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Article Research

#MeToo Campaign Showed That Misogyny is a Deeply Cultural Issue. Here’s Why It Was Sorely Needed

Shifting the narrative away from the issue being purely a law and order problem

via The Wire · Oct. 27, 2017
in Center for Civic Media · Civic Media
#civic media
Article Research

Feminist data visualization with Catherine D’Ignazio

We have Catherine D’Ignazio on the show this week to talk about feminist data visualization. Catherine is Assistant Profes...

via Data Stories · Nov. 23, 2017
in Center for Civic Media · Civic Media
#civic media #data visualization
Article Research

Esra’a Al Shafei—"Self-censorship is a massive part of my everyday struggle. There’s so much I want to say that I just can’t."

Esra’a Al Shafei is the Founder and Director of Majal, a nonprofit that helps build communities and digital platforms that cele...

via StoryEngine · Dec. 1, 2017
in Director's Fellows
#civic media
Article Research

Defining Civic Media

Director of the MIT Center for Civic Media Ethan Zuckerman talks about activism, technology and the future of the digital ecosystem.

via The Open Mind · Sept. 7, 2017
in Center for Civic Media · Civic Media
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Article Research

A new program wants to help more people in news orgs — beyond journalists — get literate with data

News organizations these days are spending a lot of time and energy making sure that data plays a central role in their newsrooms. But fe...

via NiemanLab · July 26, 2017
in Center for Civic Media
#civic media #data
Publication Research

The battle for ‘Trayvon Martin’: Mapping a media controversy online and off-line

Graeff, Erhardt, Stempeck, Matt, & Zuckerman, Ethan. 2014 ‘The Battle for “Trayvon Martin”: Mapping a Media Controversy Online and Off-line.’ First Monday, 19, no. 2.

Academic Paper, Feb. 2014
in Civic Media
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Publication Research

Binders Full of Election Memes: Participatory Culture Invades the 2012 U.S. Election

Graeff, Erhardt. 2015. ‘Binders Full of Election Memes: Participatory Culture Invades the 2012 U.S. Election.’ Civic Media Project.

Article, March 2015
in Civic Media
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Publication Research

Strike Debt and the Rolling Jubilee—Building a Debt Resistance Movement

Graeff, Erhardt. 2016. ‘Strike Debt and the Rolling Jubilee—Building a Debt Resistance Movement.’ In Gordon, E. & Mihailidis, P., eds., Civic Media: Technology, Design, Practice. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, pp. 137–146.

Chapter, June 2016
in Civic Media
#civic media #civic technology
Publication Research

Youth Digital Activism

Graeff, Erhardt. 2016. ‘Youth Digital Activism.’ In Youth Civic Engagement: United Nations World Youth Report. New York, NY: United Nations, pp. 95–107.

Chapter, July 2016
in Civic Media
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Project Research

Whose Lives Matter in the News?

Since the killing of Michael Brown, the Black Lives Matter movement has organized on social media to draw attention to the deaths of unar...

Ethan Zuckerman · J Nathan Matias +2 more
#civic media
How to create better online environments and interfaces for human communication.
#robotics #design #architecture +25 more
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Open Gender Tracker

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...

in Civic Media
Ethan Zuckerman · J Nathan Matias
#civic media #open source
Archived
Archived
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Readersourcing

The Passing On project uses data from 20 years of New York Times stories about society's heroes, leaders, and visionaries to "reader-sour...

in Civic Media
Ethan Zuckerman · J Nathan Matias +1 more
#civic media #data
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DeepStream

Citizens and journalists are increasingly choosing to live stream civic events. But live streams are currently hard to find and lack in-d...

in Civic Media
Ethan Zuckerman · Gordon Mangum
#civic media #social media
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EncuestaCDMX

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...

in Civic Media
Ethan Zuckerman · Emilie Reiser +2 more
#civic media #civic technology
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Global Brands

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...

in Civic Media
Ethan Zuckerman · Erhardt Graeff +1 more
#civic media
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