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Future of News/Future Civic Media DEMOs

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Project Abstract

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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.

http://www.toast2bestir.org/

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



Awareness Mapping Project Team: Jay Silver, Karen Brennan, John Maloney, Mitchel Resnick

Problem Many people aren’t aware of: • things that are happening in their local communities • perspectives of other members of their communities • impacts that their actions have (or could have) in their communities • ways to communicate their ideas to other members of their communities

Abstract We are exploring how the creation of interactive maps can cultivate awareness about local environments, supporting civic engagement by helping community members communicate new perspectives.

To this end, we are developing a set of technologies and strategies that help people create, share, and discuss “awareness-maps” – nonliteral, interactive representations of places, people, and experiences that help the creators (and their audiences) express and understand their environments in new and unanticipated ways.

We are considering three categories of environments: • micro-geographies: hyper-local spaces, like a rooftop, a bedroom, or a street corner • micro-events: short periods of time, like a carnival, a flash mob, or a forest excursion • micro-reactions: sets of contextualized emotions, like a joyful occasion, a frustrating meeting, or a playful gathering

Innovation There are many other community-mapping projects, but our Awareness Mapping project is innovative along several dimensions: • Ability to create dynamic, interactive maps (using our Scratch software) • Encouraging sharing microgeographic experiences and cross-visitation of each others' maps sites


Civic Engagement For people to become engaged in their local communities, they need ways to observe and understand what’s happening in the communities – and ways of sharing their ideas and perspectives with other members of the communities. The Awareness Mapping project makes that possible. Moreover, the Awareness Mapping project focuses especially on young people, helping young people develop a foundation of community understanding and participation that will prepare them to become increasingly active members of the community as they grow up.

Format: Poster and Laptop Demo

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