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CabildoxLatAm: A space for digital participation in Latin AmericaIn the face of the challenges that have emerged and been exacerbate...
Since the 2016 US presidential election, news coverage of hate speech and mis/ disinformation has skyrocketed. What was once a sleepy bea...
In this speculative project, we "flipped the script" on a widespread narrative regarding the use of algorithmic risk assessment for crimi...
Every day, data about our environment, education, routes, and other aspects of our lives become available. Yet most people often struggle...
Let’s Talk Privacy explores how the implementation of privacy and data governance policies might impact a variety of fields.Project Let’s...
Mapping the Globe is an interactive tool and map that helps us understand where The Boston Globe directs its attention. Media attention m...
Bias by us envisions a future of media diversity by understanding the bias of today.Our work seeks to understand how the US media ec...
Civic technology should empower us as citizens. But despite its breadth as a field, civic technology often takes its lead from Silicon Va...
Some readers require greater context to understand complex stories. FOLD is an open publishing platform with a unique structure that...
What really divides Cambridge?Who can occupy certain spaces in Cambridge? What are the less obvious social and cultural factors at p...
OpenScope is an open source project that combines three components for anyone to explore the micro world anytime, anywhere. The 3D-printa...
Action Path is a mobile app to help people learn about and engage with issues in their community. The app uses push notifications tied to...
Mission Wildlife is a research collaboration between San Diego Zoo Global and the MIT Center for Civic Media to explore the pot...
Ant-Based Modeling explores the possibility of implementing agent-based modeling with living ants and external stimuli such as ...
Pure networks and pure hierarchies both have distinct strengths and weaknesses. These become glaringly apparent during disaster response....
Should students be prosecuted for innovative projects? In December 2014, four undergraduates associated with the Media Lab were subpoenae...
The Civic Crowdfunding project is an initiative to collect data and advance social research into the emerging field of civic crowdfunding...
Open Gender Tracker is a suite of open-source tools and APIs that make it easy for newsrooms and media monitors to collect metrics and ga...
Media Meter Focus shows focus mapping of global media attention. What was covered in the news this week? Did the issues you care about ge...
The Passing On project uses data from 20 years of New York Times stories about society's heroes, leaders, and visionaries to "reader-sour...
Erase the Border is a web campaign and voice petition platform. It tells the story of the Tohono O'odham people, whose community has been...
The Internet has disrupted the aid sector like so many other industries before it. In times of crisis, donors are increasingly connecting...
Terra Incognita is a global news game and recommendation system. Terra Incognita helps you discover interesting news and personal connect...
Media Perspective brings a data visualization into 3D space. This data sculpture represents mainstream media coverage of Net Neutrality o...
NGO2.0 is a project grown out of the work of MIT's New Media Action Lab. The goal of NGO2.0 is to strengthen the digital and social media...
Media Cloud is a system that facilitates massive content analysis of news on the Web. Developed by the Berkman Center for Internet and So...
Books are challenged and banned in public schools and libraries across the country. But which books, where, by whom, and for what reasons...
This project is currently promoting a survey of data from the East Side (Zona Leste) of the city of Sao Paulo, Brazil. The aim is to dete...
VoIP Drupal is an innovative framework that brings the power of voice and Internet-telephony to Drupal sites. It can be used to build hyb...
Everyone in the city is an expert on their own experience of that city. So how might we integrate new forms of citizen input into the pla...
Telepresent robots are often pitched as a technology to extend the influence of those who already have money and power. We want to use ro...
Call to Action is an open-source web platform for creating telephone-based services such as hotlines, voice petitions, and phone blogging...
This checklist is designed to help projects that include an element of data collection to develop appropriate consent policies and practi...
Many Twitter users post questions with hashtags like #twoogle or #lazyweb. Is this an effective way to find expert answers beyond one's n...
Vojo.co is a hosted mobile blogging platform that makes it easy for people to share content to the web from mobile phones via voice calls...
More than a billion people a month visit YouTube to watch videos. Sometimes, those billion people watch the same video. What We Watch is ...
Urban spaces have different uses and different histories for the people who move through and use them. Those layered histories can enrich...
NewsPad is a collaborative article editor that empowers small communities to write articles collaboratively through community sourcing, s...
Involving communities in the design process results in products that are more responsive to a community's needs, more suited to accessibi...
The VozMob Drupal Distribution is Drupal customized as a mobile blogging platform. VozMob has been designed to make it easy to post conte...
LostInBoston.org is about helping Bostonians work together to make neighborhoods more visitor-friendly. Community groups are partnering w...
Every country has a brand, negative or positive, and that brand is mediated in part by its global press coverage. We are measuring and ra...
Between the Bars is a blogging platform for one out of every 142 Americans�prisoners�that makes it easy to blog using standard postal mai...
New Day New Standard is an interactive hotline that informs nannies, housekeepers, eldercare-givers, and their employers about the landma...
By working in the same public spot over a long period of time, street vendors and panhandlers often amass a large amount of social capita...
Discourse on hackathons tends to emphasize projects and project creators rather than the events as a social practice within existing comm...
Each day we walk by silent buildings and lots. Absent landlords, hibernating developers, abandoned lots�their impact as part of the patch...
The Free City project promotes awareness and facilitates access to free and low-cost events, services and opportunities that are locally...
The Department of Play (DoP) is a working group of researchers, students, and community practitioners who share a common passion: designi...
ExtrAct, a set of Internet-based databasing, mapping, and communications technologies for communities impacted by natural gas development...
We are building a set of free, open-source web and mobile tools to support informal face-to-face meetings and organizing. The first of t...
The U.S. banking crisis and economic downturn has led to many people to seek assistance from social service agencies who'd not previously...
Have you ever been forwarded an email that you just can't believe? Our inboxes are rife with misinformation. The truth is out there, just...
AAGO is a mobile app for Apple devices focusing on media creation, organization and sharing. Targeted to teens, the app aims to help them...
The Toy Interface Construction Kit Learning Environment (T.I.C.K.L.E.) is a universal construction kit for the rest of us. It doesn't req...
Cartagen is a set of tools for mapping, enabling users to view and configure live streams of geographic data in a dynamic, personally rel...
NPS is a way to archive and share your news geographically. Through NPS you can create a shared archive of news, as well as represent tha...
Red Ink is an open-source web service for ad hoc groups to share and interpret their collective financial data. It includes interfaces fo...
What's Up is a set of tools designed to allow people in a small geographic community to share information, plan events, and make decision...
Landman Report Card is the first in a suite of applications designed to help communities affected by extractive industries to recognize, ...
Cronicas de Heroes documents acts of extraordinary and everyday heroism in communities that sometimes seem devoid of heroes�cities on the...