Ethan Zuckerman

Since the 2016 US presidential election, news coverage of hate speech and mis/ disinformation has skyrocketed. What was once a sleepy beat …

Every day, data about our environment, education, routes, and other aspects of our lives become available. Yet most people often struggle t…

Bias by us envisions a future of media diversity by understanding the bias of today.Our work seeks to understand how the US media ecos…

LinkedOut aims to define and build solutions to facilitate societal reentry for formerly incarcerated individuals.In collaboration with the…

Civic Entertainment is a project based at the Center for Civic Media that explores the intersection of civic engagement with film, televisi…

The Gender Shades project pilots an intersectional approach to inclusive product testing for AI.Algorithmic Bias PersistsGender Shades is a…

Your social media. Your rules.Gobo is an experiment, not a startup. We’re building it to change the conversation on social media and imagin…

Every 98 seconds, a person in the United States is sexually abused. Every 16 hours, a woman in the United States is murdered by her ro…

Mission Wildlife is a research collaboration between San Diego Zoo Global and the MIT Center for Civic Media to explore the poten…

Slap Snap Tap combines wearable sensors with physical block programming to enable enhanced expression through movement. By slapping on a se…

OpenScope is an open source project that combines three components for anyone to explore the micro world anytime, anywhere. The 3D-printabl…

Everyone in the city is an expert on their own experience of that city. So how might we integrate new forms of citizen input into the plann…

This project is currently promoting a survey of data from the East Side (Zona Leste) of the city of Sao Paulo, Brazil. The aim is to detect…

Media Perspective brings a data visualization into 3D space. This data sculpture represents mainstream media coverage of Net Neutrality ove…

Should students be prosecuted for innovative projects? In December 2014, four undergraduates associated with the Media Lab were subpoenaed …

The Out for Change Transformative Media Organizing Project (OCTOP) links LGBTQ, Two-Spirit, and allied media makers, online organizers, and…

Action Path is a mobile app to help people learn about and engage with issues in their community. The app uses push notifications tied to g…

Open Gender Tracker is a suite of open-source tools and APIs that make it easy for newsrooms and media monitors to collect metrics and gain…

More than a billion people a month visit YouTube to watch videos. Sometimes, those billion people watch the same video. What We Watch is a …

Mapping the Globe is an interactive tool and map that helps us understand where The Boston Globe directs its attention. Media attention mat…

The Passing On project uses data from 20 years of New York Times stories about society's heroes, leaders, and visionaries to "reader-source…

Every country has a brand, negative or positive, and that brand is mediated in part by its global press coverage. We are measuring and rank…

Vojo.co is a hosted mobile blogging platform that makes it easy for people to share content to the web from mobile phones via voice calls, …

NGO2.0 is a project grown out of the work of MIT's New Media Action Lab. The goal of NGO2.0 is to strengthen the digital and social media l…

VoIP Drupal is an innovative framework that brings the power of voice and Internet-telephony to Drupal sites. It can be used to build hybri…

Telepresent robots are often pitched as a technology to extend the influence of those who already have money and power. We want to use robo…

Call to Action is an open-source web platform for creating telephone-based services such as hotlines, voice petitions, and phone blogging. …

NewsPad is a collaborative article editor that empowers small communities to write articles collaboratively through community sourcing, str…

NewsJack is a media remixing tool built from Mozilla's Hackasaurus. It allows users to modify the front pages of news sites, changing lang…

Have you ever been forwarded an email that you just can't believe? Our inboxes are rife with misinformation. The truth is out there, just n…

Between the Bars is a blogging platform for one out of every 142 Americans�prisoners�that makes it easy to blog using standard postal mail.…

Many Twitter users post questions with hashtags like #twoogle or #lazyweb. Is this an effective way to find expert answers beyond one's net…

The Department of Play (DoP) is a working group of researchers, students, and community practitioners who share a common passion: designing…

The Toy Interface Construction Kit Learning Environment (T.I.C.K.L.E.) is a universal construction kit for the rest of us. It doesn't requi…

Urban spaces have different uses and different histories for the people who move through and use them. Those layered histories can enrich o…

DataBasic is a suite of web-based tools that give people fun and relevant ways learn how to work with data. Existing tools focus on operati…

The Babbling Brook is an unnamed neighborhood creek in Waltham, MA, that winds its way to the Charles River. With the help of networked sen…

Citizens and journalists are increasingly choosing to live stream civic events. But live streams are currently hard to find and lack in-dep…

Code4Rights promotes human rights through technology education. By facilitating the development of rights-focused mobile applications in wo…

Organizations are deploying gratitude-tracking systems to encourage appreciation, promote pro-sociality, and monitor employee wellbeing. We…

Promise Tracker is a citizen-monitoring platform designed to help communities track issues they care about and use that information to advo…

In September 2014, 150 parents, engineers, designers, and healthcare practitioners gathered at the MIT Media Lab for the "Make the Breast P…

Newspaper front pages are a key source of data about our media ecology. Newsrooms spend massive time and effort deciding what stories make …

Media Cloud is a platform for studying media ecosystems. By tracking millions of stories published online, the system allows researchers to…

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…