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May 16
2023

May 16
23

Read the Engagement Lab's May 2023 Newsletter 

April 26
2023

Apr 26
23

Teach-In on Sustainability: Transforming Narratives for Climate Justice 

April 20
2023

Apr 20
23

Giving Oxygen to Hope: TNGV Documentary Screening at Brigham and Women’s Hospital 

April 10
2023

Apr 10
23

Read the Engagement Lab's April 2023 Newsletter 

April 05
2023

Apr 05
23

Spring Social Impact Studios: April Updates 

April 05
2023

Apr 05
23

Beyond The Classroom: April Updates From Engagement Lab Faculty Fellows 

March 24
2023

Mar 24
23

A Preview of the 2023 Social Justice + Media Symposium 

March 09
2023

Mar 09
23

Learn about our Fall 2023 Social Impact Studios 

March 09
2023

Mar 09
23

Quiet Rooms Documentary Screening at Boston City Hall 

March 09
2023

Mar 09
23

Beyond The Classroom: Updates From Engagement Lab Faculty Fellows 

March 09
2023

Mar 09
23

Read the Engagement Lab's March 2023 Newsletter 

February 23
2023

Feb 23
23

Transforming Narratives of Gun Violence through Journalism and Theatre in Spring Social Impact Studios 

February 03
2023

Feb 03
23

Read the Engagement Lab's February 2023 Newsletter 

January 18
2023

Jan 18
23

Introducing Boston Uncornered: New Collaborative Documentary Studio Partner for Spring 2023 

December 16
2022

Dec 16
22

Read the Engagement Lab's December 2022 Newsletter 

November 30
2022

Nov 30
22

Solving For Trust: Eric Gordon Provides Insight On Why Building Institutional Trust Matters 

November 21
2022

Nov 21
22

Using Virtual Reality to Co-Design for Peace 

November 08
2022

Nov 08
22

A Glimpse at This Semester’s Fall Studios 

November 02
2022

Nov 02
22

Meet the Engagement Lab’s New Communications Manager 

October 27
2022

Oct 27
22

Spring Studios Offer Community Engagement Opportunities to All Students 

October 25
2022

Oct 25
22

Introducing ELab Student Staff 

October 20
2022

Oct 20
22

This Year’s Media Design Cohort Experience and Advice 

News Archive

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Alumna Spotlight

Jun 24 2022

2022 Media Design Thesis Project Spotlight: “Onward” by Philip Jones

Apr 12 2022

“Promoting Peace through the Power of the People”

Mar 24 2022

Performing Solutions: A Dramatic Approach to Gun Violence Prevention (TH372)

Mar 22 2022

A Reflection on Todd Chandler’s Bulletproof

Mar 22 2022

Transformative Media Pedagogies Book Launch

Feb 24 2022

Introducing eLab staff members: Rachele, Johnny, and Anne

Feb 10 2022

VM495 Film Production: Turning Pain into Purpose

Feb 04 2022

Meet the Newest eLab Students Transforming Narratives of Gun Violence

Jan 31 2022

Introducing The Transforming Narratives of Gun Violence Initiative

Dec 04 2021

School of Arts Fall 2021 Assembly

Nov 10 2021

PCGN Project Showcase

Nov 02 2021

Equity and Impact in Media Literacy Practice

Oct 20 2021

Introducing our 2021–2022 Media Design Masters’ Program Cohort

Oct 12 2021

The Media Design 2021 Cohort Virtual Thesis Defense

Aug 17 2021

Student Spotlight: Sydney Angove on winning the Transformative Media Literacy Award, Media Literacy, & Community Impact

Jul 30 2021

Racial Bias in Biometric Technologies

Jun 21 2021

Impact & Connectivity in the 2021 Social Justice + Media Symposium

May 26 2021

The Promise and Danger of Digital Organizing

Apr 27 2021

Reviving the Journal of Civic Media: An Interview with Vassiliki Rapti

Mar 29 2021

Beyond the Classroom: Participatory Design Pedagogy

Feb 17 2021

MGH Gun Violence Prevention Series: An Interview with Ougie Pak

Feb 12 2021

IMMERSE: Co-Creation During COVID-19

Dec 15 2020

Going to school in a pandemic: Conversations with the Emerson Media Design Cohort(2020–21)

