Wrestling creatively with archival problems of the social history of slavery, Vincent Brown charts pathways for pondering history’s most painful subjects.
Podcast: Caroline Jack, “How Facts Survive In Public Service Media”
When the Ad Council bombarded television viewers with messages on economic literacy, was it information or propaganda?
Video, podcast and summary: “Is There a Future for In-Depth Science Journalism?”
Hear from the editor and reporters from STAT, a new publication launched with a significant investment by Boston Globe Media Partners that focuses on health, medicine, and scientific discovery.
Video and podcast: John Jennings, “The Cipher Back to Here”
John Jennings’ current comics projects include the hiphop adventure comic “Kid Code: Channel Zero”, the supernatural crime noir story “Blue Hand Mojo”, and the upcoming graphic novel adaptation of Octavia Butler’s classic dark fantasy novel “Kindred”.
Podcast: Vivek Bald, “Documenting South Asian America’s Interracial Past”
Vivek Bald, an Associate Professor in CMS/W and member of the MIT Open Documentary Lab, discusses his transmedia project documenting the lives of Bengalis who entered the United States at the height of the Asian Exclusion Era.
Videos and podcasts on the CMS Graduate Program: Everything You Wanted to Know
Did you have questions about the graduate program in Comparative Media Studies? Here are videos and podcasts of our fall 2015 information session and graduate program alumni panel.
Video, podcast, and summary: “Women in Politics: Representation and Reality”
Women are chronically underrepresented in U.S. politics. Yet TV shows, fictions, and films have leapt ahead of the electoral curve to give us our first female president(s). What messages about women and power do these fictional representations of female politicians send?
