An open letter to TED organizers on #TEDHighConcept
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
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Ethan Zuckerman’s online home, since 2003
Mapping Media Ecosystems at Center for Civic Media
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
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
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