Welcome
to re:constructions, a site launched by members of the MIT Comparative
Media Studies community in the emotional, intense, and confusing days
following the events of 11 September 2001. While much in the world has
changed in the time between then and now, including the start of significant
critical and historical scholarship around the tragedies in New York,
Washington, and Pennsylvania, we have decided not to update or modify
our original site. Instead, we want it to remain a snapshot, an archive
of ideas, opinions, and expressions that emerged as we quickly provided
a forum for our community to respond and reflect on such tragic events.
We invite you to
visit re:constructions,
our framing of "one moment in time" as an ongoing resource
for research and education. For educators visiting this site to support
classroom activities, we call your attention to a project that was directly
inspired by re:constructions and developed by Kate Brigham as part of
her master's work at the Mass College of Art. Kate's exploration of
design as a rhetorical tool may be a helpful application for teachers
to use with students in a variety of classroom discussions around the
role of the media in shaping public opinion. Further information on her thesis work is available at her website.