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Space Enabled

Advancing justice in Earth's complex systems using designs enabled by space

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Poetic Justice

Exploring new forms of social justice through art

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Personal Robots

Building intelligent personified technologies that collaborate with people to help them learn, thrive, and flourish.

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Empowering Cambridge youth through data activism

Mayor’s youth employment program brought local high schoolers to MIT this summer.

via MIT News · Sept. 21, 2022
in Personal Robots · RAISE
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Creating technology for social change

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Actionable Auditing: Coordinated bias disclosure study

Algorithmic auditing has emerged as a key strategy to expose systematic biases embedded in software platforms, yet scholarship on the impac…

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Joy Buolamwini
#computer vision #artificial intelligence #civic media +8 more
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Civic Entertainment

Civic Entertainment is a project based at the Center for Civic Media that explores the intersection of civic engagement with film, televisi…

in Center for Civic Media · Civic Media
Anushka Shah · Ethan Zuckerman
#civic media #communications #entertainment +4 more
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The Synthetic Biology Community Builder

David Sun Kong speaks with NEO.LIFE about science, activism, and how biotechnology can empower ordinary people.

via NEO.LIFE · April 7, 2022
in Community Biotechnology
#synthetic biology #ethics #community +2 more
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RealTalk for Change Boston

A revolutionary new piece of civic infrastructure for more inclusive public input.Real Talk for Change is a collaboration between MIT’s Cen…

in Social Machines · MIT Center for Constructive Communication
Sinclair Target · Wonjune Kang +14 more
#artificial intelligence #civic media #civic technology +5 more
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Some Bostonians feel largely unheard. With MIT’s ‘Real Talk’ portal now public, here’s a chance to really listen

A database of community conversations in various Boston neighborhoods launches publicly on Monday.

via The Boston Globe · Oct. 25, 2021
in Media Lab Spinoffs · MIT Center for Constructive Communication
#artificial intelligence #civic media #civic technology +5 more
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MIT’s ‘Real Talk’ campaign gives likely voters a voice in Boston’s race for mayor

Researchers enlist grassroots activists to engage “invisible” residents about the future of the city.

via The Boston Globe · Aug. 24, 2021
in MIT Center for Constructive Communication
#civic media #civic technology #politics +2 more
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RAISE

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PlusMinus

PlusMinus

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Community Biotechnology

Community Biotechnology

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Defund Big Tech, Refund Community: Anti-Trust is Not Enough, Another Tech is Possible

Barendregt, W., Becker, C., Cheon, E., Clement, A., Reynolds-Cuéllar, P., Schuler, D., & Suchman, L. (2021). Defund Big Tech, Refund Community. Tech Otherwise. https://doi.org/10.21428/93b2c832.e0100a3f

White Paper/Memo, Feb. 2021
in Space Enabled
#design #civic technology #civic action
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CabildoxLatAm

CabildoxLatAm: A space for digital participation in Latin AmericaIn the face of the challenges that have emerged and been exacerbated&…

in Civic Media
Pedro Reynolds-Cuellar
#civic media #politics #civic action +1 more
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The Design of Pseudo-Participation

Victoria Palacin, Matti Nelimarkka, Pedro Reynolds-Cuéllar, and Christoph Becker. 2020. The Design of Pseudo-Participation. In Proceedings of the 16th Participatory Design Conference 2020 - Participation(s) Otherwise - Volume 2 (PDC '20). Association for Computing Machinery, New York, NY, USA, 40–44.

Academic Paper, June 2020
in Civic Media
#civic media #social science #civic action
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Computing Professionals for Social Responsibility: The Past, Present and Future Values of Participatory Design

Becker, C., Light, A., Frauenberger, C., Walker, D., Palacin, V., Ahmed, S. I., ... & Nemer, D. (2020, June). Computing Professionals for Social Responsibility: The Past, Present and Future Values of Participatory Design. In Proceedings of the 16th Participatory Design Conference 2020-Participation (s) Otherwise-Volume 2 (pp. 181-184).

Academic Paper, June 2020
in Civic Media
#civic media #social science #social change +1 more
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Kicks x Cliques

Leveraging sneaker culture to influence civic engagement. Marginalized groups have influence on digital platforms but are often unhear…

in Viral Communications
Britney Johnson
#fashion #health #social media +3 more
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Let's play: Waste at MIT

Let's play: Waste at MIT is a game about trash; it’s also a game about understanding civic infrastructure. This project explores the use of…

in Viral Communications
Agnes Cameron
#civic technology #gaming #civic action
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How Delhi Crime gave audiences a chance to reimagine the police force

Richie Mehta’s show balances negative media narratives of the Indian police & catalyses empathetic conversations on their working conditions

via Film Companion · May 6, 2019
in Civic Media
#entertainment #social change #civic action
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Data for Refugees

Data for refugees is a big data challenge whereby Turk Telekom opens a large dataset of anonymized mobile phone records to research groups …

in Human Dynamics
Michiel Bakker · Alfredo Morales-Guzman +4 more
#social science #civic action #data science
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votoMosaic

A tapestry where each pixel represents a pledge by an individual to vote. Anyone can participate and watch the growing and changing image t…

in Viral Communications
Andrew Lippman · Kallirroi Retzepi
#civic media #data visualization #civic action
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Supposedly ‘fair’ algorithms can perpetuate discrimination

"We must provide a mechanism for civil society to be informed and engaged in the way in which algorithms are used."

via Wired · Feb. 5, 2019
in Director's Office
#social change #industry #civic action +1 more
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Defense of Amazon's face recognition tool undermined by its only known police client

So far Amazon’s frontline defense against advocates and academics has been: Researchers are setting the search parameters incorrectly.

via Gizmodo · Jan. 31, 2019
in Civic Media
#civic technology #civic action

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