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Liveblog of Civic Media Lunch w/ Ann Larson and Aaron Smith, two of the organizers of Strike Debt. Blogged by Erhardt Graeff and Rahul Bhargava. Nice to be here on May Day, May 1st—international worker’s day, starts Ann Larson before she starts their argument: Debt resistance is well-suited as a […]

Ethan and I have been exploring the concept of monitorial citizenship in the pursuit of a definition or roadmap for “effective citizenship.” We are working on related projects trying to operationalize Michael Schudson’s idea of monitorial citizenship from his book The Good Citizen, but using slightly different definitions. Ethan’s project […]

Here at the Center for Civic Media, we’re exploring the use of smartphone apps for civic engagement. I’m really excited about using geo-fences for civic engagement; my project Action Path uses them to trigger push notifications about opportunities to participate as you walk down the street. But it’s still an […]

This is the talk I delivered for the “Civic Media Geography: Experiments In Cosmopolitanism, Citizenship and Accountability” panel I organized at Place, (Dis)Place and Citizenship: Eleventh Annual Conference in Citizenship Studies at Wayne State University, Detroit, MI on March 21, 2014. Today, I’m going to talk about a tool I’m building. […]

These are the prefatory remarks I made as moderator during the panel “Balancing Deep and Wide Impacts in the Design of Civic Tech” at the Digital Media and Learning Conference, Boston, MA on March 8, 2014. I’m working on a project called Action Path. Similar to Promise Tracker, which will […]