One of the first things I noticed about Sao Paulo was the graffiti. It’s everywhere, and it’s stylistically very striking – angular, highly stylized letters… Read More »Pixação, or why São Paulo looks like a death metal album cover
Today’s Media Lab Conversations involves Ophelia Dahl and Dr. Megan Murray from Partners in Health with Joi Ito and David Sengeh from the Media Lab.… Read More »Partners In Health at the MIT Media Lab – design challenges around Ebola
I admire much of the work Open Society Foundation does (a good thing, as I’m a board member), but I have a special soft spot… Read More »“Watching Me Watching You” – Hasan Elahi and Josh Begley on the imagery of surveillance
Today’s Comparative Media Studies colloquium features one of our own, Assistant Professor of Civic Media, Sasha Costanza-Chock. His new book, “Out of the Shadows, Into… Read More »Sasha Costanza Chock on Immigrant Rights and Transmedia Organizing
Philosopher Helen Nissenbaum is one of the leading thinkers about the ethical issues we face in digital spaces. Her work on privacy as “contextual integrity”… Read More »Helen Nissenbaum on Ad Nauseum, resistance through obfuscation, and weapons of the weak
Multimedia artist, writer, activist and teacher Coco Fusco is a visiting associate professor at MIT’s Comparative Media Studies this year, and she introduced herself to… Read More »Coco Fusco’s introduction to the Cuban blogosphere