeting you can bid for time, requesting things like a minute for an announcement or 5 minutes to introduce your project and ask for suggestions on folks to talk to about…
Find out more »Open Civic Meeting (Spring 2019)
During the semester we host weekly meetings every Thursday that are open to the public (except for the first Thursday of the month). This is a place to come with a question, request for feedback, or just to listen. At the start of the meeting you can bid for time, requesting things like a minute for an announcement or 5 minutes to introduce your project and ask for suggestions on folks to talk to about…
Find out more »April 2019
Open Civic Meeting (Spring 2019)
During the semester we host weekly meetings every Thursday that are open to the public (except for the first Thursday of the month). This is a place to come with a question, request for feedback, or just to listen. At the start of the meeting you can bid for time, requesting things like a minute for an announcement or 5 minutes to introduce your project and ask for suggestions on folks to talk to about…
Find out more »Open Civic Meeting (Spring 2019)
During the semester we host weekly meetings every Thursday that are open to the public (except for the first Thursday of the month). This is a place to come with a question, request for feedback, or just to listen. At the start of the meeting you can bid for time, requesting things like a minute for an announcement or 5 minutes to introduce your project and ask for suggestions on folks to talk to about…
Find out more »May 2019
Open Civic Meeting (Spring 2019)
During the semester we host weekly meetings every Thursday that are open to the public (except for the first Thursday of the month). This is a place to come with a question, request for feedback, or just to listen. At the start of the meeting you can bid for time, requesting things like a minute for an announcement or 5 minutes to introduce your project and ask for suggestions on folks to talk to about…
Find out more »Open Civic Meeting (Spring 2019)
During the semester we host weekly meetings every Thursday that are open to the public (except for the first Thursday of the month). This is a place to come with a question, request for feedback, or just to listen. At the start of the meeting you can bid for time, requesting things like a minute for an announcement or 5 minutes to introduce your project and ask for suggestions on folks to talk to about…
Find out more »September 2019
Stopping Ubiquitous Face Surveillance Before It’s Too Late
Kade Crockford, Director of the Technology for Liberty Program at the ACLU Thursday, September 5th, @ 12pm, Media Lab E15-344. Light lunch, first come first serve. Face surveillance and other remote biometric monitoring technologies pose unprecedented risks to personal autonomy, privacy, and democracy. One researcher compared the tech to nuclear waste. Others have called it "the perfect tool for oppression." Never before has a technology equipped governments with the power to automatically generate and store…
Find out more »Open Civic Meeting (Fall 2019)
During the semester we host weekly meetings every Thursday that are open to the public (except for the first Thursday of the month). This is a place to come with a question, request for feedback, or just to listen. At the start of the meeting you can bid for time, requesting things like a minute for an announcement or 5 minutes to introduce your project and ask for suggestions on folks to talk to about…
Find out more »Open Civic Meeting (Fall 2019)
During the semester we host weekly meetings every Thursday that are open to the public (except for the first Thursday of the month). This is a place to come with a question, request for feedback, or just to listen. At the start of the meeting you can bid for time, requesting things like a minute for an announcement or 5 minutes to introduce your project and ask for suggestions on folks to talk to about…
Find out more »October 2019
Open Civic Meeting (Fall 2019)
During the semester we host weekly meetings every Thursday that are open to the public (except for the first Thursday of the month). This is a place to come with a question, request for feedback, or just to listen. At the start of the meeting you can bid for time, requesting things like a minute for an announcement or 5 minutes to introduce your project and ask for suggestions on folks to talk to about…
Find out more »Open Civic Meeting (Fall 2019)
During the semester we host weekly meetings every Thursday that are open to the public (except for the first Thursday of the month). This is a place to come with a question, request for feedback, or just to listen. At the start of the meeting you can bid for time, requesting things like a minute for an announcement or 5 minutes to introduce your project and ask for suggestions on folks to talk to about…
Find out more »Open Civic Meeting (Fall 2019)
During the semester we host weekly meetings every Thursday that are open to the public (except for the first Thursday of the month). This is a place to come with a question, request for feedback, or just to listen. At the start of the meeting you can bid for time, requesting things like a minute for an announcement or 5 minutes to introduce your project and ask for suggestions on folks to talk to about…
Find out more »November 2019
Open Civic Meeting (Fall 2019)
During the semester we host weekly meetings every Thursday that are open to the public (except for the first Thursday of the month). This is a place to come with a question, request for feedback, or just to listen. At the start of the meeting you can bid for time, requesting things like a minute for an announcement or 5 minutes to introduce your project and ask for suggestions on folks to talk to about…
Find out more »Open Civic Meeting (Fall 2019)
During the semester we host weekly meetings every Thursday that are open to the public (except for the first Thursday of the month). This is a place to come with a question, request for feedback, or just to listen. At the start of the meeting you can bid for time, requesting things like a minute for an announcement or 5 minutes to introduce your project and ask for suggestions on folks to talk to about…
Find out more »December 2019
Open Civic Meeting (Fall 2019)
During the semester we host weekly meetings every Thursday that are open to the public (except for the first Thursday of the month). This is a place to come with a question, request for feedback, or just to listen. At the start of the meeting you can bid for time, requesting things like a minute for an announcement or 5 minutes to introduce your project and ask for suggestions on folks to talk to about…
Find out more »February 2020
Open Civic Meeting (Spring 2020)
During the semester we host weekly meetings every Thursday that are open to the public (except for the first Thursday of the month). This is a place to come with a question, request for feedback, or just to listen. At the start of the meeting you can bid for time, requesting things like a minute for an announcement or 5 minutes to introduce your project and ask for suggestions on folks to talk to about…
Find out more »Open Civic Meeting (Spring 2020)
During the semester we host weekly meetings every Thursday that are open to the public (except for the first Thursday of the month). This is a place to come with a question, request for feedback, or just to listen. At the start of the meeting you can bid for time, requesting things like a minute for an announcement or 5 minutes to introduce your project and ask for suggestions on folks to talk to about…
Find out more »March 2020
Open Civic Meeting (Spring 2020)
During the semester we host weekly meetings every Thursday that are open to the public (except for the first Thursday of the month). This is a place to come with a question, request for feedback, or just to listen. At the start of the meeting you can bid for time, requesting things like a minute for an announcement or 5 minutes to introduce your project and ask for suggestions on folks to talk to about…
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