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Day 63: EGL Open House

 

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Day 62: Storyboarding…

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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

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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.

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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

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Reading material…

You can judge a university by the reading material available in its public toilets… #emerson

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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

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Day 27: storyboarding

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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. 

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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

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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

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Day 8: Emerson College

Observing innovative pedagogy on crowd-sourcing, community participation and digital engagement – at Emerson College.

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Day 7: Emerson College

Working on civic learning and urban youth empowerment at Emerson College, with Dr Paul Mihailidis.

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