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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William Uricchio in the Hollywood Reporter
“‘Television is a parasite that lives on the back of other platforms,’ said MIT professor and media historian William Uricchio in his keynote.”
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Podcast: Stefan Helmreich, “Submarine Media: Sounding the Sea with Cyborg Anthropology”
A first-person anthropological report on a dive to the seafloor in the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution’s three-person submersible, Alvin, meditating on the sounds rather that the sights of the dive.
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Scot Osterweil in Yusef’s Christian Science Monitor article, on video games in the classroom
“Let kids play games outside the classroom,” says Scot Osterweil, “but get ‘game skills’ into classrooms,”
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Podcast: “A Conversation with Junot Díaz”
Genre and secondary world construction in The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao and the failure of realism as a narrative strategy to describe the New World.
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CMS welcomes the Class of 2010
With the class of 2010, Comparative Media Studies program is pleased to introduce another set of extraordinary young scholars.
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Project New Media Literacies: Moby-Dick and Reading in a Participatory Culture
MIT’s Project New Media Literacies is helping teachers in New England use Moby-Dick as a model to show teens how they might create and circulate media.
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Henry Jenkins at the Aspen Institute, Forum on Communications and Society
CMS Co-Director Henry Jenkins last month joined the likes of Madeleine Albright, Craig Newmark, and Former U.S. Solicitor General Theodore Olson for a panel on how public policy and private initiatives can better meet the public’s information needs.
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“Fun from ‘political oppression’?”: GAMBIT Game Lab in the Singapore Straits Times
“Use the cheery pink power of bubblegum to convince your fellow citizens to join a popular revolt against a repressive government.”
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From the Boston Phoenix: “Junot Díaz reads a new short story at the Brattle Theater”
“Junot Díaz, a man, it appeared from listening to the women’s chatter, with many charms.”
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From the School Library Journal: “Hero Reports”
“Move over Batman and Spidey, Gotham has a new hero: average New Yorkers whose random acts of civic courage are being logged on a new Web site called Hero Reports.”
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Benjamin Mako Hill at the 10th annual Open Source Conference
Benjamin Mako Hill from the MIT Center for Future Civic Media presented on the ways that errors in everyday technology can present opportunities for encouraging the right kind of thinking.
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Podcast: Futures of Entertainment 2: “Advertising and Convergence Culture”
Does the agency structure need to be rethought? What are effective ways to collaborate with creative audiences?
