Organization We Love: Broadcastr

Ever walked around a new city, neighborhood, or street, and wondered what stories the walls had to tell? Especially in New York, it feels like there are volumes of history buried in every building, block, and neighborhood. To help keep these stories alive, a new organization called Broadcastr is using mobile technology to keep people connected to the city. Similar to a museum’s audio guide, Broadcastr has created a social media platform for people to learn about locations and connect to each other via the stories they tell. All you have to do is download the application onto a smart phone and tune in.

Broadcastr will be participating in the New Museum’s Festival of Ideas for the New City. For the festival, each of the participants is uploading messages for a walking tour to introduce visitors to its project. Check out ours here!

Broadcastr is a Social Media platform for location-based stories. It enables the recording, indexing, listening, and sharing of audio content. Just like in human memory, every story is bound to a place.
Whether dishing last night’s details to friends, uncovering local lore, perusing restaurant reviews, listening to travel guides, tuning in to citizen journalism, contemplating oral histories, or sharing hilarious anecdotes, Broadcastr amplifies all our voices. Users can take a GPS-enabled walk as stories about their surroundings stream into their headphones, like a museum tour of the entire world. Users can record their own content, create playlists, follow their friends, and share on Facebook.