Center for Civic Media

Channel | updated March 26, 2013

The Center for Civic Media supports research at MIT to innovate civic media tools and practices and test them in communities. Bridging two established programs at MIT—one known for inventing alternate technical futures, the other for identifying the cultural and social potential of media change—the Center for Future Civic Media is a joint effort between the MIT Media Lab and the MIT Comparative Media Studies Program. It is made possible by a four-year grant from the Knight Foundation.

VoIP Drupal webinar: Building sites that make and receive ...

VoIP Drupal webinar: Building sites that make and receive phone calls

As part of this webinar, you will learn about VoIP Drupal, a new open source framework that makes it easy to build websites that almost literally pick-up the phone.

Tool for Consensus Building

Charlie DeTar walks us through prototype software to aid medium-to-large groups in consensus-based decision making.

The Future of News

In June of 2009, the Center for Future Civic Medias Future of News and Civic Media conference showcased some of the work done as a part of the Knight News Challenge, focusing on creative ways to provide people with the news and information needed to engage their communities effectively.

The Future of Government/Citizen Engagement

From The Future of Civic Engagement in a Broadband-Enabled World, a symposium hosted by the MIT Center for Future Civic Media in cooperation with the Federal Communications Commission's Broadband Initiative (broadband.gov). From the Mayor of Newark's tweets to the ...

The Future of Digital Public Media

The Future of Civic Media

A plenary from the 2011 MIT-Knight Civic Media Conference, featuring: Sasha Costanza-Chock, MIT Comparative Media Studies Chris Csikszentmihályi, MIT Center for Civic Media Ethan Zuckerman, Berkman Center/MIT Center for Civic Media

Summary and Collaboration Contest results

Knight Foundation's Michael Maness emcees an audience discussion about the 2011 MIT-Knight Civic Media Conference, and we announce the winners of the conference's collaboration contest, where attendees can work together to win small pots of funding for civic media ...

Steve Kurtz: Cultural Resistance

A Civic Media Session about models and techniques for public interventions and soft subversions aimed at undermining authoritarian tendencies in a time of neo-liberal domination. Known for his work in Electronic Civil Disobedience and BioArt, Steve Kurtz is a founding member of the Critical ...

Sourcemap

Leo Bonnani updates the civic media community on Sourcemap, a Center-sponsored project to help citizens map where things come from...from laptop parts and IKEA beds, to campaign contributions.

Rick Borovoy unveils first LostInBoston.org sign, outside ...

Rick Borovoy unveils first LostInBoston.org sign, outside MassArt

Rick Borovoy, Visiting Scientist at the MIT Media Lab and the Center for Future Civic Media, proudly unveils the first Lost in Boston sign. LostInBoston.org is a general-purpose web tool that cities can use to get citizens involved in civic improvement projects. It's ...

Ramesh Srinivasan: "Empowering Culture and Context"

Featuring guest Ramesh Srinivasan, Assistant Professor in the Department of Information Studies at UCLA. The power of culture and context dramatically shape technology's influence on networks and power worldwide. Having just spent a month in the field in and around ...

Question Bridge: Black Males

Question Bridge: Black Males opens a window onto the complex and often unspoken dialogue among black men, creating an intimate and essentially genuine experience for viewers and subjects, while providing new opportunities for understanding and healing. This project brings the full spectrum of ...

Project demos by Center for Future Civic Media researchers

Josh Levinger - Boycott Toolkit Audubon Dougherty - Rural Peru's Transition to the Internet Ryan O'Toole - Red Ink Danielle Martin and Leo Burd - Department of Play Learn more about our projects at http://civic.mit.edu/projects/c4fcm

Plenary: Data into Action

Our lives are increasingly mediated by computers and data - a shift that is becoming more and more natural to us. From Data.gov to real-time municipal bus information, data in many forms from many sources is being made available and recombined in ways we could not have anticipated just ten ...

Plenary: Crowd Building

For years, news organizations have been ambivalently confronting the idea of crowdsourcing. In contrast to other forms of "user innovation" that feature collaborations by highly skilled professionals, crowdsourcing exploits a largely untrained group of contributors. Is crowdsourcing a ...

Plenary: "News, Nerds and Nabes": How Will Future Americans ...

Plenary: "News, Nerds and Nabes": How Will Future Americans Learn About ...

Alberto Ibarguen, Eric Klinenberg, and Henry Jenkins

Plenary: "Flesh and Bits: Information, Representation, ...

Plenary: "Flesh and Bits: Information, Representation, Action"

With Chris Csikszentmihályi, Ben Fry, Matt Carroll, and Martin Wattenberg What we know, how we know it, and what we do with it are all tightly coupled, and the relationships between them change as do our systems for producing, representing, and communicating ...

Plenary: "Civic Media Mobilization"

Successful civic media tools - especially ones designed by this conference's attendees - reengineer how mass-mobilization happens. But does that mean we should turn the page on old lessons? Originally envisioned as a way to connect the like-minded across borders, civic media is proving just ...

Center for Civic Media

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