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Recent Posts
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Video: Eric Gordon, “Towards a Meaningfully Inefficient Smart City”
Visiting Professor Eric Gordon discusses a recent project in Boston, in collaboration with the Boston Mayor’s Office of New Urban Mechanics, called Beta Blocks, that uses meaningful inefficiency as a structuring logic for sourcing, questioning and making decisions about public realm technologies.
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Science Writing master’s thesis presentations for the class of 2020
Each year, we’re thrilled to have our graduating master’s students present their Science Writing theses. Cheers to the GPSW class of 2020!
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Video, Jing Wang: “Walking Around Obstacles: Nonconfrontational Activists in Gray China”
Is there digital activism in China? What is it like to be an activist running a grassroots NGO in a land of censors?
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Video: Justin Reich, “Failure to Disrupt: Why Technology Alone Can’t Transform Education”
Justin Reich explores the recent history of large scale learning technologies to explain why technology provides such uneven support to students.
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Angles 2020: The best of this year’s introductory writing classes
Ten pieces on the themes of “Identity and Experience”, “Creating Community and Culture”, and “Investigating Technology”.
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Video: Kishonna Gray, “Intersectional Tech: Exploring the Black Cultural Production of Gamers in Transmediated Culture”
Illustrating a framework for studying the intersectional development of technological artifacts and systems and their impact on Black cultural production and social processes.
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Heather Hendershot in the Washington Post: The 2020 party conventions are actually what the parties have always dreamed of
“Being online will give parties more control of how television viewers experience their conventions.”
