Holmes Wilson, internet activism, and why we need you
(originally posted on Civic MIT) 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 Protect-IP Act/PIPA — legislation [...]
Encouraging Flexibility from Social Media Giants: How We Get Private Platforms to Support Public Speech
(originally posted on Civic MIT and PBS) 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 Conference on Media Reform last weekend. There [...]
81 Ways Humanitarian Aid has Become Participatory
My Media Lab Master’s thesis argues that information and communication technologies, and particularly the web, have expanded the range of ways the public can help in times of crisis, even (or especially) if we’re nowhere near said crisis. Or, to [...]
Organizing the Internet to Protect the Open Internet #NCMR13
Josh Levy, Internet Campaign Director at Free Press, introduces the topic. The SOPA protest was the biggest online protest we’ve seen. Millions of people participated and made a real impact. For organizers who have been fighting on open internet issues, [...]
What I’m Working On
Media Lab Masters thesis on participatory aid (how we can use the internet to do more to help in times of crisis) LazyTruth - extending the product, adding verified content, building out a metrics dashboard, and conducting political science research TAing [...]
LazyTruth mentioned in The Economist
The [print edition!] of The Economist mentions LazyTruth as an antidote to some of the misinformation we find online: “Companies are developing programs, such as the wonderfully named LazyTruth, that help people assess the credibility of online information”
Area Comedian Explains Humor to MIT
(blogged by @mstem and @natematias) Today at the Media Lab, Baratunde Thurston is taking a moment out of Vacation Mode to have a conversation with the Media Lab community. How can we describe Baratunde? His personal website labels him a [...]
