[MGP-Forum Announce] MGP2006 alum Ellen Hume joining MIT's Center for Future Civic Media

[Bill Densmore]

MIT announced last week that Ellen Hume (MGP2006) is moving from UMass Boston to head research for the Center for Future Civic Media. C4FCM, as it is known, was founded earlier this year with a $5-million grant from the Knight Foundation to "develop new techniques and technologies to promote and enhance civic engagement in local communities, providing people with new means to share, prioritize, organize and act on information . . . " The MIT release says the center uses the term "civic media" to refer to any form of communication that strengthens the social bonds within a community or creates a strong sense of civic engagement among its residents. Here's the news release:

http://web.mit.edu/newsoffice/2007/future-media-1206.html