Thursday Feb 25: “What is a Media Psychography? A 20-year Methodological Journey”
CMS alum and Syracuse University Professor Charisse L’Pree on the value of cross-methodology research – not just mixed methods.
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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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Feb 24: Lupe Fiasco Speaks about The Society of Spoken Art
With CMS/W Professor Nick Montfort, Lupe Fiasco discuses the 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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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.”
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WCC Blog: Like It Or Not, Writing Is
The “Like It Or Not, Writing Is” blog uses analogies to help you hone your writing and speaking skills.
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Recent Posts
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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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Video: “Reworking the Archive: The Southeast Chicago Archive and Storytelling Project”
What are some unexplored ways that online environments can help us rethink “the archive”?
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Indigenous knowledge and technology at MIT: “Is it wise?”
A week of workshops, lab visits, and pairings matched Indigenous delegates with relevant labs and researchers across MIT.
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Video: Mauricio Cordero, “BORDERx: A Crisis In Graphic Detail”
BORDERx is a comic anthology that examines the border crisis from a variety of points of view and narrative formats, featuring 70 contributors from all over the world.
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Video: Adam Charles Hart, “Beyond the Living Dead: Treasures from the George A. Romero Archive”
Learn what’s in the George A. Romero archives, from Dawn of the Dead to Romero’s unpublished projects.
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Video: Patricia Saulis, “Creating Space for Balance: Indigenous Knowledge and Western Science — Two-Eyed Seeing — in Environmental Justice and Media”
Patricia Saulis features clips of Mikmaq Elders speaking and provide some perspective on how their work could be brought forward in discussions of Environmental Justice and Media.
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Video: Lana Swartz, “New Money: How Payment Became Social Media”
Lana Swartz’s book New Money frames money as a media technology, one in major transition.
