Civic Media Project
Global case studies on design, technology, and engagement methods reviewing media for social impact
Civic Media Project
CMP is a collection of short case studies from scholars and practitioners from all over the world that explore design, technologies, and engagement approaches social impact media. Access the learning guide here: www.XXX.com. Email [email protected] for submissions and q’s.
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Designing Policy
Laura Forlano (IIT Institute of Design)How might citizens participate in collaborative processes around complex socio-technical issues in cities? In recent years, cities have embraced the idea that they are platforms for the exchange of big data, laboratories for urban experiments, and spaces of civic hacking. These activities raise questions about the nature of civic engagement as well as the embedded values that inhabit civic media infrastructures in cities.
EL_NewsMar 30
Hackathons as a Site for Civic IOT: Initial Insights
Carl DiSalvo (Georgia Institute of Technology) and Ken Anderson (Cultural Transformations Lab at Intel)Over the past several years we have taken a research-through-design approach to civic hackathons, engaging them as organizers, hosts, and participants. Of late, we have become interested in using civic hackathons to explore the civic potentials of the Internet of Things (IoT). With its focus on IoT, the 2014 National Day of Civic Hacking provided an opportunity to do just this. We approached this hackathon as a design experiment.EL_NewsMar 28
iPads in Education: Lessons in Civic Discourse and Disengagement
Belinha De AbreuImplementing iPad programs in schools has become the new technology trend in many K-12 schools. While most of the time we hear about the positives of this type of program, less is heard about the negatives or the problems faced by schools unless it is on the grand scale such as the Los Angeles School Department (Blume 2014). The overarching issue is that schools still tend to jump on technology bandwagons without thinking through the process of applying a new tool, considering the impact on…EL_NewsMar 30
#Aufschrei — The role of twitter for feminist activism and as platform for alternative publics
Ricarda Drüeke (University of Salzburg, Austria) and Elke Zobl (Contemporary Arts & Cultural Production, Austria)Twitter is increasingly becoming a discursive space for carrying out debates and exchanging opinions and experiences. Among the themes taken up on Twitter and in other social networks, there has been an intense discussion of sexism, especially in the past several years (see also #YesAllWomen). In the German-speaking area, #aufschrei became the Twitter message of the year 2013, the hashtag collecting and sharing sexist experiences.EL_News3 days ago