Barack Obama Calls For A New Kind Of Media
Former President Barack Obama is thinking about media’s impact on society and democracy. Obama spoke at the annual Democracy Forum in Chicago sponsored by the Obama Foundation. The room was […]
Sherry Turkle: Empathy, Solitude, Power Of ‘The Boring Bits’
by Steven Rosenbaum, Sustainable Media Center Sherry Turkle is a philosopher who thinks about the nature of being human, at a time when technology is turning our social world upside […]
Move Fast And Fix Things
If you want to know just how quickly things have changed, just ask Julie Scelfo, who’s a media ecologist (one who studies the interactions of communications media, technology, and processes […]
Carl Sagan And The Dumbing Down Of America
Carl Sagan’s remarkable life as an astronomer, planetary scientist, cosmologist, astrophysicist, astrobiologist, and author made him uniquely suited to ask complicated questions. At the University of Chicago in the 1950s, […]
