Jenna Burrell, assistant professor at the School of Information at UC Berkeley, is speaking today at the Berkman Center on her research on internet usage… Read More »Who let all those Ghanaians on the Internet? Jenna Burrell on internet exclusion
In 2005, Matt Harding posted a video on the internet. It’s a compilation of clips of him dancing – badly – in locations around the… Read More »When the world is your dance teacher
I’m giving the closing keynote at CHI 2011 this afternoon. I’m thrilled to have the chance to share some thoughts with some of the smartest… Read More »CHI keynote: Desperately Seeking Serendipity
Tuesday was my birthday, and I spent the day largely offline. That meant that Wednesday morning, my email inbox featured hundreds of messages from Facebook,… Read More »Algorithms, Unbirthdays and Rewiring Facebook
Paul-Henry Chombart de Lauwe’s map of a young woman’s journeys through Paris, 1957 In 1957, French sociologist Paul-Henry Chombart de Lauwe made a map of… Read More »Games that help us wander
For Tuesday’s Berkman lunch, we’re blessed with a visit from DJ, blogger and ethnomusicologist Wayne Marshall, one of my favorite chroniclers of the future of… Read More »Wayne Marshall on Nu Whirled Music… and my thoughts, too…