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Kate Crawford
Kate Crawford is a Principal Researcher at Microsoft Research (Social Media Collective) and a Visiting Professor at the MIT Center for Civic Media. She is currently working on a new book.
Find out more »Barry Werth and The Antidote: Reporting from Inside the World of Big Pharma
Barry Werth’s most recent book, The Antidote: Inside the World of Big Pharma, gives an unprecedented behind-the-scenes look at how a cash-starved startup became one of the great triumphs of American bio-tech innovation.
Find out more »Sandbox Summit@MIT, “Innovation by Design: Inspirations for Playful Learning”
Sandbox Summit@MIT 2014 will present some of the minds behind—and in front of—today’s evolutionary ideas, platforms, places and products. From toys and games to schools, museums, media and marketing, presenters will delve into the purposeful designs that power playful learning.
Find out more »Science in Fiction
Hanya Yanagihara, Alan Lightman, and Rebecca Goldstein discuss the unique challenges of respecting the exacting standards of science in fictional texts.
Find out more »Comparative Media Studies Thesis Day
Thesis presentations by students in the Comparative Media Studies masters program.
Find out more »Purple Blurb: Lance Olsen, “Experimental Writing & Video”
Including a reading from his recent book [[ there. ]] and video from his Theories of Forgetting project.
Find out more »Susan Murray, “‘Natural Vision vs. Tele-Vision’: Defining and Managing Electronic Color in the Post-War Era”
Susan Murray on the discourses that framed and managed color use and reception not only in the standardization period, but also during RCA and NBC’s early attempts to sell color to consumers, sponsors, and critics.
Find out more »Online Reading and the Future of Annotation
Using the tools of online textual annotation, readers can collaborate on annotating or interpreting a work, make their annotations public, and respond to interpretations by others.
Find out more »Purple Blurb: Scott Rettberg, “Videos & Combinatory Videos”
Rettberg is the project leader of ELMCIP (Electronic Literature as a Model of Creativity and Innovation in Practice), a HERA-funded collaborative research project, and a founder of the Electronic Literature Organization.
Find out more »Tarleton Gillespie: “Algorithms, and the Production of Calculated Publics”
In this talk Tarleton Gillespie will highlight one particular dimension of these algorithms, their production of calculated publics: algorithmically produced snapshots of the “public” around us and what most concerns it.
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