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Ellen Hume
3:13 PM | bio | Comments: 0
The "Hero Reports" website project turns the anti-terrorism "See Something, Say Something" campaign on its head, to visualize security as civic connectedness. continued...
Topics: Best Practices, Diversity, Legal Issues, Mobile, Participation, Technology
Tagged: civic engagement, database, heroism, security, text messaging, website
Ellen Hume
9:02 PM | bio | Comments: 0
Here at MIT, summer means time to dig into our research. A group of us at the Center for Future Civic Media is working on a white paper defining "civic media." We are interested in how civic media is empowering new user-creators, with related effects on governing elites. Inspiring people to take action, through access to information and the public spotlight, is a familiar goal to those of us on the team who used to be journalists. We used to facilitate the agency of an isolated person or community to make the government act for justice or change. It often... continued...
Topics: Best Practices, Government & Politics, Participation, Technology
Tagged: civic media, journalism, media technology, media tools, MIT, participation, power shift
Idea Lab is a group blog by innovators who are reinventing community news for the Digital Age.
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Citizen media project to track carbon tax in Boulder, CO
Connecting radio stations to the Net in rural India
Creating EveryBlock citizen database for info on neighborhoods
Developing games to inform people about civic issues in NYC
Citizen media project to track carbon tax in Boulder, CO
Creating academic incubator to help solve digital news problems
Creating academic incubator to help solve digital news problems
Blogging about a module to help people connect related items
Creating 'Freedom Fone,' news via voicemail in Zimbabwe
Empowering deaf people to become citizen journalists
Planning an "ideal newsroom" and resources for the digital news era
Starting Center for Digital Media Entrepreneurship at ASU
Starting Center for Digital Media Entrepreneurship at ASU
Helping people create custom, printable publications
Blogging about centralized, user-maintained news system
Creating EveryBlock citizen database for info on neighborhoods
Creating set of online legal resources for citizen journalists
Getting the public to fund local investigative journalism
Rising Voices project to help developing world bloggers
Creating academic incubator to help solve digital news problems
Blogging about creating diversity in digital media
Creating a Center for Future Civic Media at MIT Media Lab
Creating news simulation game to help understand complex issues
Blogging about making Paulding.com a financial success
Making webcasts for Philadelphia's immigrant community
Developing games to inform people about civic issues in NYC
Recruiting 75 citizen journalists for local Chicago site
Connecting diverse neighborhoods with mobile news in S. Africa
Creating a Center for Future Civic Media at MIT Media Lab
MTV citizen reports on presidential election
Blogging about a media toolset to expand public participation
Creating academic incubator to help solve digital news problems
Blogging about how reporters can work with social networks
Training people in rural India to be video producers
Creating news simulation game to help teach complex issues
Creating academic incubator to help solve digital news problems
Using GPS tracking to inform people through mobile media
Promoting "universal geo-tagging" on blogs for local info
MTV citizen reports on presidential election
Editor of Idea Lab and PBS MediaShift sites
Creating a Center for Future Civic Media at MIT Media Lab
Creating news simulation game to help understand complex issues
Creating academic incubator to help solve digital news problems
Re-creating Oakland's bygone jazz scene as virtual world
Using GPS tracking to inform people through mobile media
Blending computer science and journalism in one academic program
Building an open-source version of VillageSoup
Creating site for reporters to share ideas, resources
Encouraging green living through interactive game, Beanstockd
Sharing big ideas from the world of citizen engagement online
Making webcasts for Philadelphia's immigrant community
Helping public access TV stations share content online
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