Dec 11 2020

2020 Media Design Cohort Partners

Oct 22 2020

Act & Advocate: Digital Tools for the 2020 Election

Oct 07 2020

Opportunity in Transition and Curiosity in the Unexpected

Sep 10 2020

Congratulating the Media Design 2019–2020 Cohort on their First Virtual Thesis Defense

Aug 17 2020

Student Spotlight: Chitra Anwar on Identity Forming, Nurturing Creativity, and Navigating Our New Virtual World

May 28 2020

Engaging Incarcerated Populations During Covid-19

May 18 2020

10 Emergency Funds & Grants for Artists and Freelancers During COVID19

Apr 08 2020

Distanced and Connected: a Message from the Engagement Lab

Mar 17 2020

Thinking about the Media Design MA Program? Two Students Give You the Inside Scoop!

Jan 22 2020

Difficult Dialogues, Anti-Racism Pedagogy,

Oct 16 2019

Celebrating Innovation at the 3rd Annual Media Design Thesis Exhibition

Oct 15 2019

#BeatGermsWithBheem in Review: 6,500+ Children Engaged, 100+ Community Members Trained, and More

Jul 05 2019

Building A Sustainable, Community-Driven Future for Hygiene with Chhota Bheem | #BeatGermsWithBheem

Jun 26 2019

How A Play-Based Curriculum Transforms Students Into Hygiene Advocacy Superheroes | #BeatGermsWithBheem

Jun 20 2019

Announcing #BeatGermsWithBheem, A Week of Online and Offline Hygiene Education and Advocacy

Jun 19 2019

Introducing Beta Blocks

May 24 2019

Melissa Teng ’18 to Receive Emerson College President’s Award for Participatory VR Project

May 06 2019

Hygiene with Chhota Bheem Launches March 6th, 2019

Feb 26 2019

Student Spotlight: Herman Servatius on Civic Filmmaking and the Power of Democracy

Feb 25 2019

Student Spotlight: Lauren Stott on How Civic Media and Public Engagement Make a Difference

Jan 15 2019

Program Director Paul Mihailidis on our MA in Media Design: Same Mission, Clearer Approach

Jan 14 2019

CMAP Student Spotlight: Emily Baeza on Mentorship, Media, and Forging Her Own Path

Nov 29 2018

Engagement Lab Wins Research Grant, Collaborates w/ Local Journalists to Make FOIA Requests More Accessible

Nov 27 2018

CMAP Student Spotlight: Alumna Anna Ladd on Failure, Pyramid Schemes, and Becoming a Podcast Star

Oct 30 2018

“Hygiene with Chhota Bheem” Installed 16,000 Times Worldwide

Sep 14 2018

This Year’s CMAP Cohort Leverage Technology & Research, Exhibit Civic Media Projects

Sep 14 2018

Hygiene with Chhota Bheem: A Playful Curriculum Increases Handwashing and Sanitation Knowledge, Attitudes, and Behaviors Among Primary School Children

Aug 30 2018

Opportunity Awaits: Introducing (Port)Land of Opportunity, Our Newest Game

Aug 13 2018

Climate Change Across The City: Boston Civic Media’s Fourth Annual Summer Conference

Aug 09 2018

Engagement Lab’s Handwashing Games Win International Award

Apr 04 2018

Building Community at our Hackathon

Apr 03 2018

CMAP Student Spotlight: Melissa Teng, 2017–18 cohort

Mar 30 2018

CMAP Student Spotlight: Becky Bastien, 2017–18 cohort

Mar 21 2018

CMAP Student Spotlight: Stanley Dominique, 2017–18 Cohort

Mar 16 2018

CMAP Student Spotlight: Sharon Amuguni, 2017–18 cohort

Mar 13 2018

Launching the Data Culture Project

Mar 05 2018

CMAP Student Spotlight: Neil Perry, 2017–18 Cohort

Mar 01 2018

Civic Media: Interventions to Engage the Public Sector

Feb 28 2018

Engagement Lab launches Journal of Civic Media, Submissions Due April 20th

Feb 27 2018

MUST READS: Top Breastfeeding & Mommy Blog Picks

Feb 27 2018

CMAP Student Spotlight: Cathy Edwards, 2017–18 Cohort

Feb 23 2018

Game-based curriculum improves handwashing practice among primary school children in Ghana

Feb 15 2018

CMAP Student Spotlight: Jon Elbaz, 2017–18 Cohort

Feb 12 2018

The Values and Activities of Making Civic Media

Feb 12 2018

#BuyTwitter and the Intersection of Civic Media and Platform Cooperativism

Feb 07 2018

Engagement Lab Creates Game-Based Curriculum for Sanitation Project in India

Feb 06 2018

CMAP Student Spotlight: Lauren Stott, 2017–18 Cohort

Jan 29 2018

Civic Media: Art and Practice (CMAP) Priority Deadline on March 1!

