Andrea Kim, ’21, awarded Fulbright Fellowship
Kim’s Fulbright research in South Korea will investigate how virtual reality can facilitate cross-cultural learning and live performance art.
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Video: Sandra Rodriguez, “Creating and Interacting with Virtual Entities: Combining VR and AI to Reflect on Human Experiences”
Between technology and carefully crafted storytelling, it is the human imagination that remains at the core of any immersion.
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CMS/W Head Professor Eric Klopfer to serve as a co-director of Responsible A.I. for Social Engagement
“We want to make sure that all people are empowered to use A.I. in constructive, creative, and beneficial ways”
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Video: Jonathan Sterne, “Diminished Vocalities: On Prostheses and Abilities”
Impairments are usually understood as the physical or biological substrates of culturally produced disabilities, but Jonathan Sterne considers them as a political and theoretical problem in their own right.
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Three Job Openings for Teacher Education Research Roles
The opportunities include a postdoc and two positions with a focus on A.I.
MIT Comparative Media Studies/Writing
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Writing Together Online: June Edition — Get It Done in June!
90 minute sessions run June 7-30. Pre-registration required.
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Recent Posts
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Congratulations to the class of 2021!
It’s been a bizarre year-plus. But the twenty three of you made it! You’re still standing.
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Triple play, OTT TV, and the Chinese logic of “select commercialization”
“The future of the Chinese online TV industry is increasingly organized as an ecosystem economy.”
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The 2021 Karmel Writing Prizes Winners
Working in every genre, from fiction to technical writing, more than four dozen pieces were prize winners this year.
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Start-up funding news: Faculty and alum secure combined $2.25 million
Professor Ian Condry and CMS alum Han Su recently announced funding rounds for their respective start-ups.
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Video, James Wynn: “There’s No Place Like Home: Promotional Narratives, Science Fiction, and the Case for Mars Colonization”
How do you persuade people to leave their indigenous communities to start new ones in a foreign and sometimes hostile place?
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From Media Effects to the Empathy Machine: The Nature of the Audience and the Persistence of Wishful Thinking
The shifting and often contradictory claims made for the audience, particularly in light of the documentary project.
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Video: MIT Open Learning hosts “Hip Hop, Technology, and Narrative”
Featuring CMS/W Professor Fox Harrell and Rocky Bucano, Executive Director of the Universal Hip Hop Museum.
