This is text of the talk I delivered for the “Click, Meme, Hack, Change: Civic Media Theory and Practice” panel I organized at the Digital Media and Learning Conference, Chicago, IL on March 14, 2013. What do I mean by memes? Well I’m talking about internet memes: cultural artifacts that […]
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This is a summary of the article “The Battle for ‘Trayvon Martin’: Mapping a Media Controversy Online and Offline,” co-authored by Erhardt Graeff, Matt Stempeck, and Ethan Zuckerman and appearing as the lead article in the February 2014 issue of First Monday: http://firstmonday.org/ojs/index.php/fm/article/view/4947. News coverage about the killing of Trayvon Martin […]
On Friday, November 22nd, the Berkman Center for Internet & Society’s Cooperation group and MIT Center for Civic Media hosted two speakers—Anselm Spoerri and Jisun An—to talk about their research into diversity and contention online. This is a liveblog of those talks authored by Erhardt Graeff, Dalia Othman, Catherine D’Ignazio, […]
Liveblog of Patrick Sharkey’s presentation to the Inequality & Social Policy Seminar Series at Harvard on September 23, 2013. Patrick Sharkey is an associate professor of sociology at New York University and affiliate of the Robert F. Wagner School of Public Service. His research looks at stratification and mobility with […]
This is a liveblog of Ethan Zuckerman’s keynote at Links 2013. His slides are available online. Ethan opens by saying that his stock and trade is “the unusual connection.” He starts talking about the Harvard Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology. The museum hasn’t changed since it’s early collector mentality. […]