Jan 26 2018

CMAP Student Spotlight: Anna Ladd, 2017–18 Cohort

Jan 26 2018

CMAP Student Spotlight: Justin Warren, 2017–18 Cohort

Jan 26 2018

Our Daughter’s Birth: The Seed of Gratefulness and Rage

Jan 26 2018

It’s Time for Us to Win

Jan 26 2018

“Look Within, Reach Across, Anchor Down”

Jan 22 2018

CMAP Student Spotlight: Aakanksha Gupta, 2017–18 Cohort

Jan 18 2018

Engagement Lab Hosts YLAI 2017 Fellow

Jan 18 2018

CMAP Student Spotlight: Lindsy Goldberg, 2017–18 Cohort

Jan 09 2018

“Climate Change and Design in Boston”

Dec 21 2017

It’s 2018, and the breast pump still sucks!

Dec 14 2017

Read new publication about @Stake: “Civic Creativity: Role-Playing Games in Deliberative Process”

Nov 20 2017

Boston Civic Media cohort takes on climate change

Nov 16 2017

Civic Media: Art & Practice (CMAP): Student Thesis Exhibition 2017

Nov 15 2017

Civic Media Project Introduction

Aug 18 2017

Introducing @Stake for Mobile: a multi-player game fostering creativity and empathy in public deliberation

May 23 2017

Join Boston Civic Media’s 3rd Annual Conference on 6/3

May 03 2017

Civic Media, Art & Practice: 2016/17 Cohort Student Projects

Apr 04 2017

Pablo Martínez-Zárate, Ciudad Merced: A Community Self-Portrait

Mar 31 2017

DataBasic Awarded “Good Data Grant” to Help NGO’s Utilize Data

Mar 08 2017

[Introducing the Public Engagement Roadmap: Creative Resources for Meaningful Civic Participation](https://engage.livingcities.org/)

Feb 28 2017

New DataBasic Tool Lets You “Connect the Dots” in Data

Feb 07 2017

Social Media, Culture, and Political Protest

Sep 12 2016

Engagement Lab Seeks Full-Time Grants and Finance Director

Aug 29 2016

Engagement Lab Seeks Full-Time Researcher/Project Manager

Aug 29 2016

The 2016 Salzburg Academy on Media & Global Change: Media, Migration & the Civic Imagination

Jul 08 2016

Engagement Lab Faculty and Staff Statement on Orlando Mass Shooting

Jun 16 2016

An #EpicFail #FTW: Considering the Discursive Changes and Civic Engagement of #MyNYPD

Apr 08 2016

Blogging for Truth: Ai Weiwei’s Citizen Inevestigation Project on China’s 2008 Sichuan Eearthquake

Apr 08 2016

Guerrilla Research Tactics: Alternative Research Methods in Urban Enviornments

Apr 08 2016

The 2013 Protests in Brazil

Apr 08 2016

Iran, the U.S., and Online Diplomacy

Apr 08 2016

The Human Rights Campaign Facebook Logo

Apr 08 2016

The PolyXpress Mobile Ethnographic Storytelling System

Apr 08 2016

Citizen journalism and Civic Inclusion: Access Dorset

Apr 06 2016

38 Degrees

Apr 06 2016

#Aufschrei — The role of twitter for feminist activism and as platform for alternative publics

Apr 06 2016

“Bury Until They Change Their Ways”: The Digg Patriots As User-Generated Censorship

Apr 06 2016

From #destroythejoint to far reaching digital activism: Feminist Revitalisation stemming from social media and reaching beyond

Apr 06 2016

Galas: Mobilizing and Managing Volunteer Humanitarian Efforts Online During Euromaidan Protests in Ukraine

Apr 06 2016

Idle No More

Apr 06 2016

Karen Klein Case Study

Apr 06 2016

Kony 2012: Using Technology for Empathy

Apr 06 2016

MídiaNINJA and the Rise of Citizen Journalism in Brazil

Apr 06 2016

The 2013 Gezi Park Protest and #resistgezi

Apr 06 2016

The #YoSoy132 movement in Mexico

Apr 06 2016

Social Media Use and Political Activism in Turkey: 140journos, the Post of Others, and Vote and Beyond

