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Ethan Zuckerman @ BIF10

LocationBusiness Innovation Factory, Providence, RI Description

Wednesday — Thursday
September 17, 2014 —
September 18, 2014
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Ethan Zuckerman

Former Associate Professor of the Practice in Media Arts and Sciences; Former Director, Center for Civic Media

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Ethan Zuckerman and Esra'a Al Shafei

LocationMIT Media Lab, E14-633 DescriptionJoin us for a conversation with human rights activist Esra'a Al Shafei and Ethan Zuckerman, Direc…

Tuesday
December 6, 2016
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Joi Ito and Ethan Zuckerman Talk @ Media Lab

LocationMIT Media Lab, 3rd Floor Atrium DescriptionThis talk will be live webcast Joi Ito, director of the MIT Media Lab and Ethan Zuckerma…

Thursday
September 12, 2013
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Colloquium: Ethan Zuckerman, "How Wide a Web"

LocationE14-633 DescriptionThe internet enables unprecedented connections across international borders. Whether we read a daily newspaper f…

Monday
November 29, 2010
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Meet the Labbers: Ethan Zuckerman

"Making media and putting it out in the world is a really powerful way of engaging with social change."

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Oren Zuckerman

Former Research Assistant

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Ethan Alley

Former Research Assistant

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Ethan Zuckerman Receives Zócalo Book Prize

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Ethan Zuckerman Receives a 2016 MIT MLK Leadership Award

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Ethan Zuckerman Appointed Associate Professor of the Practice in Media Arts and Sciences

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Ethan Zuckerman Appointed Associate Professor of the Practice in Media Arts and Sciences

Ethan Zuckerman, director of the MIT Center for Civic Media, has been appointed Associate Professor of the Practice in Media Arts and Scienc

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Ethan Zuckerman, Cyberscholar and Activist, to Lead Center for Civic Media

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Ito, Zuckerman on Foreign Policy's List of Top 100 Global Thinkers

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Xiao Xiao @ BIF9

LocationTrinity Rep, Providence, RI Description

Wednesday
September 18, 2013
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"We’ve lost 10 years of innovation. This decade has been boring for the web."

A conversation with Ethan Zuckerman, media scholar and inventor of the pop-up ad, on the original sin of advertising and the web’s lost deca

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Terra Incognita: 1000 Cities of the World

Terra Incognita is a global news game and recommendation system. Terra Incognita helps you discover interesting news and personal connectio…

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MLTalks: Alfredo Corchado

Alfredo Corchado in conversation with Center for Civic Media Director Ethan Zuckerman.

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MLTalks: Helen Margetts

Helen Margetts in conversation with Director of Center for Civic Media Ethan Zuckerman.

Tuesday
May 3, 2016
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Gobo

Your social media. Your rules.Gobo is an experiment, not a startup. We’re building it to change the conversation on social media and imagin…

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MLTalks: Marco Kaltofen

Marco Kaltofen in conversation with the Media Lab's Joi Ito and Ethan Zuckerman.

Monday
September 21, 2015
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MLTalks: Judith Donath

Judith Donath in conversation with Center for Civic Media Director Ethan Zuckerman and Media Lab Director Joi Ito.

Thursday
June 12, 2014
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MLTalks: Jillian York

Director for International Freedom of Expression Jillian York in conversation with Director for Center for Civic Media Ethan Zuckerman.

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MLTalks: Susan Crawford

Susan Crawford in conversation with Center for Civic Media Director Ethan Zuckerman.

Thursday
March 28, 2013
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MLTalks: Tim O'Reilly

Towards a Global Brain: Tim O'Reilly in conversation with Director of Center for Civic Media Ethan Zuckerman.

Wednesday
April 18, 2012
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Ramesh Srinivasan— "Whose Global Village? Rethinking How Technology Reshapes Our World"

Join Ramesh Srinavasan for an evening of discussion surrounding "Whose Global Village?" Q&A to follow, moderated by Ethan Zuckerman.

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Agenda: Tuesday, April 23

Spring 2019 Member MeetingAgenda: Tuesday, April 23Attendance at this event is by invitation only.Unable to join us in person? Jo…

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Papers by Media Lab researchers and alumni recognized with Honorable Mentions at CHI 2019

Congratulations!

