A former writer on Late Night with Seth Meyers and Totally Biased with W. Kamau Bell, Aparna Nancherla headed to MIT to discuss her career and tackling tough topics with humor.
Podcast: Barbie and Mortal Kombat 20 Years Later
Yasmin Kafai and Gabriela Richard expand the discussions on gender, race, and sexuality in gaming.
Podcast: Glorianna Davenport, “The Networked Sensory Landscape Meets the Future of Documentary”
Glorianna Davenport presents DoppelMarsh, data from a dense network of diverse environmental sensors mapped to deliver “a sense of being there” in a re-synthesized, ever-changing landscape.
Podcast: Charles Musser, “From Stereopticon to Telephone: The Selling of the President in the Gilded Age”
Charles Musser: “19th century media forms set in motion not only a new way of imagining how to market national campaigns and candidates; they also helped to usher in novel forms of mass spectatorship.”
Video and podcast: Sexual Harassment and Gender Equity in Science
Four scientists and journalists, including BuzzFeed News reporter Azeen Ghorayshi, discuss barriers to gender equality in the sciences and steps to overcome them.
Podcast: Paul Roquet, “Desktop Reveries: Hand, Software, and the Space of Japanese Artist Animation”
Paul Roquet unravels the analytical split between the “drawn” and the “digital” in animation and media studies more broadly.
Video and podcast: “Race and Racism in the 2016 Presidential Election”
Slate’s Jamelle Bouie on how race and ethnicity framed the election and how journalists and content creators can improve coverage of these issues moving forward.
