Podcast: Marina Bers, “Coding in Early Childhood: Storytelling or Puzzle Solving?”
Bers describes current research on a pedagogical approach for early childhood computer science education called “Coding as Another Language”.
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Podcast: Desmond Upton Patton, “Contextual Analysis of Social Media: The Promise and Challenge of Eliciting Context in Social Media Posts with Natural Language Processing”
Desmond Upton Patton introduces a critical systematic approach for extracting culture, context and nuance in social media data. The Contextual Analysis of Social Media (CASM) approach considers and critiques the gap between inadequacies in natural language processing tools and differences in geographic, cultural, and age-related variance of social media use and communication.
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Design Justice: Community-Led Practices to Build the Worlds We Need
Associate Professor Sasha Costanza-Chock’s new book is “an exploration of how design might be led by marginalized communities, dismantle structural inequality, and advance collective liberation and ecological survival.”
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When Information Technology Meets Diversity, Creativity, and Social Change
Brazilian undergrads “often do not have opportunities to think entrepreneurially or to apply their technical knowledge while taking into consideration other humanities and social sciences disciplines such as anthropology, media studies, history, geography, and political science.”
MIT Comparative Media Studies/Writing
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Master’s Degree in Comparative Media Studies
We provide a bridge between technology and the humanities, by examining the social and cultural impact of the changing media landscape.
Ilona Karmel Writing Prizes
MIT students win over $20,000 in prizes for their fiction, poetry, essays, science writing, and academic writing.
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Recent Posts
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Podcast: Matthew Berland, “Creative Agency: Making, Learning, and Playing towards Understanding Computational Content”
Matthew Berland on how we can create environments where learners are supported in developing creative agency, and how we might assess or evaluate success.
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Call for Participation: Media Arts and Design | Blockchain Conference 2020 (May 2-3, 2020 @ Drexel University)
Scientists, scene experts and specialists from academia and industry are cordially invited to submit proposals for delivering a talk or workshop with the option to contribute a chapter to the
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The Other Digital China
Professor Jing Wang tells the story of change makers operating within the Chinese Communist system, whose ideas of social action necessarily differ from those dominant in Western, liberal societies.
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The 20th Anniversary of CMS
“What I found in talking at this personal rather than institutional level was that the draw of CMS was simultaneously more idealistic and pragmatic than we’ve described in the past.”
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Podcast: Eric Klopfer, “Design Based Research on Participatory Simulations”
CMS/W Professor Eric Klopfer and The Education Arcade are currently working on a set of “Participatory Simulations”: mobile collaborative systems-based games.
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In Medias Res 2019
“Recent months have been filled with wonderful moments as we celebrate the twentieth anniversary of the Comparative Media Studies program.”
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Podcast: Lucy Suchman, “Artificial Intelligence & Modern Warfare”
Lancaster University’s Lucy Suchman’s concern is with the asymmetric distributions of sociotechnologies of (in)security, their deadly and injurious effects, and the legal, ethical, and moral questions that haunt their operations.
