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MIT Communications Forum

Government Transparency and Collaborative Journalism

Linda Fantin, director of public insight journalism at Minnesota Public Radio, and Ellen Miller, executive director of the Washington-based Sunlight Foundation, explore how ways of gathering and presenting information are evolving from the recent nexus of government openness and digital connectednes

Civic Engagement in a Broadband-Enabled World (Part 3)

This panel explores the challenges and opportunities for the 21st century digital public media ecosystem. Public media has always played a critical role in our democracy, informing citizens, leading our public conversation, and fostering civic engagement.

Civic Engagement in a Broadband-Enabled World (Part 2)

Chris Csikszentmihalyi

Following an announcement by the director of Government Performance and Civic Engagement for the National Broadband Plan, a panel explores how broadband can transform government/citizen engagement.

Civic Engagement in a Broadband-Enabled World (Part 1)

Eugene Huang, director of Government Performance and Civic Engagement for the National Broadband Plan, frames the narrative for civic engagement in the 21st century. He addresses topics including data transparency, social media, public media, innovation in government, and digital democracy.

Games and Civic Engagement

Mario Armstrong

November 8, 2007

Eric Klopfer, director of the teacher education program at MIT, moderates a discussion about how videogames might encourage public awareness and citizenship.

Collaboration and Collective Intelligence

An MIT Communications Forum panel discusses how buzz phrases like "collective intelligence" and "the wisdom of crowds" have become central in recent discussions of networked culture, and what they actually mean.

Folk Cultures and Digital Cultures

An MIT Communications Forum panel discusses the emergence of a new networked culture in which participants with differing intentions and professional credentials coexist and cooperate in a complex media ecology. Are we witnessing the appearance of a new or revitalized folk culture?

Learning Through Remixing

This panel is itself a remix. Each contributor has a unique project example to share, but in the end there is convergence.