By Marshall Cartwright While commuting to class recently in Paris, I sat on the train watching a parade of dancing thumbs march in unison through their respective digital playgrounds. In 2018, this is an everyday observation for people all around the world. In the...
Increasingly we are living in media silos that divide us from large numbers of fellow citizens. Here are some tricks for bursting your media bubble. Worried about alternative facts? Try entering an alternative universe. Like it or not, each of us lives in a media...
Instagram’s new “Stories” platform taps into a human desire to share emotions and is re-shaping global marketing and social media. A woman with a frame of Instagram, Mexico City, Mexico, 26 November 2014.(EPA/Sashenka Gutierrez) We encourage our...
Drones are a dream come true for cameramen. But they raise thorny ethical questions and are causing headaches for regulators. A boy controlling a drone in Sieversdorf, Germany, 8 June 2016.(Patrick Pleul/picture-alliance/dpa/AP) Drones are a cameraman’s dream. They...
Name: Emefa Addo Agawu Birth place: Ithaca, New York Age: 22 Occupation: Research assistant, Empirical Studies of Conflict Project at Princeton’s Woodrow Wilson School. Graduated in May from Yale College with a bachelor’s degree in Political Science....