Media
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.
Change my View
A place to post an opinion you accept may be flawed, in an effort to understand other perspectives on the issue. Enter with a mindset for conversation, not debate.
Block By Block Minecraft participatory planning workshops
Did you know that you can use Minecraft for more than a simple fun? Learn about great Block by Block initiative for community participation in urban design.
Bury me my love
Bury me, my Love tells Nour’s story as she flees Syria and tries to reach Europe. But why did the young woman decide to leave?
Streetwyze
The Streetwyze app is the world’s first neighborhood navigator powered by local knowledge.
Fake it to make it
Create your own (fake) news empire by playing Fake It To Make It, a simulation-style, social-impact game about how fake news is created and distributed for a profit.
Northwestern University Local News Initiative
With local journalism in crisis, Northwestern University has assembled a team of experts in digital innovation, audience understanding and business strategy. The goal: reinvent the relationship betwee...
Fora
Human-Led + AI-Supported Listening
Stowarzyszenie Demagog
Demagog Association is Poland's first factchecking organization. It's main aim is the improvement of the quality of the public debate through unbiased and reliable information.
Flourish! Local economies game
We made a board game to discuss local economic policy ideas.
Solutions Journalism Story Tracker
The Solutions Story Tracker® is a curated, database of rigorous reporting on responses to the world's most pressing social problems.
Block'hood
Block’hood is a city building simulator video game that focuses on ideas of ecology, interdependence and decay.
Istinomer (Serbia)
Factchecking Serbian politics
Social Scraper
Social Media Scraper is a tool helping journalists and watchdogs to keep politicians accountable for the statements they make in social media.
The Center for Information, Technology, and Public Life
The impact of the digital information environment — especially the influence of social media
iCivics
iCivics works to ensure every student in America receives a quality and engaging civic education and graduates from high school well prepared and enthusiastic for citizenship
Hey Google, tell me something good
The news has always played an essential role in our lives, keeping us informed about the world and the issues we care about.
The Trevor Project
The Trevor Project received a grant from Google AI Impact to do machine learning on incoming calls to route callers to FAQs or humans.
PETLab at Parson's
Bellingcat
the home of online investigations
Google Analytics
It gives you the free tools you need to analyse data for your business in one place, so you can make smarter decisions.
MyGoPen
a convenient place to verify that our efforts are to have hope in the future cleaner network environment, cultivate hope we have a verification message can alert attitude Instead of sharing informatio...
Beautiful Trouble Card Deck
A card deck for revolution
Anti-Monopoly
The basic idea of the game is to end the monopolistic practices of the 3-company-combinations of the game board.
Facebook Tracking Exposed
a project to improve the transparency behind Facebook’s algorithms
Midia Ninja
Rede de comunicação livre que busca novas formas de produção e distribuição de informação a partir de uma lógica colaborativa de trabalho.
Warren's Meme Team
Saving the nation with selfies and memes
WhoAdvertisesOn
Toolkit for tracking advertisers on partisan news channels with sampling, data science, and open data.
AllSides
Balanced News from the Left, Center and Right
Quartz Bot Studio
The Quartz Bot Studio builds narrative experiences for messaging and voice platforms.
NationStates
NationStates is a free nation simulation game. Build a nation and run it according to your own warped political ideals
Bellingcat's Online Investigation Toolkit
Comprehensive collection of open verification tools and methods
Media Party
The Media Party is a three days event that brings together 2000 entrepreneurs, journalists, software programmers and designers from five Continents to work together for the future of media.
Annenberg Civic Media Fellowship
a fellowship program to empower social entrepreneurs, artists, activists, scholars and other catalysts to increase awareness, understanding and engagement around pressing areas of public interest, wit...
The Annenberg Innovation Lab (AnnLab)
The Annenberg Innovation Lab is a curious, creative and committed Think & Do Tank at the University of Southern California’s Annenberg School for Communication and Journalism
Win the White House
Win the White House teaches students in grades 4-12 about the challenges of running for office by empowering them to create and manage their own presidential campaigns.
Dangerous Speech Project
The Dangerous Speech Project was founded in 2010 to study speech (any form of human expression) that inspires violence between groups of people – and to find ways to mitigate this while protecting fre...
Petronia
Drones & Dreams: A Speculative Sprint Story Collection
A speculative story sprint collection
Proto's WhatsApp Checkpoint Tipline
“The Checkpoint tipline is primarily used to gather data for research, and is not a helpline that will be able to provide a response to every user.”
Copy, Paste, Legislate
An investigative series deploying algorithms to detect copy-paste legislation
Portland of Opportunity
Opportunity Awaits: Introducing (Port)Land of Opportunity, Our Newest Game
Spielclub Oranienstraße 25
Built as a microcosm of Berlin, the game gives kids a chance to try out different roles in city life – and provides a testbed for ideas on real urban challenges
PeakMetrics
PeakMetrics tracks news and government action around the clock, so you save time and react faster.
Quid
Other analytic software can show you what is happening, but only Quid can unlock the context that explains why.
MuckRock Foundation
File, track, and share public records requests.
Games for Change
Founded in 2004, Games for Change facilitates the creation and distribution of social impact games that serve as critical tools in humanitarian and educational
Terra Incognita
Chrome extension
Scratch
Scratch is a free programming language and online community where you can create your own interactive stories, games, and animations.
National Institute for Computer-Assisted Reporting (NICAR)
NICAR, the National Institute for Computer-Assisted Reporting, is a program of IRE, founded in 1989 and supported by the Missouri School of Journalism.
The Center for Informed Democracy and Social Cyber-Security (IDeaS)
Carnegie Melon's center for disinformation, hate speech and extremism online