Understanding the impact of global production, and the supply chains that lie behind them, has become a significant part of my work. These issues have been brought out over the past few days by the release (and subsequent removal) of a game on Apple’s App Store that treats some of […]
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This post is a result of a collaborative effort. The raw data for the post is available here. Thanks to everyone in class for contributing to the shared notes. The discussion topic for today’s edition of the class Introduction to Civic Media (CMS 360/860) was the digital divide. The reading […]
Representing Islam, a Civic Media Session this Thursday “Representing Islam”, our 9/15 event with Boston College/Berkman Center’s Intisar Rabb, Sudanese blogger Amir Ahmad Nasr, and civil rights outreach director of the American Islamic Congress, Nasser Weddady http://cot.ag/nc5hYn Thursday lunch series kicks off (RSVP req.) Thursday 12:30pm: “Citizen and Professional Media […]
Today was the second meeting of Intro to Civic Media, and it’s already clear that the semester is going to be an exciting one. After a spirited discussion of the issues raised by the students’ first round of blog entries, we experimented with May First / People Link’s Collaborative Democracy […]
My name is Sayamindu, and I’m a graduate student in the MAS (Media Arts and Sciences) program here at MIT. In the past I have been involved in a number of Free and Open Source projects, and currently I’m involved in a Media Lab project called Scratch where kids can […]