Making Power Visible (civic media pattern)
Reveal what power is doing so communities can hold it accountable.
Reveal what power is doing so communities can hold it accountable.
Projects in this pattern
- Promise Tracker
- Participatory Investigation Process
- Oakland Lowdown Endless Storefronts
- Beautiful News
Details
- source tag: CB
- source note: From the Civic Media Cookbook: 'Producing Civic Media: Recipes to Produce Civic Media Through Participation, Power and Community' — Jihii Jolly and Jennifer Brandel, with the News Futures Working Group (2026).
- building from: Promise Tracker, Participatory Investigation Process, Oakland Lowdown Endless Storefronts, Beautiful News
- practice kind: pattern
- charter alignment: community_accountability, reparative
- Mentions
Participatory Investigation Process
- Mentions
Promise Tracker
- Mentions
Beautiful News
-
Framework
Amplifying Unheard Voices (civic media pattern)
Surface and center voices left out of public narrative.
-
Framework
Building Civic Muscle (civic media pattern)
Practice the skills and habits of civic participation.
-
Recipe
Care Webs
Networks of 20-30 people who check on each other regularly and respond collectively before issues become emergencies.
-
Recipe
Community Research Teams
Residents learn records requests, data analysis, and documentation to investigate what's happening and demand action.
-
Recipe
Community Support Spaces
Regular peer circles where people with shared experiences witness each other's stories and heal together.
Contributed by Jihii Jolly & Jennifer Brandel, with the News Futures Working Group · Civic Media Cookbook (2026)
Original source: https://www.newsfutures.org/library/civic-media-cookbook
See something to fix or add? Suggest an edit on GitHub — the commons lives in git too, and its history is the changelog.
civic-mediacivic-media-patterncharter:community_accountabilitycharter:reparative