Future of News/Future Civic Media DEMOs
This page is for describing your demo
Format:
Project Title
Project Abstract
URL
Project Team Members
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Civic Toaster
The old maxim says that a community that toasts bread together, stays together. But today's toasters isolate and divide us. We at the University of Berlin are developing a community-based toasting network that helps to brown sliced bread in a collaborative, open way, using Internet2 and a Django back-end.
W. N. der Bred, S. L. Eighst
Presentation format: 2 posters, one laptop, 2 presenters
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Say What!?
In this project, we explore perspective-taking, programming and storytelling as a path to youth civic engagement. We developed a seven-part workshop that focuses on the relationship between empathy and civic engagement. The workshop fosters mutual understanding, collaborative problem-solving, and self-expression through Scratch storytelling. We have tested the workshop in Boston, Birmingham, and Mongolia.
Karen Brennan, Shaundra Daily, Colleen Kaman
Presentation format: (a monitor?), one laptop, one presenter
Open Park
Open Park is a news-reporting tool for professional journalists, journalism students and other news media content producers to cover the news collaboratively and share resources in a non-competitive way using new civic media formats such as online social networks and services, print/electronic and audio formats, and new smart interfaces and technologies for co-located and remote collaboration. It is also a new practice that will elaborate and introduce a Code of Ethics for collaborative journalism for use in both physical and virtual newsrooms. Finally, Open Park seeks to establish a new business model for sustainable, quality-consistent news-reporting. I will be demo-ing the initial version of the OP website, with its current functionalities, case studies, discussion forums, and related collaborative projects.
Florence Gallez
Presentation format: one presenter, one laptop, one large projection screen