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Binders Full of Election Memes: Participatory Culture Invades the 2012 U.S. Election

Graeff, Erhardt. 2015. ‘Binders Full of Election Memes: Participatory Culture Invades the 2012 U.S. Election.’ Civic Media Project.

Article, March 2015
in Civic Media
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Publication Research

Strike Debt and the Rolling Jubilee—Building a Debt Resistance Movement

Graeff, Erhardt. 2016. ‘Strike Debt and the Rolling Jubilee—Building a Debt Resistance Movement.’ In Gordon, E. & Mihailidis, P., eds., Civic Media: Technology, Design, Practice. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, pp. 137–146.

Chapter, June 2016
in Civic Media
#civic media #civic technology
Publication Research

Youth Digital Activism

Graeff, Erhardt. 2016. ‘Youth Digital Activism.’ In Youth Civic Engagement: United Nations World Youth Report. New York, NY: United Nations, pp. 95–107.

Chapter, July 2016
in Civic Media
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Whose Lives Matter in the News?

Since the killing of Michael Brown, the Black Lives Matter movement has organized on social media to draw attention to the deaths of unar...

Ethan Zuckerman · J Nathan Matias +2 more
#civic media
How to create better online environments and interfaces for human communication.
#robotics #design #architecture +25 more
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Open Gender Tracker

Open Gender Tracker is a suite of open-source tools and APIs that make it easy for newsrooms and media monitors to collect metrics and ga...

in Civic Media
Ethan Zuckerman · J Nathan Matias
#civic media #open source
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Readersourcing

The Passing On project uses data from 20 years of New York Times stories about society's heroes, leaders, and visionaries to "reader-sour...

in Civic Media
Ethan Zuckerman · J Nathan Matias +1 more
#civic media #data
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DeepStream

Citizens and journalists are increasingly choosing to live stream civic events. But live streams are currently hard to find and lack in-d...

in Civic Media
Ethan Zuckerman · Gordon Mangum
#civic media #social media
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EncuestaCDMX

Everyone in the city is an expert on their own experience of that city. So how might we integrate new forms of citizen input into the pla...

in Civic Media
Ethan Zuckerman · Emilie Reiser +2 more
#civic media #civic technology
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Global Brands

Every country has a brand, negative or positive, and that brand is mediated in part by its global press coverage. We are measuring and ra...

in Civic Media
Ethan Zuckerman · Erhardt Graeff +1 more
#civic media
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