Do social networks inherently support democratic values, in contrast with ideology-bound political institutions? At the MIT Media Lab Friday, former Al Jazeera Director General Wadah Khanfar talked about what it took for the news company to reimagine itself and listen to networks during the Arab Spring. He was joined by […]
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MIT Tech TV Is there a media obesity problem in America? Is our appetite for tasty celebrity news and comfortable opinions creating a toxically-polarised society? What should our information diet be, and how would we measure it? Who’s responsible to change the media? Today at the Center for Civic Media, […]
Today, Tom Stocky visited the Media Lab to talk about how Facebook designs and builds products. He’s a Media Lab graduate and the director of product management at Facebook. He shared five principles for great design: start with people; hack and share; solve the root cause; keep it simple; and […]
Do we need a Magna Carta for the Internet? Who should create it, and what might it contain? Rebecca McKinnon spoke at the Center for Civic Media today about her new book, Consent of the Networked: The Worldwide Struggle for Internet Freedom (TED Talk). For many years, Rebecca was the […]
Todays Berkman Lunch was on “Designing for Remix: Computer-supported Social Creativity” by Andres Monroy-Hernandez. Andres, who is a PhD candidate at the Media Lab, designed the Scratch community online and now splits his time between the Berkman Center and Microsoft Research. Since I recently helped start a creative writing centre […]