The MIT Center for Civic Media works hand-in-hand with diverse communities to collaboratively create, design, deploy, & assess tools & practices. Closing 8/2020
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News outlets were more likely to cover fatal encounters between black people and police after the August 2014 death of 18-year-old Michael Brown in Ferguson, Missouri, finds a recent study led by @EthanZ of @civicMIT & @globalvoices.
bit.ly/37cLNrW
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Appreciate that the previous article offers a robust summary of the @civicMIT paper "Whose Death Matters?" which looks at reporting of Black deaths at the hands of law enforcement after Michael Brown's killing. journalistsresource.org/stud…
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In a new report from @civicMIT, Aashka Dave, Claudia Chen, and @ethanz consider what journalists need to effectively cover mis- and disinformation. “Everyone who works to support a free and independent press will benefit from considering these challenges.” bit.ly/2XNmTvX
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I'm really looking forward to sharing some new thoughts and projects at UMass next week. Hope that friends will come out to hear and ask questions.
Don't forget! Come hear MIT's @EthanZ on Thurs., Jan. 23, from 4-5pm in the Communication Hub, 3rd floor, ILC. He will explore what it would mean to build social media that's good for society. The event is free and open to the public.
Presented by @SBS_UMass and @umasscs
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“It is about power—who has it, and who doesn’t.” In @AIGAeyeondesign, @kanarinka shares the experiences that led her to co-organize the @medialab's breast pump hackathons and to co-write her book, Data Feminism. bit.ly/2s8tK5Q
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What would we have to shift in order to make #datavisualization feminist? @Jasonforrestftw chatted with @kanarinka about the origins of her upcoming book ‘Data Feminism,’ the data-to-ink ratio, and the intersection of power and #data. medium.com/@jasonforrestftw/…
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Join members of the @mit community tonight (11/6) for 'Celebrating Survivors & Indigenous Women Rising', an event co-sponsored by @civicMIT & #dusp, supporting Indigenous Women Rising. Learn more, donate, & join us for free tacos- bit.ly/celebratingSurvivors
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Congratulations to @civicMIT PhD student @jovialjoy, who has been honored with the WMC Carol Jenkins Award from the @womensmediacntr! bit.ly/31F5kwv
#WMCAwards
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TONIGHT, at the 2019 #WMCAwards, we have the great pleasure of honoring @jovialjoy with the WMC Carol Jenkins Award for her work exposing race and gender bias in commercial artificial intelligence (AI) systems. Join us in celebrating her: buff.ly/2nk3UJZ
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At 5pm on 10/10, @CivicMIT researcher Anushka Shah explores how pop culture and entertainment can help change how we talk about identity, social justice, public institutions, and citizen power and participation. bit.ly/30VscHK #CivicEntertainment
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Whose deaths matter? New research from @civicMIT, published in IJoC, shows how social movements can harness the power of media waves to reframe news stories. @EthanZ discusses the data and process here. mitsha.re/EuEV30pEw27
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New study from @civicMIT and @defineamerican: "Major Newspapers Uncritically Echo Trump Administration Anti-Immigrant Language"
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Alum @erhardt has been honored with the Association of Internet Researchers’ Best Dissertation Award for “Evaluating Civic Technology Design for Citizen Empowerment.” mitsha.re/mE2K30poQ2a @civicMIT
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MANY THANKS to @civicMIT & Define American folks for the long hours that uncovered these critical findings:
Emily Ndulue
Fernando Bermejo
@kramos1841
@sarahelowexoxo
@paleomedia
@EthanZ
@_michaelconti
@perlp
@EllerRyan
@joseiswriting
GET THE REPORT👇
DefineAmerican.com/journalis…
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Coming up this AM at 11:30 CT, on the 5th floor at #ONA19...
Join @DefineAmerican and @civicMIT
for the release and discussion of our latest media study.
More Info >>> ona19.journalists.org/sessio…
[Report link going live to ALL in under 3 hours!] #WordsMatter
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Excited to launch new @media_cloud research with our @DefineAmerican friends at ONA in New Orleans tomorrow. Please come - exciting new findings on language and immigration #ona19
#ona19immigration folks, editors: Please check out the @DefineAmerican #immigration reporting panel tomorrow at 11:30 in La Grand D.
ona19.journalists.org/sessio…
w/ @joseiswriting @perlp @EthanZ + @kramos1841
🗞️News will be made 📰
#ona19 #scoops
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"By the time we admit you into somewhere like the Media Lab, we need you to already be thinking critically and carefully about the technology we’re asking you to invent and build." @civicMIT head @EthanZ on training a generation of ethical techies. bit.ly/2KMx5wP
ALT Ethan Zuckerman
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We need a generation trained to think about tech, policy and ethics. We need people who are smart about writing, argumentation and thinking about unintended consequences in addition to thinking about technology: medium.com/@EthanZ/training-…
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Exploring the good–and very bad–political impacts of social media with MIT Assoc Prof Ethan Zuckerman of @medialab
ow.ly/sXRM50vsSdV @HensonEthan @civicMIT #media
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Introducing @MIT_JoDS Issue 6: Unreal, which opens with an essay from @civicMIT head @EthanZ: “The goal of this issue of the Journal of Design and Science,” he says, “is not to conclusively define the Unreal, but to explore some of its dimensions.” mitsha.re/yX0o30p8aTk