Useful reads on Kony 2012
Two important reads on Invisible Children and the #Kony2012 campaign: Gilad Lotan of SocialFlow has been crunching the data on the spread of Kony2012 on… Read More »Useful reads on Kony 2012
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Teju Cole on American sentimentality towards Africa
Teju Cole, who just won a prestigious award for his novel “Open City“, offers a brief essay, in Twitter form, as a reaction to Invisible… Read More »Teju Cole on American sentimentality towards Africa
Unpacking Kony 2012
Traduzido para o Português por Natália Mazotte e Bruno Serman This Monday, March 5th, the advocacy organization Invisible Children released a 30 minute video titled… Read More »Unpacking Kony 2012
What is Civic Video? A Center for Civic Media brainstorm with Howard Blumenthal
Howard Blumenthal knows a few things about TV. His father produced Concentration, a famously long-lived game show on NBC, and Blumenthal grew up, in part,… Read More »What is Civic Video? A Center for Civic Media brainstorm with Howard Blumenthal
Linguistic isolation
As some of my readers know, I’m finishing writing a book on cosmopolitanism in a digital age. There’s lots of ways to think about cosmopolitanism;… Read More »Linguistic isolation
Wadah Khanfar, former director general of Al Jazeera, to speak at MIT Media Lab
A little more than a year ago, the world changed in a sudden and dramatic way. The long-time leader of Tunisia, Zine El Abidine Ben… Read More »Wadah Khanfar, former director general of Al Jazeera, to speak at MIT Media Lab