I was pretty darn excited about teaming up again with my ol pal Leo Burd, to bring some Department of Play love to some Mass. area nonprofits interested in learning more how data can engage communities. Here’s our slides and some photos posted from our brief hands-on mobile app design activity, which I adapted from the Applications for GoodApp for That? workshop. Also, we had a handout with some references to other projects, which we shared on the DoP wiki.
Using Data to Engage Youth in their Neighborhoods- Come learn about cool tools and projects that engage youth in their community through data collection, analysis, and communication. Presented by Leo Burd, Department of Play at the Center for Civic Future Media and Danielle Martin, Intel Computer Clubhouse Network
The goal of Data Day 2012 was to help organizations and municipalities expand their capacity to use technology and data in innovative ways to advance their community and organizational goals. This biennial conference was co-sponsored by the Metropolitan Area Planning Council, the Boston Indicators Project at The Boston Foundation, and Northeastern University.
Where users post their original media creations or mashups (reworking of existing content) then embed this content on other sites, while viewers can comment and vote
Online text or photo journal or broadcast of audio or
video, where the latest content appears first
Blogger, WordPress, iTunes
Social Media
Online space where “content that is created by site users
rather than by a central person or group”; changes are tracked and the most
active contributors often act as editors
Flickr, Creative Commons CCMixter, Wikipedia, Wikispaces,
Google Docs
Online Music/Photo/Video Sharing
Users post their original media creations or mashups
(reworking of existing content) then embed this content on other sites, while
viewers can comment and vote
YouTube, OurMedia.org, Blip.tv, Vimeo
RSS
A feed that alerts users when new content is
available. Users plug the feed
into an aggregator or reader, to organize their chosen pools of content
Feedburner, GCast, Soup.io, Bloglines, Google Reader
Social Networking
Online communities that connect friends, colleagues, or
shared interest groups, where they can message and form groups (many
accessible now on cell phones)
The “Harvard-MIT-Yale Cyberscholar Working Group” is a forum for fellows and affiliates of the Comparative Media Studies Program at MIT, Yale Law School Information Society Project, and the Berkman Center for Internet & Society at Harvard Law School to discuss their ongoing research. Each session is focused on the peer review and discussion of current projects submitted by a presenter. Meeting alternatively at Harvard, MIT, Yale, the working group aims to expand the shared knowledge of young scholars by bringing together these preeminent centers of thought on issues confronting the information age. Discussion sessions are designed to facilitate advancements in the individual research of presenters and in turn encourage exposure among the participants to the multi-disciplinary features of the issues addressed by their own work.
My presentation is loosely called “participatory media for youth and community development” because I’m combining my thesis research with the group documentary project we’ve started for MIT@Lawrence and the data collection I’ve been doing for the spring DUSP practicum class, “11.423 Information, Asset-building, and the Immigrant City.”
I was pretty darn excited about teaming up again with my ol pal Leo Burd, to bring some Department of Play love to some Mass. area nonprofits interested in learning more how data can engage communities. Here’s our slides and some photos posted from our brief hands-on mobile app design activity, which I adapted from the Applications for Good App for That? workshop. Also, we had a handout with some references to other projects, which we shared on the DoP wiki.
