The Twittersphere continues to react to FCC Chairman Tom Wheeler’s Feb. 4 Wired op-ed in which he proposed a plan to treat, and regulate, the internet as a public utility. Net neutrality supporters and opponents alike gear up as the FCC’s public Feb. 26 vote draws closer. Facebook announced this week that they were introducing […]
While for the time being Silicon Valley, startup culture and the expected face of tech, whether geek or chic, remain overwhelmingly male – specifically young, white and male – and even exposés on women’s experience in this climate sometimes fail to get past their over-sexualized cover graphics to the meat of the issue, SXSW’s 2015 Interactive lineup […]
For the first time since the project was created, SXTXState participants had the opportunity to sit down with a few members of the SXSW Interactive team. Director Hugh Forrest, Senior Festival Programmer Sarah Garcia and Festival Coordinator Andrew McNeill provided insight into this year’s festival, and offered advice for event newcomers and veterans alike. According […]
The words that come to mind a week after SXSWi: insight opportunity exhaustion After preparing for half of the semester, I can say it was worth it. This massive event really takes prepping if you want to really make the best of your days. Insight is probably the thing I’m most grateful for. I was […]
I don’t consider myself any sort of new media expert. It is that sole reason, I decided to pursue my graduate degree. I mean, sure, I use new media as well as social media but I didn’t really understand the in’s and out’s of it. So when I submitted my essay to be considered for […]
We’re pretty exhausted so I think we’re happy to go home tonight. But, it is bittersweet because SXSW was filled with new experiences every day. (And as we learned in one panel, new experiences make it seem like you’ve lived longer.) Be sure to check our coverage from this week!
Soon you’ll be able to print and customize your own Oreo through a vending machine-like 3D printer. This is what Bonin Bough, vice president of Global Media and Consumer Engagement at Mondelez International, calls “hacking food,” hacking meaning “breaking things to create value.” Bough explained the revolution of food. Society went from being hunters and […]