Podcasts And Videos
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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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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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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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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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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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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.
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Podcast, “Civic Arts Series: Erik Loyer”
Erik Loyer’s award-winning work explores new blends of game dynamics, poetic expression and interactive visual storytelling.
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Video: William Uricchio on Virtual Reality and the Myth of Total Cinema
Professor William Uricchio talks to Amsterdam’s EYE Film Institute.
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Making Documentary: Videos from 2018 science writing graduate students
Learn about how the earth got its oxygen, about supercooling atoms…and how to dye eggs.
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Podcast, Kimberly Juanita Brown: “Imperial Arrangements: South African Apartheid and the Force of Photography”
Kimberly Juanita Brown focuses on US news media coverage of apartheid in the last year of its existence, and the images that anchored viewers’ interpretation of the event.
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Video and podcast: Bunk and the History of Hoaxes with Kevin Young
Before fake news dominated headlines, Kevin Young was tracking down its roots.
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Podcast: Anne-Katrin Weber, “Between Participation and Control: A Long History of CCTV”
Anne-Katrin Weber explores the politics of CCTV, highlighting the adaptability of closed-circuit technologies, which accommodate to, and underpin variable contexts of media participation as well as of surveillance and control.
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Video and podcast: Republican Resistance in the Age of Trump
Stuart Stevens believes Republicans are in a “GOP apocalypse,” and he’s mobilizing conservatives to stop it.
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Podcast, Emily Rueb: “The City Talks: Storytelling at the New York Times’s Metro Desk”
Emily Rueb, a reporter for The New York Times, shares insights gained in bursting boundaries of traditional storytelling for The New York Times’s Metro desk — weaving video, audio, illustrations and text across multiple platforms.
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Podcast, Nancy Baym: “Music Fandom and the Shaping of Online Culture”
Nancy Baym: “By the time musicians and industry figures realized they could use the internet to reach audiences directly, those audiences had already established their presences and social norms online, putting them in unprecedented positions of power.”
