Carbon Ideologies: Reading Climate through Media

Enrollment: advanced sign-up preferred
Limited to 18 participants
Attendance: Participants must attend all sessions

This 4-session IAP series will examine some of the ways in which contemporary media filters matters of climate change.  Starting with selections from William T. Vollmann’s recent award-winning exploration of world energy uses and abuses, Carbon Ideologies, we will review and discuss a selection of film, government reports, photography, graphic fiction and journalism in order to gain a better understanding of how contemporary views of climate change are shaped and received.

Sponsor(s): Comparative Media Studies/Writing
Contact: James Paradis, jparadis@mit.edu