Articles & Chapters
A select list of articles and book chapters by CMS/W faculty, researchers, and students.
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Tom Levenson on science, religion, and the Thirty Meter Telescope
“The dispute over the Thirty Meter Telescope has been framed as the latest skirmish in the long-running campaign pitting science against religion. That’s a mistake.”
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NGO2.0 and Social Media Praxis: Activist as Researcher
The emergence of a particular brand of ICT activism that promotes the use of social media as a means of helping Chinese NGOs break out of their communication bottleneck.
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Book review: “Sally Ride: America’s First Woman in Space,” by Lynn Sherr
“Lynn Sherr has provided the next best thing: a biography of America’s first woman in space that is riveting, beautifully written and rich in detail.”
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When sands sing and rocks ring — and when they escape the ear
“It may seem odd to learn about sound by silently reading nearly 300 pages of text, but Cox’s breezy and amusing prose helps you share his experience as he searches for the sonic wonders of the world.”
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John Roberts and the Color of Money
“This is one more step toward securing governance of, for, and by rich people and their well-compensated servants.”
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Why Philip Seymour Hoffman’s Death Is So Scary
Regardless of how much time clean you have, relapsing is always as easy as moving your hand to your mouth.
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Seeing and Experiencing Relativity — A New Tool for Teaching?
A paper about relativity and “riding a beam of light,” as explored through the MIT Game Lab game “A Slower Speed of Light”.
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Words with Friends: Writing Collaboratively Online
Here we discuss the means by which, after a good deal of trial and error, we found effective procedures for our collaboration.
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Whitepaper: “Annotation Studio: Bringing a Time-Honored Learning Practice into the Digital Age”
Annotation Studio integrates a powerful set of textual interpretation tools behind an interface that makes using those tools intuitive for undergraduates and their instructors.
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Visible Men: Creative Writing in a Massachusetts Prison
“Together, they excavate a home, a reference point, a goodness that was sown, a point at which they lost the way.”
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There Should Be Grandeur: Basic Science in the Shadow of the Sequester
“[T]he sequester wreaks its havoc by striking hardest at particular points in the life cycle of a university researcher.”
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The Story of a Study of the Mind
Rebecca Saxe, PhD ’03, identified the parts of the brain that help us recognize others’ feelings. As a new professor, she took that research a step further in a groundbreaking follow-up study.
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Mic Check! Media Cultures and the Occupy Movement
This article investigates media practices in the Occupy movement and develops the concept of social movement media cultures
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The Cheater’s Guide to Love
“Finally, when you feel like you can do so without exploding into burning atoms, you open a folder that you’ve kept hidden under your bed. The Doomsday Book.”
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The Dreamcast, Console of the Avant-Garde
We argue that the Dreamcast hosted a remarkable amount of videogame development that went beyond the odd and unusual and is interesting considerd as avant-garde.
