Writing and Communication Center
Read important information about the Center’s services as part of MIT’s larger plans around COVID-19.
Ilona Karmel Writing Prizes
MIT students win over $20,000 in prizes for their fiction, poetry, essays, science writing, and academic writing. Deadline: April 13, 2020.
How to Join Us as a Visiting Scholar or Postdoc
As part of our mission of working across disciplines, cultures, and communities, we welcome visiting scholars and hire postdoctoral associates and fellows. Here’s the process.
Recent Posts
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The Other Digital China
Professor Jing Wang tells the story of change makers operating within the Chinese Communist system, whose ideas of social action necessarily differ from those dominant in Western, liberal societies.
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The 20th Anniversary of CMS
“What I found in talking at this personal rather than institutional level was that the draw of CMS was simultaneously more idealistic and pragmatic than we’ve described in the past.”
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Podcast: Eric Klopfer, “Design Based Research on Participatory Simulations”
CMS/W Professor Eric Klopfer and The Education Arcade are currently working on a set of “Participatory Simulations”: mobile collaborative systems-based games.
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In Medias Res 2019
“Recent months have been filled with wonderful moments as we celebrate the twentieth anniversary of the Comparative Media Studies program.”
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Podcast: Lucy Suchman, “Artificial Intelligence & Modern Warfare”
Lancaster University’s Lucy Suchman’s concern is with the asymmetric distributions of sociotechnologies of (in)security, their deadly and injurious effects, and the legal, ethical, and moral questions that haunt their operations.
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Podcast: William Uricchio, “Why Co-Create? And Why Now? Reports from A Field Study”
Professor William Uricchio on how co-creation is picking up steam as a claim, aspiration, and buzz-word du jour. But what is and why does it matter?
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Podcast: Vivek Bald, “If I Could Reach the Border…”
Vivek Bald reads from a new essay that uses a teenage encounter with police and the justice system to explore questions of immigrant acceptability, racialization, and the South Asians American embrace of model minority status.
