We were fortunate enough to lunch with Schuyler Towne today. Lorrie closes the blast door between our two buildings, which sets the appropriate tone for a talk on lockpicking. MIT Tech TV Schuyler Towne is obsessed with locks. He got his start as a competitive picker, winning the American Open […]
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One of Tim O’Reilly’s favorite quotes goes, “The skill of writing is to create a context in which other people can think” (said by Edwin Schlossberg). Tim’s detected a pattern of success across his long and accomplished career, and it is the ability to detect and annunciate patterns that haven’t […]
MIT Tech TV S. Craig Watkins joined us for lunch today to talk about learning environments which cultivate critical social vision. Craig teaches at the University of Texas, Austin, in the departments of Radio-Television-Film, Sociology, and the Center for African and African American Studies. Craig has done a lot of […]
Read a detailed run-down on our blog: civic.mit.edu/blog/mstem/jay-rosens-three-layer-journalism-cake Co-sponsored by the Center for Civic Media; Comparative Media Studies; Science, Technology, and Society; and the Program in Writing and Humanistic Studies New communications technologies are revolutionizing our experience of news and information. The avalanche of news, gossip, and citizen reporting available […]
The following is a summary of an interview with Julio Salgado regarding a project with the Center for Civic Media at MIT on the role of Media and Technology in Social Movements. Contextualizing Media Practice Julio then went on to discuss how he sees his relationship with different types of […]