(Cross-posted from Becky Hurwitz‘ summary over at Occupy Research) In 5 cities (Boston, Los Angeles, New York, Oakland, DC) over 3 days (Mar 23, 24, and 25), developers, designers, researchers, artists, occupiers, and hackers gathered to analyze and visualize datasets related to the Occupy movement. At the various sites, teams […]
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Gabi has done a nice job summarizing last week’s blog posts from the networked social movements seminar, which this week was focused on collective identity processes. Cross posting for the civic media crowd (or read the original post here): The People’s Mic: Dancing Between Collective and Personal Identities? – Amy […]
This is a crosspost from the Networked Social Movements course blog, where Vic has written an excellent summary of student posts about resource mobilization theory: My name is Vic and the following is a brief overview of the posts for the week of Feb 20th: (Classical Theories), Resource Mobilization, Political […]
Live notes from Otto Santa Ana’s talk “Contemporary Network Television News Reporting About Latinos: Successes, Failures, and a Range of Proposals to Correct Its Limitations.” All errors by natematias and schock. Event link: http://cms.mit.edu/events/talks.php#020812 Live notes link: http://brownbag.me:9001/p/otto “Otto Santa Anna presents findings from his forthcoming book, Juan in a […]
Before Fox News: Right-Wing Broadcasting, Cold War America, and the Conservative Movement Heather Hendershot, Queens College, CUNYhttp://cms.mit.edu/events/specialevents.php#122011 In the Cold War years, there was a tremendous surge in right-wing broadcasting in America. Hendershot explains how radio and TV extremists feigned a “balanced” presentation of their ideas in the 1950s; in […]