How Mobile Apps Can Combat Police Brutality
BY Jason Tashea | Friday, January 9 2015
The grand jury tasked with deciding whether to indict the officer who shot and killed Michael Brown heard 70 hours of testimony. The 60 witnesses and three medical examiners gave conflicting accounts about Brown’s last minutes. Ultimately, the grand jury opted not to indict. Their decision left many asking: What if there was a video? What if there was better oversight of police misconduct? Was Michael Brown a unique tragedy or part of a larger trend? The ACLU’s Mobile Justice App and Five-0 are technologies that will hopefully help answer these questions and protect communities from police misconduct.
Read MoreFirst POST: Platforms
BY Micah L. Sifry | Monday, December 8 2014
How #BlackLivesMatter and #ICantBreathe are spreading worldwide; why users shouldn't trust Uber; platform cooperativism vs sharing economy; and much, much more. Read More
First POST: Responding
BY Micah L. Sifry | Wednesday, November 26 2014
The aftermath of Ferguson continues to reverberate; how one Senate campaign took advantage of Facebook's micro-targeting tools; the new Congress' tech agenda; and much, much more Read More
First POST: Sad Reality
BY Micah L. Sifry | Tuesday, November 25 2014
How social media changed the course of the Ferguson story; Ready for Hillary's 3-million-member email list; why Mark Cuban opposes net neutrality rules; and much, much more. Read More
First POST: Watching the Detectives
BY Micah L. Sifry | Thursday, August 14 2014
The whole world is watching the confrontation between police and protesters in Ferguson, MO, thanks to the web; Twitter finally promises to improve its policies for reducing harassment of users in the wake of Robin Williams' death; how the new US Digital Service hopes to avoid future IT catastrophes; and much, much more. Read More
First POST: Public Enemies
BY Micah L. Sifry | Wednesday, August 13 2014
James Bamford, our foremost chronicler of the NSA, talks to Edward Snowden; Black Twitter's hashtag activism and the Michael Brown killing; dissecting the 1.1 million comments on the FCC's Open Internet proposal; and much, much more. Read More
First POST: Reshaping
BY Micah L. Sifry | Monday, August 11 2014
BuzzFeed's plans to conquer all media; BellingCat, an open-source citizen journalism startup; what Facebook news feed is doing to our brains; and much, much more. Read More
Who Made "Dear Mr. Obama"? A Pro-Am, It Appears
BY Micah L. Sifry | Friday, September 12 2008
Michael Brown, the man who made "Dear Mr. Obama," the viral video that is currently exploding on YouTube among supporters of John McCain and the Iraq War, is a professional film-maker with about a dozen years of ... Read More
Who Made "Dear Mr. Obama"? A Pro-Am, It Appears
BY Micah L. Sifry | Friday, September 12 2008
Michael Brown, the man who made "Dear Mr. Obama," the viral video that is currently exploding on YouTube among supporters of John McCain and the Iraq War, is a professional film-maker with about a dozen years of ... Read More
"Dear Mr. Obama": The GOP's First Viral Video? [UPDATED]
BY Micah L. Sifry | Friday, September 12 2008
If you are one of the 41% of Americans who think the US invasion of Iraq was not a mistake, it looks like this video, showing a wounded veteran, Army Specialist Joe Cook, speaking in support of John McCain, could be your ... Read More