VANISHED is an 8-week online/offline environmental disaster mystery game for middle-school children, meant to inspire engagement and problem solving through science.
Video: Max Ogden, from Cities, Code, and Civics: “Enhanced serendipity”
Max Ogden of Code for America discusses taking “treasure troves” of government datasets to bring citizens and friends together.
Video: Nick Grossman, from Cities, Code, and Civics, “Customizing tools from city to city?”
Nick Grossman of OpenPlans on how civic tools do (or need to) vary from city to city.
Video: Civic Media Session, “Bustling with Information: Cities, Code, and Civics”
How can information systems rewrite civics, governance, and communication, to solve old problems and create new opportunities in our communities?
“Symon” wins Kongregate Award at Indie Game Challenge
GAMBIT director Philip Tan announced the great news over the weekend.
Podcast: Christoph Lindner, “Amsterdam and New York: Transnational Photographic Exchange in the Era of Globalization”
Christoph Lindner on seeing Amsterdam through the lens of New York photographers enabled new and surprising perspectives on four key aspects of the city.
Dr. Sasha Costanza-Chock, civic media specialist, joins CMS faculty
Comparative Media Studies at MIT is pleased to announce that Dr. Sasha Costanza-Chock has been appointed as Assistant Professor of Civic Media and will begin teaching at MIT in the fall of 2011.
