Engin Onder and Zeynep Tufekci visited the Berkman Center today to talk about the rise of citizen reporting in Turkey. Tufekci is a leading scholar… Read More »140journos – When Citizen Media filled the reporting gap in Turkey
It’s hard to explain just how much Myanmar has changed. It’s at least as hard to know whether to believe in all the changes Myanmar… Read More »Myanmar, no longer closed, still complicated
danah boyd is a Principal Researcher at Microsoft Research, a Research Assistant Professor in Media, Culture, and Communication at New York University, a fellow at… Read More »danah boyd: “It’s Complicated”
My students Erhardt Graeff, Matt Stempeck and I have a new paper in First Monday, titled “The Battle for ‘Trayvon Martin’: Mapping a Media Controversy… Read More »How Trayvon Martin’s death became a national story about race: a new paper
Hugo Barra is a long-time veteran of the technology industry. Raised in Brazil, he came to MIT in 1996 and completed B.S. and M.Eng. degrees… Read More »Hugo Barra and America’s Technology Blind Spot
A Guinness ad featuring a group of splendidly-dressed men from Congo-Brazzaville, called Le Sapeurs, is making a splash online. The men in the ad (below)… Read More »Sharp suits, warm beer – Guinness, sapeurs and the seduction of Congolese fashion