Videos
Videos of Comparative Media Studies events and projects.
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“Hacking Explained”: A video project from ES.333 Production of Educational Videos
Ever wondered how hackers hack? Find out in this class project video, “Hacking Explained”.
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Video and podcast: An Evening With Aparna Nancherla
A former writer on Late Night with Seth Meyers and Totally Biased with W. Kamau Bell, Aparna Nancherla headed to MIT to discuss her career and tackling tough topics with humor.
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Video and podcast: Sexual Harassment and Gender Equity in Science
Four scientists and journalists, including BuzzFeed News reporter Azeen Ghorayshi, discuss barriers to gender equality in the sciences and steps to overcome them.
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Video and podcast: “Race and Racism in the 2016 Presidential Election”
Slate’s Jamelle Bouie on how race and ethnicity framed the election and how journalists and content creators can improve coverage of these issues moving forward.
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Podcast and video: “An Evening with John Hodgman”
Humorist John Hodgman has parlayed his wit into New York Times best-selling books, a Daily Show correspondent position, a Netflix stand-up special, and his own podcast.
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Video and podcast: “The Turn to ‘Tween’: An Age Category and its Cultural Consequences”
How are “tweens” represented in popular culture? And how does this relatively new category deal with race, class, and gender identity?
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Video and podcast: “Time Traveling with James Gleick”
In conversation with Alan Lightman, international best-selling author and science historian James Gleick discusses his career, the state of science journalism, and his newest book Time Travel: A History.
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Video and podcast: “Virtual Reality Meets Documentary: A Deeper Look”
Featuring the leading creators in the virtual reality space, helping us better understand VR’s potentials and implications for documentary and journalism.
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Video, podcast and summary: “Being Muslim in America (and MIT) in 2016”
How hateful, discriminatory rhetoric influences public opinion, its impact on the daily lives of Muslim-Americans, and strategies for combating it.
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Video, podcast, and summary: “Excellence in Teaching”
What separates a good teacher from a great one? Former poet laureate Robert Pinsky, Weisskopf Professor of Physics Alan Guth and MIT biology professor Hazel Sive–all honored teachers–will explore these issues with Literature professor and Communications Forum director emeritus David Thorburn.
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Video and podcast: John Jennings, “The Cipher Back to Here”
John Jennings’ current comics projects include the hiphop adventure comic “Kid Code: Channel Zero”, the supernatural crime noir story “Blue Hand Mojo”, and the upcoming graphic novel adaptation of Octavia Butler’s classic dark fantasy novel “Kindred”.
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Videos and podcasts on the CMS Graduate Program: Everything You Wanted to Know
Did you have questions about the graduate program in Comparative Media Studies? Here are videos and podcasts of our fall 2015 information session and graduate program alumni panel.
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Summary, video, and podcast: “From the Neolithic Era to the Apocalypse: How to Prepare for the Future By Studying the Past”
Charles C. Mann and Annalee Newitz talk about how ancient civilizations shed light on problems with urbanization, food security, and environmental change.
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Summary, video, and podcast: “Jim Crow and the Legacy of Segregation Outside of the South”
Every time the Restorative Justice clinic has sent its researchers out to study one particular cold case, “invariably we find another case.”
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Video, podcast, and summary: “The Spooky Science of the Southern Reach — An Evening with Jeff VanderMeer”
Jeff VanderMeer, author of the bestselling Southern Reach Trilogy, joined G. Eric Schaller for a discussion on the ideas that inspired the series.
