Content tagged "diversity"
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Posted by Justin Reich
Scaling up behavioral science interventions in online education
“Adequately supporting diverse students will require more than a light-touch intervention.”
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Posted by Sasha Costanza-Chock and Maya Wagoner
New report: “#MoreThanCode: Practitioners reimagine the landscape of technology for justice and equity”
Published by the Technology for Social Justice Project, including CMS/W co-authors Associate Professor Sasha Costanza-Chock and recent master’s student Maya Wagoner, S.M., ’17.
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Posted by Andrew Whitacre and Vicky Zeamer
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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Event: Thursday, April 6, 2017 @ 5:00 pm
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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Posted by Andrew Whitacre
Searchable MIT President’s Reports, 1872-2014
The first combined searchable collection of every MIT President’s Report. All 57,000 pages of them, going back to 1872.
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Posted by Chelsea Barabas S.M., Comparative Media Studies, 2015
Topics: bias, CODE2040, diversity, employment, human resources, labor, markets, tech, technologyEngineering the American Dream: A Study of Bias and Perceptions of Merit in the High-Tech Labor Market
Bias and algorithmic recruitment in the high-tech labor market, how CODE2040 is diversifying its applicant pool, and ways to increase tech’s diversity.
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Event: Thursday, September 26, 2013 @ 5:00 pm - 7:00 pm
Ethan Zuckerman: “Digital Cosmopolitanism and Cognitive Diversity”
By examining perspectives we are exposed to and insulated from, we may be able to design tools and approaches that help readers increase their cognitive diversity and prepare themselves to tackle transnational challenges.
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Posted by Andrew Whitacre
Podcast: Fred Turner, “The Family of Man and the Politics of Attention in Cold War America”
Critics have decried The Family of Man as a model of the psychological and political repression of cold war America. Fred Turner’s talk challenges that view.
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Event: Thursday, December 8, 2011 @ 5:00 pm - 7:00 pm
The Family of Man and the Politics of Attention in Cold War America
The Family of Man became an influential prototype of the immersive, multi-media environments of the 1960s – and of our own multiply mediated social world today.
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Posted by Parmesh Shahani S.M., Comparative Media Studies, 2005
Why Gay Employees Need to Come Out
“I would never have imagined in July 2009 that by 2011, I would be sitting at the Google office in Bangalore, giving a talk to the Indian Gayglers.”
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Posted by Andrew Whitacre
Color (or the Lack of It) at Comic-Con…and Beyond
“When it comes to race, all is not well in Comic-land and in the entertainment world it inspires.”
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Posted by Andrew Whitacre
Video: “Communications Forum: Global Media”
This “Global Media” panel explored theoretical, methodological, and practical issues surrounding the study of media circulation in an age of connectivity.