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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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.
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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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Video: Nick Montfort interviews CAST Visiting Artist Lupe Fiasco
Fiasco discused the SOSA educational guild that brings established and aspiring rappers together to hone their verbal prowess and master the fundamentals of linguistic and semiotic methodology.
MIT Comparative Media Studies/Writing
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Recent Posts
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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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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.
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Of Miracles and Multiverses
In The Atlantic, Alan Lightman writes that “surprisingly, some recent proposals in physics reveal that believers and nonbelievers may have more in common than they think.”
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‘Healing’ Anime in a Pandemic
Join CMS/W professors Paul Roquet and Ian Condry on Monday, May 3, as they discuss “healing-style” anime, centered on the film A Whisker Away.
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Video: Joshua Littenberg-Tobias, “Measuring Equity-Promoting Behaviors in Digital Teaching Simulations: A Topic Modeling Approach”
How natural language processing tools can be used to better understand participants’ experiences within simulated environments focused on anti-racist teaching.
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Pondering the Unknowable
Alan Lightman’s new book explores the riddles of origins, infinities, and other bafflements brought to us by modern science.
