For the next three days, MIT is hosting the 2011 MIT-Knight Civic Media Conference. The event showcases the recipients of Knight’s annual News Challenge, and… Read More »Knight News Challenge winners at the MIT-Knight Civic Media Conference
So, I got a new job. A really cool new job. As of September, I’ll be based at the MIT Media Lab as a principal… Read More »(Good) personal news
Participation in the Networked Public Sphere Smart piece from Henry Farrell argues that increased participation in politics via the internet is likely to be highly… Read More »links for 2011-06-15
Last November, cable TV network USA Network launched a campaign called Characters Unite, designed to call attention to issues surrounding racial, ethnic, religious and cultural… Read More »How diverse is your social network? How diverse should it be?
On Monday, June 6th, a post appeared on the blog “A Gay Girl in Damascus” announcing that Amina Abdallah Araf al Omari, the “girl” in… Read More »Understanding #amina
Mathematical biologist Martin Nowak talks to us about the evolution of cooperation. Cooperation is a puzzle for biologists because it doesn’t make obvious evolutionary sense.… Read More »Martin Nowak and the mathematics of cooperation