I’m behind on my blogging, because my copresenters this morning gave extremely rich, complex talks – it’s going to take me more time to get… Read More »Hamid Tehrani and a nuanced view of social media in Iran
We start the seminar at Ars Electronica on cloud computing in darkness, which David Sasaki reminds us, is the state of nature. We think of… Read More »David Sasaki maps the brave new world of the cloud
Perhaps the most intriguing piece I’ve seen at Ars Electronica so far is called WIAWIA, “Water in Africa, Water in Austria”. On the surface, it’s… Read More »Interactive art in blackface
Iran's Revolutionary In L.A. – Forbes.com Details on Shahram Homayoun and Channel One's efforts to get inexpensive video cameras into Iran to monitor the elections… Read More »links for 2009-09-03
I’m off to Linz today for the Ars Electronica festival/conference/colloquium. I’ve been aware of Ars for years, and Global Voices won a prize from the… Read More »Off to Austria
I’m working on some research on press coverage of Iran, wondering whether the heavy restrictions on international journalists reporting from within Iran led to a… Read More »When coverage outpaces interest – can statistics show us when the press is trying to lead readers to a story?