The rebuttal tweet
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
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Ethan Zuckerman’s online home, since 2003
Civic Media Lunch: Telling stories about Occupy Wall Street
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
Beth Coleman on “Tweeting the Revolution”
Beth Coleman presents some of her recent research on the protests in Tahrir square, and a broader theory of how social networks and activism in… Read More »Beth Coleman on “Tweeting the Revolution”
Albert-László Barabási and scale free networks
(Notes from a talk given yesterday at the MIT Media Lab Members meeting.) Albert-László Barabási, a Hungarian scientist, is one of the leading theorists on… Read More »Albert-László Barabási and scale free networks
Ricardo Hausmann on Economic Complexity
The member meeting at the Media Lab features speakers from within the lab, like César Hidalgo and Joi Ito, and outside speakers – in that… Read More »Ricardo Hausmann on Economic Complexity
Joi Ito on Openness and the Media Lab
Joi Ito follows César Hidalgo’s talk on knowledge networks to offer thoughts on how networked knowledge is transforming the lab. When he accepted the job… Read More »Joi Ito on Openness and the Media Lab