As part of MIT’s 150th anniversary celebration, Comparative Media Studies created a visual tour to feature MIT’s essential role in major media developments.
Podcast: Amaranth Borsuk, “Between Page and Screen: Digital, Visual, and Material Poetics”
Poet and scholar Amaranth Borsuk discusses authorship, materiality, and her poetic practice as a multi-media writer and artist.
Podcast: “A Conversation with Sherry Turkle”
Eminent MIT professor Sherry Turkle, author most recently of Alone, Together, discusses her darkening view of our digitizing world.
Podcast: John Ellis, “How Documentary Went Digital: the Implications of Informal Filming and Skeptical Audiences”
Digital filming has transformed documentary, says John Ellis, offering new potentials to filmmakers and at the same time transforming audience attitudes.
Podcast: From Purple Blurb, “Computers and Creativity: The Intersection of Art and Technology”
The computer’s creative involvement in the visual and literary arts is the topic of this discussion, held on the occasion of the Drawing with Code exhibit.
Scot Osterweil receives MIT Excellence Award
We’re so proud to share the news that Education Arcade research director Scot Osterweil was presented with an MIT Excellence Award.
Video: “Online News: Public Sphere or Echo Chamber?”
What do we actually know about the dynamics of news-consumption online?
