Today my guest post Opening the Black Box: Analytics and Admissions went live on for Chronicle of Higher Education’s Head Count blog. I’ve been working on this post with Chronicle editor Eric Hoover for a few months. It shares some of the surprising (and, for admissions officers, disturbing) effects that […]
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In the following interview, I speak with Carlos Souza, vice-coordinator of the Center for Technology & Society at the Getulio Vargas Foundation’s Law School in Rio de Janeiro. His center has been a key player in the efforts to pass the Civil Rights Framework for the Internet in the Brazilian […]
When New York Magazine reported that the columnist David Brooks was to teach a course at Yale entitled “Humility,” someone may as well have lit a beacon, like a snark-signal hovering high over Internet City. Blogs blogged, tweets tweeted, and tumblrs tumbled. Matt Taibbi, channeling his characteristic clarified rage, called […]
You can comment in-line on this post by clicking the readrboard icon at the end of each paragraph, or using the dashboard above. Critics of civic crowdfunding sometimes suggest it subverts government and civil society, and risks replacing existing institutions with an ecosystem of community pressure groups – among whom […]
Civic Media Fans, Sourcemap was one of the first spin-offs from the Center for Civic Media, and we’ve just landed exciting new projects in West Africa and in Latin America. We’re looking for special people to fill the spots. See our job call below. -Leo Are you fascinated with how […]