To the occupant(s) of E15-351 Re: About the window. Hi. My name is Ethan Zuckerman. From 2011-2020, I enjoyed working in this office. I led… Read More »To the future occupants of my office at the MIT Media Lab
Thrilled to be announcing a big next step: I will be joining the faculty of the University of Massachusetts at Amherst this coming year, and… Read More »Next steps
When my friends and colleagues began working on the first Make the Breast Pump Not Suck hackathon in 2014 (http://www.kanarinka.com/project/mit-breast-pump-hackathon/), they were focused on the… Read More »Because America’s Family Leave Policy Sucks, Too.
Roughly ten years ago, as phones became smartphones and Facebook and Twitter began their rise towards ubiquity, a fundamental social shift took place: the majority… Read More »Who Filters Your News? Why we built gobo.social
Remember Mastodon? In April 2017, there was a wave of excitement about Mastodon, a federated social network begun in October 2016 by Eugen Rochko, a… Read More »Mastodon is big in Japan. The reason why is… uncomfortable
Note: Shane Snow wrote a long and thoughtful email to me about this post. While we agree to disagree on some substantive issues, primarily our… Read More »The worst thing I read this year, and what it taught me… or Can we design sociotechnical systems that don’t suck?