Content tagged "technology"
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Evaluating Interactive Documentaries: Audience, Impact and Innovation in Public Interest Media
This thesis explores the “theories of change” that inform institutional investments in documentary and examines how three public interest media organizations – the National Film Board of Canada, POV and the New York Times – are approaching interactive documentary production, attempting to define what constitutes success or impact.
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Heike, Jike, Chuangke: Creativity in the Chinese Technology Community
Creativity in Chinese technology communities and its implication in China’s development mode shift from “Made in China” to “Created in China.”
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Engineering 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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Driverless Dreams: Technological Narratives and the Shape of the Automated Car
Erik Stayton, ’15, examines dominant and alternative paradigms of ground vehicle automation, and concludes that current and imagined automation technology is far more hybrid than is often recognized.
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The Missing Links: An Archaeology of Digital Journalism
The news institution of the digital era as a linked archive: equal parts news provider and information portal.
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Museum Making: Creating with New Technologies in Art Museums
Hackathons, maker spaces, R&D labs: these terms are common to the world of technology, but have only recently seeped into museums.
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Podcast: Kevin Driscoll, “Re-Calling The Modem World: The Dial-Up History Of Social Media”
“While prevailing histories of the early internet tend to focus on state-sponsored experiments such as ARPANET, the history of bulletin-board systems reveals the popular origins of computer-mediated social life.”
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Re-calling the Modem World: The Dial-up History of Social Media
Kevin Driscoll presents how the history of bulletin-board systems reveals the popular origins of computer-mediated social life.
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Podcast: George Yúdice, “Cultural Studies and The Expediency of Culture, Rethought in Relation to Internet Platforms and Megadata”
Culture understood as the “terrain of struggle for interpretive power” needs to take into consideration its relocation and reconfiguration in new media and technologies.
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Cultural Studies and The Expediency of Culture, Rethought in Relation to Internet Platforms and Megadata
The argument that culture empties out as it becomes ever more pivotal in the creative economy has, George Yúdice thinks, been borne out.
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Podcast: Catherine Clark, “Media And Memory At The Vidéothèque De Paris”
In this podcast, Catherine Clark looks at how “the utopian rhetoric of the Vidéothèque de Paris illuminates promises of the more recent revolution in digital history.”
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Media and Memory at the Vidéothèque de Paris
Catherine E. Clark on how “the utopian rhetoric that accompanied the Vidéothèque’s creation helps illuminate and call into question the utopian promises of the much more recent revolution in digital history.”
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Open Sensors: Trust, Calibration, and Certification
Lily Bui locates the key points of discussion around open sensor certification, especially as it relates to the evolution of sensor journalism.
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A (Working) Typology of Sensor Journalism Projects
Lily Bui looks at sensor journalism work, teases out emergent patterns, provides perspective on the field to anticipate its future trajectory.
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The Beast Within: Measuring the Minds of Zoo Animals
Researchers at Brookfield Zoo have developed a unique tool for studying welfare based on the idea that animals have emotions that can and should be ascertained–and that keepers, those who spend long periods of time with the animals, have the ability to tell how their animals are feeling.
