News
The latest news from Comparative Media Studies/Writing at MIT.
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Job Opening: Visiting Professor/Lecturer of Media Studies
The one-year appointment with a focus on civic media will begin in summer 2020. Apply by May 5.
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Thomas Levenson: “Stop Trying to Make ‘Wuhan Virus’ Happen”
The term Wuhan virus treats COVID-19 as a Chinese scourge—and ignores an ugly history. Via The Atlantic.
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Heather Hendershot: The truth about Trump’s uncle and what it means for his presidency
His uncle’s life story tells us nothing about the president’s knowledge of the coronavirus, but it does show us why he’s failing. Via Washington Post.
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Justin Reich’s thread: “The #1 question is ‘how will you support your most struggling students?’”
“A growing body of evidence suggests that online learning works least well for our most vulnerable learners.”
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Design, power, and justice
In new book “Design Justice,” Associate Professor Sasha Costanza-Chock examines how to make technology work for more people in society.
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When Information Technology Meets Diversity, Creativity, and Social Change
Brazilian undergrads “often do not have opportunities to think entrepreneurially or to apply their technical knowledge while taking into consideration other humanities and social sciences disciplines such as anthropology, media studies, history, geography, and political science.”
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Call for Participation: Media Arts and Design | Blockchain Conference 2020 (May 2-3, 2020 @ Drexel University)
Scientists, scene experts and specialists from academia and industry are cordially invited to submit proposals for delivering a talk or workshop with the option to contribute a chapter to the
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The 20th Anniversary of CMS
“What I found in talking at this personal rather than institutional level was that the draw of CMS was simultaneously more idealistic and pragmatic than we’ve described in the past.”
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3 Questions: Alan Lightman’s new novel about Cambodia and family
MIT writer’s new work, “Three Flames,” explores the fractures and bonds among kin in a rebuilding society.
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Angles 2019
Congratulations to this year’s students published in Angles, a collection of the best pieces from introductory writing courses at MIT.
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Game Changer: Christopher Weaver and the history of video games and game studies at MIT
“Sometimes not having a lot of knowledge about an area can be a good very useful thing,” Christopher Weaver says. “It forces you to look at it with untutored or naive eyes.”
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Integrating documentary and medical technology to produce new perceptions of reproductive health
“It was only through working concretely with the Calla campaign that I truly learned of the challenges of communicating between researchers and artists.”
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Megawatt, Professor Nick Montfort’s 2014 computer-generated book, now in German translation
Recently, literary scholar Hannes Bajohr brought Megawatt another interesting step forward, by modifying the code to output the text in German.
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Collective Wisdom: Co-Creating Media within Communities, across Disciplines and with Algorithms
First-of-its-kind field study of the media industry highlights trends, opportunities, and challenges to help advance the understanding and recognition of co-created works and practices
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Transmedia Storytelling Initiative launches with $1.1 million gift
Launched by the School of Architecture and Planning, the Initiative will partner with faculty across MIT, including those at CMS/W — a leader in transmedia storytelling studies going back to its founding in 1999.
