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“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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Video, “David Thorburn: The William Corbett Poetry Series”
David Thorburn has been a teacher of literature for 57 years, 46 of them at MIT where he is Professor of Literature and Comparative Media. Knots is his first book of poetry.
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Defining Sex
Edward Schiappa identifies scientific as well as socio-political factors contributing to the current definitional “rupture” over how to define sex.
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Video: Jorge Caraballo, “How to Use Audio Storytelling to Cultivate a Community and Keep it Engaged”
Caraballo draws from experience as the former Growth Editor at Radio Ambulante – Latin America’s most popular documentary podcast.
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Conversations at the Front Line of Climate
Novel communications infrastructure from the MIT Civic Design Initiative aims to support communities on the front lines of the climate crisis.
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Video: Eric Freedman, “Non-Binary Binaries and Unreal MetaHumans”
Are the MetaHuman Creator and similar simplified building tools democratizing the field of digital content creation?
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Video: Samantha N. Sheppard, “Changing the Subject: Lynn Nottage’s By the Way, Meet Vera Stark and the Making of Black Women’s Film History”
How Nottage’s play and paratexts produce a speculative fiction and archive about Black women’s media histories, staging what she calls a phantom cinema.
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Featured Spring Subject, “Media Effects of Stereotyping and Morality: Racism and Resistance”
Study the way media stereotypes can shape audiences’ emotions, beliefs, attitudes, and behavior.
