Center for Civic Media meetings start with an icebreaker question: you introduce yourself, and tell us whether you prefer pirates or ninjas, homemade or canned… Read More »My new quest – replacing QR codes with tartan
Ian Condry offers an extended introduction to Mimi Ito’s work… because her plane has been delayed and it’s likely to be another half hour before… Read More »Mimi Ito on Otaku culture and cultural soft power
This summer, Sasha, Lorrie and I started brainstorming the sorts of events we wanted to host at the Center for Civic Media this fall. The… Read More »Mapping Media Ecosystems at Center for Civic Media
There’s a great blogpost from Nancy Scola about the rise of Twitter hashtags as form of political discourse, specifically focusing on the #WeCantWait tag, which… Read More »The rebuttal tweet
Media activists Marisa Jahn and Julian Rubenstein joined us for today’s lunch talk at the Center for Civic Media. Marisa is the new director of… Read More »Civic Media Lunch: Telling stories about Occupy Wall Street
Ramesh Srinivasan is a designer who’s found himself pulled into cultural anthropology by his fascination with “digital diversity”. Some of the lessons he’s learned from… Read More »Ramesh Srinivasan on Digital Diversity at Center for Civic Media