Award-winning Nigerian filmmaker Zik Zulu Okafor is one of the first speakers at today’s New Media Nollywood Conference at Georgia Tech. In conjunction with this… Read More »#Nollytech – Understanding New Media Nollywood
Ian Condry offers an extended introduction to Mimi Ito’s work… because her plane has been delayed and it’s likely to be another half hour before… Read More »Mimi Ito on Otaku culture and cultural soft power
Dear Chris, June, Bruno – One of my students at the Center for Civic Media and I were discussing the need for more conference venues… Read More »An open letter to TED organizers on #TEDHighConcept
This summer, Sasha, Lorrie and I started brainstorming the sorts of events we wanted to host at the Center for Civic Media this fall. The… Read More »Mapping Media Ecosystems at Center for Civic Media
There’s a great blogpost from Nancy Scola about the rise of Twitter hashtags as form of political discourse, specifically focusing on the #WeCantWait tag, which… Read More »The rebuttal tweet
Media activists Marisa Jahn and Julian Rubenstein joined us for today’s lunch talk at the Center for Civic Media. Marisa is the new director of… Read More »Civic Media Lunch: Telling stories about Occupy Wall Street