Marisa Morán Jahn is a multi-media artist, writer, educator and activist, whose colorful, often humorous uses of personae and media create imaginative pathways to civic awareness of urgent public issues.
From Professor T.L. Taylor comes her look at the revolution in game live streaming and esports broadcasting.
MIT health care economist Amy Finkelstein and CMS/W media studies scholar Parks are the latest MIT faculty to nab prestigious “genius grants.”
Congratulations to this year’s students published in Angles, a collection of the best pieces from introductory writing courses at MIT.
Critically-acclaimed filmmaker and artist Thomas Allen Harris reveals his process, experiences, and unexpected outcomes working with communities in online and offline shared spaces and places.
An innovative humanities program that applies critical analysis, collaborative research, and design across media arts, forms, and practices. More about Comparative Media Studies/Writing >
Come join us for snacks, ask questions, and learn about the CMS master’s program. Will be livestreamed with a moderated chat as well.
Award-winning comics creator Brian Michael Bendis is the speaker at our 2018 Julius Schwartz lecture. Free and open to the public.
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Christian Picciolini was 14 when he became a Neo-Nazi skinhead. He denounced eight years later and dedicated himself to helping others disengage from extremist groups.
Daily Show producer Sara Taksler joins Dr. Amber Day, author of Satire and Dissent: Interventions in Contemporary Political Debate, to discuss the power of free speech.
Drawing on field observations with the student-run texting help line Lean On Me, as well as interviews of students and administrators working in campus mental health organizations, I then explore how mental health organizations approach their work within an environment where suicide is ambient and infrastructural.
Daniel Bacchieri is an award-winning Brazilian journalist, documentary film maker and collaborative web developer/curator, whose visually inspiring StreetMusicMap platform has been widely praised for its curation of street performers from across the globe.
Four MIT artists and scholars discuss the idea of collective intelligence in relation to emerging technology, artistic inquiry, and social and cultural movements. CMS/W Professor Nick Monfort moderates.
While the underlying purpose of the construction and consumption of food texts remain the same from analog to digital form, the authority of food culture and its complimentary narrative control has shifted as a result of the convergence of food texts and digital media affordances.
Marcia Bartusiak illuminates overlooked breakthroughs and the people who made them.
