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
I have an excellent job at a great university. I have a home that I love in a community I’ve lived in for two decades… Read More »Google cars versus public transit: the US’s problem with public goods
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
Because I have a long commute, I listen to a lot of audio: public radio, podcasts and audiobooks. Because I work in academe, I have… Read More »Long tail audiobooks – a thought experiment
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
Friends at Die Zeit, who heard me speak at a panel about “Cameras Everywhere” at Personal Democracy Forum, asked me to write an op-ed for… Read More »Surveillance, sousveillance and PRISM – an op-ed for Die Zeit