Successful C4FCM projects

As new students consider what projects to do under the wing of the Center for Future Civic Media this semester, Henry Jenkins and Mitchel Resnick offered some advice this week:
The projects should be about civic media, which includes behaviors as well as information. They should be about using civic media tools in new ways, or creating new tools, to foster or facilitate community engagement in local geographic areas. Some advice about how to start creating a project:
1) Get an understanding of the situation where the civic media tools might be used.
2) Develop technologies or activiites to help deal with that situation.
3) Figure out how to implement these tools in a real local community.
Please come see me (Ellen Hume, research director) if you are interested in doing your project under the auspices of the Center. My email is ehume@media.mit.edu and my office is in E15-120K.