Civic Tech Field Guide
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Journalism, storytelling, and other forms of interactive media are critical to civic engagement in democracies. Here we track those media and journalism tech projects that directly relate to citizens working to shift power in society.
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Cast Your Vote teaches students how to evaluate what they hear politicians say, and to determine if they think they will keep their word in office.
Swayable
New York, NYSwayable lets political campaigns and brands measure how content changes people’s minds. Campaigns using Swayable increase their impact on opinions by measuring persuasion, breaking down exactly which kinds of people respond to which content.
The Markup
New York, NYWe are a new publication illuminating how powerful institutions are using technology in ways that impact people and society.
The Revolution of Our Times
Hong KongAn Android game that provided users with an immersive role playing experience of the 2019 Hong Kong protests
RePresent
ConnecticutRePresent is a law game that provides self-represented parties in Connecticut with foundational advocacy experience.
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Drone Journalism Lab Operations Manual
University of Nebraska-Lincoln, R Street, Lincoln, NE, USAThe Drone Journalism Lab's Operations Manual is here to help your news organization with using flying robots to report news.
Virtual temporary newsroom for student and citizen journalists
Digital Sherlocks 360/OS
RoundhouseChalk Farm Rd, Camden Town, London NW1 8EH, UK360/OS brings together journalists, activists, innovators, and leaders from around the world as part of our grassroots digital solidarity movement fighting for objective truth as a foundation of democracy.
From fake news to chaos! How bad are you? Get as many followers as you can.
The Good News Podcast is your daily reminder that not all news is bad, produced by Cards Against Humanity.
Dr.Message 防詐達人
Taiwanwhich is true and which is false? Pass it to me and know right away! //臉書網頁優惠商品、免費Line貼圖、朋友傳的買一送一好康，到底哪些是真哪個是假？傳給我馬上知道!
Hope
New York, NYHope is the assistant for the resistance. It’s the tool that will help you keep track of the news, and let you know what you can do to have an impact.
Source Africa
AfricaIt is Africa’s premier repository for documents that the public need to help make more informed decisions, or that help civic watchdogs such as the media or social justice NGOs substantiate their reportage, or documents that have been suppressed or censored elsewhere.
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A blog post covering ways to map the media ecosystem
The Center for Social Media and Politics
70 Washington Square South, NY, New York 10012, USATo directly study the impact of social media on politics and to develop new methods and technology tools to analyze the impact of social media on democracy.
Welcome to TV NEWS Archive! This research library service enables you to: Search more than 1,666,000 U.S. broadcasts using closed captioning; Borrow broadcasts on DVDs; View and Cite short streamed clips; Compare and Contrast perspectives across networks, stations and time; and Place video quotes within your commentary. Dive in and Share your insights!
Openly Operated
535 Mission Street, San Francisco, CA 94105, United StatesThe free transparency certification
Stories that connect us and sometimes even change the world.
Urban Archive
155 Rivington Street, New York, NY, USAUrban Archive is a technology nonprofit that creates new connections between people, places, and historical institutions.
RNW Media
RNW Media, Witte Kruislaan, Hilversum, NetherlandsRNW Media supports local media and impact organizations to master persuasive storytelling techniques and creative formats to create strong narratives on the world’s most pressing issues.
Mannahatta: The Game is a location-based game for the iPhone that maps Manhattan's historical ecosystem onto its modern day streets. Players move from block to block and gain points when they make connections between the ecological elements that used to exist in the exact same location in 1609, when Henry Hudson first set foot on the island. Working individually or as part of a team, a player must cover a wide physical territory across the city to collect points, earn badges and move to the top of the leader board.
Project Shield
New York, NYProject Shield uses Google’s infrastructure to protect independent news sites from distributed denial of service attacks (DDoS), a type of digital attack that exploits thousands or even millions of computers to overwhelm a website’s servers and take it offline.
Factcheck.me
Berkeley, California, USAFactcheck.me tracks bot activity, amplified images, and viral links.
Gephi
13 rue de l'université, Paris, Ile-de-France, 75007, FranceMakes graphs handy
The Fight Against Disinformation in the U.S.: A Landscape Analysis
Shorenstein Center at the Harvard Kennedy School, Mount Auburn Street, Cambridge, MA, USAa map of the disinformation initiatives currently in play to undergird newsrooms and improve media literacy at this challenging moment for the free press
Botcheck.me
Berkeley, California, USAWe use advance machine learning techniques to detect political propaganda bots on Twitter.
Investigative Dashboard
MarylandInvestigative Dashboard makes public documents (such as financial or property records) searchable and more useful for journalists investigating money laundering or corruption.
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Outline
New York, NYOutline makes it easy for news organizations to set up a virtual private network (VPN) on their own server.
Faktograf
CroatiaCroatian media specializing in fact checking, that is, verifying the factual accuracy of claims in public space.
Games for Cities City-Game Database
AmsterdamThis is a growing collection of games that improve city making
Cofacts
TaiwanCofacts is a collaborative system connecting instant messages and fact-check reports or different opinions together.
A new feature on some of our most widely shared articles.
Knight Media Forum
John S. and James L. Knight Foundation, South Biscayne Boulevard, Miami, FL, USAGathering leaders in journalism, technology and philanthropy to explore the ways to strengthen local news and our democracy.
ArchiveSocial
212 W Main Street Durham, NC 27701Social Media Archiving Built for Government Transparency
Outside.in is an aggregator aimed at creating a place for neighborhoods to share and explore information.
Blue Feed, Red Feed
Wall Street JournalSee Liberal Facebook and Conservative Facebook, Side by Side. Last update 2019
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