MIT’s Comparative Media Studies hosts a weekly colloquium, and this week’s featured speaker is sociologist and movement theorist, Zeynep Tufekci. Zeynep describes herself as a… Read More »Zeynep Tufekci on protest movements and capacity problems
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It’s the 75th anniversary of the Nieman Foundation, and the Harvard-based program is bringing back generations of its fellows, mid-career journalists brought to Cambridge to… Read More »Saving the News with Advocacy Journalism: ten minutes with the Nieman Foundation
Because I have a long commute, I listen to a lot of audio: public radio, podcasts and audiobooks. Because I work in academe, I have… Read More »Long tail audiobooks – a thought experiment
More than a billion people a month visit YouTube to watch videos. Sometimes, those billion people watch the same video. More often, they don’t. YouTube… Read More »What We Watch: a new tool for watching how popular videos spread online