Call to Action - creating a platform for voice services
An exciting project for the team this year has been the development of New Day New Standard, a hotline that informs nannies, housekeepers, elder caregivers, and their employers about the landmark...
View ArticleTwo Media Tech Ideas for Distributed Solidarity
In this parallel post alongside one by Denise Cheng, I review the media-making practices of 350.org, who coordinate thousands of events into global days of climate action.Google Plus OneTweet...
View ArticleDistributed solidarity: how 350.org creates an intimate global movement
In 2007, a college professor and several of his students discussed NASA scientist James Hansen's recommendation to lower carbon emissions to 350 parts per million—the upper limit of carbon dioxide...
View ArticleThe Theology of Evangelical Action on Immigration Reform
This weekend, I'm at Urbana, a gathering of Christian students interested in the work of the church worldwide. Over the next few days, I will be blogging two kinds of sessions. Sessions like this...
View Article"The Economist" on internet activism
In its first 2013 edition, The Economist presents an interesting balance of what it calls “a big year for online activists”. The British magazine poses a thought-provoking question: are we witnessing...
View ArticleFollowing Aaron Swartz suicide, MIT President's statement
I posted the following to the Comparative Media Studies site; the reaction around the Center to Swartz's suicide is, we all would agree, still too raw for the Monday-after. A collection of articles,...
View ArticleThe Brazilian Civil Rights Framework for the Internet
In the following interview, I speak with Carlos Souza, vice-coordinator of the Center for Technology & Society at the Getulio Vargas Foundation’s Law School in Rio de Janeiro. His center has been a...
View ArticleSo God Made A Super Bowl Commercial: On Dodge and Politics
This past Sunday, like most Americans, I watched the Super Bowl. And, like most Americans who watched the Super Bowl, I saw a lot of ads. Some were good. Some were not. Some I have already forgotten....
View ArticleLeadership in horizontal movements
In an insightful essay at the New Republic, Evgeny Morozov raises a powerful critique of what he describes as "Internet-centrism" in Steven Johnson's 2012 book Future Perfect. Morozov identifies in...
View ArticleCRONICAS DE HEROES 1st Anniversary
CRÓNICAS DE HÉROES -an implementation in México of Hero Reports- celebrates today, DEC. 20 2011, its first anniversary. Yesica Guera, the Director of the initiative as well as the team behind of...
View ArticleDrop back to reality, oh, there goes sanity
Since launching LazyTruth, I've been enmeshed in fact-checking, rumor correction, and studying how misinformation moves online and across society. And, as part of my thesis, I've been collecting...
View ArticleWhen Hurricane Sandy Hit Rockaway
Liveblog of an event organized by the MIT Humanitarian Working GroupTodd Minor recently took over Friends of Rockaway, founded specifically to manage Hurricane Sandy response in the Rockaways, one of...
View ArticleTwo Media Tech Ideas for Distributed Solidarity
In this parallel post alongside one by Denise Cheng, I review the media-making practices of 350.org, who coordinate thousands of events into global days of climate action.Google Plus OneTweet...
View Article5 Ways You Can Give Attention As Aid
When we really care about a community in crisis, there's a lot more we can do than give money to a formal aid organization. In fact, the range of activities we CAN do to help, even remotely, is much...
View ArticleYouth, Pop Culture, and Participatory Politics Panel at DML 2013
Liveblog of Youth, Pop Culture, and Participatory Politics panel at DML 2013.Google Plus OneTweet WidgetFacebook Like
View ArticleOrganizing the Internet to Protect the Open Internet #NCMR13
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View ArticleWhy InterTwinkles
I've been working on online tools for consensus for the last 2 years. Here's what motivates me to work on this.1. The water heaterFor my first five years in Boston, I lived in a housing co-op in...
View ArticleEncouraging Flexibility from Social Media Giants: How We Get Private...
There are many problems with using commercial technology platforms to host democratic, social, or activist content and communications. These problems came up in multiple sessions at the National...
View ArticleHolmes Wilson, internet activism, and why we need you
Fight For the Future is known for its massive viral organizing campaigns that changed Internet history both nationally and globally. Faced with the passage of Stop Online Piracy Act/SOPA and the...
View ArticleErase the Border
Erase the Border is a web campaign and voice petition platform. It tells the story of the Tohono O'odham people whose community has been divided along 75 miles of the US-Mexico border by a fence. The...
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