Aspen Civic Engagement

Report

An Aspen Institute report, ‘Civic Engagement on the Move: How Mobile Media Can Serve the Public Good’, based on the Institute’s Roundtable on Mobile Media and Civic Engagement and written up by rapporteur J.D. Lasica for its Communications and Society Program. Published in 2008, it explores mobile media’s role in fostering community solidarity, political participation and public accountability, including case studies such as Computerized Neighborhood Environment Tracking (ComNET) and other emerging political uses of mobile technology.