Calculations and motivations behind the production of calculated publics helps highlight how algorithms are relevant to our collective efforts to know and be known.
Online Annotation and the Future of Reading
Video and podcast on using the tools of online textual annotation — collaborating on interpreting a work, making annotations public, and responding to interpretations by others.
Video, podcast, and summary: Science in Fiction
A Communications Forum featuring authors Hanya Yanagihara and Alan Lightman and moderator Seth Mnookin.
Podcast: Susan Murray, “‘Natural Vision vs. Tele-Vision’: Defining and Managing Electronic Color in the Post-War Era”
The discourses that framed and managed color use and reception not only in the standardization period, but also during RCA and NBC’s early attempts to sell color to consumers, sponsors, and critics.
Video: Neil Gaiman’s 2008 lecture at MIT
After six years hiding out on DVD, our video of Neil Gaiman’s lecture and conversation at MIT is now available for free online.
Podcast: Barry Werth and The Antidote: Reporting from Inside the World of Big Pharma
Barry Werth’s “The Antidote: Inside the World of Big Pharma” gives a behind-the-scenes look at how a startup became one of the great triumphs of bio-tech.
Podcast and video: Henry Jenkins Returns
Legendary former MIT professor Henry Jenkins returns to the Communications Forum for a conversation about his time at the Institute and the founding of CMS.
