Event Archives: 2013

The Open Technology Institute at the New America Foundation invites you to celebrate the book launch of Big Data: A Revolution That Will Transform How We Live, Work, and Think.

** Due to inclement weather, this event has been canceled.  We apologize for any inconvenience.**

On the heels of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's reelection—and in anticipation of President Obama’s forthcoming trip to Israel, the West Bank, and Jordan—the New America Foundation's Middle East Task Force will host a discussion on expectations for the visit and for the president’s second term.

As we approach the 10-year anniversary of the U.S. invasion of Iraq on March 20, 2003, news of that country has largely faded from American headlines. But a myriad of questions remain to be answered about the eight-year American involvement in the Iraq War. Specifically, what were the major decision points for the United States, and what directions did the conflict take after those decisions were made? What was gained from the deaths of many of tens of thousands of Iraqis and thousands of Americans, and hundreds of billions of dollars the war also consumed?

Join the New America Foundation's Media Policy Initiative to mark the release of Susan Crawford's Captive Audience: The Telecom Industry and Monopoly Power in the New Gilded Age. In the book, Crawford uses the 2011 merger between Comcast and NBCU as a framework to explore how deregulatory changes in policy have created a communications crisis in America. From smartphones and television programming to the cost of high-speed Internet access, Captive Audience illustrates how a handful of companies control our information destiny.