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The MIT Center for Civic Media works hand-in-hand with diverse communities to collaboratively create, design, deploy, & assess tools & practices. Closing 8/2020

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  1. 24 Aug 2020

    Thanks to everyone who's followed our work over the years and lent a hand in one way or another. We have had an extraordinary run, thanks most of all to everyone who's joined us around our table for conversation, collaboration, argument or support. 👋

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  2. 24 Aug 2020

    Over the past thirteen years, hundreds of students, researchers, visiting scholars, faculty members and members of communities in the Boston area and worldwide have contributed to the work that's unfolded here.

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  3. 24 Aug 2020

    At the end of August 2020, the Center for Civic Media at MIT will close down. Established in 2007 as the Center for Future Civic Media, the Center has been a longstanding collaboration between and at MIT. (full post by at )

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    12 Jun 2020

    News outlets were more likely to cover fatal encounters between black people and police after the August 2014 death of 18-year-old Michael Brown in Ferguson, Missouri, finds a recent study led by of & .

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    12 Jun 2020

    Appreciate that the previous article offers a robust summary of the paper "Whose Death Matters?" which looks at reporting of Black deaths at the hands of law enforcement after Michael Brown's killing.

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    9 Jun 2020

    Join us this Thursday 6/11 at 11am ET for "Policy Prototyping as cultivating trust through political engagement" hosted by RSVP here:

    Join the followup event on June 11 for more details on this research - “Policy Prototyping as cultivating trust through political engagement" webinar, hosted by the and The Consortium on Trust in Media & Technology.
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    2 Jun 2020

    Excited to share our research w/ Pardis: We began this research to better amplify the voices of the communities and people who are often left out of policy and the laws that govern our society.

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    8 Jun 2020

    In a new report from , Aashka Dave, Claudia Chen, and consider what journalists need to effectively cover mis- and disinformation. “Everyone who works to support a free and independent press will benefit from considering these challenges.”

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    15 Jan 2020

    I'm really looking forward to sharing some new thoughts and projects at UMass next week. Hope that friends will come out to hear and ask questions.

    Don't forget! Come hear MIT's on Thurs., Jan. 23, from 4-5pm in the Communication Hub, 3rd floor, ILC. He will explore what it would mean to build social media that's good for society. The event is free and open to the public. Presented by and
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    10 Jan 2020

    “It is about power—who has it, and who doesn’t.” In , shares the experiences that led her to co-organize the 's breast pump hackathons and to co-write her book, Data Feminism.

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  11. 26 Nov 2019

    "Can we imagine a social network designed in a different way: to encourage the sharing of mutual understanding rather than misinformation?" Read 's take on today's media environment and his hopes for the future in .

    Want a more honest internet, one that's better for our democracy? Look back into history for examples... to public radio: My new piece for . It's part of a series on Digital Public Infrastructure that I'm working on.
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    18 Nov 2019

    What would we have to shift in order to make feminist? chatted with about the origins of her upcoming book ‘Data Feminism,’ the data-to-ink ratio, and the intersection of power and .

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  13. 14 Nov 2019

    Congratulations to Civic PHD , who has been included in the list, recognizing her work in algorithmic bias. Read her profile and check out the other winners here:

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  14. 7 Nov 2019

    In an interview with , talks AI, algorithmic bias, and what she thinks the public needs to know:

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    6 Nov 2019

    Join members of the community tonight (11/6) for 'Celebrating Survivors & Indigenous Women Rising', an event co-sponsored by & , supporting Indigenous Women Rising. Learn more, donate, & join us for free tacos-

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    29 Oct 2019

    Join us to celebrate the power of survivors in the face of injustice - the MIT community is turning out to raise money for on Nov 6 at Naco Taco in Cambridge. More info: cc:

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    23 Oct 2019

    Congratulations to PhD student , who has been honored with the WMC Carol Jenkins Award from the !

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    22 Oct 2019

    TONIGHT, at the 2019 , we have the great pleasure of honoring with the WMC Carol Jenkins Award for her work exposing race and gender bias in commercial artificial intelligence (AI) systems. Join us in celebrating her:

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  19. 17 Oct 2019

    . develops a new method for image analysis using , examining the Spring 2019 abortion legislation and related news coverage. See how the debate still divides 50 years later, including divides in media coverage, in the report:

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    8 Oct 2019

    At 5pm on 10/10, researcher Anushka Shah explores how pop culture and entertainment can help change how we talk about identity, social justice, public institutions, and citizen power and participation.

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