James Fowler, author of Connected, interviewed at a book party and recorded on an iPhone

James Fowler, author of Connected, interviewed at a book party and recorded on an iPhone

October 15, 2009 Video clips of James Fowler speaks about his new book, “Connected: The Surprising Power of Our Social Networks and How They Shape Our …

Authors@Google: Daniel Solove on Reputation, Gossip and Privacy

Authors@Google: Daniel Solove on Reputation, Gossip and Privacy

The Authors@Google program welcomed Daniel Solove to Google’s New York office to discuss his book, “The Future of Reputation: Gossip, Rumor and Privacy on the …

Health 2.0: The Patient is In (brief intro and links to more)

Health 2.0: The Patient is In (brief intro and links to more)

Susannah Fox can’t make herself use Doug Rushkoff’s meme description of memes, “media virus,” but calls it “Social Contagion” instead as she introduces a panel …

Danah Boyd on MyFriends, MySpace

Danah Boyd on MyFriends, MySpace

On June 19 2008, danah boyd participated in the Berkman Luncheon Series to discuss her work and research in the area of social networks. She …

danah boyd remixed

danah boyd remixed

danah, I loved your presentation at Penn State. Thanks for sharing. I remixed some of your thoughts and ideas. I tried to synthesize 45 minutes of info …

How We Read Other Peoples’ Minds - Rebecca Saxe at TED

How We Read Other Peoples’ Minds - Rebecca Saxe at TED

Sensing the motives and feelings of others is a natural talent for humans. But how do we do it? Here, Rebecca Saxe shares fascinating lab …

Facebook, Twitter Revolutionizing How Parents Stalk Their College-Aged Kids

Facebook, Twitter Revolutionizing How Parents Stalk Their College-Aged Kids

On this Today Now! segment, ‘E-Mom’ Gloria Bianco shows Jim and Tracy how geographical distance is no longer a roadblock to shamelessly interfering with the …

James Surowiecki: When social media became news

James Surowiecki: When social media became news

In this 2006 TED talk, James Surowiecki a UNC grad and author of “The Wisdom of Crowds” who writes a regular column on economics at …

Benedict Anderson: Peculiar, Bracing Cosmopolitanisms among the Colonized in the Twilight of Empire

Benedict Anderson: Peculiar, Bracing Cosmopolitanisms among the Colonized in the Twilight of Empire

Peculiar, Bracing Cosmopolitanisms among the Colonized in the Twilight of Empire from Committee on Global Thought on Vimeo. Benedict Anderson is the Aaron L. Binenkorb Professor …

True Enough - Farhad Manjoo @ Google about truthiness

True Enough - Farhad Manjoo @ Google about truthiness

In True Enough, Manjoo presents findings from psychology, sociology, political science, and economics to show how new technologies are prompting the cultural ascendancy of belief …