What they saw in America Alexis de tocqueville, max weber, g. K. Chesterton and sayyid qutb. I especially look forward to this discussion as dr. Nolans insights will help us wrap up a yearlong study at the Mcconnell Center on American Political Culture inspired by toekvilles democracy in america. He holds a masters in doctoral degrees from the university of virginia. His teaching and Research Interests fall within the general areas of law and society, culture, technology and social change and historical comparative sociology. He is the recipient of several grants and awards including the National Endowments for the humanities fellow ships and a full bright scholarship. We look forward to dr. Williams pardon, dr. Nolans engaging discussion this evening on dark strands and bright threads what they is a new america. Dr. Nolan has agreed to take questions from the audience following his remarks. Please wait for one of our mcconnell scholars to bring you the microphone when youre asking you
At williams college. Dr. Nolan is the author of several books including what we are here to discuss this evening what they saw in America Alexis de tocqueville, max weber, g. K. Chesterton and sayyid qutb. I especially look forward to this discussion as dr. Nolans insights will help us wrap up a yearlong study at the Mcconnell Center on American Political Culture inspired by tocquevilles democracy in america. Dr. Nolan holds an undergraduate degree from the university of virginia. His teaching and Research Interests fall within the general areas of law and society, culture, technology and social change and historical comparative sociology. He is the recipient of several grants and awards including the National Endowments for the humanities fellowships and a full bright scholarship. We look forward to dr. Williams pardon, dr. Nolans engaging discussion this evening on dark strands and bright threads, what they saw in america. Dr. Nolan has agreed to take questions from the audience foll
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
Them and who has even written and implement chill book about this world that we live in. And even written and worldntial book about the that we live in. If i am not mistaken, even worked for one of the first ethan worked for one of the first. Com enterprises. Ofis also a Founding Member Global Voices online, a popular Nonprofit Network of bloggers, citizens, and journalists. In 2007, he joined the inaugural wikipedias eyes reboard. Added to the list of stop global bloggers. It is my pleasure to present ethan zuckerman. Please join me in welcoming ethan to rice. [applause] mr. Zuckerman thank you so much. It is wonderful to be here in this beautiful state on this gorgeous campus. Want to tell you about where i from and how that informs some of the work that i am doing at the moment. I teach at the m. I. T. Media lab which is one of the stranger academic institutions in the world. Behind the media you have to be future on inventing the and you have to be studying something that no one el