One of the wonderful things and challenges of Intro to Civic Media is that there are a lot of topics to cover, but this is only because there are a lot of incredible things happening to call attention to problems, mobilize people to confront those problems and make change in […]
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This is the youth initiative I mentioned at the Intro to Civic Media course: http://hype.blogs.muhlenberg.edu/about/
Governments are putting in massive work to crack communications. Many companies are working hard to create surveillance tools used by our governments and many others. Many service providers are vulnerable to these issues. What fixes can we make as designers of technology? Morgan Marquis-Boire joined us for lunch at the […]
How can we make sense of the NSA Files and the role of mass surveillance in our world? (this post was written with Becky Hurwitz, Erhardt Graeff, Chelsea Barabas, and Heather Craig) At the MIT Media Lab today, Ethan Zuckerman held a conversation with Jillian C. York, Director for International Freedom of Expression at the […]
On Monday I gave a talk to MIT’s New Economy Group titled “Crowdfunding, Community Assets and the New Economy”. One of the first things I presented, by way of context, was this timeline. It’s not meant to be an exhaustive collection of events, but here are a few things I […]