Videogames are not theatre, but the comparison gives way to productive questions: What is the dramatic text of the game?
Podcast: Christoph Lindner, “Amsterdam and New York: Transnational Photographic Exchange in the Era of Globalization”
Christoph Lindner on seeing Amsterdam through the lens of New York photographers enabled new and surprising perspectives on four key aspects of the city.
Podcast: Sasha Costanza-Chock, “Se Ve, Se Siente: Transmedia Mobilization in the Los Angeles Immigrant Rights Movement”
Sasha Costanza-Chock is a scholar and mediamaker who works in areas including social movements, participatory technology design, and participatory research.
Podcast: Gabriella Coleman, “‘I did it for the Lulz! but I stayed for the outrage:’ Anonymous, the Politics of Spectacle, and Geek Protests against the Church of Scientology”
Gabriella Coleman examines the ethics of online collaboration/institutions and the role of the law and digital media in sustaining forms of activism.
Podcast: Nitin Sawhney, “Media and Resilience: Creative DIY Cultures and Civic Agency among Marginalized Youth”
Nitin Sawhney on youth digital storytelling in the West Bank and Gaza and participatory media for resilience and civic agency among youth in conflict.
Podcast: “Public Communications in Slow-Moving Crises”
Like the Gulf oil spill, some crises slow moving. The media struggle to rhetorically or technologically cover these simmering, rather than boiling, dramas.
Podcast: “MST3K and Cinematic Titanic”
Two of the cast, Trace Beaulieu and Mary Jo Pehl, discussed their thoughts on producing Cinematic Titanic which came to Boston on October 29th at the Wilbur Theater.
