by Steven Rosenbaum, Sustainable Media Center Sherry Turkle is a philosopher who thinks about the nature of being human, at a time when technology is turning our social world upside down. In the academic world, she’s a professor of the social studies of science and technology at MIT. Her TED…

Standing in front of a virtual room of high school students and tech leaders, Braxton Woodham, president of Unfinished Labs, said he sees the current state of social networks as bleak, but fixable. As he explained it, no one person is responsible for the current state of affairs. Quoting Grateful…

News, as we know it, is being reinvented every day, in ways large and small. Elon Musk swerves around, claiming one moment he’s empowering “citizen journalism” and that the “best coverage” of the World Cup can be found on Twitter. …

Over the past week, I’ve led a series of conversations about the current state of media, and the increasing sense that media platforms are amplifying hate and misinformation. …

On April 14, Elon Musk was on a stage in Vancouver at a TED talk, asked to define what he believed should be Twitter’s role regarding content. It was early days in the six-month will-he-or-won’t-he own Twitter roller coaster. Musk seemed to be thinking on his feet, trying to answer…

Molly Rose Russell was by all accounts a normal 14-year-old schoolgirl. She had the interests and hobbies of a typical teenager: music from “Hamilton,” the band 5 Seconds of Summer, a lead role in her school play. A “positive, happy, bright young lady who was indeed destined to do good,”…

If you want to know just how quickly things have changed, just ask Julie Scelfo, who’s a media ecologist (one who studies the interactions of communications media, technology, and processes with human feelings and behavior)and a mom. “I have three teen boys, 12, 14, and 17,” said Scelfo. “When my…

Carl Sagan’s remarkable life as an astronomer, planetary scientist, cosmologist, astrophysicist, astrobiologist, and author made him uniquely suited to ask complicated questions. At the University of Chicago in the 1950s, the-then 16-year-old Sagan took courses in philosophy, science, and literature. He was among many things, a deep thinker. In his…