The topic for Monday November 14th’s class was Hyperlocal civic media. This post is a summary of that discussion, which was facilitated by Ania. Raw notes can be found here: http://etherpad.brownbag.me/p/hyperlocalcivicmedia We read two pieces that focused on geoethicnic and hyperlocal media. We also discussed community websites in the Boston […]
Daily Archives: November 16, 2011
With the growth of the 99 Percent movement and occupations all over the world, a large number of citizen journalists and activists have turned to real-time video casting services such as livestream, ustream, and justin.tv. Live streaming offers a compelling way to experience a protest on-the-ground as it’s happening – […]
Thanks to “The Crime Report” for their coverage of Charlie DeTar’s Center project, Between the Bars: Reentry and reform can take root when prisoners are able to maintain connections with their families and communities. One website is making great strides in building those bridges online. BetweentheBars.org aims to humanize prisoners […]
In the article “The Revolutions Were Tweeted: Information Flow During the 2011 Tunisian and Egyptian Revolutions”, Gilad Lotan, Erhardt Graeff and others use the term ecosystem by referring to the relationships between different actors in a networked online environment. Providing snapshots of the information flow in 2011 Tunisian and Egyptian […]