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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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Esra'a Al Shafei

Former Director's Fellow

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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 Alley

Former Research Assistant

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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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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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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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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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Oren Zuckerman

Former Research Assistant

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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 Appointed Associate Professor of the Practice in Media Arts and Sciences

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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, Cyberscholar and Activist, to Lead Center for Civic Media

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Esra’a Al Shafei—"Self-censorship is a massive part of my everyday struggle. There’s so much I want to say that I just can’t."

Esra’a Al Shafei is the Founder and Director of Majal, a nonprofit that helps build communities and digital platforms that celebr…

Person

Sultan Al Qassemi

Former Director's Fellow

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MLTalks: Alfredo Corchado

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

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

Congratulations!

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Khaled Al-Ghoneim

Former Visiting Scholar

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

Project

Algorithmic Justice League

www.ajl.orgAn unseen force is rising—helping to determine who is hired, granted a loan, or even how long someone spends in prison. This for…

Video

MLTalks: Alfredo Corchado

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

Project

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…

Event

MLTalks: Helen Margetts

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

Tuesday
May 3, 2016
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Make the Breast Pump Not Suck Hackathon and Make Family Leave Not Suck Policy Summit 2018

The Make the Breast Pump Not Suck Hackathon kicks off with inspirational talks by top designers, CEOs of women’s health companies who are f…

Article

Media and provenance

Establishing—and rewarding—provenance of stories that start with investigative journalism could shift the field for original reporting.

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Defiance: Disobedience for the good of all

MIT Media Lab summer event explored responsible dissent, embodied in its new Disobedience Award.

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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
Publication

Gobo: A System for Exploring User Control of Invisible Algorithms in Social Media

Bhargava, Rahul; Chung, Anna; Gaikwad, Neil S; Hope, Alexis; Jen, Dennis; Rubinovitz, Jasmin; Saldías-Fuentes, Belén; Zuckerman, Ethan CSCW 2019: The ACM Conference on Computer-Supported Cooperative Work and Social Computing *All authors contributed equally to this research. Authors are listed in alphabetical order.

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Wadah Khanfar: "One Year After Mubarak: The Past and Future of the 'Arab Spring'"

LocationMIT Media Lab, E14 6th Floor DescriptionJoin the Facebook eventCo-HostsMIT Media LabCenter for Civic MediaThe Berkman Center for In…

Friday
February 24, 2012
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MLTalks: Peter Grauer, Vladimir Kliatchko, and Shawn Edwards

Technology Driving Global Media and Finance: Peter Grauer, Vladimir Kliatchko, and Shawn Edwards in conversation at the Media Lab.

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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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Almaha Almalki

Former Research Assistant

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?

Event

MLTalks: Marco Kaltofen

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

Monday
September 21, 2015
Project

A Moment of Change: Challenges and opportunities when covering hate speech and mis/disinformation

Since the 2016 US presidential election, news coverage of hate speech and mis/ disinformation has skyrocketed. What was once a sleepy beat …

Video

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: Judith Donath

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

Thursday
June 12, 2014
Event

MLTalks: Susan Crawford

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

Thursday
March 28, 2013
Event

MLTalks: Intisar Rabb and Manal Omar

Intisar Rabb and Manal Omar in conversation with Center for Civic Media Director Ethan Zuckerman.

Wednesday
October 19, 2016
1:00pm — 2:00pm ET
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Luis Alberto Alonso Pastor

Research Scientist

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Allison Tauziet

Former Director's Fellow

Article

Tech companies tried to help us spend less time on our phones. It didn’t work.

Ethan Zuckerman and other experts contextualize the real risks of the mobile internet.

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Alma Jam

Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, and Belonging Officer

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Alaa Murabit

Former Director's Fellow

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Alaa Khaddaj

Person

Alex Rutherford

Article

The Amazing Disappearing Election

Donald Trump and the coronavirus are all-consuming topics. What will happen to the rest of the world’s issues?

Article

Beyond the Vast Wasteland: briefing Congresspeople for the Aspen Institute

Ethan Zuckerman speaks at a gathering of Senators and Representatives who came to MIT for an Aspen Institute event in May, 2019.

Article

"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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Foster innovation, ethical tech with diverse teams

Civic Media head Ethan Zuckerman and others discuss how increasing team diversity can improve outcomes.

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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: 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
Project

Media Cloud

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

Video

MLTalks: Tim O'Reilly

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

Project

Promise Tracker

Promise Tracker is a citizen-monitoring platform designed to help communities track issues they care about and use that information to advo…

Person

Alan Han

Research Assistant

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Ali Shtarbanov

Research Assistant

Article

The case for a taxpayer-supported version of Facebook

“A public social media platform would have the civic mission of providing us a diverse and global view of the world.”

Project

Make the Breast Pump Not Suck Hackathon

In September 2014, 150 parents, engineers, designers, and healthcare practitioners gathered at the MIT Media Lab for the "Make the Breast P…

Person

Alex Berke

Research Assistant

Event

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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Alejandro Noriega Campero

Former Research Assistant

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Alex 'Sandy' Pentland

Professor of Media Arts and Sciences; Toshiba Professor

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Safinah Arshad Ali

Research Assistant

Event

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
Person

Alaa Algargoosh

Postdoctoral Fellow