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Tag Archives: Emerson
Day 56: Diversity, segregation and engagement
Catching up with a backlog of emails, projects and readings, and building up the conceptual framework on the pathways between urban diversity, segregation, engagement and co-existence. “In the face of greater individualisation, privatism, inequality and ethnic and cultural diversity, there … Continue reading
Day 48: New office
First day in my new at the brand new HQ of the Engagement Game Lab, working on the paper on Obama’s Facebook campaign, checking out funding opportunities for the Cities global research and catching up with GPSG work.
Guest Lecture: Civic Engagement in the Era of Digital Storytelling
On Wednesday, November 13th, I gave a guest lecture to the Interactive Communication graduate students at Emerson College. The talk was entitled ‘Civic Engagement in the Era of Digital Storytelling‘. Picking up from the first part of the workshop, which … Continue reading
Reading material…
You can judge a university by the reading material available in its public toilets… #emerson
Guest lecture: Managing Choice
On Monday, November 4th, I gave my first guest lecture at Emerson College. It was a double bill, with a matinée from 4-6pm and an evening performance from 6-8pm, as this is a large freshman cohort. The title of my … Continue reading
Day 24: Engagement Game Lab, Emerson Library
Briefing at the Engagement Game Lab, followed by a visit to the new offices, followed by another productive evening transcribing and coding interviews in the library.
Day 22: editing
Nine hours in the library, editing the paper on Facebook’s personalisation algorithm and its impact on user satisfaction. After spending exactly an hour and a half on disentangling one single comparative statistic (and why the comparison is not valid), I … Continue reading
Day 21: Chinatown, Downtown, Emerson Library
Walking through Chinatown I noticed that in contrast to other downtown neighbourhoods which feature very little evidence of the upcoming mayoral election – it is quite a politicized community (interestingly there are more signs here for John Connolly than in … Continue reading
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Day 20: On the set of Will & Grace
One of the perks of working at Emerson is that the original set of Will & Grace is permanently housed inside the College’s Iwasaki Library, on the 3rd floor at 120, Boylston St
Day 8: Emerson College
Observing innovative pedagogy on crowd-sourcing, community participation and digital engagement – at Emerson College.
Day 7: Emerson College
Working on civic learning and urban youth empowerment at Emerson College, with Dr Paul Mihailidis.