Current & Recent Projects

The Civic Media Lab supports research, teaching, and innovation on the relationship between media, new technologies, civic life, and social justice.  We currently focus on four research areas, although projects are often sited across categories: 

Coexist: Culture and Conflict 

Fostering understanding of national and global contexts and the digital skills to promote understanding and co-existence amongst communities of different ethnicities or religions 

Keywords: cultural studies, race studies, gender and sexuality studies, Islamophobia, far-right radicalization 

Digital Civil Society 

Research on the relationship between digital tools, civil societies, and democratic practices 

Keywords: digital democracy, activism, advocacy, misinformation, algorithmic studies, privacy and surveillance studies 

Media & Sound Art  

Creation and research in the areas of new media art, hacking/critical making, sound, and listening  

Keywords: media art, creative coding, critical making, sound and music studies, film and screen studies, visual culture 

Sensory Studies 

Studying the relationship between sensory experiences, their mediation, and community building, value-making, cross-cultural dialogue  

Keywords: sensory studies, taste lab, anthropology of food