A little more than a year ago, the world changed in a sudden and dramatic way. The long-time leader of Tunisia, Zine El Abidine Ben… Read More »Wadah Khanfar, former director general of Al Jazeera, to speak at MIT Media Lab
I’m teaching my first class at MIT this spring, a “special topics” class at the Media Lab. (This is evidently how new classes get launched… Read More »News in the Age of Participatory Media
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Wael Abbas himself to the crowd at Microsoft’s Social Media Symposium saying, “I’m just a blogger.” Yeah, and Clay Shirky, who introduces him, is just… Read More »Wael Abbas on video and social media in Egypt prior to the revolution
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