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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Newsgradient
LjubljanaNewsgradient highlights the differences in media coverage of important events. It enables users to easily follow the daily news and observe it on the political spectrum. The media are arranged on the left-right axis and classified according to their bias and credibility.
Twitter Brigade
LjubljanaAstroturfing research. We spent the second half of 2020 analysing 24 fake Twitter profiles that published divisive or hostile content and were regularly mentioned or retweeted by Slovenian right-wing politicians.
JournalismAI Discovery
Houghton Street London WC2A 2AEJournalismAI Discovery is an interactive self-guided course that will help you understand what AI technologies can do to improve your journalism.
In this course, you will learn how stories and narratives make disinformation popular and credible and how to counter dangerous beliefs and attitudes.
See how publications and data-driven journalists use open source to power their newsroom and ensure information is reported fairly and accurately.
Pinterest Climate Disinformation Policy
San FranciscoOur new policy makes Pinterest the only major digital platform to have clearly defined guidelines against false or misleading climate change information, including conspiracy theories, across content and ads.
Seekr
Vienna, VANews site that ranks news organizations with its algorithm's partisanship score, and allows users to filter sources accordingly
The AnNahar newspaper used its paper and ink to provide election ballots instead
The Chinese Internet’s Hidden Victims: Uncovering and Healing the Scars of Online Abuse
Washington, DCA special feature on cyberbullying by 歪脑 WHYNOT, nominated for a 2023 Webby Award
X-ray contact
Slovenia (Slovenija)A platform for searching information about people based on open-source data
JournalismAI Fellowship Programme
Houghton Street London WC2A 2AEThe JournalismAI Fellowship Programme is a free online initiative that brings together journalists and technologists from media organisations worldwide to explore innovative solutions to improve journalism via the use of AI technologies.
LSE Polis
Houghton Street London WC2A 2AELondon School of Economics’ media think-tank in collaboration with the LSE’s Department of Media and Communications.
Airtable of JournalismAI Case Studies
Houghton Street London WC2A 2AEIn the database, we collect the best case studies we come across, to ensure that everyone in our global network can learn from and be inspired by these creative applications of AI in journalism
JournalismAI
Houghton Street London WC2A 2AEJournalismAI [at LSE] is a global initiative that empowers news organisations to use artificial intelligence responsibly.
Machine Learning Trainings for Journalists
Houghton Street London WC2A 2AEFree online courses supported by the Google News Initiative.
Source Jobs
United States of America (the)Source Jobs publishes job listings for people who design interactive features, write code, and work with data in newsrooms.
The Public Good Projects
New York CityWe use science and technology to tackle today’s most pressing public health issues.
A report: How can stories help us change systems?
A Reuters special report investigating global supply chains and sustainability programs
Audible reckoning: How top political podcasters spread unsubstantiated and false claims
Washington, DCBrookings report: Using a combination of analytical methods – including natural language processing, machine learning, and manual classifying – this research provided the first overarching assessment of the role that popular political podcasting plays in spreading unsubstantiated and false claims.
Центральноазиатская медиапрограмма MediaCAMP Award Central Asia
Internews Network, 15th Street Northwest, Washington, DC, USA"Journalists and bloggers in Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan and Uzbekistan can enter this contest." - International Journalists' Network
Boston Review’s Black Voices in the Public Sphere Fellowship is designed to prepare and support a more diverse generation of journalists, editors, and publishers.
Hatemeter
United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland (the)Hate speech tool for monitoring, analysing and tackling Anti-Muslim hatred online
Serious Games Initiative
One Woodrow Wilson Plaza 1300 Pennsylvania Ave. NW Washington, DC 20004-3027The Serious Games Initiative communicates science and policy complexities through the world’s most dynamic medium: gaming.
Junkipedia
Washington, DCJunkipedia is designed to centralize the collection of problematic content so that everyone with a stake in solving this problem can benefit from a shared understanding of what threats exist and how to respond to them.
Algorithmic Transparency Institute
Washington, DCThe Algorithmic Transparency Institute builds technology, gathers data, and generates insights to support research, journalism, and advocacy organizations.
Civic Listening Corps
Washington, DCThe CLC is a volunteer network of individuals trained to monitor for, critically evaluate, and report misinformation on diverse topics central to our civic life: voting, elections, public health, civil rights, and other important issues.
Hearken's Engagement Management System
Chicago, ILHearken’s Engagement Management System empowers organizations to generate actionable insights from the public to create more relevant, representative and original content.
Beat Academy
Poynter Institute for Media Studies, 3rd Street South, St. Petersburg, FL, USAPoynter’s Beat Academy is a virtual classroom designed to provide journalists from any newsroom the skills to tackle emerging coverage areas, like private equity, and better grounding on key topics like immigration, climate change response, federal infrastructure dollars and more.
Hearken Switchboard
Chicago, ILHearken’s Community Management System, Switchboard, connects members of your community with one another so they can ask for help and offer opportunities in a safe, trusted environment.
Hearken
Chicago, ILHearken's consulting and engagement platforms help newsrooms, companies, and organizations engage their audience or community.
Advancing Democracy Fellowship
United States of America (the)This joint initiative from Hearken, Solutions Journalism Network and Trusting News will equip newsroom-based journalists to transform their coverage of democracy through solutions-focused reporting that builds trust and avoids polarization.
The Atlantic
Palo AltoThe Atlantic is an American magazine and multi-platform publisher. It features articles in the fields of politics, foreign affairs, business and the economy, culture and the arts, technology, and science. - Wikipedia
Opening in early 2012, The Social Media Listening Center at Clemson University is an interdisciplinary, cutting-edge laboratory that seeks to monitor, measure, and engage in social media conversations from across the web.
An Airtable collection of general AI tools explaining how they can be used by local media
Iffy Index of Unreliable Sources
United States of America (the)The goal is to give researchers a more complete, current, and accurate dataset of sites that spread mis/disinformation, which will lead to more accurate disinformation research.
Chronicles surprising and inspiring climate initiatives in communities across the U.S. through stories of cities leading the way
Let's Talk Vaccines
Internews Network, 15th Street Northwest, Washington, DC, USAA free course to help journalists translate the language of vaccine science and the promise of vaccine access into compelling human stories.
The Starling Lab Journalism Fellowship
CaliforniaThe Starling Lab, a research center anchored at Stanford University’s School of Engineering and the University of Southern California’s Shoah Foundation, has developed a ground-breaking framework to combat mis/disinformation by tracking the provenance of digital content through the use of open-source tools, best practices and case studies designed to help reduce information uncertainty.
Big Local News
450 Serra Mall, Stanford, CA 94305, USAEmpowering journalists with data, tools and collaborations
Our artificial intelligence platform covers many of today's most relevant topics: from sustainable cities to citizen security, from migration to climate change & biodiversity, and more.
Camino
Oakland, CaliforniaCamino is a 2D side-scrolling stealth game with Afro-surrealist elements that challenge the player to carefully manage resources and make use of their environment to fight for their loved ones and survive the onslaught of colonization.
SuperSkills! is a learning ecosystem, developed by Learning Economy and LEGO Foundation. Children ages 4-12 embark on quests to help save a league of super heroes by participating in learning-through-play activities that send them out into the world of discovery and away from their devices.
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