written collaboratively with Leo Burd New Day New Standard is a hotline that informs nannies, housekeepers, elder caregivers, and their employers about the landmark Domestic Workers’ Bill of Rights, passed in New York State in November 2010. Users can call the hotline from any type of phone to listen to […]
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Thanks to Erhardt Graeff for all his help with taking livenotes for this panel! Ben Huh, ROFLcon organizer and I Can Haz Cheezburger founder introduces us to the topic of his talk: Copyright and Making the Meme Ecosystem Better. He asks the audience, “More people are trying to use old […]
Members of Press Pass TV (Press Pass, http://presspasstv.org/) and members of the Center for Civic Media met last week for a codesign workshop to explore using NewJack in the Press Pass Respect in Reporting (RIP) campaign that seeks to establish new standards among journalists writing about violence. Press Pass describes […]
Panelists: R. Stevens (Diesel Sweeties), Sam Brown (Explodingdog)Growing from the backwaters of nerdy scribblers uploading their doings onto the web, webcomics have grown into vast, mighty engines of culture online in the past decade plus. Whether it’s the firm geekery of xkcd or the more obscure dabblings of Achewood – […]
Read a detailed run-down on our blog: civic.mit.edu/blog/mstem/jay-rosens-three-layer-journalism-cake Co-sponsored by the Center for Civic Media; Comparative Media Studies; Science, Technology, and Society; and the Program in Writing and Humanistic Studies New communications technologies are revolutionizing our experience of news and information. The avalanche of news, gossip, and citizen reporting available […]