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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‘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: 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.
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Video: “What is a Media Psychography? A 20-year Methodological Journey”
The role of interdisciplinary research and how Charisse L’Pree has maneuvered a wide variety of methodologies, including quantitative, qualitative, critical, and applied, in order to answer life’s questions.
MIT Comparative Media Studies/Writing
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Ilona Karmel Writing Prizes
MIT students win over $20,000 in prizes for their fiction, poetry, essays, science writing, and academic writing. Deadline: Monday, April 12, 5:00pm.
Funders and Partners
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Postdoc Opportunity with Prof. Justin Reich and the Teaching Systems Lab
To play a lead role in the analysis of mixed-methods data collected from a cohort of math teachers in an urban school district. Full description.
Recent Posts
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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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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.
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Restoring the Fairness Doctrine can’t prevent another Rush Limbaugh
Professor Heather Hendershot writes that “Limbaugh once boasted he had single-handedly ‘brought AM radio back from the dead.’ It was simultaneously one of the most accurate and least offensive comments he ever made.”
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Probable Impossibilities: Musings on Beginnings and Endings
Alan Lightman’s meditative essays on “the possibilities—and impossibilities—of nothingness and infinity, and how our place in the cosmos falls somewhere in between.”
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Ludics—Play as Humanistic Inquiry
In the introduction to the edited volume Ludics, Visiting Professor Eric Gordon and Vassiliki Rapti write that “this book takes the bold position that play is an antidote to dark times. Rather than an escape hatch, it provides opportunity for discovery, connection, joy, care, and relational aesthetics—conditions that are central to worldliness, not extraneous to it.”
