On Friday, November 22nd, the Berkman Center for Internet & Society’s Cooperation group and MIT Center for Civic Media hosted two speakers—Anselm Spoerri and Jisun An—to talk about their research into diversity and contention online. This is a liveblog of those talks authored by Erhardt Graeff, Dalia Othman, Catherine D’Ignazio, […]
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Sing Lobna, Sing .. I wanted to share a very touching but a successful fund-raising campaign to support medical expenses of a Turkish Palestinian demonstrator, Lobna. They needed at least 70 thousand dollars but it is more than a hundred dollars for now. She was almost paralyzed but started to […]
Liveblog of Kate Darling’s Berkman Center lunch, A discussion of near-term ethical, legal, and societal issues in robotics. Kate begins with the observation that there aren’t nearly enough experts in robotic law. Those that are interested in the emergent field need to become more expert, and many more need to […]
This past week I attended a behavior change and digital security workshop hosted by the Tactical Technology Collective in Berlin. Tactical Tech does fantastic work supporting people who engage in information advocacy and activist projects (our own Rahul has previously written about his work with the collective). Tactical Tech has […]
I was recently invited to give a Skype keynote for the first hackathon hosted by the state of Minas Gerais in Brazil. The talk was a wonderful provocation to revisit the writing of another Brazilian I used to study – Paulo Freire and his vision of popular education. This led me to wonder… what would a […]