CORRECTIONS via Deborah Hurley: The organizers of the event were Deborah Hurley and Ron Rivest. The event was co-sponsored by MIT Cryptography and Information Security Group and the Computers, Freedom and Privacy Conference (cfp.org). I invited Bill Binney to give his talk and invited Carol Rose, ACLU of Massachusetts, to […]
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Henry Jenkins gave the closing keynote at the International Communications Association Latin American Conference in Santiago de Chile two weeks ago. His talk was titled “From Participatory Culture to Participatory Politics by Way of Participatory Learning.” This post contains live notes by @schock w/additional links by “mariel.” If you’d like to […]
Last week was the first meeting of CMS.360/860: Introduction to Civic Media. This is the second time I’m teaching the course, this year with Becky Hurwitz on board as TA. We’ve been revising the syllabus, based on a combination of feedback from last year’s students, a massive sticky-note brainstorm by […]
On Friday, Becky Hurwitz, Paolo Rogerio, and I had the opportunity to conduct mobile media-making workshops with two community based organizations (CBOs) that form part of Boston’s large and vibrant Brazilian community. The first workshop was with staff from the Brazilian Immigrant Center (here’s their new Vojo group), and the […]
Over at my Networked Social Movements: Media & Mobilization class, we’ve been discussing different approaches to understanding social movement outcomes. Thinking more carefully about movement outcomes helps us get beyond simplistic debates about the role of particular tools or tactics. In my own work, drawing from social movement theory, I […]