Heather Hendershot in the Washington Post: The 2020 party conventions are actually what the parties have always dreamed of
“Being online will give parties more control of how television viewers experience their conventions.”
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Money for Nothing
Thomas Levenson looks at “The Scientists, Fraudsters, and Corrupt Politicians Who Reinvented Money, Panicked a Nation, and Made the World Rich”.
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Lana Swartz, ’09, presents “New Money: How Payment Became Social Media”
The MIT Alumni Association hosted a Faculty Forum Online with alum Lana Swartz, now an assistant professor of media studies at the University of Virginia.
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Alum Sue Ding’s documentary short, “The Claudia Kishi Club”, released on Netflix
“It’s filmmaker Sue Ding’s love letter to Claudia-philes.”
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CMS/W and Racial Justice: A Path Forward
Our faculty in the MIT Faculty Newsletter: “Each of us, separately and together, can continue to fight for justice.”
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Alan Lightman talks with Oprah Winfrey
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Media, Arts and Design | AI Conference 2020 (Call for Abstracts; Register as participant), June 19th, 2020
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Student poems during COVID-19: “Pandemic Spring”
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Media Arts and Design | Blockchain Conference 2020 – a recap of the two-day online conference
“We recorded the entire conference from A-Z. Click here to see the full playlist on YouTube. Or just click on Ardor.Rocks, there every talk is marked with timestamps for easy navigation to the desired talk.”
