Professor Lisa Parks awarded MacArthur Fellowship — the “Genius Grant”
MIT health care economist Amy Finkelstein and CMS/W media studies scholar Parks are the latest MIT faculty to nab prestigious “genius grants.”
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Angles 2018
Congratulations to this year’s students published in Angles, a collection of the best pieces from introductory writing courses at MIT.
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Podcast, Thomas Allen Harris: “Collective Wisdom” Keynote
Critically-acclaimed filmmaker and artist Thomas Allen Harris reveals his process, experiences, and unexpected outcomes working with communities in online and offline shared spaces and places.
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Dispatches from Planet 3
Marcia Bartusiak illuminates overlooked breakthroughs and the people who made them.
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William Uricchio takes a hard look at VR’s promise
“The uncertainty regarding what VR is can easily lead to disappointment.”
MIT Comparative Media Studies/Writing
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Nov. 1: On-Campus Information Session, CMS Graduate Program
Come join us for snacks, ask questions, and learn about the CMS master’s program. Will be livestreamed with a moderated chat as well.
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The Cultural Life of Suicide: Observing Care and Death at MIT
Drawing on field observations with the student-run texting help line Lean On Me, as well as interviews of students and administrators working in campus mental health organizations, I then explore how mental health organizations approach their work within an environment where suicide is ambient and infrastructural.
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Video and podcast: Daniel Bacchieri, in the Civic Arts Series
Daniel Bacchieri is an award-winning Brazilian journalist, documentary film maker and collaborative web developer/curator, whose visually inspiring StreetMusicMap platform has been widely praised for its curation of street performers from across the globe.
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Podcast, “Collective Intelligence”: Featuring Agnieszka Kurant, Stefan Helmreich, Adam Haar Horowitz and Caroline Jones
Four MIT artists and scholars discuss the idea of collective intelligence in relation to emerging technology, artistic inquiry, and social and cultural movements. CMS/W Professor Nick Monfort moderates.
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Internet Killed the Michelin Star: The Motives of Narrative and Style in Food Text Creation on Social Media
While the underlying purpose of the construction and consumption of food texts remain the same from analog to digital form, the authority of food culture and its complimentary narrative control has shifted as a result of the convergence of food texts and digital media affordances.
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Dispatches from Planet 3: Thirty-Two (Brief) Tales on the Solar System, the Milky Way, and Beyond
“These pieces will transport you to ancient Mars, when water flowed freely across its surface; to the collision of two black holes, a cosmological event that released fifty times more energy than was radiating from every star in the universe; and to the beginning of time itself.”
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Podcast, “Civic Arts Series: Erik Loyer”
Erik Loyer’s award-winning work explores new blends of game dynamics, poetic expression and interactive visual storytelling.
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Just Say No to “Just Say No”: Tensions in Organizational Approaches to Youth and Online Privacy in the Americas
This thesis examines organizational practices in the field of youth online privacy in the Americas. Mariel García-Montes describes harms created by protective, universalist, individualistic approaches that pose youth as conditional citizens, and makes a case for approaches based instead on youth agency, intersectional views of privacy, collective responsibility, and the recognition of youth as subjects of rights today.
