Civic Disobedience and the Arab Spring
I spent the past two days in Cambridge, primarily around MIT, and almost exclusively talking about the “Arab Spring” and what we’ve learned about social… Read More »Civic Disobedience and the Arab Spring
Shirley Hung on control of the Chinese Internet
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
Media Cloud, relaunched
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
Overcoming political polarization… but not through facts
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
Morozov vs.(?) Tufekci at the US Naval Academy
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
In Soviet Russia, Google Researches You!
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!