Interviews
Faculty and guest Interviews featured at MIT Comparative Media Studies/Writing.
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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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Sasha Costanza-Chock on new “#MoreThanCode” report
Study of 188 practitioners distills key recommendations about using technology to advance social justice and the public interest.
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Seth Mnookin on the fallacy of “both sides” journalism
“We’ve seen too many journalists confuse not taking sides with not calling out liars and frauds.”
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3 Questions: Lisa Parks on drones, warfare, and the media
CMS/W Professor Lisa Parks discusses new essay collection analyzing the impact of drones.
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Fun and Games in Educational Technology
Eric Klopfer recently switched his appointment to Comparative Media Studies/Writing. With its longstanding games studies program, he sees it as well aligned with his academic goals.
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Increasing Equity through Educational Technology
Justin Reich looks to transform educational settings by equipping teachers with the technology tools they need to best serve all students.
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VR Through a Long Lens: Deniz Tortum Lends Historical Perspective to a New Medium
Deniz Tortum: “It is also the first dream of cinema—the total cinema.”
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A Conversation About Design + Journalism with Farah Assir
Farah Assir, interaction designer at the New York Times, talks with Anika Gupta, ’16, about NYT Now and what journalists are learning about design.
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A Conversation with Leo Marx, Lucy Marx, and Rosalind Williams
Leo had recently read the page proofs of my book. I wanted to get his response to it. Lucy had also read the proofs and kindly agreed to serve as moderator.
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NGO 2.0: An Interview with Jing Wang
“We found that teaching them how to use the tools is probably less important than teaching them how to position themselves, how to brand themselves.”
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Introducing Ed Schiappa
New to MIT but long familiar to CMS/W, Edward Schiappa brings a background in both classical rhetoric and contemporary media studies — a rare combination.
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Diversifying Your Online World: Ethan Zuckerman’s New Book “Rewire”
Ethan Zuckerman asserts that we need to overcome the Internet’s sorting tendencies and create tools to make ourselves ‘digital cosmopolitans.’
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Power Up with T.L. Taylor and Heather Hendershot
New professors T.L. Taylor and Heather Hendershot do a (distributed) conversation about their work on sociology, games, and conservative media.
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Podcast: A Conversation with Ta-Nehisi Coates
“One of the things people say is the humanities tend to be easier than the sciences. But practicing the humanities is not easy at all.”
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Vivek Bald talks about “Bengali Harlem” on the Brian Lehrer Show (WNYC)
“Vivek Bald, documentary director and assistant professor of writing and digital media at MIT and the author of Bengali Harlem and the Lost Histories of South Asian America, reveals the little known history of early South Asian immigrants, from Tremé to Harlem.”
