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This post is an update on the progress of my and Hailey Lee’s final project. Our original proposal can be found here. Our Working Title: Minority Representation in the Boston Television News Industry One interesting fact that was pointed out to Hailey and I in class was that Boston is […]

In today’s episode of the Co-Design Lit Review, I’m looking at the Collaborative Design space. I noticed something interesting while working on this week’s chapter. The term “collaborative design” is most predominantly used to refer to the use of multi-disciplinary design teams and not explicitly to community involvement in the […]

Did Modernity start with the telegraph? In our class last Wednesday, we discussed this claim from James Carey’s 1989 book, Communication as Culture: Essays on Media and Society (you can read Carey’s telegraph article here). Here is his astonishing and fascinating central claim: the innovation of the telegraph can stand […]

Benjamen Walker is the host of the program “Too Much Information” a radio show (and podcast) about life in the information age. He reports on many of the issues and topics of the day (Wikileaks, Anonymous, online porn, surveillance, net neutrality) but he also throws in conspiracy theories, fiction and […]

Center for Civic Media director Ethan Zuckerman during the Media Lab’s fall meeting: It’s 2011. This is a year — depending on how this year ends up — that is going to be remembered perhaps as we remember 1989, 1968, perhaps 1848 as one of these years where the world […]