This week in Civic Media we discussed readings about digital inequality and blogospheres in Cuba and had the privilege of hearing from Paloma Duong who looks at digital media, youth culture, and the public sphere in contemporary Havana. We began by unpacking Eszter Hargittai’s The Digital Reproduction of Inequality through […]
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Last week I had the chance to watch one of the world’s great electoral-political spectacles – the New Hampshire primary – up close. It wasn’t by any means my first dalliance with American politics: I’ve had at least a loose involvement in the fascinating and frequently Freudian process by […]
Paloma Duong (MIT Global Studies and Languages): “Digital Media, Youth Culture, and the Public Sphere in Contemporary Havana” Paloma began outlining the three core projects within her presentation: 1) Concepts in Comparative Media in Latin America; 2) Information and Communication Technologies in Cuba; 3) An Approach to the […]
Paloma Duong (MIT Global Studies and Languages): “Digital Media, Youth Culture, and the Public Sphere in Contemporary Havana” Paloma began outlining the three core projects within her presentation: 1) Concepts in Comparative Media in Latin America; 2) Information and Communication Technologies in Cuba; 3) An Approach to the […]
CMS.860: Intro to Civic MediaWeek 2: Networked Social Movements Readings: · Alicia Garza, “A Herstory of the #BlackLivesMatter movement” http://collectiveliberation.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/01/Garza_Herstory_of_the_BlackLivesMatter_Movement.pdf. · Castells, M. 2007. “Communication, power and counter-power in the network society.” International Journal of Communication 1(1):238–266. http://ijoc.org/ojs/index.php/ijoc/article/download/46/35 · Costanza-Chock, S. Mic Check! Media Cultures and the Occupy Movement. · R. Kelly […]