How can information systems rewrite our understanding of civics, governance, and communication, to solve old problems and create new opportunities in our communities?
See open-to-the-public demos of the latest, greatest civic media tools from researchers at the MIT Center for Future Civic Media, the leader in cutting-edge community-based technology.
A talk with Steve Kurtz about models and techniques for public interventions and soft subversions aimed at undermining authoritarian tendencies.
What can designers do to better connect with the communities and individuals they wish to serve? How can design projects avoid patronizing attitudes and economic colonialization? How can a designer be effective in promoting social change while following their conscience?
Are changes in the communications environment enabling protest in a way we've not seen before? Is civic disobedience easier, or perhaps more effective?
Jason Pramas and Steve Meacham on how the rapid spread of digital literacies allows participation in movement media making by everyday participants.
Insights, tools, and practices from gaming are increasingly integrated across different areas of life, leading to talk of the 'gamification' of everything -- including civic media.
Laura Kurgan and Jeff Warren discuss the steps developers, practitioners, and researchers can take to help build the field of civic mapping.
How do we understand, map, visualize, and ultimately shape the flow of texts across an increasingly diverse and complex media ecosystem?
How do we understand, map, visualize, and ultimately shape the flow of texts across an increasingly diverse and complex media ecosystem?
Mimi Ito, cultural anthropologist, discusses how this once marginalized popular culture came to play a major role in Japan’s identity at home and abroad.
By exploring the rich variety of otaku culture from multiple perspectives, Mimi Ito will provide fascinating insights into the present and future of cultural production and distribution in the digital age.
Jigar Mehta is a documentary filmmaker and a journalist and currently co-creator of the collaborative documentary project, 18 Days in Egypt, about the ongoing Egyptian revolution.
