The Future of News and Civic Media Conference Center For Future Civic Media MIT Media Lab June 18th, 2009 Civic media as a tool for place-based community building & organizing
Jun 23, 2015
The Future of News and Civic Media ConferenceCenter For Future Civic MediaMIT Media LabJune 18th, 2009
Civic mediaas a tool for place-basedcommunity building & organizing
central questions• how to collect individual stories in a larger narrative:
how to represent a diversity of voices with one piece• how to "sell" old school community organizers/builders on using
new participatory tools• advantages of power building by making media WITH people
instead of FOR people• how to train youth and adults on the ground in communities to
make their own media as a tool for community development andleadership building
• aligning existing network or community organizing techniques withnew media tools for sustained, genuine use by communitymembers
• using new media as tools for reflective practice andinstitutional memory building
mit@lawrence• action-oriented scholarship
through university-communityengagement for the purpose ofcontributing to an equitable andsustainable future in the City ofLawrence
• a self-sustaining network forreciprocal knowledge transfer andinnovation
• program areas:– affordable housing– community asset-building– youth pathways to career and
education– green building development and
job creation
http://mitatlawrence.net/matl-story-project/
lawrence: practicum 2009
• Lawrence CommunityWorks (LCW), a community development corporation invigorated by 4 MITalumna
• Union Crossing (UC) project – an innovative mixed-use mill redevelopment project that aims tobe a completely "green" building, both in design, building and implementation as a communityinvolvement center
• historical "threads”:– energy and technical innovation, most recently "green" public and private-sector initiatives– organizing and mobilizing people for change, from the Bread and Roses Strike of 1912 to
LCW's nationally renowned "network organizing" model• participatory action-research using ICT to develop specific strategies and prototypes to incorporate
participatory historical narratives and oral histories both physically and virtually into the new space• interpretive history data gathering through youth-led
oral history interviews with factory employees, architects, real estate developers, and themselves!
lawrence: storymill
http://uclawrence.ning.com/
lawrence: yes we will
http://www.ywwlawrence.org/
nyc: the bmbc neighborhood media diary
http://thesoulofbrooklyn.wordpress.com/
watertown: h20town
http://h2otown.info/
framingham: snapshot photo hunt
http://framinghamgame.ning.com/
springfield practicum: public health
springfield: food vendor map
springfield: video story map