About Comparative Media Studies/Writing
MIT Comparative Media Studies/Writing offers an innovative academic program that applies critical analysis, collaborative research, and design across a variety of media arts, forms, and practices.
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Featured Spring Subject, “Media Effects of Stereotyping and Morality: Racism and Resistance”
Study the way media stereotypes can shape audiences’ emotions, beliefs, attitudes, and behavior.
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New whitepaper: “Just Joking! Deepfakes, Satire, and the Politics of Synthetic Media”
The Open Documentary Lab, Co-Creation Studio, and WITNESS collaborate to answer the question “who decides what’s funny, what’s fair, and who is accountable?”
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Video: Alexandra To, “Uplifting Us: Design Opportunities in Centering Racialized Experiences in Games”
Alexandra To describes some of the game design opportunities present in centering the experiences of people of color from the beginning.
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Video: Craig Robertson, “‘Information at Your Fingertips’: The Filing Cabinet and the Gendering of Information Work”
When information became a thing that could exist at the end of your fingertips, those fingers belonged to women.
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Video: “Graphic Materiality, Trauma, and Expressionist Comics: Artist’s Talk With Leela Corman”
Graphic novel creator Leela Corman talks about her graphic novels and short comics on the topics of generational and personal trauma, New York City history, Polish-Jewish life, and amateur women’s wrestling.
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Video: Memorial Colloquium in Honor of Jing Wang
At this Colloquium, we publicly honored our beloved colleague’s life and work, featuring brief talks by some of those who knew her best.
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Video, Nick Thurston: “Document Practices: The Art of Propagating Access”
As buzz terms like “post-truth” and “deep fake” remind us, the social lives of documents are entwined with the techno-political conditions of the communities who produce, save and share them.
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“A Cellular Symphony”: A featured piece from Angles 2021, the best of MIT’s introductory writing subjects
“I’m ready for the lyricism of the lab,” writes biological engineer major Laura Schmidt-Hong.
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Video: Victoria Cain, “Educated Viewers: Civic Spectatorship, Media Literacy, and American Schools”
The struggle of successive generations of education reformers who attempted to meet massive social and economic crises through careful instruction in media viewing and collective discussion.
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Faculty job opening: Assistant Professor of Media Studies
This tenure-track position has a focus on media industries and/or computational media. Application deadline: Nov 1, 2021. Full information at academicjobsonline.org
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Current CMS/W Job Openings
Job openings at CMS/W, including for postdocs and visiting scholars.
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Sue Ding, ’17, wins L.A. Area Emmy Award
Congratulations to the CMS master’s alum, who shared the award as director and producer of Light & Space, part of KCET’s Artbound series.
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2021-2022 INSPIRE-Math Coaching & Leadership Fellowship
Led by the our Teaching Systems Lab for all who currently teach or coach math in a district or charter school in Boston for all or part of their day in grades 3-8. Learn more on July 19.
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Congratulations to the class of 2021!
It’s been a bizarre year-plus. But the twenty three of you made it! You’re still standing.
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Andrea Kim, ’21, awarded Fulbright Fellowship
Kim’s Fulbright research in South Korea will investigate how virtual reality can facilitate cross-cultural learning and live performance art.
