Boston Civic Media Consortium: Teaching Climate, Inspiring Action Friday 24th March 2017 Organized by the Boston Civic Media Consortium with Sara Wylie and Sharon Harlan of Northeastern University’s Social Science Environmental Health Research Institute (SSEHRI), the event on Teaching Climate, Inspiring Action bought together academics, students, community groups, journalists, […]
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The is a liveblog of the “The Civic State of the Union” panel on March 7, 2017, part of the Tisch College Distinguished Speaker Series at Tufts University. The video is on YouTube. Note: this is not a transcript, any errors are mine. Panelists* Robert D. Putnam, Harvard University* Shirley […]
This is a liveblog of the town hall discussion “CSCW Research Ethics Town Hall: Working Towards Community Norms” at CSCW 2017. Panelists from the SIGCHI Ethics Committee Amy Bruckman, Georgia Institute of Technology Barry Brown, University of Stockholm Casey Fiesler, CU Boulder Jeff Hancock, Stanford Cosmin Munteanu, University of Toronto […]
This is a liveblog of the Social Justice and Design panel at the CSCW 2017 conference. Panelists: Shaowen Bardzell, Indiana University Lilly Irani, University of California, San Diego Jean Hardy, University of Michigan Jill Dimond, Sassafras Tech Collective Accidental Activists Or: Why I Burst Into Tears during a Research InterviewShaowen […]
In early 2016, Operation Libero, an anti-populist movement cofounded by history student Flavia Kleiner, 26, successfully defeated an anti-immigrant Swiss ballot initiative. The “enforcement” initiative, sponsored by the nationalist Swiss People’s Party (SVP), would have ordered the deportation of immigrants in Switzerland for any criminal offense, no matter how minor. […]