Four scientists and journalists, including BuzzFeed News reporter Azeen Ghorayshi, discuss barriers to gender equality in the sciences and steps to overcome them.
Podcast: Paul Roquet, “Desktop Reveries: Hand, Software, and the Space of Japanese Artist Animation”
Paul Roquet unravels the analytical split between the “drawn” and the “digital” in animation and media studies more broadly.
Video and podcast: “Race and Racism in the 2016 Presidential Election”
Slate’s Jamelle Bouie on how race and ethnicity framed the election and how journalists and content creators can improve coverage of these issues moving forward.
Podcast: Nathan Matias, “Authoritarian and Democratic Data Science in an Experimenting Society”
How will the role of data science in democracy be transformed as software expands the public’s ability to conduct our own experiments at scale?
Podcast: Exploratory Programming for the Arts and Humanities
MIT professor Nick Montfort talks about his new book and how learning to explore code isn’t just for the tech-inclined — programming can be a way for arts and humanities scholars to discover answers…and questions…they’ve never seen before.
Podcast, Kishonna L . Gray: “#Misogynoir, #SolidarityIsForWhiteWomen, and other forms of Black Digital Feminisms”
Operating under the oppressive structures of masculinity, heterosexuality, and Whiteness that are sustained in digital spaces, marginalized women persevere and resist such hegemonic realities.
Podcast: André Brock, “Black + Twitter: A Cultural Informatics Approach”
André Brock unpacks Black Twitter use from two perspectives: analysis of the interface and associated practice alongside discourse analysis of Twitter’s utility and audience.
