News
The latest news from Comparative Media Studies/Writing at MIT.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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.”
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Q&A: Seth Mnookin on Covid-19 and the public understanding of science
“The response is varying a lot in different parts of the country, in many cases according to the political leanings of an area or a region. And that’s going to cause real problems.”
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What role can blockchain technologies play during the Covid-19 crisis (and beyond)?
“It has become more and more apparent that properly designed blockchain technology based solutions can contribute significantly to solve present-day problems.”
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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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Register now (for free): Media Arts and Design | Blockchain Conference 2020 (Online: May 2-3)
Media Arts and Design | Blockchain Conference 2020 (May 2-3, 2020 @ Drexel University – 100 % online): Drexel University’s Department of Digital Media, supported by the Education Arcade @ […]
