News
The latest news from Comparative Media Studies/Writing at MIT.
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Video and podcast: “Virtual Reality Meets Documentary: A Deeper Look”
Featuring the leading creators in the virtual reality space, helping us better understand VR’s potentials and implications for documentary and journalism.
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Kurt Fendt wins student-nominated Teaching with Digital Technology Award
The award recognizes Fendt’s incorporation of collaboration-focused digital humanities tools, including two that Fendt himself helped develop, Annotation Studio and Metamedia.
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Video, podcast, and summary: “Excellence in Teaching”
What separates a good teacher from a great one? Former poet laureate Robert Pinsky, Weisskopf Professor of Physics Alan Guth and MIT biology professor Hazel Sive–all honored teachers–will explore these issues with Literature professor and Communications Forum director emeritus David Thorburn.
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World Goin’ One Way, People Another: Subcreation and Politics in The Wire
“If academia has anything to do with the staying power of a media text (and for my own sake, I hope it does), The Wire will undoubtedly live on as a cultural touchstone for years to come.”
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Looking for Change, Online and Off-Center
Professors T.L. Taylor and Ian Condry are exploring the connections between online and offline worlds through the Creative Communities Initiative.
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Angles 2015
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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The Production Process of “Do Not Track”
Deniz Tortum’s Docubase case study of production process of “Do Not Track”, an interactive web documentary about internet privacy.
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Hacking the Future of Publishing
“With or without our consent and awareness, the experience of reading is changing under us,” Anika Gupta, ’16, writes.
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“The right side of history”: MIT releases its climate change report
“The time has come for MIT to play a prominent, visible part in the action and solutions needed to confront the climate challenge. “
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Almost Paradise: How Surveillance Problematizes the Public, the Private, and the Paradisiacal in Brokeback Mountain
“For Jack Twist and Ennis Del Mar, love is a spatial problem. Their relationship can only seem to find its full expression in the marginal mountains.”
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Building a Better Chat Room
Chat rooms can be highly toxic. How about new features that might encourage vibrant, participatory, and civil communities around chat rooms?
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“Here We Are”: Poem for the dedication of the MIT Memorial to Officer Sean Collier
Authored by Erica Funkhouser, Lecturer with Comparative Media Studies/Writing, and performed by Funkhouser and students from the classes of 2015 and 2016.
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Angles: MIT’s best Introductory Writing work featured in new issue
Read a sample of what our students have been writing, in Angles, a public outlet for their remarkable introductory writing work.
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Video, podcast, and summary: “Women in Science”
Computational geneticist Pardis Sabeti and energy studies expert Jessika Trancik discuss careers and the outlook for women in science in the 21st century.
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EdTechX: Our Online Courses on EdX
“Design and Development of Educational Technology and Introduction to Game Design validated that project-based collaborative instruction can succeed in the virtual world.”
