Google Says Driverless Cars Will Join The Roads In Less Than 5 Years Social Media Week by Tyler Becker In two to five years, Google’s driverless cars could be on the roads, primarily collecting data on how they interact with other vehicles and pedestrians. Chris Urmson, the Head of Google’s Self-Driving Car initiative, said they are … Read more
Tripadvisor fined by Italy regulator BBC News | Europe | World Edition Italy’s competition watchdog fines travel website Tripadvisor €500,000 (£392,000) for publishing misleading information in its reviews. How information volunteers solve communicative issues during a disaster media/anthropology by John Postill Volunteers play with children at a disaster refugee centre near Yogyakarta, in Indonesia. Photo by Eko … Read more
Why cameras alone won’t protect black mens’ lives …My heart’s in Accra I wasn’t expecting the grand jury to indict Darren Wilson, the police officer who shot and killed Michael Brown in Ferguson, MO. I was disappointed and outraged, but not surprised. Unfortunately, the response of local and state government in Ferguson to the shooting … Read more
Ferguson: Anthropologists Speak Out Savage Minds: Notes and Queries in Anthropology by Carole McGranahan Race and injustice and anger and fear. All of these and more in the wake of the grand jury decision in the police killing of unarmed teenager Michael Brown in Ferguson, Missouri. What do anthropology and anthropologists have to say about all of this? … Read more
It’s Incredibly Rare For A Grand Jury To Do What Ferguson’s Just Did FiveThirtyEight – Ben Casselman – Nov 24, 6:30 PM – A St. Louis County grand jury on Monday decided not to indict Ferguson, Missouri, police Officer Darren Wilson in the August killing of teenager Michael Brown. The decision wasn’t a surprise — … Read more
Self-segregation on social networks and the implications for the Ferguson, MO story …My heart’s in Accra by Ethan Michael Brown was fatally shot by police officer Darren Wilson on Saturday August 9, 2014. After his body lay in the hot street for four hours, Ferguson residents took to the streets to protest his killing. Brown’s death, the … Read more
How Photojournalists Change War Zones Slate Articles by Chris Wade This month Slate featured clips from the latest installment of Brooklyn Brewery’s War Correspondents series—a talk dedicated to Chris Hondros, a war photographer who was killed in Misrata, Libya in 2011. The series showed the pivotal role of photojournalists and reporters in conflict zones, and the unique dangers … Read more
The Ferguson Army: A song by Jonathan ‘Song a Day’ Mann Boing Boing Ferguson and the power of a free Internet Nieman Journalism Lab by Caroline O’Donovan In a piece posted to The Message collection on Medium today, University of North Carolina professor Zeynep Tufekci reveals how issues of net neutrality are altering the news coming out … Read more
Riot police the same from Ferguson to France AL JAZEERA ENGLISH (IN DEPTH) Police, worldwide, use similar non-lethal weapons to maintain social order and stop political violence.