Faculty opening: Assistant or Associate Professor, Media Studies, with focus on civic media
The application deadline is January 4, 2021, and start date as early as July 1. Apply at academicjobsonline.org.
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Science Writing master’s thesis presentations for the class of 2020
Each year, we’re thrilled to have our graduating master’s students present their Science Writing theses. Cheers to the GPSW class of 2020!
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Angles 2020: The best of this year’s introductory writing classes
Ten pieces on the themes of “Identity and Experience”, “Creating Community and Culture”, and “Investigating Technology”.
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Money for Nothing
Thomas Levenson looks at “The Scientists, Fraudsters, and Corrupt Politicians Who Reinvented Money, Panicked a Nation, and Made the World Rich”.
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Lana Swartz, ’09, presents “New Money: How Payment Became Social Media”
The MIT Alumni Association hosted a Faculty Forum Online with alum Lana Swartz, now an assistant professor of media studies at the University of Virginia.
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 >
Anti-Racism Statement
“We make sure to build a substantial part of our curriculum around how we can document, critique, and dismantle social inequalities.”
Funders and Partners
For shaping new media uses and practices, sponsors, donors, and research partners make it possible for us to pursue our far-reaching mission.
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.
Recent Posts
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Taper #5
Edited by CMS/W Professor Nick Montfort, it’s journal of computational poetry, with this issue being on the theme of “fiveness and times of confinement”.
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Heather Hendershot in the Washington Post: The 2020 party conventions are actually what the parties have always dreamed of
“Being online will give parties more control of how television viewers experience their conventions.”
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Alum Sue Ding’s documentary short, “The Claudia Kishi Club”, released on Netflix
“It’s filmmaker Sue Ding’s love letter to Claudia-philes.”
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In retrospect: Media, Arts & Design | AI Conference
What impact will artificial intelligence (AI) have on media, arts and design? Which case studies already exist? What examples are to be found in the past? And how will the […]
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CMS/W and Racial Justice: A Path Forward
Our faculty in the MIT Faculty Newsletter: “Each of us, separately and together, can continue to fight for justice.”
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Scaling up behavioral science interventions in online education
“Adequately supporting diverse students will require more than a light-touch intervention.”
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Alan Lightman talks with Oprah Winfrey
Even during this era’s fight to defend facts, there is still “an unprovable but real connection between all living things.”
