CMS no longer has an active masters program. This site is for archival purposes only.
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Research Themes
Our research groups, using a lab model, produce diverse projects. But collectively they work within themes of equity, critical design, and open collaboration.
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Conference: Bearing Witness, Seeking Justice
October 5-7, 2022, join a forum for diverse constituencies to express their views and to showcase findings on videography as a creative tool in the quest for social justice.
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Video: “Seeing Silicon Valley”
Acclaimed photographer Mary Beth Meehan and Silicon Valley historian and media scholar Fred Turner discuss their recently published and award-winning book Seeing Silicon Valley: Life inside a Fraying America.
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Video: Katherine Jewell, “Party City: WMBR, Institutional Change, and Democratic Media”
The history of WMBR at MIT from the 1960s to the 1980s, exploring how this station, with a license held by an independent non-profit corporation, built a meaningful community institution despite transformations within the university.