Do we need a Magna Carta for the Internet? Who should create it, and what might it contain? Rebecca McKinnon spoke at the Center for Civic Media today about her new book, Consent of the Networked: The Worldwide Struggle for Internet Freedom (TED Talk). For many years, Rebecca was the […]
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Today’s Civic lunch featured the digital team from the Boston Globe, led by Jeff Moriarty, VP of Digital Products. He was joined by Chris Marstall, Marck Chang, and Grace Woo. They’ve just launched a new standalone site for the Globe, spinning off from the Boston.com portal and its ubiquitous popup […]
Todays Berkman Lunch was on “Designing for Remix: Computer-supported Social Creativity” by Andres Monroy-Hernandez. Andres, who is a PhD candidate at the Media Lab, designed the Scratch community online and now splits his time between the Berkman Center and Microsoft Research. Since I recently helped start a creative writing centre […]
In our ongoing quest to trace the outline of the phrase “civic media,” we began the Center for Civic Media’s 2012 lunch series with Paul Wright, Editor and Cofounder of Prison Legal News, and executive director of the Human Rights Defense Center, the non-profit umbrella which publishes PLN. PLN operates […]
If you follow news about prisoner rights, court rulings and other news about prison issues, join us for this week’s Civic Lunch… Free Civic Lunch This Week RSVP for our [free] lunch this week with Paul Wright, editor of Prison Legal News And more civic media news this week… “Nutrition […]