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. About Julio Salgado and Dreamers Adrift Julio Salgado is an “artivist” and one of the four Dream Act-eligible […]
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Updated with industry benchmark petition conversion rates (4/11/12) and illustration by Lyla Duey (8/18/12). For weeks, the only Trayvon Martin coverage I saw was on Twitter, where every progressive I knew had shared a link to the Change.org petition. Eventually, I saw more media attention around the story. This led […]
MIT Tech TV @jayrosen_nyu and @ethanz discussed the past, present, and future of journalism at this evening’s MIT Communications Forum. He actually used the word “tripartite,” but I thought cake would be better for SEO. This is as close to a faithful transcript as my fingers would allow. Jay’s been […]
This is the third page of livenotes from a panel I was on in Elizabethtown College on Corporate Social Responsibility. You can find the main index here: I was a speaker on the second panel, which focused on more intimate, and in my case, scrappier organisations. Cristina Ciocirlan, a business […]
MIT Tech TV Caroline Woolard is an artist, innovator and activist whose work focuses on alternative economics, particularly ones based on sharing and bartering. Her presentation at the Center for Civic Media focuses on some of the projects she’s helped start, including OurGoods and TradeSchool, and a larger framework, called […]