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Conference Call for Papers: “Bearing Witness, Seeking Justice”
October 5-7, 2022, join a forum for diverse constituencies to express their views and to showcase findings on videography as a creative tool in the quest for social justice.
Recent Posts
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“A Cellular Symphony”: A featured piece from Angles 2021, the best of MIT’s introductory writing subjects
“I’m ready for the lyricism of the lab,” writes biological engineer major Laura Schmidt-Hong.
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Video: Victoria Cain, “Educated Viewers: Civic Spectatorship, Media Literacy, and American Schools”
The struggle of successive generations of education reformers who attempted to meet massive social and economic crises through careful instruction in media viewing and collective discussion.
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Faculty job opening: Assistant Professor of Media Studies
This tenure-track position has a focus on media industries and/or computational media. Application deadline: Nov 1, 2021. Full information at academicjobsonline.org
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Video: Sulafa Zidani, “Messy on the Inside: Internet Memes as Mapping Tools of Everyday Life”
The power of memes cannot be fully understood without considering their role in the complex relationship between technology, space, and politics.
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Messy on the inside: internet memes as mapping tools of everyday life
The first systematic analysis of memes created by Palestinians in Israel. An analysis of 150 memes reveals how memes are used to reflect on and intervene in Palestinian youths’ navigation of life in mixed cities under prolonged war and colonialism.
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English Language Studies joins Comparative Media Studies/Writing
The move places all of MIT’s Institute-wide writing and communications instruction under one academic roof.
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Transformative truth-telling at the MIT Open Documentary Lab
The lab’s artists and technology scholars are exploring representation and reality — and shaping the future of storytelling.
