I’ve blogged before about my thesis, which is a study of what I’m calling “user generated censorship.” I’m writing the case studies for my thesis right now. They include, among others: The Digg Patriots, a group of conservative Digg users who coordinated through a Yahoo!Group to downvote posts on Digg […]
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At the Center for Civic Media, we do a lot of quantitative media analysis, trying to answer questions of public value by finding patterns across millions of articles, tweets, and TV captions. As a former student of poetry, I’m often aware of how much we miss. Today, a dear friend […]
(a Civic lunch liveblogged with Nathan Matias and Rahul Bhargava) Today, we’re hearing from the National Archives and Records Adminisration about the archives they maintain, how they’re making those archives available online at Archives.gov, and approaches to sharing the archives to broader audiences. Pamela Wright is the Chief Innovation Officer […]
In late Jan, the Vozmob and Vojo teams gathered in Oakland and LA for a work sprint. Link to notes from the sprint: http://brownbag.me:9001/p/vozmob-sprint-january2013 Who: The Vozmob team of IDEPSCA (http://vozmob.net/) are based in LA were part of the original codesign team for Vozmob and continue to be codesigners as […]
[poster designed by Denise Cheng] The Spring 2013 Codesign Studio is underway. Inspired by the profusion of hackathons, the frame of this semester’s course is to collaboratively design an inclusive pop-up event with our community partners. We meet weekly and both enrolled students and our partners participate in each class […]