Podcasts And Videos

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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Posted by Andrew Whitacre and Rachel Thompson

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.
Posted by Andrew Whitacre

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.
Posted by Rachel Thompson

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.
Posted by Christina Couch

Video and podcast: Bunk and the History of Hoaxes with Kevin Young

Before fake news dominated headlines, Kevin Young was tracking down its roots.