Representing Islam, a Civic Media Session this Thursday “Representing Islam”, our 9/15 event with Boston College/Berkman Center’s Intisar Rabb, Sudanese blogger Amir Ahmad Nasr, and civil rights outreach director of the American Islamic Congress, Nasser Weddady http://cot.ag/nc5hYn Thursday lunch series kicks off (RSVP req.) Thursday 12:30pm: “Citizen and Professional Media […]
Daily Archives: September 12, 2011
11 posts
Today was the second meeting of Intro to Civic Media, and it’s already clear that the semester is going to be an exciting one. After a spirited discussion of the issues raised by the students’ first round of blog entries, we experimented with May First / People Link’s Collaborative Democracy […]
My name is Sayamindu, and I’m a graduate student in the MAS (Media Arts and Sciences) program here at MIT. In the past I have been involved in a number of Free and Open Source projects, and currently I’m involved in a Media Lab project called Scratch where kids can […]
Five years ago I was a sophomore at Carnegie Mellon University trying to decide between 11 different fields of study. Meanwhile, the Journalism industry was beginning a transformation of its own as Internet-based panic and disruption was reaching a critical mass among Newspapers and professional informers. That was the year […]
In the interest of full disclosure, I must admit I have never blogged before in my life. This is a truly new experience for me, so please bear with me as I learn the ropes. My online presence is very sparse, consisting of merely a Facebook and a very new […]