The gist of what Kanye was saying is something that’s close to my own heart: It has to do with the potential of design to improve the world we live in.
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Posted in: Media & Arts, Rights & Justice, United States
Topics: black men and boys, Campaign for Black Male Achievement, Design, Innovation, Kanye West, Twitter, Warren Berger
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The use of DNA profiling by law enforcement agencies has exploded around the world. But while technologies to interrogate DNA have become more sophisticated, privacy and human rights are increasingly put at risk.
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One of the first cases of its kind in Chile, and one of only a handful in the hemisphere, argues that emails between officials should be accessible to the public not only as a matter of transparency, but also as a vital part of the historical record.
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Doug Liman, director of the The Bourne Identity and Fair Game, has teamed up with the ACLU and PEN American Center on a collaborative film project to fight torture, and he needs your help.
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To understand fledgling political movements like the Sweden Democrats in the 21st century, social scientists must turn their attention to websites like Twitter and Facebook.
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Much has been written about Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Anthony Shadid in the weeks since his death at age 43 while on assignment in Syria. What I appreciated over the years was his honesty.
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In 2010, when I set out to launch a national storytelling project that would employ the talents of our best and brightest black male media makers, I envisioned a program that would extol the virtues of men of African descent that are often ignored in mainstream media. That vision had to do with, to...
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We urgently need debate on what the global norms for freedom of expression—not just national ones—should be. A new website aims to help make that happen.
Posted in: Africa, Asia, Europe, Latin America & the Caribbean, Media & Arts, Middle East, Rights & Justice, United States
Topics: Arundhati Roy, Aryeh Neier, debate, free speech, Free Speech Debate, freedom of expression, Khaled Fahmy, Max Mosley, media freedom, Mohsen Kadivar, Timothy Garton Ash, Yan Xuetong
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Ning is quickly emerging as a popular social media platform for patient support groups and people living with chronic medical conditions.
Posted in: Health, Media & Arts
Topics: Ben Munoz, Diabetes, Facebook, Health, health media, HIV/AIDS, Joyce Ho, Ning, public health, social media, Twitter
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A ruling from the European Court of Human Rights involving Princess Caroline of Monaco clarifies the criteria for balancing the right to private life and freedom of expression
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