Three Comparative Media Studies alums — Parmesh Shahani, Rekha Murthy, and Sam Ford — return to discuss their post-graduate lives.
Podcast: Doris Sommer, “Welcome Back, to the Humanities as Civic Engagement”
Doris Sommer’s new book, The Work of Art in the World: Civic Agency and Public Humanities, revives the collaboration between aesthetic philosophy and democratic development.
Podcast: Helen Nissenbaum, “Resisting Data’s Tyranny with Obfuscation”
Data obfuscation is a compelling “weapon-of-the-weak,” which deserves to be developed and strengthened, its moral challenges countered and mitigated.
Podcast: Caetlin Benson-Allott, “By Design: Or, What Remote Controls Can Teach Us about the Nature of Control”
Georgetown’s Caetlin Benson-Allott on how the technical and design evolution of remote controls reveal how the seemingly most inconsequential of media devices have shaped the way users cohabit with mass media, consumer electronics, and each other.
Podcast: Philip Napoli, “Media Impact Assessment and Beyond”
Rutgers’ Philip Napoli looks at ongoing research that seeks to define and assess the field of media impact assessment.
Podcast: The Creative Industries Prototyping Lab
Eduardo Marisca: “But the need was not for technologies themselves. It’s something that they can get their hands on. The biggest problem was process.”
Podcast: Philip Jones, “Gaming in Color”
A discussion of Gaming in Color, a full-length documentary of the story of the queer gaming community, gaymer culture and events, and the rise of LGBTQ themes in video games.
