From drone strikes to racist attacks, from precarious labour to gentrification, how do maps help us understand injustice and illuminate struggle? In this public showcase and discussion we explore how mapmakers engage our geographical imaginations and use the power of maps for social change. From oral history to twitter data-mining, our featured mapmakers use a…

GeoNet, the fusion-funded interdisciplinary seminar project, held our first lunchtime session ‘A conversation about climate change’ recently. We were really pleased to see the Coyne so packed out (come early next time to be sure of getting a cookie!) with a wide range of students, PGRs and staff from across the university. Short talks to…

On February 18, 2015 Civic Media’s Anna Feigenbaum delivered a workshop on data visualisation for the IRIN news network. As part of the United Nations, IRIN reported from the frontlines of conflicts and natural disasters around the world for nearly 20 years. In January 2015, IRIN spun-off from the UN to become an independent non-profit media…

This spring semester, thanks to a Fusion CCCP grant, we’ll be turning our BU research into interactive media, designed for making an impact. If you are like me, dishwashing, hanging laundry, answering emails and even updating your BRIAN profile are more fun than writing academic papers. Beyond the jargon, peer review terror and endless citations,…

Tear gas is used around the world nearly everyday, yet major international organisations, including the World Medical Association  and NATO, state that not enough is understood about the real-life impact and health effects of these technologies. Responding to this lack of accessible information, in 2013 Dr. Anna Feigenbaum won a Fusion Fund grant to form…

CMC Media School Lecturer and CEMP Fellow, Dr. Anna               Feigenbaum, was awarded a Wellcome Trust Small Grant in Medical Humanities for her project ‘Communicating Medical Knowledge in the History of Tear Gas’. Aiming to inform new medical knowledge about tear gas, as well as provide resources for policy-makers…

We regularly run workshops and professional development classes in data storytelling, creative writing, multimedia journalism, digital communication and related areas. Our workshops combine cutting edge research with hands-on, creative activities to provide participants not only with the strategies they need, but the thinking behind them. Our aim is to empower participants to harness the expertise…

The technology studies reading group offers an informal setting to share ideas around key theories and concepts in technology studies. From the rise of big data to the impacts of nanotechnologies, the reading group brings together faculty members and PGRs from across disciplines to ask questions about how we do research on–and with–changing technologies. The reading…

The comics medium is a possible tool and approach to creating more affective communications.   Looking to shift your communications and wanting to try something new? The comics medium is approachable, accessible and relatable and can communicate serious topics of health, wellbeing and illness. These works, categorised as Graphic Medicine, both create emotive narratives and deliver…

Aftershock Nepal is about the aftermath of the April 2015 earthquake, an attempt to chronicle a troubling period in a nation’s history. Our aim is to capture the voices of ordinary people, voices that would otherwise be unheard — and through such everyday stories, by connecting communities, we hope to play a small part in…