I spoke at #Facets2016. Here are some of the slides, there's also a livestream here: http://livestream.com/internetsociety/facetscon/videos/122426923. This was a chance to wrestle with what it means to create meaningful impact in a collaborative hackathon-type setting, and which types of media problems can and can't be solved in this kind of environment.

1. Civic Hacking & Media
Anika Gupta @DigitalAnika
May 7, 2016 Graduate Student, MIT

2. What does it mean for civic hacking to go
right?

3. Problem:
Under-representation in
Media

4. Solutions:
Exposure,
Collaboration

6. Not one of these projects still exists
TwitterBot Digital Audiobook Crowd-Sourced Safety Map

7. We Did:
Unlock language
Introduce mediamakers to new formats
Create initial prototypes

8. We Didn’t:
Publish or develop the prototypes
Solve the problem of underrepresentation
Bring in all the stakeholders

9. Could We Have Made it
Worse?

10. We Did:
Anonymize data
Get permission to use audio files
Translate (?!)

11. It Was:
The right format for asking difficult media
questions

12. It Wasn’t:
The right format for Solving* the problem
*Partly due to our choices, and partly because these problems are hard to Solve, and
assuming we can SOLVE them in a weekend might be a mistake