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The fourth industrial revolution has brought new meanings to surveillance in the digital age. In recent years, we have seen the rise of s...
InspirationSleep is a forgotten country of the mind. A vast majority of our technologies are built for our waking state, even though a th...
Space/Craft explores sculpting in zero gravity. Making artistic works by hand is a fundamentally human act, but how will it transfor...
Definition:combining formPrefix: allo-other; different."allopatric"im·ag·i·na·tionnoun: imagination; plural noun: imaginationsthe faculty...
Concerned about your privacy online? Worried with whom and how photos of you and/or your family might be shared on social media? You prob...
LinkedOut aims to define and build solutions to facilitate societal reentry for formerly incarcerated individuals.In collaboration with t...
In the Civic Media group, we are exploring new theoretical frameworks for design, and novel design education methodologies that serve a f...
Algorithmic auditing has emerged as a key strategy to expose systematic biases embedded in software platforms, yet scholarship on the imp...
As we know from our ‘maker’ classes and workshops, different capabilities and approaches can yield remarkable projects. Let’s facilitate ...
dataVisionaRi is an exploration of big data visualizations techniques in VR. The research generates new taxonomy and structures...
A Case for Breastfeeding InnovationBreastfeeding saves lives.If women globally were able to meet the WHO's public health goal to exclusiv...
Struggling to build your organization's ability to work with data? Use our hands-on learning program to kickstart your data culture.datac...
An interactive atlas of census data for direct consumption by individual citizens.
Civic Entertainment is a project based at the Center for Civic Media that explores the intersection of civic engagement with film, televi...
The Gender Shades project pilots an intersectional approach to inclusive product testing for AI.Algorithmic Bias PersistsGender Shades is...
Your social media. Your rules.Gobo is an experiment, not a startup. We’re building it to change the conversation on social media and imag...
Media Cloud is a platform for studying media ecosystems. By tracking millions of stories published online, the system allows researchers ...
The CivilServant project supports online communities to run their own experiments on the effects of moderation practices on antisocial be...
www.ajl.orgAn unseen force is rising—helping to determine who is hired, granted a loan, or even how long someone spends in prison. This f...
How do people who lead communities on online platforms join together in mass collective action to influence platform operators? Going Dar...
Code4Rights promotes human rights through technology education. By facilitating the development of rights-focused mobile applications in ...
DataBasic is a suite of web-based tools that give people fun and relevant ways learn how to work with data. Existing tools focus on opera...
The Babbling Brook is an unnamed neighborhood creek in Waltham, MA, that winds its way to the Charles River. With the help of networked s...
Citizens and journalists are increasingly choosing to live stream civic events. But live streams are currently hard to find and lack in-d...
The Open Water Project aims to develop and curate a set of low-cost, open source tools enabling communities everywhere to collect, interp...
Promise Tracker is a citizen-monitoring platform designed to help communities track issues they care about and use that information to ad...
Scanner Grabber is a digital police scanner that enables reporters to record, playback, and export audio, as well as archive public safet...
As part of our larger effort to build out a suite of tools for community organizers, we are helping to build their capacity to do their o...
First Upload is a tool for verifying the authenticity of news imagery. It helps find the first upload of imagery, particularly videos. Fi...
In September 2014, 150 parents, engineers, designers, and healthcare practitioners gathered at the MIT Media Lab for the "Make the Breast...
Recent years have witnessed a surge in online digital storytelling tools, enabling users to more easily create engaging multimedia narrat...
NewsPix is a simple news-engagement application that helps users encounter breaking news in the form of high-impact photos. It is current...
Newspaper front pages are a key source of data about our media ecology. Newsrooms spend massive time and effort deciding what stories mak...
Organizations are deploying gratitude-tracking systems to encourage appreciation, promote pro-sociality, and monitor employee wellbeing. ...