Convergence journalism — combining aspects of newspapers, documentary film and digital video are — a notable feature of today’s on-line journalism.
Podcast: Marcella Szablewicz, “Nostalgia for a Not-So-Distant Youth: Digital Games and Affect in Urban China”
Are games the imagined utopia they are made out to be in these nostalgic accounts or might these affective attachments prove to be a form of “cruel optimism”?
Video: Prof. T.L. Taylor talks to PBS about the rise of competitive gaming
Via our old friend Megan Garber at The Atlantic, featuring T.L. Taylor: Will We One Day Have a Super Bowl for Video Games?
Ta-Nehisi Coates on Colbert Report
“The first rule of being president of Black America: you don’t talk about a black woman’s hair.”
Podcast: A Conversation with Ta-Nehisi Coates
“One of the things people say is the humanities tend to be easier than the sciences. But practicing the humanities is not easy at all.”
Video: Molly Sauter on “The Ethics of Activist DDoS Actions”
Molly Sauter (’13) presented in Germany on her study of a framework for ethical analysis of activist DDOS actions.
Moments of Innovation Exhibit at IDFA
Last November, CMS’s Open Documentary Lab unveiled “Moments of Innovation – When Documentary and Technology Converge”, an exhibit and website at the International Documentary Film Festival, Amsterdam (IDFA) that demonstrated just how dramatically key technological developments affected how documentary makers think about, and practice, their craft.
