Steve Kurtz: Cultural Resistance
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 ...
Spreadable Media: Creating Value and Meaning in a Networked ...
Spreadable Media: Creating Value and Meaning in a Networked Society.
How are the shifting relations between media producers and their audiences transforming the concept of meaningful participation? And how do alternative systems for the circulation of media texts pave the way for new production modes, alternative genres of content, and ...
Sourcemap
Sourcemap
Sourcemap is a social network built around supply chains, enabling collective engagement with where things come from and what they are made of. It provides resources for calculating the carbon footprint and geographic spread of various products and services, including consumer electronics, ...
Sourcemap
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.
Social Media: Panel Discussion and Questions
Social Media: Panel Discussion and Questions
10/22/2009
Social Media & Your Organization
Social Media & Your Organization
Social Media, the "building" of shared meaning among communities, is becoming more pervasive in our personal and professional lives. As blogs, Facebook, Flickr, YouTube and Twitter have become growing components of the communications mix, organizations need to develop strategies for using ...
Session 7: Free? Contemporary Media Business Models
Session 7: Free? Contemporary Media Business Models
While the industry discussion has meandered from questions surrounding the validity of the 'Long Tail' to a debate about the notion of "free" and the generation of value itself - viable business models have begun to emerge. In these models, fan communities continue to ...
second day of the Scratch@MIT conference
second day of the Scratch@MIT conference
Directed by Noboyuki Ueda and his team
Scratch@MIT 2012 Keynote Jan Cuny and Connie Yowell
Scratch@MIT 2012 Keynote Jan Cuny and Connie Yowell
Scratch@MIT Second Keynote: Participation in Computational Culture with Connie Yowell and Jan Cuny - 7/27/12 Connie Yowell, Director of Education for U.S. Programs, MacArthur FoundationJan Cuny, Program Officer, National Science FoundationModerated by Mitchel Resnick, ...
Scratch@MIT 2012 Keynote "Scratch Goes to School"
Scratch@MIT 2012 Keynote "Scratch Goes to School"
Scratch@MIT 2012 Third Keynote: Scratch Goes to School - 7/28/12 Judy Barbera, Assistant Superintendent for InstructionSandi Reyes, Elementary STEM CoordinatorDavid Grammerstorf, 3rd Grade TeacherNicole Hovsepian, 3rd Grade TeacherAndrea Edwards, Instructional ...
Scratch: overview
Scratch: overview
Scratch is a new programming language that makes it easy to create your own interactive stories, games, music, and animations--and share your creations in an on-line community.Featuring: Mitchel Resnick, Natalie Rusk, Andres Monroy-Hernandez and Jay Silver. Vide production: Paula Aguilera, ...
Scot Osterweil receives 2011 MIT Excellence Award
Scot Osterweil receives 2011 MIT Excellence Award
http://hrweb.mit.edu/rewards/recipients/139/871
SCIENCE with/in/sight, March 5, 2012
SCIENCE with/in/sight, March 5, 2012 - Winners of the 2012 Koch Institute ...
This evening event celebrated the opening of a new exhibition of Image Award winners in the Koch Institute Public Galleries. Learn more about the with/in/sight series at the Koch Institute at https://ki.mit.edu/news/events/withinsight.
Roz Williams: "Communications Forum: Public Communications ...
Roz Williams: "Communications Forum: Public Communications in Slow-Moving ...
(Full talk, featuring Roz Williams, Abrahm Lustgarten, and Andrea Pitzer: http://techtv.mit.edu/collections/c4fcm:1502/videos/9524-communications-forum-public-communications-in-slow-moving-crises-) Governments, corporations, and communities plan for sudden crises: the ...
Ros Gray: 'The Militant Image: A Cine-Geography'
Ros Gray: 'The Militant Image: A Cine-Geography'
Ros Gray, Lecturer, Critical Studies, Goldsmiths University of London Within the context of cinematographic traditions and different liberation movements on the African continent, Ros Gray’s research focuses on revolutionary cinema and its global networks; the ...
Robotic spider weaves web at MIT Media Lab
Robotic spider weaves web at MIT Media Lab
A three-week old robot at the MIT Media Lab is weaving a cocoon-like structure with a little programming help from humans. Eventually it will be autonomous.