News
The latest news from Comparative Media Studies/Writing at MIT.
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A Bright Light on New York’s Bengali Past
From MIT News: “In Search of Bengali Harlem,” a new film co-created by Professor Vivek Bald, salutes South Asians who carved out new lives in the US, against the odds.
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Conversations at the Front Line of Climate
Novel communications infrastructure from the MIT Civic Design Initiative aims to support communities on the front lines of the climate crisis.
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Featured Spring Subject, “Media Effects of Stereotyping and Morality: Racism and Resistance”
Study the way media stereotypes can shape audiences’ emotions, beliefs, attitudes, and behavior.
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Adding Depth to the Popular Discussion of Transgender Rights
Professor Edward Schiappa’s new book carefully surveys recent public debates about a vital societal issue.
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New whitepaper: “Just Joking! Deepfakes, Satire, and the Politics of Synthetic Media”
The Open Documentary Lab, Co-Creation Studio, and WITNESS collaborate to answer the question “who decides what’s funny, what’s fair, and who is accountable?”
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Civic Design Initiative launches The Deep Listening Project
Its goal is to develop a sustainable communications infrastructure for collaborative climate adaptation.
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Distinguishing Truth in Communications
With a new National Science Foundation grant, Justin Reich and collaborators will apply information literacy research to communities outside the formal education system.
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“A Cellular Symphony”: A featured piece from Angles 2021, the best of MIT’s introductory writing subjects
“I’m ready for the lyricism of the lab,” writes biological engineer major Laura Schmidt-Hong.
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Video: Victoria Cain, “Educated Viewers: Civic Spectatorship, Media Literacy, and American Schools”
The struggle of successive generations of education reformers who attempted to meet massive social and economic crises through careful instruction in media viewing and collective discussion.
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Faculty job opening: Assistant Professor of Media Studies
This tenure-track position has a focus on media industries and/or computational media. Application deadline: Nov 1, 2021. Full information at academicjobsonline.org
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English Language Studies joins Comparative Media Studies/Writing
The move places all of MIT’s Institute-wide writing and communications instruction under one academic roof.
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Transformative truth-telling at the MIT Open Documentary Lab
The lab’s artists and technology scholars are exploring representation and reality — and shaping the future of storytelling.
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MIT’s “3 Questions”: Making the 2021-22 School Year Work for Students
Associate Professor Justin Reich co-authors a new report on reimagining schools for a post-pandemic world.
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Current CMS/W Job Openings
Job openings at CMS/W, including for postdocs and visiting scholars.
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Jing Wang, professor of Chinese media and cultural studies, dies at 71
Wang, a beloved CMS/W colleague who founded the China-based media activism nonprofit NGO2.0, taught at MIT since 2001.
