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The latest news from Comparative Media Studies/Writing at MIT.
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Posted by Amanda Sobel
WCC Blog: Like It Or Not, Writing Is
The “Like It Or Not, Writing Is” blog uses analogies to help you hone your writing and speaking skills.
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Posted by Andrew Whitacre
Video: “Reworking the Archive: The Southeast Chicago Archive and Storytelling Project”
What are some unexplored ways that online environments can help us rethink “the archive”?
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Posted by MIT Open Documentary Lab
Indigenous knowledge and technology at MIT: “Is it wise?”
A week of workshops, lab visits, and pairings matched Indigenous delegates with relevant labs and researchers across MIT.
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Posted by CMS/W
Faculty opening: Assistant or Associate Professor, Media Studies, with focus on civic media
The application deadline is January 4, 2021, and start date as early as July 1. Apply at academicjobsonline.org.
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Posted by CMS/W
Taper #5
Edited by CMS/W Professor Nick Montfort, it’s journal of computational poetry, with this issue being on the theme of “fiveness and times of confinement”.
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Posted by CMS/W
Video, Jing Wang: “Walking Around Obstacles: Nonconfrontational Activists in Gray China”
Is there digital activism in China? What is it like to be an activist running a grassroots NGO in a land of censors?
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Posted by CMS/W
Video: Justin Reich, “Failure to Disrupt: Why Technology Alone Can’t Transform Education”
Justin Reich explores the recent history of large scale learning technologies to explain why technology provides such uneven support to students.
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Posted by CMS/W
Angles 2020: The best of this year’s introductory writing classes
Ten pieces on the themes of “Identity and Experience”, “Creating Community and Culture”, and “Investigating Technology”.
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Posted by CMS/W
Video: Kishonna Gray, “Intersectional Tech: Exploring the Black Cultural Production of Gamers in Transmediated Culture”
Illustrating a framework for studying the intersectional development of technological artifacts and systems and their impact on Black cultural production and social processes.
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Posted by Andrew Whitacre
Lana Swartz, ’09, presents “New Money: How Payment Became Social Media”
The MIT Alumni Association hosted a Faculty Forum Online with alum Lana Swartz, now an assistant professor of media studies at the University of Virginia.
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Posted by CMS/W
Alum Sue Ding’s documentary short, “The Claudia Kishi Club”, released on Netflix
“It’s filmmaker Sue Ding’s love letter to Claudia-philes.”
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Posted by Alexander Pfeiffer
In retrospect: Media, Arts & Design | AI Conference
What impact will artificial intelligence (AI) have on media, arts and design? Which case studies already exist? What examples are to be found in the past? And how will the […]
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Posted by CMS/W
CMS/W and Racial Justice: A Path Forward
Our faculty in the MIT Faculty Newsletter: “Each of us, separately and together, can continue to fight for justice.”
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Posted by CMS/W
Alan Lightman talks with Oprah Winfrey
Even during this era’s fight to defend facts, there is still “an unprovable but real connection between all living things.”
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Posted by Alexander Pfeiffer
Media Arts and Design | Blockchain Conference 2020 – a recap of the two-day online conference
“We recorded the entire conference from A-Z. Click here to see the full playlist on YouTube. Or just click on Ardor.Rocks, there every talk is marked with timestamps for easy navigation to the desired talk.”