Zeynep Tufekci discusses features of boom and bust protest movements, drawing upon Gezi, the Arab Spring, and the Occupy and M15 movements.
Podcast and Liveblog: “Born Digital” with John Palfrey
John Palfrey on how the digital generation is different from its analog ancestor and whether they have different notions of privacy, community, and identity.
Podcast: Hong Qu, “Keepr: Algorithm for Extracting Entities, Eyewitnesses and Amplifiers”
Audio of our Colloquium with Hong Qu, creator of Keepr, natural language processing and social network analysis for use during breaking news.
Podcast: “The Phoenix Burns Out: Remembering A Boston Institution”
Audio and liveblog of four Boston Phoenix vets on their paper’s legacy and Boston’s loss. Anita Diamant, Charles Pierce, Lloyd Schwartz, and Carly Carioli.
Podcast: “10 PRINT CHR$(205.5+RND(1)); : GOTO 10”
The book was written collaboratively by ten authors and focuses on a single line of now-unfamiliar code.
Podcast: Mary L. Gray, “Size Is Only Half the Story: Valuing the Dimensionality of BIG DATA”
Recent provocations about the role of “big data” in human communication research and technology studies deserve an outline of the value of anthropology, as a particular kind of “big data”.
Podcast: Media in Transition 8, “Counterpublics: Self-Fashioning and Alternate Communities”
How is digital technology generating counterpublics — categories of identity and belonging in opposition to established norms of personhood or community?
