I posted the following to the Comparative Media Studies site; the reaction around the Center to Swartz’s suicide is, we all would agree, still too raw for the Monday-after. A collection of articles, essays, testimonials, and other media is available too. The CMS community — in particular several of its […]
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(blogged by @mstem and @natematias) Today at the Media Lab, Baratunde Thurston is taking a moment out of Vacation Mode to have a conversation with the Media Lab community. How can we describe Baratunde? His personal website labels him a “politically-active, technology-loving comedian from the future.” He was director of […]
From November 30 to December 2 of 2012, the national organization for undocumented “Dreamers” United We DREAM (UWD), held a congress in Kansas City, Missouri in order to determine the next steps for the Dreamer Movement. The event was held at Kansas City’s enormous convention center located in the Downtown […]
I really loved working on LeaksWiki for Intro to Civic Media, so I will be continuing the project. I am going to do an interview every couple weeks and keep adding information to the wiki. Of course, I also hope that others add to LeaksWiki. Sasha suggested I do blog […]
From the defeat of Hollywood-sponsored Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA) to the flop of International Telecommunication Union’s crafty treaty, 2012 frustrated many government and company attempts to meddle with the internet. In its first 2013 edition, The Economist presents an interesting balance of what it calls “a big year for […]