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
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”
(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
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