I’m here at CHI 2013, a human computer interaction conference, for the third and final keynote, the sociologist of science and anthropologist Bruno Latour, on the topic, “From aggregation to navigation, a few challenges to social theory.” photo by @pstamara Latour starts by explaining what he calls “the monadological […]
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Written by Lauren Kapsalakis and Shreeharsh Kelkar, with assistance from Rebecca Perry and Amy Johnson; photography and video by Lan Li; workshop occurred on April 26, 2013. Session 1 of the MIT Sex Trafficking & Technology Workshop. Speakers: Lisa Goldblatt Grace Mary G. Leary Discussant: Kim Surkan Mitali introduces Lisa and Mary. Lisa works with vulnerable young […]
Cowritten with Rebecca Perry, photography & video by Lan Li; workshop occurred on April 26, 2013. The welcome to the MIT Sex Trafficking & Technology Workshop, given by Mitali Thakor. Today’s Sex Trafficking & Technology workshop centers on issues of sex trafficking and labor and human rights, from the viewpoint of activists and […]
The Boston Globe’s 68 blocks series is a unique experiment in embedded local journalism. In 2012, the Boston Globe undertook a year-long effort to understand the Bowdoin-Geneva neighborhood of Dorchester. For decades, journalists had been reporting shootings and homicides there — rushing to crime scenes and then leaving to file […]
Last Friday, April 26, 2013, I attended the Philosophy and Civic Engagement symposium at Tufts University. Three speakers looked at different philosophical aspects of civic engagement: Anthony Laden of the University of Illinois at Chicago discussed the importance of reasoning as a social, interactive practice in democratic citizenship, Meira Levinson of Harvard […]