MikroAct: Sharing Tactical Urban Actions entry MikroAct is an open source platform and participatory urban initiative which mobilizes communities through collective actions. Through a set of collaboration and mapping tools, it allows coordination, sharing and replication of civic and DIY actions. Mailboxes installed in districts MikroAct is a civic engagement platform based on community-sourced, participatory research and collaborative design. Platforms for interfacing city institutions with publics emphasize the role of government in the performance of civic action and individual citizens in the articulation of issues. Based on community research in a Moscow city district that began last summer, we have identified the need for tools that support collective, community-based research into problems and solutions. Since the release of our prototype, we have organized a series of community feedback sessions as well as extensive design review, thorough process of redesigning the website’s second version in terms of usability. Links
What Is Civic Media? Thursday, Sept. 20, 2007 5 - 7 p.m. Bartos Theater Abstract In Bowling Alone (2000), Robert Putnam wrote about a generation of Americans cut off from traditional forms of community life and civic engagement, passive consumers of mass media. Speakers Chris Csikszentmihalyi is Muriel R. Beth Noveck is professor of law at New York Law School where she directs the Institute for Information Law & Policy. Ethan Zuckerman is a fellow at the Berkman Center for Internet and Society, Harvard Law School, and co-founder of Global Voices. Co-sponsors: MIT Comparative Media Studies and the MIT Media Lab. Summary By Greg Peverill-Conti [this is an edited summary, not a verbatim transcript] This is the first in a series of Forums that will highlight the activities of the new Center for the Future of Civic Media (C4FCM), a collaboration between MIT’s Program in Comparative Media Studies and the MIT Media Lab. For Jenkins, “civic media” can describe any use of a medium that fosters civic engagement.
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