About Andrew Whitacre
Andrew directs 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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Podcast, Nancy Baym: “Music Fandom and the Shaping of Online Culture”
Nancy Baym: “By the time musicians and industry figures realized they could use the internet to reach audiences directly, those audiences had already established their presences and social norms online, putting them in unprecedented positions of power.”
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Podcast: Designing for a Neurodiverse World
Sometimes simple changes can significantly expand accessibility to people who have neurological differences like autism, dyslexia, ADHD, or epilepsy, but designers and policymakers frequently aren’t aware of issues affecting this neurodiverse community.
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Algorithmic Music: An Experience Composing with WolframTones
Andrew Whitacre on how to use algorithmic music generation in WolframTones as the inspiration for a full, human-sounding composition.
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Podcast: Eric Klopfer, “From Augmented to Virtual Learning: Affordances of Different Mixes of Reality for Learning”
What theories and evidence can we generate and build upon to provide a foundation for using mixed reality technologies productively for learning?
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Podcast: Nicole Hemmer, “From Taft to Trump: How Conservative Media Activists Won — and Lost — the GOP”
Nicole Hemmer explains how conservative media activists won the GOP for the right — and how in the era of Trump, they lost it.
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Podcast: Brian Larkin and Stefan Andriopoulos, “The Contingencies of Comparison: Rethinking Comparative Media”
Brian Larkin and Stefan Andriopoulos: “It is clear that future media centers will emerge in places far outside their traditional Western centers.”
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Podcast: Michael Lee, “The Conservative Canon Before and After Trump”
Michael J. Lee charts the vital role of canonical post–World War II (1945–1964) books in generating, guiding, and sustaining conservatism as a political force in the United States.
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Podcast: “The Spiciest Memelord – An Interview with Jeopardy Champ Lilly Chin”
MIT’s Jeopardy champ talks strategy, memes — and becoming strangers’ media object.
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Podcast: Barbie and Mortal Kombat 20 Years Later
Yasmin Kafai and Gabriela Richard expand the discussions on gender, race, and sexuality in gaming.
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Podcast: Glorianna Davenport, “The Networked Sensory Landscape Meets the Future of Documentary”
Glorianna Davenport presents DoppelMarsh, data from a dense network of diverse environmental sensors mapped to deliver “a sense of being there” in a re-synthesized, ever-changing landscape.
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Video and podcast: Sexual Harassment and Gender Equity in Science
Four scientists and journalists, including BuzzFeed News reporter Azeen Ghorayshi, discuss barriers to gender equality in the sciences and steps to overcome them.
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Higher Education Video Game Alliance names 14 CMS/W faculty, affiliates, and past speakers as fellows
List includes Professor T.L. Taylor, researcher Scot Osterweil, and CMS/W co-founder Henry Jenkins.
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Podcast: Paul Roquet, “Desktop Reveries: Hand, Software, and the Space of Japanese Artist Animation”
Paul Roquet unravels the analytical split between the “drawn” and the “digital” in animation and media studies more broadly.
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Video and podcast: “Race and Racism in the 2016 Presidential Election”
Slate’s Jamelle Bouie on how race and ethnicity framed the election and how journalists and content creators can improve coverage of these issues moving forward.
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Podcast: Nathan Matias, “Authoritarian and Democratic Data Science in an Experimenting Society”
How will the role of data science in democracy be transformed as software expands the public’s ability to conduct our own experiments at scale?
