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      • 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
    1. title
      • xxx
    2. 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
    3. 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/
    4. 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!
    5. lawrence: storymill http://uclawrence.ning.com/
    6. lawrence: yes we will http://www.ywwlawrence.org/
    7. nyc: the bmbc neighborhood media diary http://thesoulofbrooklyn.wordpress.com/
    8. watertown: h20town http://h2otown.info/
    9. framingham: snapshot photo hunt http://framinghamgame.ning.com/
    10. springfield practicum: public health
    11. springfield: food vendor map
    12. springfield: video story map

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