This is a liveblog of Micah Sifry’s book talk hosted by the Berkman Center for Internet & Society at Harvard University. It is not a perfect transcript of the event. Livebloggers included Erhardt Graeff, David Weinberger, Nathan Matias, Sands Fish, Dalia Othman, Mayte Schomburg, and David Larochelle. Micah Sifry is […]
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On October 29, 2014, The Berkman Center hosted Civic Media alum Molly Sauter in a “fireside chat” with Nieman Fellow Laurie Penny about Molly’s new book The Coming Swarm: DDOS, Hactivism, and Civil Disobedience on the Internet. This is a liveblog of that conversation (not a transcript), co-written with Dalia Othman and […]
On Saturday, October 26, 2014, Nathan Matias and I co-facilitated a session at Mozilla Festival on creating “Learning Guides for Community Makers” along with Gabriela Rodriguez, Janet Gunter (@JanetGunter), Linda Sandvik, Vanessa Gennarelli. The main goal of the session was to help participants create a learning guides for other community-focused […]
Field trip with Hacking students @phillipsacademy to the MIT Media Lab w/ @ethanz — so fun!!! pic.twitter.com/KCyS4Mitbl — John Palfrey (@jpalfrey) May 21, 2014 On Wednesday, May 21, 2014, we hosted the Hacking Andover class, “an experiment in education for the digital age,” comprising seniors from Phillips Andover Academy led […]
At Theorizing the Web this year, MIT Center for Civic Media alum Molly Sauter delivered a powerful paper on the idea of “civic fiction” using the the case of A Gay Girl in Damascus (about how a white American man created a compelling fake lesbian Syrian blogger named Amina during […]