Independent filmmaker Andrew Silver on emerging forms of hybrid media, promising new pathways for distribution, and his career as a director and producer.
Podcast: Al Filreis, “Teaching Modern & Contemporary American Poetry to 36k”
Al Filreis has taught his “ModPo” course at Penn for years; in Fall 2012 he offered a 10-week version of the course online, via Coursera.
Podcast: Mark Turner, “Minding the News”
Research on the cognitive underpinnings of network news, with an emphasis on blended joint attention, story-telling, counterfactuality, and hypotheticals.
Podcast: Hector Postigo, “Cultural Production and Social Media as Capture Platforms: How the Matrix Has You”
Hector Postigo on a theoretical framework for understanding how, generally, social media’s technical feature-sets create a system of capture and conversion.
Chris Hayes and Ta-Nehisi Coates: “Election Year 2012 and The Twilight of the Elites”
In Twilight Of The Elites, journalist and MSNBC host Chris Hayes asks: are the institutions which foster America’s leadership class working as intended?
Video: “New Media in West Africa”
How has Nigerian cinema in particular influenced local television and film markets in other countries across West Africa, and across the continent?
Podcast, Tracy Fullerton: “Finer Fruits: Experiment in Life and Play at Walden”
Tracy Fullerton on Walden, a game that simulates Henry David Thoreau’s experiment in living a simplified existence as articulated in his book Walden.
