Jesper Juul, author of The Art of Failure, asks: “Why do we play video games even though they make us unhappy?”
Podcast: D.T. Max, “Angels of Death: David Foster Wallace and the Battle Against Irony, Letterman and Leyner?”
D.T. Max, staff writer at the New Yorker, looks at David Foster Wallace and irony, with an eye especially on his 1990’s attacks on David Letterman.
Video: “A Conversation with Nate Silver”
The statistician and political polling analyst Nate Silver discusses his career — from student journalist to baseball prognosticator to the creator of FiveThirtyEight.com.
Video: Francis Steen, “The News as a Social Process for Improving Society”
Steen examines the global media coverage of the July 22, 2011, attack in Norway, demonstrating that the news is not primarily about reporting what happened but about constructing narratives, performing event surgery, and assigning responsibility.
Podcast: “A Conversation with Nate Silver”
The statistician and political polling analyst Nate Silver discusses his career — from student journalist to baseball prognosticator to the creator of FiveThirtyEight.com.
Video: “Convergence Journalism? Emerging Documentary and Multimedia Forms of News”
Hybrid forms of multimedia, combining aspects of newspapers, documentary film and digital video are a notable feature of today’s on-line journalism. How is this access to the power of the visual changing our journalism?
Podcast: Gregory Crane, “Automated Methods, Human Understanding, and Digital Libraries of Babel”
“If we have addressed physical access to images of textual sources, we are a long way from providing the intellectual access necessary to understand the written sources that we see.”
