Civic Disobedience and the Arab Spring
I spent the past two days in Cambridge, primarily around MIT, and almost exclusively talking about the “Arab Spring” and what we’ve learned about social… Read More »Civic Disobedience and the Arab Spring
...My heart's In Accra
Ethan Zuckerman’s online home, since 2003
Morozov vs.(?) Tufekci at the US Naval Academy
I was at the US Naval Academy in Annapolis, MD yesterday, at the Naval Academy Foreign Affairs Conference, a remarkable institution that I confess I… Read More »Morozov vs.(?) Tufekci at the US Naval Academy
A world roundup
Some other stories I’m trying to follow, in addition to the news from Bahrain: There’s very little news from Libya, as protesters take to the… Read More »A world roundup
Brock’s insights on the Tunisia media attention disparity
George Brock (Professor and Head of Journalism at City University London, long time writer and editor for the Times of London) has a thoughtful and… Read More »Brock’s insights on the Tunisia media attention disparity
What if Tunisia had a revolution, but nobody watched?
On December 17, a 26 year old Tunisian man named Mohamed Bouazizi reached the end of his rope. An unemployed university graduate, Bouazizi had become… Read More »What if Tunisia had a revolution, but nobody watched?
Crisis Commons, and the challenges of distributed disaster response
Heather Blanchard, Noel Dickover and Andrew Turner from Crisis Commons visited the Berkman Center Tuesday to discuss the rapidly growing technology and crisis response space.… Read More »Crisis Commons, and the challenges of distributed disaster response