Forthcoming in the Fall issue of In Media Res, the newsletter of MIT’s Comparative Media Studies program. We arrived in Cajamarca in northern Peru just in time for an information and communications technology (ICT) training session for local internet entrepreneurs from rural villages across the country. The training site was […]
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Courtesy of the Media Lab’s great production crew comes a great set of quick interviews with attendees of our Future of News and Civic Media conference. Available for download as well: http://labcast.media.mit.edu/?p=90
Courtesy of the Media Lab’s great production crew comes a great set of quick interviews with attendees of our Future of News and Civic Media conference. Available for download as well: http://labcast.media.mit.edu/?p=90
Last fall, I spoke at the University of Oregon about the role of popular and participatory culture in the American Presidential campaign. Many of the ideas in that talk had taken shape through this blog. For example, here’s a post which looked at the role of photoshop mash-ups in shaping […]
A year or so ago, Mark Deuze (Media Work) and I edited a special issue of the journal, Convergence, which explored some of the issues around “Convergence Culture.” One of the best essays we received in our open paper call came from Daren C. Brabham, a Ph.D candidate at the […]