Civic Media Project

Civic Media Project Introduction

By Eric Gordon and Paul Mihailidis

Nashville: Building Blocks

Ty Hollett (Vanderbilt University, Peabody College)

Nashville: Building Blocks (NBB) enables youth participants to engage with local, spatial issues in the Nashville, Tennessee community. Housed at the Nashville Public…

Innovation in the Absence of a State: Civic Media and the Inclusion of the Marginalized in the Somali Territories

Nicole Stremlau (Programme in Comparative Media Law and Policy)

Mobilizing Collective Urban Actions through MicroActs

Shriya Malhotra (Partizaning), Christo de Klerk, and Nitin Sawhney (The New School)

Mailboxes as Placemaking Interventions

Transforming conceptions of Teacher Professional Development: a three year-case study at a rural school in Spain

Sara Villagrá-Sobrino (University of Oviedo and University of Valladolid), Luis. P…

The #WalkMyWorld Project

Greg McVerry (Southern Connecticut State University), Ian O’Byrne (University of New Haven), Kristine E. Pytash (Kent State University), Ryan M. Rish (Kennesaw State University)…

Community Radio as Civic Media: The case of Radio al-Balad 92.4FM in Amman, Jordan

Gretchen King (McGill University)

In 2000, Jordan’s first community radio station Radio al-Balad 92.4FM emerged to break the government’s…

Room to Tell: Designing Affectively Engaging Civic Opportunities with New Media for Adolescents Hospitalized with Cystic Fibrosis

Christian Ehret (Vanderbilt University)

Introduction

Hacking for Gold

Laurel Felt (Student Voice Project)

“YouthBuild Charter School of California] YCSC students, who are all between the ages of 16 to 24 years old, come from low-income…