Projects at the Center for Civic Media | MIT Center for Civic Media
 The Dashboard shows simplified widgets to give a quick overview of an issue's media coverage and let you identify interesting trends for more in-depth analysis. You can query the MediaCloud database by specifying media sources, a date range, and some keywords to look for.
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CLIFF parses news articles and pulls out people, organizations and places mentioned. A number of tools do this, so why did we create CLIFF? We've built on those tools to add disambiguation tailored...
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After an election, how can citizens hold leaders accountable for promises made during the campaign season? Promise Tracker is a mobile phone-based data collection system that enables communities to...
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 As part of our larger effort to build out a suite of tools for community organizers, we are helping to build their capacity to do their own creative data visualization and presentation. New computer-...
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 From Ukraine to the US, citizens and journalists are increasingly choosing to livestream civic events. But livestreams are currently hard to find and lack in-depth information about the events being...
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 Action Path is location-based survey platform for Android smartphones that crowdsources feedback from citizens in a way that fosters civic learning through reflective political practice. Existing...
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 How does a media controversy become the only thing any of us talk about? Using the Media Cloud platform, we're reverse-engineering major news stories to visualize how ideas spread and media frames...
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