Videos
Videos of Comparative Media Studies events and projects.
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Video, podcast, and liveblog: “Long-form Journalism: Inside The Atlantic”
James Fallows and Corby Kummer on long-form journalism and why ground-breaking articles requiring months of research and writing continue to appear.
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Video of “Born Digital”, with John Palfrey and Ethan Zuckerman
How the digital generation is different from its analog ancestor and whether they have different notions of privacy, community, and identity.
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Video: “The Phoenix Burns Out: Remembering a Boston Institution”
The Phoenix‘s legacy and the ways in which its loss will affect Boston, featuring Anita Diamant, Charles Pierce Lloyd Schwartz, and Carly Carioli.
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Video: Peer Economy Takeaways from My Summer Research
Denise Cheng: “We kicked off the 2013 academic year with second-year CMS grad students presenting about their thesis topic and summer research.”
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Video: “News or Entertainment? The Press in Modern Political Campaigns”
With The Atlantic’s senior editor Ta-Nehisi Coates and political consultant Mark McKinnon.
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Video: “MOOCs and the Emerging Digital Classroom”
What elements of teaching practice can be effectively translated into new media, and what aspects of “teaching” must be redefined?
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Video: “A Conversation with Nate Silver”
The statistician and political polling analyst Nate Silver discusses his career — from student journalist to baseball prognosticator to the creator of FiveThirtyEight.com.
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Video: Francis Steen, “The News as a Social Process for Improving Society”
Steen examines the global media coverage of the July 22, 2011, attack in Norway, demonstrating that the news is not primarily about reporting what happened but about constructing narratives, performing event surgery, and assigning responsibility.
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Video: “Convergence Journalism? Emerging Documentary and Multimedia Forms of News”
Hybrid forms of multimedia, combining aspects of newspapers, documentary film and digital video are a notable feature of today’s on-line journalism. How is this access to the power of the visual changing our journalism?
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Video: Prof. T.L. Taylor talks to PBS about the rise of competitive gaming
Via our old friend Megan Garber at The Atlantic, featuring T.L. Taylor: Will We One Day Have a Super Bowl for Video Games?
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Ta-Nehisi Coates on Colbert Report
“The first rule of being president of Black America: you don’t talk about a black woman’s hair.”
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Video: CMS professor Junot Díaz interviewed by Bill Moyers
“Along the way he offers funny and perceptive insights into his own work, as well as Star Wars, Moby Dick, and America’s inevitable shift to a majority minority country.”
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Video: Molly Sauter on “The Ethics of Activist DDoS Actions”
Molly Sauter (’13) presented in Germany on her study of a framework for ethical analysis of activist DDOS actions.
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Moments of Innovation Exhibit at IDFA
Last November, CMS’s Open Documentary Lab unveiled “Moments of Innovation – When Documentary and Technology Converge”, an exhibit and website at the International Documentary Film Festival, Amsterdam (IDFA) that demonstrated just how dramatically key technological developments affected how documentary makers think about, and practice, their craft.
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Fox Harrell in Harvard’s “Go Ask A.L.I.C.E. Panel Discussion”
Thanks to Harvard’s Department of the History of Science and Collection of Historical Scientific Instruments for making this video of Fox Harrell available.
