Featuring a number of journalists, advocates, and programmers who utilize new technologies to gather information in contentious geographic regions.
Video and podcast: Thomas Pettitt, “The Gutenberg Parenthesis: Oral Tradition and Digital Technologies”
Is our emerging digital culture a return to practices and ways of thinking that were central to human societies before the advent of the printing press?
Podcast: “Government Transparency and Collaborative Journalism”
What new ways of gathering and presenting information are evolving from the nexus of government transparency and digital connectedness?
Podcast: “Robots and Media: Science Fiction, Anime, Transmedia, and Technology”
How has science fiction has influenced the development of real robotic systems, both in research laboratories and corporations?
Podcast: Nick Montfort, “Code and Platform in Computational Media”
Adding these neglected levels — programming and computing systems — to digital media studies can help to advance the field.
Podcast: Joel Burges and Wayne Marshall, “Old-fashioned Futures and Re-fashionable Media”
Joel Burges and Wayne Marshall, MIT’s Mellon Fellows in the Humanities (2009-11), will contribute to the rethinking of media studies at MIT by taking up the shared metaphor of fashion—the fashionable, the old-fashioned, the re-fashioned.
Podcast: Lisa Nakamura, “Race, Rights, and Virtual Worlds: Digital Games as Spaces of Labor Migration”
If virtual world users’ claims to citizenship and sovereignty within them are to be taken seriously, so too must the question of “gray collar” or semi-legal virtual laborers and their social relations and cultural identity
