Liveblog of the first panel of the conference Civics Education: Why it Matters to Democracy, Society and You at Harvard Law School, April 1, 2013. (#vizthink by @willowbl00) Panelists: State Senator Richard Moore (Massachusetts State Senator) Howard Gardner (Professor, Harvard Graduate School of Education) Peter Levine (Professor, Tufts University and […]

What should young Americans know about democracy?

Boston-area Mormons have developed a local blogging scene that builds community between both parishioners and their non-Mormon friends. For a faith that’s accustomed to defending against stereotypes, a blog post is a chance to tell one’s own truth. Amy Beth Harrison of Cambridge, Mass. published a post titled “Media Attention […]

Blogging the Mormon Story, One Mormon at a Time

Liveblog of Susan Crawford talking about her new book Captive Audience: The Telecom Industry and Monopoly Power in the New Gilded Age at the Media Lab Conversations Series. Molly Sauter contributed to this liveblog, and Rodrigo Davies previously posted our transcription of the Q&A portion of the event. Introduction and […]

Susan Crawford’s Captive Audience Talk at the MIT Media Lab

Media Lab Conversations: Susan CrawfordMarch 28, 2013 #MLTalks Susan Crawford was at the Media Lab today to talk about her new book Captive Audience: The Telecom Industry and Monopoly Power in the New Gilded Age. She is a highly-respected lawyer and professor and has taught at Cardozo Law School, University of […]

The wired monopoly and the future of broadband

During the 2012 election, The ~2000 members of an anti-Ron Paul subreddit discovered that anything they posted, anywhere on reddit, was being rapidly, repeatedly downvoted. They created a diagnostic subreddit and began posting otherwise meaningless text to verify this otherwise odd behavior. Another redditor posted a “Java […]