Apr 06 2016

Twitter Use and Negative Campaigning:

Apr 06 2016

Civic Intelligence Research and Action Laboratory

Mar 30 2016

Designing Policy

Mar 30 2016

Digital Feminism in Italy: The Se Non Ora Quando Social Movement

Mar 30 2016

Hacking for Gold

Mar 30 2016

DIY Citizenship in the New Northern Ireland: The Case of a Belfast Makerspace

Mar 30 2016

Hacking politics: civic struggles to politicize technologies

Mar 30 2016

iPads in Education: Lessons in Civic Discourse and Disengagement

Mar 30 2016

Missing Intentionality: the Limitations of Social Media Analysis for Participatory Urban Design

Mar 30 2016

Padres y Jovenes Unidos: A Case Study of Student Empowerment through Critical Media Literacy

Mar 30 2016

Room to Tell: Designing Affectively Engaging Civic Opportunities with New Media for Adolescents Hospitalized with Cystic Fibrosis

Mar 30 2016

NewsActivist: Using globally networked writing to facilitate cross-campus dialogue and engagement

Mar 30 2016

Your Story Goes Here

Mar 30 2016

The #WalkMyWorld Project

Mar 30 2016

Strike Debt and the Rolling Jubilee: Building a Debt Resistance

Mar 30 2016

Transforming conceptions of Teacher Professional Development: a three year-case study at a rural school in Spain

Mar 30 2016

Exploring Net Neutrality with Mozilla Webmaker

Mar 28 2016

Community Radio as Civic Media: The case of Radio al-Balad 92.4FM in Amman, Jordan

Mar 28 2016

Innovation in the Absence of a State: Civic Media and the Inclusion of the Marginalized in the Somali Territories

Mar 28 2016

Hackathons as a Site for Civic IOT: Initial Insights

Mar 28 2016

Mobilizing Collective Urban Actions through MicroActs

Mar 28 2016

Another Promise’s Digital Civic Network and Samsung

Mar 25 2016

Citizenship and Digital Mobilization in Brazil

Mar 25 2016

Cuban Blogossphere: A Scenario for Political Debate and Dissent

Mar 25 2016

Code for America: Scaling Civic Engagement Through Open Data and Software Design

Mar 25 2016

CityBeat: A Social Media Data Visualization Platform for Journalists

Mar 25 2016

Social Auditing & Transparency: Gas Cylinder Distribution in India

Mar 25 2016

Implication of Social Media on Electoral Participation in India

Mar 25 2016

OpenNY: Civic Engagement Through Open Data and Open Platforms

Mar 25 2016

Mobilizing From Above: Government Use of Icts for State and Nation Building in Ethiopia

Mar 25 2016

The Civic Cloud: A Public Access Model and the Internet

Mar 25 2016

Procurement Disclosure in the Slovak Republic

Mar 25 2016

Website to Weibo: Activating the Local Communication Network and Civic Engagement in a Diverse City

Mar 25 2016

Pop-Up Newsroom: “We Are Where You Are”

Mar 25 2016

The Tilburg Public Library KnowledgeCloud

Mar 25 2016

The Community Media Drupal Project

Mar 25 2016

Ukranian CrowdMapping of the ’12 Elections

Mar 25 2016

Webabludatel: A Russian Electoral Observation App

Mar 25 2016

The ‘Solutionistic’ Logic of the National Day of Civic Hacking

Mar 25 2016

Alternative 13 News: A New Way to Involve Young Citizens in NGDO Cooperation Work Through Social Media and Gaming

Mar 24 2016

Artivis: Appropriating Surveillance Technology for Enviornmental Awareness and Protection

Mar 24 2016

Connecting Across Oceans Over Air

Mar 24 2016

FORT VANCOUVER MOBILE PROJECT

Mar 24 2016

Nashville: Building Blocks

Mar 24 2016

United Colors Of Dissent

Mar 24 2016

Terra Incognita: Serendipity and Discovery in the Age of Personalization

Mar 24 2016

Race to the White House

Mar 24 2016

Singapore Memory Project: Producing Public Memory Through Social Media

Mar 24 2016

Aliens on Campus: an Alternate Reality APPROACH TO STUDENT INCLUSION

Mar 18 2016

How to Submit to CMP

Mar 08 2016

350.org: A Case of ONLINE-TO-OFFLINE ACTIVISM

Mar 04 2016

Becoming Civic: Fracking, Air Pollution, and Enviornmental Sensing Technologies

Mar 04 2016

Connected Messages

Mar 04 2016

Horizontal Networking and the Music of Idle No More

Mar 04 2016

It Gets Better Project

Mar 04 2016

Marriage Equality, Facebook Pictures, and Civic Participation

Mar 04 2016

“More Than a Quota”: Youth-led Creative Arts and Advocacy About the Stop & Frisk Policy

