NGO2.0: When Social Action Meets Social Media
MIT Building 4, Room 231 Cambridge, MAProfessor Jing Wang will discuss the genesis and implementation of a civic media project, NGO2.0, that she conceptualized and launched in China in May 2009.
MIT Graduate Program in Comparative Media Studies
Studying Media and Making Media
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Civic Media and the Law
MIT Media Lab, Room 633 75 Amherst St., Cambridge, MAMicah Sifry and Daniel Schuman address the question: "What are the legal dangers for publishing secrets in the crowdsourced era?"
Doris Sommer, “Welcome Back, to the Humanities as Civic Engagement”
MIT Media Lab, Room 633 75 Amherst St., Cambridge, MADoris Sommer's new book "The Work of Art in the World: Civic Agency and Public Humanities" revives the collaboration between aesthetic philosophy and democratic development.
Civic Arts Series: Erik Loyer
MIT Building E15, Room 001 ("The Cube") 20 Ames Street, Cambridge, MAErik Loyer's award-winning work explores new blends of game dynamics, poetic expression and interactive visual storytelling.
Civic Arts Series: Daniel Bacchieri
MIT Building E15, Room 001 ("The Cube") 20 Ames Street, Cambridge, MABrazilian journalist Daniel Bacchieri and his StreetMusicMap collaborators are exploring the creative possibilities of collective story-telling through performance.
Civic Arts Series: Marisa Morán Jahn
MIT Building E15, Room 001 ("The Cube") 20 Ames Street, Cambridge, MAMarisa Morán Jahn is a multi-media artist, writer, educator and activist, whose colorful, often humorous uses of personae and media create imaginative pathways to civic awareness of urgent public issues.
Civic Media Insights: Burcu Baykurt, “The City as Data Machine: Local Governance in the Age of Big Data”
Burcu Baykurt on how Kansas City officials and civic entrepreneurs ignored the needs of already-vulnerable groups, downplayed their legitimate concerns about automated surveillance, and neglected the “data deserts” that they had created.
Civic Media Insights: Rachel Kuo, “Movement Media: Racial Solidarities Across Platforms”
Looking at processes behind media-making and information sharing, this talk by Rachel Kuo demonstrates ways that racial justice movements create and sustain connections across incommensurable and uneven racial differences.
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