About an Administration Official was invited to testify but is not expected to attend. Watch that hearing live here on cspan3. The house homeland subcommittee looks at risk that could occur from resuming air travel to cuba live here on cspan3. This sunday night on q a vanity fair columnist and slate magazine Founder Michael kensly talks about his new book old age, a beginners guide on living with parkinsons disease. Parkparkinsons is a brain disease. I obviously meant obviously thinking, is it going to affect my thinking, how i earn a living. So that became pretty important and i asked this neurologist whats going to happen . And he says he was trying to tell me it wasnt such a big deal. He said you may lose your edge, as if that was just nothing. I thought, gee, my edge is how i earn a living, its why i have my friends, maybe why i have my wife. Sunday night on cspans q a. Now internet activist and blogger Ethan Zuckerman talks about civic participation and the Role Technology has in
Earn a living, its why i have my friends, maybe why i have my wife. Sunday night on cspans q a. Now internet activist and blogger Ethan Zuckerman talks about civic participation and the Role Technology has in shaping social norms. He spoke to students at Rice University in houston, this is an hour and 20 minutes. So for the past few months now we have been looking at online mnts, digital platforms such as facebook, google maps, which our social lives have grown increasingly familiar but are also invading our academic lives. We can public widely, collaborate across time and space, teach thousands at once and so on. But it has become clear that the same machines can take advantage of us. They make us work without us knowing, judge us in directions we dont necessarily want to go, et cetera. Tonight we get the chance to hear about these machines from someone who knows a great deal about them and has written a digital book about this world we live in. Ethan zuckerman is director of the cent
Photo Illustration by The Daily Beast/Ross Van Pelt /Courtesy of Jane FriedmanJane Friedman is somewhat of an expert in the publishing industry.Over the last 25 years, Friedman authored or contributed to 10 books on the industry, edited multiple newsletters to help writers get published and navigate the business, and held media professor positions at two universities. Last year, Digital Book World even named her Publishing Commentator of the Year.So when a reader emailed Friedman Sunday night ab