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
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
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
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
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
I try to keep an eye on stories about PR and lobbying firms that work on behalf of dictatorial governments, like our oil-rich friends in… Read More »The lobbyist and the quilt