C4FCM weekly discussions

The Center for Future Civic Media (C4FCM) develops new tools and strategies for fostering civic engagement and strengthening social bonds in local communities. The Center takes technologies that have proven so powerful for virtual communities, and re-envisions and re-engineers them to enhance civic participation at a local level, providing new ways for local residents to organize and share information for the purpose of democratic deliberation, neighborhood collaboration, and political action.

Are you doing work involving community activism, mapping, mobile phones, or RSS feeds, and looking for a meaningful context and a chance to do field testing? Are you interested in news or politics but not sure how to integrate that into technology research? Then please come join us.

The weekly sessions will focus on discussion and critique of research projects for the Center, discussion of major issues in the field of Civic Media, and talks by visiting specialists.