I’m currently in Lisbon for the first week of the Summer Institute, and tonight, I’ll be meeting with some students interested in the internships that we’ll be offering starting this coming semester. The internship page has further information about the program.
In short, we’re working to place qualified graduate students and early-career professionals at digital […]
It might behoove the ACLU, or some organization devoted to civil liberties, to devote some resources to figuring out how to defend speech that is inconvenient to plaintiffs lawyers.
Sandy Szwarc of the excellent blog Junkfood Science has a lengthy and interesting post about a subpoena delivered to the author of Neurodiversity, a website (and blog) […]
There is a petition to convince director Uwe Boll to stop making movies. Boll has apparently said if the petition gets a million signatures, he’ll quit [story]. Now, the director has proven a bit quirky — challenging film critics to boxing matches, which Boll won, and featured in Postal — but, there is something of […]
If you happen to be around Harvard in mid-May, you might want to swing by and check out the Berkman@10 Future of the Internet Conference. The event, celebrating the 10th anniversary of the Berkman Center for Internet and Society, runs May 15-16, and features many of the folks affiliated with the center as well an […]
BoingBoingTV presents the above short piece about the movie Second Skin, which premiered at SXSW. The film explores the impact of massively multiplayer online games on the people who play — including one self-identified gaming addict.
The documentary looks like it may be covering some of the same territory explored in Julian Dibbell’s My Tiny Life […]
According to interviews and recent surveys, younger voters tend to be not just consumers of news and current events but conduits as well — sending out e-mailed links and videos to friends and their social networks. And in turn, they rely on friends and online connections for news to come to them. In essence, they […]
Above is a video from Gary Chapman’s visit to Lisbon, where he spoke about public policy and internet applications. In the interview, he notes that he doesn’t believe we’ll be voting via internet, but this doesn’t mean that there aren’t a number of possibilities for E-Government, which has been a major push in both the […]
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Gaming as Immigration Rights Project
Breakthrough, an organization that does human rights work in both the United States and India, has released a game, ICED (I Can End Deportation) to help players learn the ins and outs of immigration policy and rights. The game, which targets youth, is intended to teach players how unfair U.S. immigration policy is.
The game […]