I spent part of Wednesday at MIT’s Communications Futures Program, where the topic at hand was internet openness. Political scientist Shirley Hung opened the afternoon… Read More »Shirley Hung on control of the Chinese Internet
Today, the Berkman Center is relaunching Media Cloud, a platform designed to let scholars, journalists and anyone interested in the world of media ask and… Read More »Media Cloud, relaunched
A recent New York Times poll suggests that Americans are in a dark mood. 70% of people think the country is moving in the wrong… Read More »Overcoming political polarization… but not through facts
I was at the US Naval Academy in Annapolis, MD yesterday, at the Naval Academy Foreign Affairs Conference, a remarkable institution that I confess I… Read More »Morozov vs.(?) Tufekci at the US Naval Academy
Martin Feuz, Matthew Fuller and Felix Stadler have a very clever paper in a recent edition of First Monday, titled “Personal Web searching in the… Read More »In Soviet Russia, Google Researches You!
PJ Crowley is the U.S. Department of State Spokesman and Assistant Secretary of Public Affairs. In other words, as he explains to the audience at… Read More »PJ Crowley at Center for Civic Media: only 75,000 followers fewer than Castro