Africa, contrary to what we might be led to believe by the news, is not all famine and civil war. Internet use on the continent is skyrocketing, and investors in the human capital of various African nations are making their presence felt. Teddy Ruge, co-founder of Project Diaspora, described Africa’s ascent in the tech world […]
Robert Millis and Will Coghlan, hosts of the popular podcast Political Lunch, revealed their solution to the question “can online video pay?” at SXSWi Saturday. The Dynamo player is a project the duo has been working on, and which had been shown to only a handful of people before SXSW. It is a video streaming service […]
Jeremy Gutsche, “chief trend hunter” at TrendHunter.com, woke up the hungover Sunday morning crowd with a lively panel on innovation and trending. Displaying the subversive attitude that one would expect from a trend expert, the charismatic speaker started his lecture by stating, “Cool is not what’s popular. Cool is unique, cutting edge, and viral.” Gutsche […]
Cindy Royal, Tyson Evans and Matt Waite all have backgrounds that one wouldn’t think would lead them to new media. Today, all three are in professions that are transforming the world of communication. The mission of this panel was to discuss what future communication professionals need to know, and how to teach it to them. […]
In “Story Next. — Narrating the Crowd,” Suneel Gupta and Dr. Sanjay Gupta asked the question, “What exactly is it that ties us to each other?” Both brothers feel that the answer to that question is in our shared experiences as human beings. Social media has the ability to create bases of information for cultural […]
Dr. Sanjay Gupta and his brother Suneel Gupta started the Kahani Movement with the hope of uncovering the stories that aren’t usually told. The brothers’ mission was to document the lives of people that had immigrated to the United States from India. They wanted to chronicle the hardships, the discoveries and the joys these people […]
It’s the constant battle of new media: Where do you draw the line between privacy and publicity? That was the subject of Saturday’s keynote address, delivered by Danah Boyd, social media researcher for Microsoft New England. She believes online privacy is not dead. However, she said privacy is understanding how technology flows. Boyd focused much […]