I wasn’t expecting the grand jury to indict Darren Wilson, the police officer who shot and killed Michael Brown in Ferguson, MO. I was disappointed… Read More »Why cameras alone won’t protect black mens’ lives
I admire much of the work Open Society Foundation does (a good thing, as I’m a board member), but I have a special soft spot… Read More »“Watching Me Watching You” – Hasan Elahi and Josh Begley on the imagery of surveillance
Today’s Comparative Media Studies colloquium features one of our own, Assistant Professor of Civic Media, Sasha Costanza-Chock. His new book, “Out of the Shadows, Into… Read More »Sasha Costanza Chock on Immigrant Rights and Transmedia Organizing
Multimedia artist, writer, activist and teacher Coco Fusco is a visiting associate professor at MIT’s Comparative Media Studies this year, and she introduced herself to… Read More »Coco Fusco’s introduction to the Cuban blogosphere
Once upon a time, there was a blog. It was written in Amharic, the dominant language in Ethiopia, by a team of young journalists and… Read More »Free Zone 9 Bloggers
The NSA documents Edward Snowden leaked have sparked a debate within the US about surveillance. While Americans understood that the US government was likely intercepting… Read More »Me and my metadata – thoughts on online surveillance