Should the current methods of study change — to have digital methods — however slightly or wholesale, given the focus on objects and content of the medium?
Podcast: Mark Dery, “(Face)book of the Dead”
Mark Dery asks, “What does it say about us, as a society, if we’re unable to be alone and unplugged without being bored or lonely?”
Podcast: Amaranth Borsuk, “Between Page and Screen: Digital, Visual, and Material Poetics”
Poet and scholar Amaranth Borsuk discusses authorship, materiality, and her poetic practice as a multi-media writer and artist.
Podcast: “A Conversation with Sherry Turkle”
Eminent MIT professor Sherry Turkle, author most recently of Alone, Together, discusses her darkening view of our digitizing world.
Podcast: John Ellis, “How Documentary Went Digital: the Implications of Informal Filming and Skeptical Audiences”
Digital filming has transformed documentary, says John Ellis, offering new potentials to filmmakers and at the same time transforming audience attitudes.
Podcast: From Purple Blurb, “Computers and Creativity: The Intersection of Art and Technology”
The computer’s creative involvement in the visual and literary arts is the topic of this discussion, held on the occasion of the Drawing with Code exhibit.
Podcast: “Online News: Public Sphere or Echo Chamber?”
As newspapers continue their mutation into digital formats, what do we actually know about the dynamics of news-consumption online?
