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Recent Posts
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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.
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Podcast: Anushka Shah, “How Entertainment Can Help Fix the System”
Anushka Shah asks, our trust in politics and public institutions is falling globally — can entertainment and pop culture be a way out?
