Judith Donath has been doing social media, interaction design, and data visualization long before social media existed, as the principal investigator at the MIT Media Lab’s Sociable Media Group. Today, she launched her new book, The Social Machine. Erhardt and I were there to blog it. As more people socialize, […]
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By Caty Arevalo, Aleszu Bajak, and Matt Carroll It ended with dramatic, insightful presentations on video gaming and addiction, possible gender disparities in Medicare payments, and how drug cartels might hinder shale oil exploration in Mexico. The middle was a rush of frantic coding, reporting, and research, fueled with a […]
Last week, I was in San Francisco as a panelist and plenary speaker at the inaugural SHARE conference. The event was organized by Peers (a research partner in January) and SOCAP, and I spoke about the future of work. I also gave a lightning talk at the closing plenary. All […]
Last month at the Media Lab, Helena, Jen, Michaela and I organized Build Peace, a conference to bring together practitioners from the worlds of peacebuilding and technology to talk about how the two fields could work together. It was an incredibly enlightening and generative three days, and before the first […]
At Theorizing the Web this year, MIT Center for Civic Media alum Molly Sauter delivered a powerful paper on the idea of “civic fiction” using the the case of A Gay Girl in Damascus (about how a white American man created a compelling fake lesbian Syrian blogger named Amina during […]