27 Media Labs that aren’t the MIT Media Lab
While Googling for the Media Lab logo the other day, I came across several pages of results with the logos of other Media Labs. As everyone appends ‘Labs’ to the title of their organizations, a gold rush for laboratory beaker clip art [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
Ethan Zuckerman and the Levers of Change
Liveblog of Ethan Zuckerman’s Future of News keynote, composed with Nathan Matias. Errors are likely ours. The usual conversation about innovation in journalism held by people who work in journalism assumes that there’s one main problem in the space: if [...]
Designing the User-Friendly City
What happens when a tech-minded entrepreneur is unexpectedly chosen to lead a big city government bureaucracy? Gabe Klein was an unconventional pick to head the District of Columbia’s Department of Transportation when he was hired back in 2008, by then-mayor [...]
Has politics gone Peer 2 Peer? #P2Ppol
Written by @mstem & @natematias with help from our peers. See also Ethan Zuckerman’s take on the event. It’s Election Eve here at the MIT Media Lab, and we have a well-stocked panel of political observers (“The Harvard Law Faculty [...]
