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 in Italy” with Luca De Biase: http://cot.ag/oNzqAi
Introduction to Civic Media
- Sasha Costanza-Chock’s Intro to Civic Media class begins wrestling with the field’s definition, implications, and complications http://cot.ag/rniPJx
- Sasha Costanza-Chock inaugurates “Introduction to Civic Media” course http://cot.ag/pVCSfU
Shortcomings in the years after 9/11
- $40b in anti-terror intelligence, including new tech, has little to show http://cot.ag/raWbvf
- AP: NYPD maintained secret Demographic Unit to target and eavesdrop on local Muslims http://cot.ag/pZMI4K
Data
- Jonathan Stray: “Large data set is only as good as the tools we use to access it” http://cot.ag/qgBE8s
- MIT Community Innovators Lab on crisis coverage: “What you crave during a crisis is information, not entertainment.” http://cot.ag/qnkuiy
And things that simply make us happy
- Spectrometry for under $5: http://cot.ag/oL1R1v Great work from Jeff Warren
- Job at Chicago Tribune: “Code in the public interest, make your mother proud” http://cot.ag/nKPrDL
- In contrast to 2008 race, mainstream media diving headlong into factchecking candidates http://cot.ag/rjdMIJ
- Joi Ito, in moving the MIT Media Lab from container to platform, to redefine sponsors as members http://cot.ag/nr4eEB