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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 14: Back in town
Back in town. Funding bid on media literacy and civic learning submitted after months of preparations. Celebrated with a jazz CDs shopping spree at Newbury Comics. Particularly intrigued by The JFK Quintet: New Jazz Frontiers from Washington (1961 recording, “inspired … Continue reading
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Day 10: Copley Square, Boston Public Library
“In large cities, not only neighborhood libraries but central research libraries – the nucleus of what would become some of the greatest research collections in the world – were open to anyone with a library card. When the grand Forty-second … Continue reading
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