NEWS
Living Voters Guide wins top state app
The Living Voters Guide won top prize in the Evergreen Apps Challenge. The crowd-sourced voter guide is a collaboration among CCCE, the UW Department of Computer Science and Engineering and Seattle CityClub. The project is [...]
Becoming Citizens Interns Engage Local Students with Civic Voice Curriculum
During Spring Quarter 2012, twelve University of Washington undergraduate students went into local middle and high schools and community centers to run the Becoming Citizens civic voice curriculum. The interns worked at Mercer Middle School, [...]
Howard awarded fellowship at Center for Information Technology Policy at Princeton
Princeton's Center for Information Technology Policy has awarded Philip Howard a fellowship year, beginning March 2012. The Center is a nexus of expertise in technology and engineering, public policy, and the social sciences and the [...]
Howard Blogs the Revolution
With the political uprisings across North Africa and the Middle East in 2011, the CCCE's sister project the Project on Information Technology and Political Islam became a go-to portal for journalists and foreign policy experts. [...]
CCCE NSF grant for technology and public deliberation
Lance Bennett and Alan Borning (Computer Science) have received an award of $733,000 from the NSF Social-Computational Systems Program for a three-year project titled, "Socio-Computational Systems to Support Public Engagement and Deliberation." Read more and [...]
CCCE director will be Olof Palme Chair at Stockholm University
The Swedish Research Council has selected Lance Bennett to hold the national Olof Palme Chair for 2010 (with return visits in 2011 and 2012). The Olof Palme Chair was created by the Swedish Parliament (Riksdagen) in 1987. Its [...]
Lance Bennett on media spin and ‘Manufacturing Doubts About Science’
Lance Bennett talks on "Manufacturing Doubts About Science: How Media Spin Undermines Engagement with Public Problems" at the University of Washington Global Health Seminar, May 21, 2010. This talk was also given at Town Hall [...]
The Spirit Level: Why Greater Equality Makes Societies Stronger
Richard Wilkinson and Kate Pickett John de Graaf, moderator Saturday, January 9, 2010 2-4 p.m. UW Communication 126 Listen to or download the talk (20MB) Richard Wilkinson and Kate Pickett will talk about their book, [...]
2009 CCCE newsletter released
The 2009 CCCE newsletter The newsletter features: The Becoming Citizens program Civic Media Research at CCCE Leads the Way CCCE Hosts Media and Youth Leaders from Around the World Puget Sound Off Receiving Worldwide Attention [...]
Everyday Epiphanies: Environmental networks in eco-makeover television
Geoffrey Craig, CCCE Visiting Scholar March 12, 2009 Noon to 1:30 p.m. CMU 126 This colloquium investigates the "eco-makeover" lifestyle television genre through an analysis of the New Zealand program, WA$TED. The program involves an [...]