Jon Rubin is co-creator of Conflict Kitchen, a restaurant that serves food from countries with which the U.S. is in conflict as a way to engage the public in discussions about politics, culture, and social relations.
From Huelga! to Undocumented and Unafraid!: A Comparative Study of Media Strategies in the Farm Worker Movement of the 1960s and the Immigrant Youth Movement of the 2000s
Rogelio Lopez’s thesis, examining media strategies by emphasizing concrete media practices of movement actors.
Podcast and Liveblog: Ethan Zuckerman, “Digital Cosmopolitanism and Cognitive Diversity”
Media technologies have increased the number of people able to create and disseminate content, but may not be leading to a more diverse media environment.
Ian Condry on “How Virtual Pop Star Hatsune Miku Blew Up in Japan”
Associate Professor Ian Condry — a specialist on anthropology in Japan — spoke with Wired Magazine about one of his favorite topics, the virtual pop star Hatsune Miku.
Podcast: Kelley Kreitz, “Yellow Journalism as Civic Media?: Rewiring an Experiment with Nineteenth-Century News”
Revisiting the activist impulse behind yellow journalism provides a window on a changing media ecology in which the future of news was under debate.
Video and podcast: “The Future of the Post Office”
The post office’s once indispensable role in fostering civic discourse has been challenged by the Internet and mobile telephony. How is it coping?
Faculty Expands with Civic Media Scholar, Sasha Costanza-Chock
Sasha Costanza-Chock is joining the faculty of the Comparative Media Studies program at MIT as Assistant Professor of Civic Media.
