Center for Civic Media: Recent submissions
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What We Should Do Before the Social Bots Take Over: Online Privacy Protection and the Political Economy of Our Near Future
(Presented at Media in Transition 8: Public Media, Private Media, MIT, Cambridge, May 5, 2013)Direct interactions between humans and bots generally conjure up images from science fiction of Terminator robots or artificial intelligence gone rogue, like 2001's HAL or The Matrix. In reality, AI is still far from much ... -
Tim Highfield, Social Media and Everyday Politics
(International Journal of Communication, 2017) -
Crowdsourcing as Reflective Political Practice: Building a Location-based Tool for Civic Learning and Engagement
(nternet, Politics, and Policy 2014: Crowdsourcing for Politics and Policy, At Oxford University, Oxford, UK, 2014)Many platforms for civic engagement, whether online or offline, are inconvenient and disconnected from the source of issues they are meant to address. They require that citizens leave the places they normally inhabit ...
