Kate Darling on Robot Ethics
Kate Darling (@grok_) offers a talk to the Berkman Center that’s so popular, the talk needs to be moved from Berkman to Wasserstein Hall, where… Read More »Kate Darling on Robot Ethics
Paul’s Pit Crew – Center for Civic Media Supports Out of Eden Walk
Paul Salopek is a journalist, a storyteller and an explorer. As a foreign correspondent, he covered stories in fifty countries and won two Pulitzer prizes,… Read More »Paul’s Pit Crew – Center for Civic Media Supports Out of Eden Walk
Zeynep Tufekci on protest movements and capacity problems
MIT’s Comparative Media Studies hosts a weekly colloquium, and this week’s featured speaker is sociologist and movement theorist, Zeynep Tufekci. Zeynep describes herself as a… Read More »Zeynep Tufekci on protest movements and capacity problems
Jen Pahlka and Clay Shirky at Code for America Summit
I’m at Code for America’s 2013 summit in San Francisco today, an impressive gathering put together by an extremely impressive civic innovation organization. I’m one… Read More »Jen Pahlka and Clay Shirky at Code for America Summit
What We Watch: a new tool for watching how popular videos spread online
More than a billion people a month visit YouTube to watch videos. Sometimes, those billion people watch the same video. More often, they don’t. YouTube… Read More »What We Watch: a new tool for watching how popular videos spread online
The “good citizen” and the effective citizen
With Rewire out in the world, I’ve had some time this August to think about some of the big questions behind our work at Center… Read More »The “good citizen” and the effective citizen