How MIT radio station WMBR, with a license held by an independent non-profit corporation, built a meaningful community institution despite transformations within the university, its student body and organizations, as well as regulatory changes.
Gates considers the history of her own research on Van Peebles’s films, and details the pleasures — and challenges — of trying to create a bridge between the worlds of academic film studies and more public facing consumer film culture.
Analyzing the discussion about a German anti-hate speech law called the Network Enforcement Act and the debate about a reform of Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act in the United States.
Minow proposes a new fairness doctrine, regulating digital platforms as public utilities, using antitrust authority to regulate the media, policing fraud, and more robust funding of public media.
Acclaimed photographer Mary Beth Meehan and Silicon Valley historian and media scholar Fred Turner discuss their recently published and award-winning book Seeing Silicon Valley: Life inside a Fraying America.
Wasalu Jaco, professionally known as Lupe Fiasco, is a Chicago-born, Grammy award-winning American rapper, record producer, entrepreneur, and community advocate.
The Propagandists' Playbook: How Conservative Elites Manipulate Search and Threaten Democracy peels back the layers of the right-wing media manipulation machine to reveal why its strategies are so effective and pervasive, while also humanizing the people whose worldviews and media practices conservatism embodies. Based on interviews and ethnographic observations of two Republican groups over the […]
A new history of the ambitions behind the rise of “theory” in the US humanities, and the obscure ties of that endeavor to Progressive Era technocracy, US foundations, and the growing prestige of technology and engineering in 20th century life.
The acclaimed author of The Serpent’s Gift, Helen Elaine Lee, returns with this poetic and powerful journey of healing and autonomy.
A team of scholars uncovered the source code in the MIT archives and embarked on an expedition through the code that has led them through twisty little passages into chambers of culture, history, and technological innovation.
French oil and gas companies needed new forms of technological vision to persuade powerbrokers and the public to support an undersea gas pipeline.
Through an analysis of policy documents and other discursive materials, Dr. Rao tracks New Infrastructure’s fetish-like existence.
Featuring The Bombing of Osage Avenue, By Your Side, and Precious Places: Cobbs Creek Community Environmental Education Center
"With this illustrated tool kit, you will learn to identify red flags, get quick context, and make better use of common websites like Google and Wikipedia that can help and hinder in equal measure."
Dr. Gibson introduces the concept of “entrepreneurial moderation” to articulate a latent discourse of moderation as a means of career advancement through the accumulation of management skills, social connections, and even paying jobs.