Eli Pariser on Filter Bubbles
Eli Pariser offers the idea of a personalized conference. What if we came to an event like Personal Democracy Forum, and sorted ourselves by gender,… Read More »Eli Pariser on Filter Bubbles
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Ethan Zuckerman’s online home, since 2003
Visualizing Twitter, understanding voluntary segregation
I’m a total Martin Wattenberg and Fernanda Viégas fanboy. I loved their stuff at the Media Lab, at IBM and now at Flowing Media, their… Read More »Visualizing Twitter, understanding voluntary segregation
Legendary Leakers at PDF2010
Micah Sifry hosts a conversation between two legendary leakers: Daniel Ellsberg, best known for leaking the Pentagon papers, and Julian Assange, the founder and spokesman… Read More »Legendary Leakers at PDF2010
Explaining Erlinder?
On Friday, American lawyer and law professor Peter Erlinder was arrested in Rwanda. His alleged crime is “genocide denial”, one of a set of offenses… Read More »Explaining Erlinder?
The Partisan Internet and the Wider World
Is the internet making us more partisan? This is one of the most persistent debates in the study of cyberspace. Cass Sunstein, legal scholar, author… Read More »The Partisan Internet and the Wider World
Democrats, Republicans and Appropriators
I had the good fortune to catch a small part of a conference at Harvard yesterday on text analysis. Good fortune, because I was there… Read More »Democrats, Republicans and Appropriators