sun yat sen civic slides
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MIT Media Lab
(PARTICIPATORY)MEDIA
CIVICINVOLVEMENT
CIVICMEDIA
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protests organized online
cc flickr photo by cisc1970
MIT Media Lab
protests organized online
cc flickr photo by cisc1970
viral video campaigns
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protests organized online
cc flickr photo by cisc1970
viral video campaigns
“facebook revolutions”
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protests organized online
cc flickr photo by cisc1970
viral video campaigns
“facebook revolutions”
DIY “cyberwar”
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enthusiasmskepticism
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exaggeration and distortion
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exaggeration and distortion
slacktivism
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exaggeration and distortion
slacktivism
mis/disinformation
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exaggeration and distortion
slacktivism
mis/disinformationoversimplification and backlash
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CIVICMEDIA
Tools that help communities express themselvesTools to study media attention and frames
Digital Civics
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expression and amplificatoin
Vojo is a free and open-source platform to create, share and publish multimedia stories
directly from your phone
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CIVIC MEDIA
The Institute for Popu-lar Education in South-ern California has worked with low-wage immigrant laborers for more than 20 years. With the negative portrayal of immigrants in the news, IDEPSCA knew there needed to be a way for immigrants to tell their own story, and easily.
IDEPSCA teamed up with USC Annenberg School of Communication to collaborate directly with immigrants on what this could look like. After many surveys, interviews and codesign workshops, VozMob was born.
VozMob transformed cell phones into media cre-ation devices. By calling in and messaging, users could create multimedia stories incorporating text, photos and audio record-ings.
As groups around the world learned about Voz-Mob, they wanted to do the same thing to serve their communities. The code was free software, but nonprofits and grass-roots groups often lack in-house developers and resources to maintain a robust digital platform.
MIT Center for Civic Media took up the challenge, developing VOJO as a hosted instance of Voz-Mob where groups could encourage their commu-nities to share their sto-ries.
THE STORY BEHIND VOJO
21 Days in Cambridge gives voice to people's questions about domestic violence.
Residents' questions, collected via Vojo, will
drive new policy.
Between the Barsmail-basedblogging forincarceratedpopulations
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Data Therapy helping community groups present their data creatively
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mapping media ecosystems
pageonex.com
mediacloud.org
natematias.com/medialab/uknews-gender/
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Winter articles are about just men or just women!Summer articles are about women and men together!
passing on
follow bias
natematias.com/medialab/gv-viewer/
natematias.com/medialab/gv-viewer/
fight for a*en-on
fight over frame
zimmermannot trayvon
celebritytrial
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Mar 25—Conserva-ve blog Wagist.com runs story “Was Trayvon Mar-n a Drug Dealer?” digging up unfla*ering content from Mar-n’s old social media accounts
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digital civics
cc flickr photo by Brandon Doran
- Does media-centric activism work, and how? - Does civic crowdsourcing change public goods? - How do you combine new and old theories of change? - (How) do we teach “new civics”? - Can we design effective civic interventions?
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hacked up Kill-‐a-‐wa*Measures energy usage Main
Power supply
Interfacing board + ADCUSB Serial
SheevaplugARM Computer,The heart of the system
GSM Modemhandles transac-ons
