Systems like Amazon, Google, and Facebook are so massive that it’s easy to forget that the digital world was not always like this. Kevin Driscoll, ’09, and Indiana University’s Julien Mailland discuss how France’s Minitel offers a wealth of data for thinking about internet policy and an alternative model for the internet’s future: a public platform for private innovation.
Podcast: Walter Menendez, “Engineering Virality: BuzzFeed’s Scientific Approach To Creating Content”
BuzzFeed’s Walter Menendez: “This talk will detail how BuzzFeed thinks about and creates content, highlighting our paradigms for the function and role of our content.”
Podcast: Justin Reich, “Playful Practice: Designing the Future of Teacher Learning”
As a learning scientist, Justin Reich investigates the complex, technology-rich classrooms of the future and the systems we need to prepare educators to thrive in those environments.
Podcast: Nicole Hemmer, “From Taft to Trump: How Conservative Media Activists Won — and Lost — the GOP”
Nicole Hemmer explains how conservative media activists won the GOP for the right — and how in the era of Trump, they lost it.
Podcast: Brian Larkin and Stefan Andriopoulos, “The Contingencies of Comparison: Rethinking Comparative Media”
Brian Larkin and Stefan Andriopoulos: “It is clear that future media centers will emerge in places far outside their traditional Western centers.”
Podcast: Michael Lee, “The Conservative Canon Before and After Trump”
Michael J. Lee charts the vital role of canonical post–World War II (1945–1964) books in generating, guiding, and sustaining conservatism as a political force in the United States.
Podcast: “The Spiciest Memelord – An Interview with Jeopardy Champ Lilly Chin”
MIT’s Jeopardy champ talks strategy, memes — and becoming strangers’ media object.
