Susan Crawford's Captive Audience Talk at the MIT Media Lab
Liveblog of Susan Crawford talking about her new bookCaptive Audience: The Telecom Industry and Monopoly Power in the New Gilded Age at the Media Lab Conversations Series.Molly Sauter contributed to...
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What should young Americans know about democracy?
Liveblog of the first panel of the conference Civics Education: Why it Matters to Democracy, Society and You at Harvard Law School, April 1, 2013.(#vizthink by @willowbl00)Panelists:State Senator...
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What barriers stand in the way of better civic learning?
Liveblog of the second panel of the conferenceCivics Education: Why it Matters to Democracy, Society and You at Harvard Law School, April 1, 2013. Willow Brugh contributed to these notes.(#vizthink by...
View ArticleWhat's at stake? Why civic matters to me, and to you
Liveblog of the third panel of the conferenceCivics Education: Why it Matters to Democracy, Society and You at Harvard Law School, April 1, 2013. Willow Brugh contributed to these notes.PANEL 3: What’s...
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How can we encourage youth to participate in democracy?
Liveblog of the fourth and final panel of the conferenceCivics Education: Why it Matters to Democracy, Society and You at Harvard Law School, April 1, 2013. Willow Brugh contributed to these...
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All the Lawyers Agree: There is a Crisis in Civics
On Monday, I attended the conference Civics Education: Why it Matters to Democracy, Society and You co-presented by Harvard Law School and the Campaign for the Civic Mission of Schools. I liveblogged...
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Philosophy and Civic Engagement
Last Friday, April 26, 2013, I attended the Philosophy and Civic Engagement symposium at Tufts University. Three speakers looked at different philosophical aspects of civic engagement, Anthony Laden of...
View ArticleTransnational Dimensions of Spreadable Media
Liveblog of the MiT8 panel on Transnational Dimensions of Spreadable Media moderated by Sam Ford. Notes with Rodrigo Davies and others.Google Plus OneTweet WidgetFacebook Like
View ArticleAnthony Appiah on the Ethics of Diversity
Facing History and Ourselves hosted a Day of Learning "Reimagining Self and Others" at Harvard Law School on May 10, 2013. This is a liveblog of the opening presentation by Anthony Appiah, a...
View ArticleWhen Identities Turn Violent
Facing History and Ourselves hosted a Day of Learning "Reimagining Self and Others" at Harvard Law School on May 10, 2013. This is a summary of the "When Identities Turn Violent" segment featuring...
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Opening Open Government at the MIT Knight Civic Media Conference
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The Newsroom Inside Out at the MIT Knight Civic Media Conference
We're here at the 2013 MIT-Knight Civic Media conference here at the MIT Media Lab, where the theme is Insiders/Outsiders. Across the next two days, we're going to be looking at this theme of...
View ArticleEthan's Five Questions about Mapping Attention at Links 2013
This is a liveblog of Ethan Zuckerman's keynote at Links 2013. His slides are available online.Ethan opens by saying that his stock and trade is "the unusual connection." He starts talking about the...
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Moving Beyond the Question of Whether Neighborhoods Matter
Liveblog of Patrick Sharkey's presentation to the Inequality & Social Policy Seminar Series at Harvard on September 23, 2013.Patrick Sharkey is an associate professor of sociology at New York...
View ArticlePatsy Baudoin and Lessig address Boston's Aaron Swartz Hackathon
In cities around the world this weekend, people are participating in an Aaron Swartz Memorial Hackathon. Patsy Baudoin of MIT Libraries and Larry Lessig addressed the Boston-based hackers working from...
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Diversity and Contention Online: Talks by Anselm Spoerri and Jisun An
On Friday, November 22nd, the Berkman Center for Internet & Society's Cooperation group and MIT Center for Civic Media hosted two speakers—Anselm Spoerri and Jisun An—to talk about their research...
View ArticleMapping the Trayvon Martin Media Controversy
This is a summary of the article “The Battle for ‘Trayvon Martin’: Mapping a Media Controversy Online and Offline,” co-authored by Erhardt Graeff, Matt Stempeck, and Ethan Zuckerman and appearing as...
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