Interviews
Faculty and guest Interviews featured at MIT Comparative Media Studies/Writing.
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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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Attacking climate change, one human story at a time
CMS/W course arms students with the rhetorical weaponry to fight global warming.
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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.