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NetStories

Recent years have witnessed a surge in online digital storytelling tools, enabling users to more easily create engaging multimedia narrativ…

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Jia Zhang Dissertation Defense

The Constant Atlas: Mapping Public Data for Individuals and Their CitiesCommitteeEthan ZuckermanThesis SupervisorAssociate Professor of the…

Tuesday
May 1, 2018
3:00pm — 5:00pm ET
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Design & Exclusion

Creating inhospitable, uncomfortable, and non-inclusive products and services is counter to the goals of design. Yet it happens all the tim…

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Karen Brennan Thesis Defense

LocationMIT Media Lab, Building E14, 6th Floor DescriptionWe live in a computational culture—a culture in which we are surrounded by comput…

Thursday
October 4, 2012
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Agenda: Tuesday, April 14

Spring 2020 Member MeetingAgenda: Tuesday, April 14

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Data Therapy

As part of our larger effort to build out a suite of tools for community organizers, we are helping to build their capacity to do their own…

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DeepStream

Citizens and journalists are increasingly choosing to live stream civic events. But live streams are currently hard to find and lack in-dep…

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PageOneX

Newspaper front pages are a key source of data about our media ecology. Newsrooms spend massive time and effort deciding what stories make …

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MLTalks: Jillian York

Director for International Freedom of Expression Jillian York in conversation with Director for Center for Civic Media Ethan Zuckerman.

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Forbidden Research

In a world where seemingly anything is possible, there are still lines of inquiry and research that—for a host of reasons—remain forbidden.…

Thursday
July 21, 2016
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Steven Johnson on Peer-to-Peer Politics

LocationMIT Media Lab, Building E14, Third-Floor Atrium DescriptionHosted by Aaron Naparstek, visiting scholar at MIT's Department of Urban…

Monday
November 5, 2012
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Agenda: Tuesday, October 22

Fall 2019 Member MeetingAgenda: Tuesday, October 22Attendance at this event is by invitation only.Unable to join us in person? Jo…

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The Babbling Brook

The Babbling Brook is an unnamed neighborhood creek in Waltham, MA, that winds its way to the Charles River. With the help of networked sen…

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Peer Appreciation in the Workplace

Organizations are deploying gratitude-tracking systems to encourage appreciation, promote pro-sociality, and monitor employee wellbeing. We…

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Code4Rights

Code4Rights promotes human rights through technology education. By facilitating the development of rights-focused mobile applications in wo…

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Open Water Project

The Open Water Project aims to develop and curate a set of low-cost, open source tools enabling communities everywhere to collect, interpre…

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Civic Entertainment

Civic Entertainment is a project based at the Center for Civic Media that explores the intersection of civic engagement with film, televisi…

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DataBasic

DataBasic is a suite of web-based tools that give people fun and relevant ways learn how to work with data. Existing tools focus on operati…

Article

Fake news is a red herring

I suspect that both the left and the right are overfocusing on fake news. Preliminary analysis conducted by the Media Cloud team at MIT and…

Article

Defining Civic Media

Director of the MIT Center for Civic Media Ethan Zuckerman talks about activism, technology and the future of the digital ecosystem.

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Fighting 21st Century Hate: A 360 view with Adam Neufeld, VP of Innovation and Strategy, ADL

In the new arena of Twitter doxxing and other emerging tools, hate has learned to travel different pathways. Likewise, the effort to fight …

Monday
October 29, 2018
4:00pm — 5:30pm ET
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The Past, Present, and Future of Civic Entertainment in India

The Godrej India Culture Lab with the Center for Civic Media - MIT Media Lab are proud to present The Past, Present, and Future of Civ…

Saturday
August 11, 2018
10:00am — 7:00pm ET
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Civic Media Session: What's Your Information Diet?

LocationMIT Media Lab, Silverman Skyline Room (E14-6th Floor) Description Host/Chair: Center for Civic Media

Wednesday
February 15, 2012
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LinkedOut: Codesigning societal reentry with returning citizens

LinkedOut aims to define and build solutions to facilitate societal reentry for formerly incarcerated individuals.In collaboration with the…

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Media Cloud

Media Cloud is a platform for studying media ecosystems. By tracking millions of stories published online, the system allows researchers to…

Article

Tech, trust and the media: Three questions to answer by 2029

What are the fundamental questions that need to be answered within the next decade so that humanity and technology can grow side by side?

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The future of social media is a lot less social

Former Media Lab Professor Ethan Zuckerman speaks with The New York Times about the future of social media.

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What in the heck does a CIO of a (developing) country do?

What in the heck does a CIO of a (developing) country do?Moinina David SengehChief Innovation Officer, Government of Sierra Leone // ML Alu…

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Erhardt Graeff Dissertation Defense

Evaluating Civic Technology Design for Citizen EmpowermentAdvisorEthan ZuckermanAssociate Professor of the Practice in Media Arts and Scien…