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Podcast, andré carrington: “The Tip of the Iceberg: Sound Studies and the Future of Afrofuturism”
andré carrington’s research on the cultural politics of race in science fiction radio drama aims to expand the repertoire of literary adaptation studies by reintegrating critical perspectives from marginal and popular sectors of the media landscape into the advancing agendas of Afrofuturism and decolonization.
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Podcast: Fall 2017 Alumni Panel
Hear from four alums of the graduate program in Comparative Media Studies as they discuss their experience at MIT and what their careers have looked like in the fields a CMS degree prepared them for.
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Podcast: Jennifer Holt, “Cloud Policy: Anatomy of a Regulatory Crisis”
Jennifer Holt examines the legal and cultural crises surrounding the regulation of data in “the cloud.”
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Podcast: Liz Koslov, “Mapping Climate Change: Contested Futures in New York City’s Flood Zone”
In New York City hundreds of thousands of people and billions of dollars in property lie in a high-risk flood zone, but FEMA flood maps minimize the risk.
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Neglected Public Property: The Study of Media Infrastructures
To Professor Lisa Parks, the air itself has become a medium controlled by drone warfare.
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Fun and Games in Educational Technology
Eric Klopfer recently switched his appointment to Comparative Media Studies/Writing. With its longstanding games studies program, he sees it as well aligned with his academic goals.
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Podcast: Nick Couldry, “The Mediated Construction of Reality: From Berger and Luckmann to Norbert Elias”
Nick Couldry addressed the challenges of social analysis in the face of datafication through the use of materialist phenomenology, particularly the concept of figurations.
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Podcast: Julien Mailland and Kevin Driscoll, “Platforms in the Public Interest: Lessons from Minitel”
Systems like Amazon, Google, and Facebook are so massive that it’s easy to forget that the digital world was not always like this. Kevin Driscoll, ’09, and Indiana University’s Julien Mailland discuss how France’s Minitel offers a wealth of data for thinking about internet policy and an alternative model for the internet’s future: a public platform for private innovation.
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Podcast: Walter Menendez, “Engineering Virality: BuzzFeed’s Scientific Approach To Creating Content”
BuzzFeed’s Walter Menendez: “This talk will detail how BuzzFeed thinks about and creates content, highlighting our paradigms for the function and role of our content.”
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Podcast: Justin Reich, “Playful Practice: Designing the Future of Teacher Learning”
As a learning scientist, Justin Reich investigates the complex, technology-rich classrooms of the future and the systems we need to prepare educators to thrive in those environments.
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Increasing Equity through Educational Technology
Justin Reich looks to transform educational settings by equipping teachers with the technology tools they need to best serve all students.
