This Spring 2020 I will be teaching a course on ‘Printed Media in a Digital Age’ for CIEE (the Council on International Educational Exchange), a US-based non-profit study abroad and intercultural exchange organisation (see the 2020 Study Abroad Europe Semester programs catalogue [PDF]). The course description notes: Journalism is an evolving industry with multimedia platforms [...]
Biography
Biographies and images for Nico Macdonald, educator, facilitator and consultant on innovation and creativity
RIP Jonathan Miller
RIP Jonathan Miller. What a thinker and doer. I very much appreciated his reflection on the modern anti-religious mood, from 2010 (re-posted below). He’s quoted on BBC Radio 4’s World at One today rejecting the term ‘Renaissance Man’, saying ‘What’s been lost is the taking for granted a world of civilised curiosity’. This quote comes [...]
Report: General Election Hustings: Science, Research, Technology and Innovation, 19/11/2019 (The Royal Society)
In the run-up to the 2019 General Election, representatives from the main political parties were invited to outline their party’s election position on Science, Research, Technology and Innovation
Report: 50 Years of the Internet, 30/10/2019 (Plexal, London)
Report on 50 Years of the Internet event, 30/10/2019, at Plexal in the QE Olympic Park