When you want to plan a trip, you need a map -- one you trust. So when I was trying to understand the increasingly more complex world of media, I asked my friend the Map Maker. Evan Shapiro calls himself a media cartographer, since our phones, living rooms, and computer screens…
There may be no more galvanizing center of gravity for the tech community than South By Southwest, affectionately known as SXSW., in Austin, Texas. It’s…
Frances Haugen likes answering hard questions. Long before she was famous, she was whip-smart, a high school debate champ, and then a history major. She…
Media literacy -- it’s a topic you’re hearing raised everywhere, from the classroom to the newsroom. Media literacy is the ability to critically…
Robots are all over my life. Some of them I love, some of them I tolerate, and a few I downright hate. Let me introduce you to my robot army. First, my…
Tomorrow, a remarkable group of witnesses is set to testify before the Senate Judiciary Committee. Among them is Emma Lembke, a teen activist and…
There's an ongoing debate about artificial intelligence. Is it simply mimicking existing elements on the web or is it creating new creative work…
Every year at the Sundance Film Festival, themes emerge. It's often the films you choose to see that seem to weave together. For me this year, it was…
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