MIT Tech TV Is there a media obesity problem in America? Is our appetite for tasty celebrity news and comfortable opinions creating a toxically-polarised society? What should our information diet be, and how would we measure it? Who’s responsible to change the media? Today at the Center for Civic Media, […]
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Today, Tom Stocky visited the Media Lab to talk about how Facebook designs and builds products. He’s a Media Lab graduate and the director of product management at Facebook. He shared five principles for great design: start with people; hack and share; solve the root cause; keep it simple; and […]
This is a writeup of today’s Center for Civic Media lunch event. If you’re in the Cambridge area, come join us! Nicco Mele is one of the leading thinkers on the use of technology in politics. He wrote the book on disruptive small donor politics as Howard Dean’s webmaster, and […]
Live notes from Otto Santa Ana’s talk “Contemporary Network Television News Reporting About Latinos: Successes, Failures, and a Range of Proposals to Correct Its Limitations.” All errors by natematias and schock. Event link: http://cms.mit.edu/events/talks.php#020812 Live notes link: http://brownbag.me:9001/p/otto “Otto Santa Anna presents findings from his forthcoming book, Juan in a […]
One feature of the Center that we love to, well, feature is our completely unique set of courses. This semester we have three of them — two taught by professor and Center co-principal investigator Sasha Costanza-Chock and the other, in his MIT class debut, by our director Ethan Zuckerman. Registration […]