List of hackathons about media in 2017

Music hackers in the UK! You're invited to sign up to participate in mobilise! You'll get the opportunity to work with the electronic music technology team from IRCAM in Paris. You'll be challenged to make your own personalised mobile phone music app with a few lines of code.

Graduate and undergraduate journalism students, faculty and professionals! MediaShift invites you to participate in a weekend hackathon that's focused on bots and chatbots. You'll collaborate with a diverse team to create a startup around bots and chatbots. You don't need to be a coder — this phase will be about the creation of your concept, the name of your startup, its business model and the presentation deck your team will use to pitch your project.

Developers, web designers, graphics specialists, PR professionals! Come and participate in "Mission PR" — the first hackathon to focused on PR. Bring your creativity and technical skills to work on solutions related to content creation and distribution, social media, real-time monitoring, smart data, digitization, and real-time communication. Who knows, your idea may be the one that disrupts and drives the entire PR industry.

Developers, designers, biz dev people, creatives, and you know who you are! If you're registered to attend DeveloperWeek 2017, then sign up and participate in the Accelerate 2017 hackathon. You will collaborate in teams to use sponsor's technology to create a project — a web app, mobile app, wearable solution, data visualization, algorithm, even a video presentation or visual mock-up. Compete to showcase your creativity and technical skills and win awesome prizes.

Monthly Music Hackathon NYC has decided to expand its horizon and host the first ever Music Hackathon Bulgaria! During this hackathon teams will develop mobile applications for music, technology and robots for music and also will use existing technology to create innovative and inspiring projects related to music. The goal is to use either software, robotics, or your own specialty to create a visualization of music or to integrate technology in a new way, so that it may create its own music.

Coders, designers, journalists and anybody who cares about good journalism! Come and help Build the Future of Journalism. Collaborate with like-minded individuals who are passionate about journalism to come up with ideas and ways to make a difference. Come and help save journalism from the avalanche of fake news.

GIF Hackers in the Bay Area! Come and participate in the GIF Hack. At this 24-hour hackathon, you'll collaborate with other GIF hackers to create a project based on Gfycat's API. Come as part of a team or join one at the event. You'll be able to showcase your creativity and techie expertise, while competing for the Grand Prize. Come with your awesome ideas — all your coding must be done at the Hack!

Students, curators, culture managers, storytellers, professionals in and around Sienna! Come and participate in #hackMTRSiena. You'll be challenged to design and create an innovative high tech guided tour of the museum at Santa Maria della Scala. Leverage all your design and technical skills to provide a new and compelling way to deliver museum visitors with a awesome experience of the museum's collections.

Hackers and makers! How'd you like the chance to win up to $1 million in start-up funds? You just have to come up with an awesome idea for a new Moto Mod for Motorola's new Moto Z phone. Choose from one of these three challenges: »Health and Fitness: What could make health diagnosis easier? »Retail: How could a Moto Mod change the way people experience their favorite stores and restaurants? »Multimedia: What Moto Mod would upgrade phone hardware to better suit user media preferences?