Live notes from a lunch talk by Andrew Keen. Notes by Ed Platt and Ali Hashmi. Ethan introduces Andrew as a former silicon valley entrepreneur, then historian. He’s since focused on understanding the culture of silicon valley. Andrew set out to write about the history of the Internet. Although the […]

Andrew Keen: The Internet is Not the Answer

This is a liveblog of the talk “Understanding America’s Interested Bystander: A Complicated Relationship with Civic Duty,” by Kate Krontiris, John Webb, Charlotte Krontiris, and Chris Chapman. Blogged by @natematias and @erhardt, with illustrations by @willowbl00. What motivates everyday people in America to do things that are civic, and how […]

America’s Interested Bystander: New Research from Google on Civic Duty

This is a liveblog of the talk “Developing an Organic Arab Digital and Media Literacy, Pedagogy, and Theory” by Jad Melki on March 23, 2015 at Emerson College, sponsored by the Engagement Lab. Salzburg Academy on Media and Global Change faculty member Jad Melki speaks at the inaugural MDLAB in […]

Jad Melki: Developing an Arab Digital and Media Literacy

After a year of collaborative development with partners in Brazil, our newest tool, Promise Tracker, will officially launch in São Paulo this week on March 24th. Over the past 6 days, we ran 5 workshops in 4 different cities throughout the country to introduce the tool to civil society organizations […]

Promise Tracker launches civic monitoring campaigns across Brazil

This post was liveblogged by J. Nathan Matias, Ethan Zuckerman, Erhardt Graeff, Lilia Kilburn, with illustrations by Willow Brugh Jill Dimond lives in Ann Arbor Michigan, and hails from rural Western Michigan. The logo for her company, Sassafras, evokes the shape of the state of Michigan. After a degree at […]