Video: Sulafa Zidani, “Messy on the Inside: Internet Memes as Mapping Tools of Everyday Life”
The power of memes cannot be fully understood without considering their role in the complex relationship between technology, space, and politics.
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English Language Studies joins Comparative Media Studies/Writing
The move places all of MIT’s Institute-wide writing and communications instruction under one academic roof.
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Faculty job opening: Assistant Professor of Media Studies
This tenure-track position has a focus on media industries and/or computational media. Application deadline: Nov 1, 2021. Full information at academicjobsonline.org
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Transformative truth-telling at the MIT Open Documentary Lab
The lab’s artists and technology scholars are exploring representation and reality — and shaping the future of storytelling.
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2021-2022 INSPIRE-Math Coaching & Leadership Fellowship
Led by the our Teaching Systems Lab for all who currently teach or coach math in a district or charter school in Boston for all or part of their day in grades 3-8. Learn more on July 19.
MIT Comparative Media Studies/Writing
An innovative humanities program that applies critical analysis, collaborative research, and design across media arts, forms, and practices. More about Comparative Media Studies/Writing >
How to Join Us as a Visiting Scholar or Postdoc
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.
Upcoming Events
Talks and more with the world’s top media researchers and practitioners, hosted on campus or online.
Recent Posts
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Messy on the inside: internet memes as mapping tools of everyday life
The first systematic analysis of memes created by Palestinians in Israel. An analysis of 150 memes reveals how memes are used to reflect on and intervene in Palestinian youths’ navigation of life in mixed cities under prolonged war and colonialism.
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What is National Belonging in a Nation that Doesn’t Belong?
“They ‘bypassed the nation,’ as I had put it, and instead forged human connections that were on a local and transnational scale.”
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MIT’s “3 Questions”: Making the 2021-22 School Year Work for Students
Associate Professor Justin Reich co-authors a new report on reimagining schools for a post-pandemic world.
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Current CMS/W Job Openings
Job openings at CMS/W, including for postdocs and visiting scholars.
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Healing, Community, and Humanity: How Students and Teachers Want to Reinvent Schools Post-COVID
“The students and educators in our study emphasized themes of healing, community, and humanity as key learnings from the pandemic year and essential values to rebuilding schools.”
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Jing Wang, professor of Chinese media and cultural studies, dies at 71
Wang, a beloved CMS/W colleague who founded the China-based media activism nonprofit NGO2.0, taught at MIT since 2001.
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Sue Ding, ’17, wins L.A. Area Emmy Award
Congratulations to the CMS master’s alum, who shared the award as director and producer of Light & Space, part of KCET’s Artbound series.
