How are “tweens” represented in popular culture? And how does this relatively new category deal with race, class, and gender identity?
Video and podcast: “Time Traveling with James Gleick”
In conversation with Alan Lightman, international best-selling author and science historian James Gleick discusses his career, the state of science journalism, and his newest book Time Travel: A History.
Podcast: Allison Hahn, “This Land Is Our Land: Mobile Media, Protest, and Debate in Maasai and Mongolian Land Disputes”
How has mobile media changed the ways that nomadic communities receive and send information, engage state actors, and participate in international deliberations?
Podcast: Douglas O’Reagan, “Next Stage Planning for the Digital Humanities at MIT”
Douglas O’Reagan updates the audience on his efforts and invite suggestions and ideas concerning the future of digital humanities at MIT.
Podcast: Christine Walley, “The Exit Zero Project: A Transmedia Exploration of Family and Class in Postindustrial Chicago”
Christine Walley talks about her research into the traumatic effects of the loss of the steel industry in Southeast Chicago and how it found expression in a book, website, and documentary film.
Podcast: Sun-ha Hong, “Knowledge’s Allure: Surveillance and Uncertainty”
Struggles with “big” data and surveillance are not just a question of privacy and security, but how promises of knowledge and its bounty enact a redistribution of authority
Podcast: “Innovation” and “Engagement” – Experiments with What Industry Buzzwords Can Mean in Practice
Alum Sam Ford and Fusion colleague Federico Rodriguez Tarditi discuss what they have learned from their experiments exploring new ways of telling stories, new approaches to building relationships with key publics, new ways of working internally, and new types of roles/positions in the company.