Mar 04 2016

Tracking Traveling Paper Dolls: New Media, Old Media, and Global Youth Engagement in the Flat Stanley Project

Mar 04 2016

Pivot: Surreptitious Communications Design for Victims of Human Trafficking

Mar 04 2016

Youth Data Literacy as a Pathway to Civic Engagement

Mar 04 2016

Better Reykjavik: Open Municipal Policymaking

Mar 03 2016

Crowdfunding Civic Aaction: Pimp My Carroça

Mar 03 2016

Mashnotes

Mar 03 2016

RegulationRoom

Mar 03 2016

Meu Rio

Mar 03 2016

The California Report Card Version 1.0

Mar 03 2016

Binders Full of Election Memes: Participatory Culture Invades the 2012 U.S. Election

Feb 26 2016

Moving From Perceptions To Realities: Lessons Learned From Hollow

Feb 26 2016

Apply Now for Civic Media: Art & Practice MA Program at Emerson College (Deadline: March 1st)

Feb 11 2016

Emerson Game Developers Kicking Off 2016!

Feb 05 2016

City Accelerator Cohort II: Fall 2015 Convening Recap

Feb 05 2016

@Stake: A Series of Field Notes in Game Development

Feb 05 2016

Recap: Boston Civic Media Kick-off Event

Feb 05 2016

David Weinberger Asks: Is The Internet Disappointed In Us?

Dec 08 2015

Digital Activism Panel Reflections from the New Civics Practitioners Conference

Dec 08 2015

Finding the Balance between Seriousness and Fun: Games in Development

Dec 08 2015

Announcing: A Printable @Stake Game

Dec 08 2015

Games for Social Change Building Capacity in Iraq

Dec 08 2015

Hand Washing With Ananse

Dec 08 2015

Games for Development [VIDEO]

Dec 08 2015

Girls Make Games Workshop Recap

Dec 08 2015

Meeting Ms. Meta: A Female Superhero That You Create

Dec 08 2015

In Cairo, Engaged Citizens Design Games

Dec 08 2015

NewsPix: Local News That You Can Use

Dec 08 2015

Improving Public Engagement: 5 Cities Get to Work

Dec 08 2015

Mariko Davidson Named Managing Director of Engagement Lab

Dec 08 2015

Liveblog from the Data Transparency Conference

Dec 08 2015

@Stake To Receive “Knight Prototype Fund” Grant

Dec 08 2015

Using Digital Platforms to Promote Participatory Politics: A Discussion with Danielle Allen

Dec 08 2015

Day 3: Game Development Camp, Guest Post by Ayman Aboulmagd

Dec 04 2015

Day 4: Game Development Camp, Guest Post by Mona Shokrof

Dec 04 2015

A Summary of the #CivicMediaChat on Play and Creativity

Dec 04 2015

Day 1: Game Development Camp, Guest Post by Hamed Elmaghlawy

Dec 04 2015

Data Storytelling for Civic Impact Study Group Launching in March

Dec 04 2015

Boston Civic Media: Metrics & Methods conference | Session 3: Institutions

Dec 04 2015

Engagement Lab Brings Emerson to Salzburg

Dec 04 2015

Day 2: Game Development Camp, Guest Post by Basma Albanna

Dec 04 2015

Boston Civic Media: Metrics & Methods conference | Session 1: Foundations

Dec 04 2015

Storytelling with Data: Why? How? When?

Dec 04 2015

Boston Civic Media: Metrics & Methods conference | Session 2: Methods

Dec 04 2015

Join us for the first #CivicMediaChat on Play and Creativity, Monday the 27th at 4pm EST!

Dec 04 2015

Liveblog of Research in the Mo(ve)ment: Civic Media, Political Unrest, and the Role of the University

Dec 04 2015

Emerson Engagement Lab’s Indie Game Discussion Group Post Mortem

Dec 04 2015

The Civic Media Project is Live!

Dec 04 2015

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