The Week in Civic Media: Thursday Lunch with "Prison Legal News"
Andrew conducts the communications efforts for CMS (websites, press relations, and project and event publicity) as well as those for MIT's Center for Civic Media and the MIT Game Lab.
A native of Washington, D.C., he holds a degree in communication from Wake Forest University and an M.F.A. in creative writing from Emerson College. His marketing and P.R. skills were honed at Houghton Mifflin and Tufts University. He was also the long-time fiction editor for Identity Theory and followed up with a literary tool website, called Readsfeed.
The Week in Civic Media: Thursday Lunch with "Prison Legal News"
If you follow news about prisoner rights, court rulings and other news about prison issues, join us for this week's Civic Lunch...
Free Civic Lunch This Week
- RSVP for our [free] lunch this week with Paul Wright, editor of Prison Legal News
And more civic media news this week...
"Nutrition Labels for News"
- Matt Stempeck: “Do nutrition labels even work?” A key question before testing nutrition labels for news content
Solitude on the Web
- Nathan Matias asks, Can the Internet be a place for deep personal reflection?
SOPA/PIPA
- [Audio] Our Matt Stempeck tells WGBH that SOPA radicalizes the aradical
- How SOPA would risk shutting down our prison-blogging project, Between the Bars:
- Done. Congress puts SOPA and PIPA on indefinite hold
- Pro-PIPA/SOPA senators and reps caught infringing copyright
Yahoo!'s Prediction Engine
- Yahoo! developing "the mother of all political prediction engines", via MIT Technology Review
