Today at the Berkman Center for Internet and Society, Eszter Hargittai and Aaron Shaw offered some fascinating new evidence on the gender gap in Wikipedia. Here’s a vizThink by Willow Brugh from the talk: Eszter Hargittai is a professor in the Communication Studies Department and the Institute for Policy Research […]
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You should apply to be a Berkman Fellow next year, especially if you’re a designer, computer scientist, or researcher of technology. There’s one week remaining. Apply here. If you haven’t clicked on that link and started filling out the application, this blog post is for you. The official link has […]
Can small challenges and peer support help young people grow habits to become socially responsible people? That’s the premise of Rhythms, a fascinating web and mobile app launched this May by TearFund, the UK Christian relief and development agency. Nathan’s avatar checks his privilege on Rhythms The Rhythms site asks […]
Governments are putting in massive work to crack communications. Many companies are working hard to create surveillance tools used by our governments and many others. Many service providers are vulnerable to these issues. What fixes can we make as designers of technology? Morgan Marquis-Boire joined us for lunch at the […]
How can we make sense of the NSA Files and the role of mass surveillance in our world? (this post was written with Becky Hurwitz, Erhardt Graeff, Chelsea Barabas, and Heather Craig) At the MIT Media Lab today, Ethan Zuckerman held a conversation with Jillian C. York, Director for International Freedom of Expression at the […]