Podcasts
Podcasts and other audio produced by Comparative Media Studies/Writing and its friends around MIT.
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Podcast: Designing for a Neurodiverse World
Sometimes simple changes can significantly expand accessibility to people who have neurological differences like autism, dyslexia, ADHD, or epilepsy, but designers and policymakers frequently aren’t aware of issues affecting this neurodiverse community.
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Podcast: Deen Freelon, “The (Non)Americans: Tracking and Analyzing Russian Influence Operations on Twitter”
Addressing the challenges to analyzing Russian political influence operations.
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Podcast: Carleen Maitland, “ICTs for Refugees and Displaced Persons”
Carleen Maitland introduces the terms “digital refugee” and “digital humanitarian brokerage” as she previews her new edited volume “Digital Lifeline? ICTs for Refugees and Displaced Persons”.
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Podcast: Eric Klopfer, “From Augmented to Virtual Learning: Affordances of Different Mixes of Reality for Learning”
What theories and evidence can we generate and build upon to provide a foundation for using mixed reality technologies productively for learning?
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Video and podcast: Has Silicon Valley Lost Its Humanity?
Author Noam Cohen, technology critic Sara M. Watson, and technology journalist Christina Couch discuss the rise of Silicon Valley and whether the drive for innovation degrades our humanity.
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Podcast: Fall 2017 Alumni Panel
Hear from four alums of the graduate program in Comparative Media Studies as they discuss their experience at MIT and what their careers have looked like in the fields a CMS degree prepared them for.
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Podcast: Jennifer Holt, “Cloud Policy: Anatomy of a Regulatory Crisis”
Jennifer Holt examines the legal and cultural crises surrounding the regulation of data in “the cloud.”
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Podcast: Liz Koslov, “Mapping Climate Change: Contested Futures in New York City’s Flood Zone”
In New York City hundreds of thousands of people and billions of dollars in property lie in a high-risk flood zone, but FEMA flood maps minimize the risk.
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Video and podcast: An Evening with Sarah Vowell
Vowell on what makes the past so funny, the connections between historical research and modern journalism, and much more.
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Podcast: Nick Couldry, “The Mediated Construction of Reality: From Berger and Luckmann to Norbert Elias”
Nick Couldry addressed the challenges of social analysis in the face of datafication through the use of materialist phenomenology, particularly the concept of figurations.
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Podcast: Julien Mailland and Kevin Driscoll, “Platforms in the Public Interest: Lessons from Minitel”
Systems like Amazon, Google, and Facebook are so massive that it’s easy to forget that the digital world was not always like this. Kevin Driscoll, ’09, and Indiana University’s Julien Mailland discuss how France’s Minitel offers a wealth of data for thinking about internet policy and an alternative model for the internet’s future: a public platform for private innovation.
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Podcast: Walter Menendez, “Engineering Virality: BuzzFeed’s Scientific Approach To Creating Content”
BuzzFeed’s Walter Menendez: “This talk will detail how BuzzFeed thinks about and creates content, highlighting our paradigms for the function and role of our content.”
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Podcast: Justin Reich, “Playful Practice: Designing the Future of Teacher Learning”
As a learning scientist, Justin Reich investigates the complex, technology-rich classrooms of the future and the systems we need to prepare educators to thrive in those environments.
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Podcast: Nicole Hemmer, “From Taft to Trump: How Conservative Media Activists Won — and Lost — the GOP”
Nicole Hemmer explains how conservative media activists won the GOP for the right — and how in the era of Trump, they lost it.
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Podcast: Brian Larkin and Stefan Andriopoulos, “The Contingencies of Comparison: Rethinking Comparative Media”
Brian Larkin and Stefan Andriopoulos: “It is clear that future media centers will emerge in places far outside their traditional Western centers.”
