Special Subject, Spring 2021: “The Politics of Care and Empathy”
We’re pleased to announce a new special subject offering! For the upcoming Spring 2021 semester, Visiting Professor Eric Gordon is teaching “The Politics of Care and Empathy”.
We’re pleased to announce a new special subject offering! For the upcoming Spring 2021 semester, Visiting Professor Eric Gordon is teaching “The Politics of Care and Empathy”.
What are some unexplored ways that online environments can help us rethink “the archive”?
A week of workshops, lab visits, and pairings matched Indigenous delegates with relevant labs and researchers across MIT.
BORDERx is a comic anthology that examines the border crisis from a variety of points of view and narrative formats, featuring 70 contributors from all over the world.
Learn what’s in the George A. Romero archives, from Dawn of the Dead to Romero’s unpublished projects.
An innovative humanities program that applies critical analysis, collaborative research, and design across media arts, forms, and practices. More about Comparative Media Studies/Writing >
For shaping new media uses and practices, sponsors, donors, and research partners make it possible for us to pursue our far-reaching mission.
As part of our mission of working across disciplines, cultures, and communities, we welcome visiting scholars and hire postdoctoral associates and fellows. Here’s the process.
Thesis by Matt Graydon S.M., Comparative Media Studies, 2019
This thesis seeks to unravel and assess RT’s historical roots, its creation and evolution, its methods, and ultimately its impact on American politics and society.
Patricia Saulis features clips of Mikmaq Elders speaking and provide some perspective on how their work could be brought forward in discussions of Environmental Justice and Media.
Lana Swartz’s book New Money frames money as a media technology, one in major transition.
The politics behind categories we take for granted such as spam and noise, and what it means to our broader understanding of, and engagement with media.
The application deadline is January 4, 2021, and start date as early as July 1. Apply at academicjobsonline.org.
Edited by CMS/W Professor Nick Montfort, it’s journal of computational poetry, with this issue being on the theme of “fiveness and times of confinement”.