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
I now have a scheduler and her parents are here. Thank you for the millers. Also, i can tell her one more time that kansas city has the most complete Baseball Team i have seen in the last 30 or 40 years. [applause] so, i want to thank also the chancellor for welcoming me here. 11 years ago, i came here to launch a lecture series. I was honored to do with then because i always like bob dole and i always admired him. And because even when we were, we knew we were going to be running against each other for president , we found a way to Work Together. So, i think we need to be serious about this topic today. We can all say we are here at the university, we have comfortable lives, we will be nice to each other. This is a much more serious subject. For the polarization of americas politics, as present not just in washington but american life. You just look at how many of our collective bigotries we have overcome in america in the last 100 years. We are less racist than we used to be, less se
With a focus on the prison system. A harvardpreview with professor talking about a resumeon has become of people are thrown in jail. Incapacitation, rehabilitation, retribution has also looped in our reasons for punishment. We really shifted our motivation for incarceration from rehabilitation. Retribution, a sense that these are somehow deeply immoral actors that we want to submit to the harshest possible conditions. I think we are now seeing the ansequences of what i feel is misguided strategy that we are somehow expecting for the 2 million individuals currently have in prison, if we can exposed them to psychologically brutal conditions, and then release them into the streets, successbe a policy for and a strategy to reduce crime. Part of the conference will also hear about overcrowding in prisons, the vocational programs, and what happens to prisoners after they leave the system. That is tonight here on cspan at 8 00 eastern. On q a,sunday night twotime bullet surprise cartoonists,