Liveblog by @schock of the Starr Forum talk by Chomsky and Madar at MIT, sponsored by the MIT Center for International Studies. All errors mine! Chomsky and Madar are introduced by John Tirman, Director of the MIT Center for International Studies. Chase Madar wrote the Passion of Bradley Manning: The […]
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These notes were liveblogged from the talk After Snowden: Towards Distributed Security in Cyberspace. Ronald Deibert, Professor of Political Science, and Director of the Canada Centre for Global Security Studies and the Citizen Lab at the Munk School of Global Affairs, University of Toronto, spoke at , Harvard Law School, Wasserstein Hall. The hashtag […]
Liveblog by @schock and @scrumbly1. All errors ours! It’s day two of the Camden International Film Festival’s Points North Documentary Film Forum, and we’re liveblogging the session “From Story to Action.” From the program: “Since the days of Grierson, documentary filmmakers have been driven by a desire to affect social […]
The picture above is a rough sketch of digital inclusion (we’ll return to this below.) In Introduction to Civic Media, last week we read several texts about digital inequality. We traced the transformation of this conversation since the 1990s, when many still talked about a binary ‘Digital Divide,’ to the […]
Liveblog by @schock with help from two anonymous people on the etherpad. In this talk, Christine Gaspar, ED of the Center for Urban Pedagogy, provides an overview of their methodology, pedagogy, products, and project areas, drawing on key examples in areas including food, sanitation, telecommunications, education, policing, housing, development, participatory […]