Andrew Whitacre (awhit@mit.edu)
Andrew conducts the communications efforts for CMS/W and its research groups. A native of Washington, D.C., he holds a degree in communication from Wake Forest University, with a minor in humanities, as well as an M.F.A. in creative writing from Emerson College. This work includes drawing up and executing strategic communications plans, with projects including website design, social media management and training, press outreach, product launches, fundraising campaign support, and event promotions.
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Video and podcast: “The Turn to ‘Tween’: An Age Category and its Cultural Consequences”
How are “tweens” represented in popular culture? And how does this relatively new category deal with race, class, and gender identity?
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Video and podcast: “Time Traveling with James Gleick”
In conversation with Alan Lightman, international best-selling author and science historian James Gleick discusses his career, the state of science journalism, and his newest book Time Travel: A History.
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Communicating Humanities Research Through Video
What does a department need (and not need) to produce a video that tells a story about research? And how does an administrator determine whether the benefits outweigh the costs?
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Podcast: Allison Hahn, “This Land Is Our Land: Mobile Media, Protest, and Debate in Maasai and Mongolian Land Disputes”
How has mobile media changed the ways that nomadic communities receive and send information, engage state actors, and participate in international deliberations?
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Read excerpt of Heather Hendershot’s new book on William F. Buckley
Published in Political Magazine: “William F. Buckley was no feminist, but he was an (unintentional) ally.”
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Podcast: Douglas O’Reagan, “Next Stage Planning for the Digital Humanities at MIT”
Douglas O’Reagan updates the audience on his efforts and invite suggestions and ideas concerning the future of digital humanities at MIT.
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Podcast: Sun-ha Hong, “Knowledge’s Allure: Surveillance and Uncertainty”
Struggles with “big” data and surveillance are not just a question of privacy and security, but how promises of knowledge and its bounty enact a redistribution of authority
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Junot Díaz receives Hispanic Heritage Award for Literature
Ceremony to be broadcast on PBS on September 30, and Díaz will share the stage with other winners, including Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor.
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Podcast: “Innovation” and “Engagement” – Experiments with What Industry Buzzwords Can Mean in Practice
Alum Sam Ford and Fusion colleague Federico Rodriguez Tarditi discuss what they have learned from their experiments exploring new ways of telling stories, new approaches to building relationships with key publics, new ways of working internally, and new types of roles/positions in the company.
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Video and podcast: “Virtual Reality Meets Documentary: A Deeper Look”
Featuring the leading creators in the virtual reality space, helping us better understand VR’s potentials and implications for documentary and journalism.
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Kurt Fendt wins student-nominated Teaching with Digital Technology Award
The award recognizes Fendt’s incorporation of collaboration-focused digital humanities tools, including two that Fendt himself helped develop, Annotation Studio and Metamedia.
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Podcast: Fox Harrell, “Reflections on Advanced Identity Representation”
Fox Harrell presents outcomes from his National Science Foundation-supported Advanced Identity Representation project, which helped reveal social biases in existing systems and implements systems to respond to those biases with greater nuance and expressive power.
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Podcast, Nick Seaver: “What Do People Do All Day?”
“If we want to make sense of new algorithmic industries, we’ll need to understand how they make sense of themselves.”
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Video and podcast: Michael Taussig, “Mooning Texas”
Introduced by Prof. Ian Condry, Global Studies and Languages, MIT.
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Podcast: Lisa Glebatis Perks, “Media Marathoning and Affective Involvement”
Lisa Glebatis Perks draws from discourse gathered from over 100 marathoners to describe some of marathoners’ most common emotional experiences, including anger, empathy, parasocial mourning, nostalgia, and regret.
