What theories and evidence can we generate and build upon to provide a foundation for using mixed reality technologies productively for learning?
Video and podcast: Has Silicon Valley Lost Its Humanity?
Author Noam Cohen, technology critic Sara M. Watson, and technology journalist Christina Couch discuss the rise of Silicon Valley and whether the drive for innovation degrades our humanity.
Podcast: Fall 2017 Alumni Panel
Hear from four alums of the graduate program in Comparative Media Studies as they discuss their experience at MIT and what their careers have looked like in the fields a CMS degree prepared them for.
Podcast: Jennifer Holt, “Cloud Policy: Anatomy of a Regulatory Crisis”
Jennifer Holt examines the legal and cultural crises surrounding the regulation of data in “the cloud.”
Podcast: Liz Koslov, “Mapping Climate Change: Contested Futures in New York City’s Flood Zone”
In New York City hundreds of thousands of people and billions of dollars in property lie in a high-risk flood zone, but FEMA flood maps minimize the risk.
Video and podcast: An Evening with Sarah Vowell
Vowell on what makes the past so funny, the connections between historical research and modern journalism, and much more.
Podcast: Nick Couldry, “The Mediated Construction of Reality: From Berger and Luckmann to Norbert Elias”
Nick Couldry addressed the challenges of social analysis in the face of datafication through the use of materialist phenomenology, particularly the concept of figurations.
