Sasha Costanza-Chock is a scholar and mediamaker who works in areas including social movements, participatory technology design, and participatory research.
Podcast: Gabriella Coleman, “‘I did it for the Lulz! but I stayed for the outrage:’ Anonymous, the Politics of Spectacle, and Geek Protests against the Church of Scientology”
Gabriella Coleman examines the ethics of online collaboration/institutions and the role of the law and digital media in sustaining forms of activism.
Podcast: Nitin Sawhney, “Media and Resilience: Creative DIY Cultures and Civic Agency among Marginalized Youth”
Nitin Sawhney on youth digital storytelling in the West Bank and Gaza and participatory media for resilience and civic agency among youth in conflict.
Video: Rosalind Williams: “Communications Forum: Public Communications in Slow-Moving Crises”
MIT historian Rosalind Williams on how some crises are complex, difficult to warn of, and don’t cleanly fit traditional media frames.
Video: Abrahm Lustgarten: “Communications Forum: Public Communications in Slow-Moving Crises”
Abrahm Lustgarten is an investigative reporter for ProPublica—his recent work has focused on oil and gas industry practices.
Video: Andrea Pitzer: “Communications Forum: Public Communications in Slow-Moving Crises”
Andrea Pitzer is editor of Nieman Storyboard, a project of the Nieman Foundation for Journalism at Harvard University.
Video: “Public Communications in Slow-Moving Crises”
Like the housing collapse or the recent Gulf oil spill, some crises are complex, difficult to warn of, and don’t cleanly fit traditional media frames. They are slow-moving crises.
