Sarah Zaidan is a game designer, artist and researcher whose work explores how video games and comic books can engage in a dialogue with identity, gender and civic awareness.
Summary, video, and podcast: “From the Neolithic Era to the Apocalypse: How to Prepare for the Future By Studying the Past”
Charles C. Mann and Annalee Newitz talk about how ancient civilizations shed light on problems with urbanization, food security, and environmental change.
Summary, video, and podcast: “Jim Crow and the Legacy of Segregation Outside of the South”
Every time the Restorative Justice clinic has sent its researchers out to study one particular cold case, “invariably we find another case.”
Podcast: Hiromu Nagahara, “Hierarchy And Democracy In Modern Japan’s Mass Media Revolution”
Hiromu Nagahara on the life and career of Horiuchi Keizō, an MIT grad who found himself in the center of Japan’s “mass media revolution” in the 1920s and ’30s as a prominent composer, critic, radio broadcaster, and publisher.
Podcast: Jane McGonigal discusses “SuperBetter” with MIT’s Scot Osterweil
Jane McGonigal is the internationally acclaimed game designer and author, most recently of “SuperBetter: A Revolutionary Approach to Getting Stronger, Happier, Braver and More Resilient–Powered by the Science of Games”.
Podcast and summary, Danielle Keats Citron and Brianna Wu: “Hate Crimes In Cyberspace”
What legal routes are available to people facing online harassment, and what policies might need to be changed to better address this issue?
Podcast: Ryan Cordell, “Melville in the First Age of Viral Media”
Ryan Cordell, co-director of the Viral Texts project, speaks about his work uncovering pieces that “went viral” in nineteenth-century newspapers and magazines.
