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: 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?
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Podcast: Exploratory Programming for the Arts and Humanities
MIT professor Nick Montfort talks about his new book and how learning to explore code isn’t just for the tech-inclined — programming can be a way for arts and humanities scholars to discover answers…and questions…they’ve never seen before.
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Film director Thorsten Trimpop wins Golden Dove at Leipzig Festival
The prize, one of the most prestigious for documentary filmmaking, is for Trimpop’s film Furusato, chronicling the effects of Japan’s nuclear disaster at Fukushima.
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Podcast, Kishonna L . Gray: “#Misogynoir, #SolidarityIsForWhiteWomen, and other forms of Black Digital Feminisms”
Operating under the oppressive structures of masculinity, heterosexuality, and Whiteness that are sustained in digital spaces, marginalized women persevere and resist such hegemonic realities.
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Podcast: André Brock, “Black + Twitter: A Cultural Informatics Approach”
André Brock unpacks Black Twitter use from two perspectives: analysis of the interface and associated practice alongside discourse analysis of Twitter’s utility and audience.
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Podcast: Jennifer Stromer-Galley, “Illuminating 2016: Using Social Listening Tools to Understand the Presidential Campaign”
Syracuse University’s Jennifer Stromer-Galley describes the large scale collection and machine learning techniques she and her team have used for the Illuminating 2016 project to study the ways the presidential candidates and the public have used social media.
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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?
