Communications Forum: What's New at the Center for Future Civic Media

Thu, 11/05/2009 - 5:00pm - 7:00pm

This second civic media forum will center on several of the Center for Future Civic Media’s most promising new projects. Advanced researchers from the Center will describe their work and offer live demonstrations of their computing wizardry. The forum will be moderated by Chris Csikszentmihalyi, director of the Center and the Media Lab's Computing Culture research group.

Free and open to the public.

Presentations include:

Making Change
Landman Report Card - ExtrAct Team
Red Ink - Ryan O'Toole
Sensible Communities - Nadav Aharony
Sourcemap - Leo Bonanni and Matt Hockenberry

Crossing Borders
VirtualGaza - Josh Levinger
Microtourism - Rick Borovoy
Between the Bars – Charlie DeTar

Subjective Mapping
Awareness Mapping - Jay Silver 
Lost in Boston - Rick Borovy
Newsflow/Cartagen - Jeff Warren

Rethinking News
OpenPark - Florence Gallez
Populous - Dharmishta Rood 
Placeblogger - Lisa Williams
News Positioning System - ExtrAct team

Location: 

MIT Building 32, Room 155