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Babies, Maps, and Human Infrastructure: End of Year Update
As I sat in a meeting today at the Community Innovators Lab, where I volunteered to help with brainstorm low-cost ways to create interesting content for their Co-Lab Radio blog, I realized I’ve been a bad participatory media advocate. Because I haven’t blogged myself forever. I blame Twitter and Facebook, where I spew updates to a very select audience of friends who I assume want to hear 140 characters of what I’m thinking.
Civic media as a tool for place-based community building & organizing
Come see a bunch of planner and community organizers share how we’re using civic media tools in communities, at our barcamp session at the Knight Foundation and the Center for Future Civic Media’s The Future of News and Civic Media Conference @ MIT today (11am Stata rm 32-155)
Weaving Our Collective Narrative: the M@L Story Project
How can participatory media tools be adapted for grassroots strategies to seed more forward-focused institutional memory practices? Can we use these tools, supported by strategies such as reflective practice, participatory action research, and participatory development communication, work in real-time in both the university and community?
