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In effect, media now begs to be redefined. In a new introduction to this edition of Understanding Media, Harper's editor Lewis Lapham reevaluates McLuhan's work in the light of the technological as well as the political and social changes that have occurred in the last part of this century."
This article proposes to introduce the concept of “homecasting” (as distinct from broadcasting and narrowcasting) as a step towards designing a meaningful framework for understanding the current mediascape and the technological, social, and cultural forces shaping it.
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Jess Scully: " vTaiwan. (The “v” stands for virtual.) A mixed-reality, scaled listening exercise, it was an entirely new way to make decisions. The platform invites citizens into an online space for debate that politicians listen to and take into account when casting their votes. Government would start a new vTaiwan process on a political question ...
"Polis seeks to give citizens a dynamic overview of the entire spectrum of opinion around a discussion topic and has been seen as a highly effective direct and deliberative democracy social media tool . It allows the government to pose policy questions to the public and then uses statistical summarization to provide graphical feedback on what the p...
Bowling Green, Kentucky
Jess Scully: "The Taiwan model may be catching on. Polis was used to bring 2,000 people together at a virtual town hall in Bowling Green, Kentucky. Asked how to improve the local area, residents found consensus around improving traffic flow, adding bike lanes, beautification of the waterfront, even access to broadband internet services. The local government of Newham in the UK used it to help inform parking policy. And in Singapore, the government used it to hear from young people about their...
"MIT Open Source Building Alliance Operation (OSBA) is a project run by the House_n department, and it will operate as an open source organization. A website will be established for idea generation, technical evaluation of OSBA recommendations, and public comment.
We describe work by the House_n Research group at MIT to develop a conceptual framework for Open Source Building, and to prototype and test both alternative construction methodologies and new design tools that support it.
Smith is one of the lead organizers of the first International Development Design Summit held at MIT from July 16 to August 10, 2007. the group talks about problems in the developing world and then creates real, workable solutions to them.
Project Description. While it is a commercial project (it didn't start that way), "Hole in the Wall" provides one of the most unique models for demonstrating local (intra-community) P2P Learning. "Hole in the Wall" was conceived and launched by the Chief Scientist of NIIT (an Indian-based multinational IT training company), Dr. Sugata Mitra.
