New technologies and media systems have been deployed for new distributions of power, knowledge and social organization. How can we cultivate and empower a critical citizenry?
Podcast: “Media in Transition 7: Archives and Cultural Memory”
Does it still make sense to distinguish the roles of museums, galleries, and spaces for exhibition from those of archives and repositories?
Podcast: “Media in Transition 7: Unstable Platforms”
What is happening to our culture’s stories and story-tellers? How are new technologies transforming our public discourse?
Podcast: Cynthia Young, “Race and Representation after 9/11”
Cynthia Young and Anamik Saha on media representations of African American men in the “war on terror,” from criminal to patriot, at war against a new enemy.
Podcast: Richard Rogers, “The End of the Virtual: Digital Methods”
Should the current methods of study change — to have digital methods — however slightly or wholesale, given the focus on objects and content of the medium?
Video: A Conversation with Sherry Turkle
Sherry Turkle, author most recently of Alone, Together, discusses her darkening view of our digitizing world and her sense of the culture of MIT.
Podcast: Mark Dery, “(Face)book of the Dead”
Mark Dery asks, “What does it say about us, as a society, if we’re unable to be alone and unplugged without being bored or lonely?”
