People go about their daily routine unaware of the risks they may encounter by using their personal “care” products, the very products meant to keep them looking and feeling healthy. This is an issue that only recently came to my attention, and through conversation I quickly realized that many others […]
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This past weekend the Networked Storytelling group hosted our first story-hack day at the Center for Civic Media. The Networked Storytelling group, based out of the Berkman Center, explores new forms of storytelling with digital media. During the story-hack day, we formed small groups and each group explored a different […]
Why would some online videos trend in both Ukraine and Latin America? I don’t know, but it looks like they do. Continuing our work on the What We Watch project, which Ethan previously blogged about, I noticed that Ukraine has a surprising (to me) number of trending videos in common […]
On Thursday, December 5th, Seamus Kraft from the OpenGov Foundation gave a lunch talk at the MIT Center for Civic Media. This is a liveblog of the talk authored by Alexis Hope, Heather Craig, & @schock. Lorrie introduces the talk: Seamus studied classical political theory, went into government, discovered that […]
You should apply to be a Berkman Fellow next year, especially if you’re a designer, computer scientist, or researcher of technology. There’s one week remaining. Apply here. If you haven’t clicked on that link and started filling out the application, this blog post is for you. The official link has […]