Sing Lobna, Sing .. I wanted to share a very touching but a successful fund-raising campaign to support medical expenses of a Turkish Palestinian demonstrator, Lobna. They needed at least 70 thousand dollars but it is more than a hundred dollars for now. She was almost paralyzed but started to […]
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I was recently invited to give a Skype keynote for the first hackathon hosted by the state of Minas Gerais in Brazil. The talk was a wonderful provocation to revisit the writing of another Brazilian I used to study – Paulo Freire and his vision of popular education. This led me to wonder… what would a […]
As I was thinking about an introduction to my project on women’s activism in Uzbekistan, I figured that placing it in a historical perspective would be an appropriate first step. For this research I have used the materials from the following books: “The New Woman of Uzbekistan” Islam, Modernity, and […]
This is the youth initiative I mentioned at the Intro to Civic Media course: http://hype.blogs.muhlenberg.edu/about/
Crossposted with the Berkman Center. The Berkman Center for Internet & Society at Harvard University and the MIT Center for Civic Media seek a fellow to join Media Cloud, a project led by Yochai Benkler and Ethan Zuckerman and driven by an interdisciplinary team of staff and researchers. The fellow […]