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
There are ten graduate students associated with the Center for Civic Media, half a dozen staff and a terrific set of MIT professors who mentor,… Read More »Citizen science versus NIMBY?
With Rewire out in the world, I’ve had some time this August to think about some of the big questions behind our work at Center… Read More »The “good citizen” and the effective citizen
Charlie DeTar defended his doctoral dissertation this afternoon at the MIT Media Lab. Charlie is a student in Chris Schmandt’s Mobility and Speech group, but… Read More »Charlie DeTar dissertation defense: Intertwinkles and digital tools for consensus decisionmaking