Roderick Coover, Temple University; Theo Hug, University of Innsbruck; Molly Sauter, MIT; Dan Whaley, hypothes.is; Moderator: James Paradis, MIT
Podcast: Media in Transition 8, “Surveillance: Big Data and Other Watchers”
Do the ramifying surveillance systems for observing and recording our routine activities fundamentally threaten our privacy and freedom?
Podcast: Media in Transition 8, “Oversharing: The End of Privacy?”
Amid disquiet over encroachments on privacy by government and corporations, are young people not respecting the traditional boundaries of privacy?
Video: “News or Entertainment? The Press in Modern Political Campaigns”
With The Atlantic’s senior editor Ta-Nehisi Coates and political consultant Mark McKinnon.
Podcast: “News or Entertainment? The Press in Modern Political Campaigns”
Is our political journalism serving democratic and civic ideals?
Podcast: David Novak, “The Cultural Feedback of Noise”
The “cultural feedback” of noise music through its recorded forms, technologies of live performance, and creative practices of musicians and listeners.
Video: “MOOCs and the Emerging Digital Classroom”
What elements of teaching practice can be effectively translated into new media, and what aspects of “teaching” must be redefined?
