I was honored to give the opening keynote this Friday at the Future of Speech Online, held at the beautiful Knight Conference Center atop the… Read More »We Make the Media – a recent speech at Freedom of Speech Online 2018
On Wednesday, June 20th, Matt Smith and Aura Bogado broke a harrowing story about the Shiloh Treatment Center, south of Houston, TX, one of the… Read More »Media and provenance
Social media doesn’t work the way we think it should. That’s the conclusion many people have come to in the wake of revelations about Cambridge… Read More »Six or Seven Things Social Media Can Do For Democracy
I’m speaking today in Ben Franklin Hall in Philadelphia for a conference of Media Impact Funders. And, at the request of the organizers, I’m cosplaying… Read More »Two Bens and a Mark: a talk at Ben Franklin Hall in Philadelphia
When my friends and colleagues began working on the first Make the Breast Pump Not Suck hackathon in 2014 (http://www.kanarinka.com/project/mit-breast-pump-hackathon/), they were focused on the… Read More »Because America’s Family Leave Policy Sucks, Too.
Roughly ten years ago, as phones became smartphones and Facebook and Twitter began their rise towards ubiquity, a fundamental social shift took place: the majority… Read More »Who Filters Your News? Why we built gobo.social