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

The Future of News and Civic Media Conference

Center For Future Civic Media

MIT Media Lab

June 18th, 2009

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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 and leadership building aligning existing network or community organizing techniques with new media tools for sustained, genuine use by community members using new media as tools for reflective practice and institutional memory building

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 and leadership building

aligning existing network or community organizing techniques with new media tools for sustained, genuine use by community members

using new media as tools for reflective practice and institutional memory building

mit @ lawrence action-oriented scholarship through university-community engagement for the purpose of contributing to an equitable and sustainable future in the City of Lawrence a self-sustaining network for reciprocal knowledge transfer and innovation 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/

action-oriented scholarship through university-community engagement for the purpose of contributing to an equitable and sustainable future in the City of Lawrence

a self-sustaining network for reciprocal knowledge transfer and innovation

program areas:

affordable housing

community asset-building

youth pathways to career and education

green building development and job creation

lawrence: practicum 2009 Lawrence CommunityWorks (LCW), a community development corporation invigorated by 4 MIT alumna Union Crossing (UC) project – an innovative mixed-use mill redevelopment project that aims to be a completely "green" building, both in design, building and implementation as a community involvement 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 CommunityWorks (LCW), a community development corporation invigorated by 4 MIT alumna

Union Crossing (UC) project – an innovative mixed-use mill redevelopment project that aims to be a completely "green" building, both in design, building and implementation as a community involvement 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