Blank Space: A Cultural History of the Twenty-First Century
by W. David Marx · 18 Nov 2025 · 642pp · 142,332 words
-awards [inactive]. GO TO NOTE REFERENCE IN TEXT “Blessings come in disguise”: Lazar, “ ‘Bed Intruder.’ ” GO TO NOTE REFERENCE IN TEXT trivialized a serious crime: Andy Carvin, “ ‘Bed Intruder’ Meme: A Perfect Storm of Race, Music, Comedy and Celebrity,” NPR, August 5, 2010, https://www.npr.org/sections/alltechconsidered/2010/08/05
We Are Bellingcat: Global Crime, Online Sleuths, and the Bold Future of News
by Eliot Higgins · 2 Mar 2021 · 277pp · 70,506 words
flared, but many reporters had left to file their stories. With the battle lines surging and receding, those who roamed outside faced injury. One journalist, Andy Carvin of National Public Radio, held his position that entire day, piecing together a running narrative of the Battle of the Camel. He never needed to
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thought might be interested, from Chivers of the New York Times to Amnesty International, to Human Rights Watch, to a reporter at the Guardian, to Andy Carvin of NPR, even members of the UK parliament whom I had come across for their role in confronting the phone-hacking scandal. For good measure
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, the open-source investigative community amounted to a loose grouping that had formed organically, most of us amateurs plus a few pioneering professionals such as Andy Carvin, who had harnessed social media during the Arab Spring; Josh Lyons of Human Rights Watch, a master of satellite-imagery analysis; Christoph Koettl of Amnesty
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Russia.33 The danger to open-source investigators goes beyond physical and digital threats; there is also the psychological damage. After the Christchurch mosque shootings, Andy Carvin – by then a senior fellow at the Atlantic Council’s Digital Forensic Research Lab – wrote a powerful warning. Like me, he had watched hours and
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P. W. Singer and Emerson T. Brooking, LikeWar: The Weaponization of Social Media, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2018, p. 80. 1 REVOLUTION ON A LAPTOP 1 Andy Carvin, Distant Witness: Social Media, the Arab Spring and a Journalism Revolution, CUNY Journalism Press, 2012, pp. 23–33. 2 Ibid., p. 39. 3 www.youtube
The New Digital Age: Transforming Nations, Businesses, and Our Lives
by Eric Schmidt and Jared Cohen · 22 Apr 2013 · 525pp · 116,295 words
his tweets, there are limits to what someone with his profile could achieve in terms of influencing policy-makers. Perhaps a more important example is Andy Carvin, who curated one of the most important streams of information in both the Egyptian and Libyan revolutions, with tens of thousands of followers and countless
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re-tweet only things he could verify. He became a one-man filter of enormous influence, cultivating and vetting sources. Ultimately, though, however talented the Andy Carvins or John Scott-Railtons of the world are, the hard work of revolutionary movements is done on the ground, by the people inside a country
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,8599,2045489,00.html. posted updates about the protests: Ibid. @Jan25voices Twitter handle was a major conduit of information: Ibid. Andy Carvin, who curated one of the most important streams of information: Andy Carvin, interview by Robert Siegel, “The Revolution Will Be Tweeted,” NPR, February 21, 2011, http://www.npr.org/2011/02/21
WikiLeaks and the Age of Transparency
by Micah L. Sifry · 19 Feb 2011 · 212pp · 49,544 words
he and his fellow programmers built wasn’t all that original. After the 2004 tsunami that ravaged much of South Asia, online activists like American Andy Carvin created sites like Tsunami-Info.org, using RSS feeds to aggregate information meant to help relief efforts. In 2005, an ad hoc collaboration of a
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,” September 6, 2005, www.ethanzuckerman.com/ blog/2005/09/06/recovery-20-thoughts-on-what-worked-and-failed-onpeoplefinder-so-far. Al Tompkins, “NPR’s Andy Carvin on the Role of Social Media in Gustav Coverage,” Poynter, September 1, 2008, www.poynter.org/latest-news/ als-morning-meeting/91234/nprs
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-andy-carvin-on-the-role-of-socialmedia-in-gustav-coverage. Nina Keim and Jessica Clark, “Public Media 2.0 Field Report: Building Social Media Infrastructure to Engage
Breaking News: The Remaking of Journalism and Why It Matters Now
by Alan Rusbridger · 14 Oct 2018 · 579pp · 160,351 words
Washington Post’s excellent reporter David Fahrenthold was to win the Pulitzer for his open-source reporting of Donald Trump in 2016. An NPR strategist, Andy Carvin, also broke new ground in 2011 with something clumsily labelled ‘collaborative networked journalism’, to become, for a while at least, the must-read source on
Smarter Than You Think: How Technology Is Changing Our Minds for the Better
by Clive Thompson · 11 Sep 2013 · 397pp · 110,130 words
. One was Zeynep Tufekci, an assistant professor who studies technology and society at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill; she contacted NPR’s Andy Carvin, a friend who tweets about the Middle East, and the two set up a hashtag—#FreeMona—to coordinate how to help Eltahawy. A mere twenty
Here Comes Everybody: The Power of Organizing Without Organizations
by Clay Shirky · 28 Feb 2008 · 313pp · 95,077 words
as other participants took digital pictures and uploaded them to Flickr, LiveJournal, and other online outlets. These pictures were in turn recirculated by bloggers like Andy Carvin and Ethan Zuckerman, political bloggers who cover the use of technology as a tool for social change. Images of a repressive Belarus thus spread far
The End of Big: How the Internet Makes David the New Goliath
by Nicco Mele · 14 Apr 2013 · 270pp · 79,992 words
nature of social media platforms. Storify essentially allows anyone, including professional journalists, to pull from a wide range of social media to tell a story. Andy Carvin, who runs online communities for National Public Radio, started using Storify to collect social media while reporting on the shooting of Arizona Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords
Twitter and Tear Gas: The Power and Fragility of Networked Protest
by Zeynep Tufekci · 14 May 2017 · 444pp · 130,646 words
their original account was frozen. Sure enough, they were soon “Twitter jailed” for tweeting too often. At that point, I checked in with a friend, Andy Carvin, NPR’s social media chief at the time. He was also glued to his devices as he undertook an extensive reporting effort about the uprisings
Dirty Wars: The World Is a Battlefield
by Jeremy Scahill · 22 Apr 2013 · 1,117pp · 305,620 words
Emanuel, Rob Caruso, Dan Trombly, Joshua Foust, Clint Watts, Matthew Hoh, Andrew Exum, Nada Bakos, Will McCants, Mosharraff Zaidi, Huma and Saba Imtiaz, Omar Waraich, Andy Carvin, Caitlin Fitzgerald, Blake Hounshell, Sebastian Junger, Timothy Carney, Peter Bergen and Chris Albon. Thank you also to David Massoni, whose Thistle Hill Tavern provided me
Dawn of the Code War: America's Battle Against Russia, China, and the Rising Global Cyber Threat
by John P. Carlin and Garrett M. Graff · 15 Oct 2018 · 568pp · 164,014 words
CTOs at Work
by Scott Donaldson, Stanley Siegel and Gary Donaldson · 13 Jan 2012 · 458pp · 135,206 words