Social Media for Social Change
a project of the Philadelphia Applied Research Lab
SMSC at ISEA2009
Sunday, September 13th, 2009 by Jeremy
I recently travelled to Belfast to attend the International Symposium on Electronic Art and to give a short presentation on the Social Media for Social Change project.
Read More →Um, Where’s the Media?
Sunday, July 26th, 2009 by Jeremy
Well, we needed to first understand fundamental ideas about how people relate to each other in the public sphere so that we can begin to develop the technology and media aspects of the project.
Read More →The NIMBY Game: More Prototyping
Thursday, July 2nd, 2009 by Jeremy
A more refined paper prototype of the game.
Read More →About the Project
Social Media for Social Change is a design research project that investigates how networked technologies and social media may be used to create hybrid public spaces where civic discourse and meaningful participation are facilitated, organized, and nurtured at a grass-roots level. This project is a collaboration between faculty and students at the University of the Arts in Philadelphia and the Action Mill, who create non-violent direct actions, events, websites, products and other tools for progressive organizations, grassroots groups and campaigns. Read More →
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- On June 17, 2009, Jeremy wrote: Yes, the problem with extremist, polarizing positions is that the subtleties and complexities that... →
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