Looking back at my first blog post, I defined civic media as: Civic media is any use of a medium that empowers a community to engage within and beyond the people, places, and problems of their community. I then explained what I meant by a medium, a community, engagement, people, […]
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This a collaborative post on the project Sayamindu Dasgupta and I have been working on. Focusing on Real-Life Community Issues In a past project update, we surveyed a number of cases in the Scratch Online Community where Scratch members expressed civic engagement through the interactive media projects they shared. One […]
This is a final project update which Sayamindu Dasgupta and I have been working on. For our Intro to Civic Media final project, we are exploring the ways in which young people are expressing their civic engagement through the interactive media they’ve created and shared in the Scratch Online Community. […]
For Intro to Civic Media this week we were asked to pick a media news outlet and examine how they incorporated participatory media into their practices and work. Being a regular New York Times reader, I decided to look back at my own personal observations of the NYTimes’ online interaction […]
After reading Uricchio’s analysis of the maturation of the film industry and the debates across national and cultural boundaries to situate it, I was reminded about the rise of video games and its own cultural debates and shifts. What triggered this example was the military’s use of video games as […]