Center for Civic Media

Diversifying your online worldIn a new book, MIT’s Ethan Zuckerman asserts that we need to overcome the Internet’s sorting tendencies and create tools to make ourselves ‘digital cosmopolitans.’

Watch ‘The Story and the Algorithm’ liveCivic Media Conference to be broadcast and liveblogged at knightfoundation.org/live.

Ethan Zuckerman, cyberscholar and activist, to lead MIT Center for Civic MediaHe will direct MIT's influential group of technologists and academics committed to empowering communities around the globe by inventing and testing civic media tools and practices.

Success stories aplenty from the MIT Center for Future Civic MediaUpdate from Center Director Chris Csikszentmihályi

Local competition inspires creative use of public-private spaceAtlantic Ave. installations prove community value of pedestrian-friendly elements.

Knight Foundation unveils 2010 Knight News Challenge grant recipients

Wanna come out and play? Introducing the Department of PlayResearchers with MIT's Center for Future Civic Media develop ways to use play to engage youth in their communities.

Guerrilla reporting in ‘difficult places’Activists describe their experiences using new technology to build free media networks in countries with scant resources or oppressive regimes.

FCC's Eugene Huang on a National Broadband PolicyPresented by the Center for Future Civic Media and the MIT Communications Forum

A more democratic InternetAt a forum on campus this week, the FCC discussed how its new broadband plan will help citizens engage in democratic deliberation.

MIT bus service to open live arrival dataWould mean students could craft applications and hardware based on real-time information

What’s new at the MIT Center for Future Civic Media?Chris Csikszentmihályi, director of the Center for Future Civic Media, hosts this presentation by the MIT Communications Forum and the Center for Future Civic Media

MIT and MassArt to unveil new visitor-friendly signage for Boston"Lost in Boston" collaboration will address city's legendary bad signage

Of note: Race, Politics and American Media