Since the 2016 US presidential election, news coverage of hate speech and mis/ disinformation has skyrocketed. What was once a sleepy beat …
Every day, data about our environment, education, routes, and other aspects of our lives become available. Yet most people often struggle t…
Bias by us envisions a future of media diversity by understanding the bias of today.Our work seeks to understand how the US media ecos…
LinkedOut aims to define and build solutions to facilitate societal reentry for formerly incarcerated individuals.In collaboration with the…
Civic Entertainment is a project based at the Center for Civic Media that explores the intersection of civic engagement with film, televisi…
The Gender Shades project pilots an intersectional approach to inclusive product testing for AI.Algorithmic Bias PersistsGender Shades is a…
Your social media. Your rules.Gobo is an experiment, not a startup. We’re building it to change the conversation on social media and imagin…
Every 98 seconds, a person in the United States is sexually abused. Every 16 hours, a woman in the United States is murdered by her ro…
Mission Wildlife is a research collaboration between San Diego Zoo Global and the MIT Center for Civic Media to explore the poten…
Slap Snap Tap combines wearable sensors with physical block programming to enable enhanced expression through movement. By slapping on a se…
OpenScope is an open source project that combines three components for anyone to explore the micro world anytime, anywhere. The 3D-printabl…
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 plann…
Pure networks and pure hierarchies both have distinct strengths and weaknesses. These become glaringly apparent during disaster response. B…
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 detect…
Media Perspective brings a data visualization into 3D space. This data sculpture represents mainstream media coverage of Net Neutrality ove…
Should students be prosecuted for innovative projects? In December 2014, four undergraduates associated with the Media Lab were subpoenaed …
The Out for Change Transformative Media Organizing Project (OCTOP) links LGBTQ, Two-Spirit, and allied media makers, online organizers, and…
This checklist is designed to help projects that include an element of data collection to develop appropriate consent policies and practice…
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 g…
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 d…
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 gain…
More than a billion people a month visit YouTube to watch videos. Sometimes, those billion people watch the same video. What We Watch is a …
The Civic Crowdfunding project is an initiative to collect data and advance social research into the emerging field of civic crowdfunding, …
Media Cloud is a system that facilitates massive content analysis of news on the Web. Developed by the Berkman Center for Internet and Soci…
Terra Incognita is a global news game and recommendation system. Terra Incognita helps you discover interesting news and personal connectio…
Mapping the Globe is an interactive tool and map that helps us understand where The Boston Globe directs its attention. Media attention mat…
The Internet has disrupted the aid sector like so many other industries before it. In times of crisis, donors are increasingly connecting d…
The Passing On project uses data from 20 years of New York Times stories about society's heroes, leaders, and visionaries to "reader-source…
Every country has a brand, negative or positive, and that brand is mediated in part by its global press coverage. We are measuring and rank…
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, …
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 l…
Involving communities in the design process results in products that are more responsive to a community's needs, more suited to accessibili…
VoIP Drupal is an innovative framework that brings the power of voice and Internet-telephony to Drupal sites. It can be used to build hybri…
Discourse on hackathons tends to emphasize projects and project creators rather than the events as a social practice within existing commun…
Telepresent robots are often pitched as a technology to extend the influence of those who already have money and power. We want to use robo…
Call to Action is an open-source web platform for creating telephone-based services such as hotlines, voice petitions, and phone blogging. …
NewsPad is a collaborative article editor that empowers small communities to write articles collaboratively through community sourcing, str…
The VozMob Drupal Distribution is Drupal customized as a mobile blogging platform. VozMob has been designed to make it easy to post content…
NewsJack is a media remixing tool built from Mozilla's Hackasaurus. It allows users to modify the front pages of news sites, changing lang…
Books are challenged and banned in public schools and libraries across the country. But which books, where, by whom, and for what reasons? …
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 n…
Between the Bars is a blogging platform for one out of every 142 Americans�prisoners�that makes it easy to blog using standard postal mail.…
Many Twitter users post questions with hashtags like #twoogle or #lazyweb. Is this an effective way to find expert answers beyond one's net…
Each day we walk by silent buildings and lots. Absent landlords, hibernating developers, abandoned lots�their impact as part of the patchwo…
AAGO is a mobile app for Apple devices focusing on media creation, organization and sharing. Targeted to teens, the app aims to help them d…
The Department of Play (DoP) is a working group of researchers, students, and community practitioners who share a common passion: designing…
The Free City project promotes awareness and facilitates access to free and low-cost events, services and opportunities that are locally a…
What's Up is a set of tools designed to allow people in a small geographic community to share information, plan events, and make decisions,…
Cronicas de Heroes documents acts of extraordinary and everyday heroism in communities that sometimes seem devoid of heroes�cities on the U…
The U.S. banking crisis and economic downturn has led to many people to seek assistance from social service agencies who'd not previously s…
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 requi…
Urban spaces have different uses and different histories for the people who move through and use them. Those layered histories can enrich o…
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 that …
LostInBoston.org is about helping Bostonians work together to make neighborhoods more visitor-friendly. Community groups are partnering wit…
Cartagen is a set of tools for mapping, enabling users to view and configure live streams of geographic data in a dynamic, personally relev…
By working in the same public spot over a long period of time, street vendors and panhandlers often amass a large amount of social capital.…
ExtrAct, a set of Internet-based databasing, mapping, and communications technologies for communities impacted by natural gas development, …
Landman Report Card is the first in a suite of applications designed to help communities affected by extractive industries to recognize, re…
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 the…
The CivilServant project supports online communities to run their own experiments on the effects of moderation practices on antisocial beha…
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 operati…
The Babbling Brook is an unnamed neighborhood creek in Waltham, MA, that winds its way to the Charles River. With the help of networked sen…
Citizens and journalists are increasingly choosing to live stream civic events. But live streams are currently hard to find and lack in-dep…
Code4Rights promotes human rights through technology education. By facilitating the development of rights-focused mobile applications in wo…
Organizations are deploying gratitude-tracking systems to encourage appreciation, promote pro-sociality, and monitor employee wellbeing. We…
Recent years have witnessed a surge in online digital storytelling tools, enabling users to more easily create engaging multimedia narrativ…
The Open Water Project aims to develop and curate a set of low-cost, open source tools enabling communities everywhere to collect, interpre…
Promise Tracker is a citizen-monitoring platform designed to help communities track issues they care about and use that information to advo…
In September 2014, 150 parents, engineers, designers, and healthcare practitioners gathered at the MIT Media Lab for the "Make the Breast P…
Newspaper front pages are a key source of data about our media ecology. Newsrooms spend massive time and effort deciding what stories make …
Media Cloud is a platform for studying media ecosystems. By tracking millions of stories published online, the system allows researchers to…
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 own…