On Friday, February 20, the Wayne Morse Center for Law and Politics will be hosting a symposium on “Living Data: Inhabiting New Media,” addressing the timely topics of new media theory, data histories, network culture, and information ecologies in an interdisciplinary format. The symposium will be held at the Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art and features keynote speaker Wendy… Continue reading →
2014-15 Wayne Morse Chair for Law and Politics, Wendy Hui Kyong Chun, will lecture tomorrow on “From Publics to Networks.” Prof. Chun is professor of Modern Culture and Media at Brown University, and the author of Control and Freedom: Power and Paranoia in the Age of Fiber Optics (MIT, 2006) and Programmed Visions: Software and Memory (MIT 2011). Details: Wendy Hui Kyong… Continue reading →
On Thursday, January 29, the Wayne Morse Center for Law and Politics will host a screening of The Internet’s Own Boy. Partially funded through a successful Kickstarter campaign, the film is the story of programming prodigy and information activist Aaron Swartz. From Swartz’s help in the development of the basic internet protocol RSS to his co-founding of Reddit, his… Continue reading →
