Podcasts And Videos
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Posted by CMS/W
Video and podcast: Dispatches From the Golden Age of Audio
Cynthia Graber and Al Letson on how podcasting struggles to create gold standards for building shows that will be popular and financially sustainable.
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Posted by Andrew Whitacre and Rachel Thompson
Podcast: Nick-Brie Guarriello, “The Good Stuff”: The Intersections of Work, Leisure, and Relational Bonding on Tumblr and Patreon
Nick-Brie Guarriello on the political economies and labor demands of micro-celebrity and Influencer culture across social media platforms regarding the Pokémon GO community.
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Posted by Rachel Thompson
Podcast, Caren Kaplan: “Bringing the War Home” – Visual Aftermaths and Domestic Disturbances in the Era of Modern Warfare
Caren Kaplan focuses on a period that includes the Vietnam War (1955-1975) and extends into the “War on Terror” through a consideration of Martha Rosler’s photo collage series “House Beautiful: Bringing the War Home” (1967-2004).
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Posted by Rachel Thompson
Podcast: Roderick Hart, “The Language of Civic Life: Past to Present”
The University of Texas’ Roderick Hart argues that disagreements – endless, raucous disagreements – draw citizens in, or at least enough of them to sustain civic hope.
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Posted by Andrew Whitacre and Rachel Thompson
Video and podcast, Civic Arts Series: Myron Dewey, “Protecting the Water in Solidarity and Unity”
Myron Dewey has pioneered the blending of citizen monitoring, documentary filmmaking, and social networking in the cause of environment, social justice and indigenous people’s rights.
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Posted by Christina Couch
Video and podcast: The Consequences of America’s Miracle Machine
Eric Lander, Maria Zuber, and Communications Forum director Seth Mnookin discuss innovation ethics and the real, and sometimes devastating, effects of invention without culpability.
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Video and podcast, “Brian Michael Bendis: The 2018 Julius Schwartz Lecture”
We welcomed award-winning comics creator Brian Michael Bendis, New York Times bestseller and one of the most successful writers working in mainstream comics.
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Posted by Rachel Thompson
Podcast: 2018 CMS Alumni Panel
On the heels of the day’s graduate program information session, CMS/W hosted our annual colloquium featuring alumni of the Comparative Media Studies master’s program, discussing their lives from MIT to their careers today.
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Posted by Andrew Whitacre, Sasha Costanza-Chock and Rachel Thompson
Podcast: Sasha Costanza-Chock, “#MoreThanCode: Practitioner-led Research to Reimagine Technology for Social Justice”
Sasha Costanza-Chock explores key findings and recommendations from #MoreThanCode (morethancode.cc), a recently-released field scan based on more than 100 practitioner interviews.
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Posted by Rachel Thompson
Video and podcast: Marisa Morán Jahn, part of the Civic Arts Series
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.
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Posted by Christina Couch
Video and podcast: How to Fight a Nazi
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.
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Posted by Christina Couch
Video and Podcast: What’s So Funny About Oppressive Regimes?
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.
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Posted by Rachel Thompson
Video and podcast: Daniel Bacchieri, in the Civic Arts Series
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.
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Posted by Rachel Thompson
Podcast, “Collective Intelligence”: Featuring Agnieszka Kurant, Stefan Helmreich, Adam Haar Horowitz and Caroline Jones
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.
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Posted by Rachel Thompson
Podcast, Thomas Allen Harris: “Collective Wisdom” Keynote
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.