Roderick Coover, Temple University; Theo Hug, University of Innsbruck; Molly Sauter, MIT; Dan Whaley, hypothes.is; Moderator: James Paradis, MIT
Podcast: Media in Transition 8, “Surveillance: Big Data and Other Watchers”
Do the ramifying surveillance systems for observing and recording our routine activities fundamentally threaten our privacy and freedom?
Podcast: Media in Transition 8, “Oversharing: The End of Privacy?”
Amid disquiet over encroachments on privacy by government and corporations, are young people not respecting the traditional boundaries of privacy?
Podcast: “News or Entertainment? The Press in Modern Political Campaigns”
Is our political journalism serving democratic and civic ideals?
Podcast: David Novak, “The Cultural Feedback of Noise”
The “cultural feedback” of noise music through its recorded forms, technologies of live performance, and creative practices of musicians and listeners.
Podcast: Jesper Juul, “The Pain of Playing Video Games”
Jesper Juul, author of The Art of Failure, asks: “Why do we play video games even though they make us unhappy?”
Podcast: D.T. Max, “Angels of Death: David Foster Wallace and the Battle Against Irony, Letterman and Leyner?”
D.T. Max, staff writer at the New Yorker, looks at David Foster Wallace and irony, with an eye especially on his 1990’s attacks on David Letterman.
