Ride-sharing, social media, artificial intelligence. These are examples of socially-beneficial, net-positive technologies that have shown...
Civic Entertainment is a project based at the Center for Civic Media that explores the intersection of civic engagement with film, televi...
The Gender Shades project pilots an intersectional approach to inclusive product testing for AI.Algorithmic Bias PersistsGender Shades is...
Take control of your social feed.Gobo is a social media aggregator with filters you control. You can use Gobo to control what’s edited ou...
The CivilServant project supports online communities to run their own experiments on the effects of moderation practices on antisocial be...
www.ajlunited.orgAn unseen force is rising—helping to determine who is hired, granted a loan, or even how long someone spends in prison. ...
Since the killing of Michael Brown, the Black Lives Matter movement has organized on social media to draw attention to the deaths of unar...
DataBasic is a suite of web-based tools that give people fun and relevant ways learn how to work with data. Existing tools focus on opera...
First Upload is a tool for verifying the authenticity of news imagery. It helps find the first upload of imagery, particularly videos. Fi...
The Babbling Brook is an unnamed neighborhood creek in Waltham, MA, that winds its way to the Charles River. With the help of networked s...
Citizens and journalists are increasingly choosing to live stream civic events. But live streams are currently hard to find and lack in-d...
Code4Rights promotes human rights through technology education. By facilitating the development of rights-focused mobile applications in ...
Scanner Grabber is a digital police scanner that enables reporters to record, playback, and export audio, as well as archive public safet...
Organizations are deploying gratitude-tracking systems to encourage appreciation, promote pro-sociality, and monitor employee wellbeing. ...
NewsPix is a simple news-engagement application that helps users encounter breaking news in the form of high-impact photos. It is current...
Recent years have witnessed a surge in online digital storytelling tools, enabling users to more easily create engaging multimedia narrat...
Some readers require greater context to understand complex stories. FOLD (fold.cm) is an open publishing platform with a unique stru...
The Open Water Project aims to develop and curate a set of low-cost, open source tools enabling communities everywhere to collect, interp...
Promise Tracker is a citizen-monitoring platform designed to help communities track issues they care about and use that information to ad...
In September 2014, 150 parents, engineers, designers, and healthcare practitioners gathered at the MIT Media Lab for the "Make the Breast...
Newspaper front pages are a key source of data about our media ecology. Newsrooms spend massive time and effort deciding what stories mak...
Media Cloud is a platform for studying media ecosystems. By tracking millions of stories published online, the system allows researchers ...
As part of our larger effort to build out a suite of tools for community organizers, we are helping to build their capacity to do their o...