Eric Lander, Maria Zuber, and Communications Forum director Seth Mnookin discuss innovation ethics and the real, and sometimes devastating, effects of invention without culpability.
Video and podcast, “Brian Michael Bendis: The 2018 Julius Schwartz Lecture”
We welcomed award-winning comics creator Brian Michael Bendis, New York Times bestseller and one of the most successful writers working in mainstream comics.
Podcast: 2018 CMS Alumni Panel
On the heels of the day’s graduate program information session, CMS/W hosted our annual colloquium featuring alumni of the Comparative Media Studies master’s program, discussing their lives from MIT to their careers today.
Podcast: Sasha Costanza-Chock, “#MoreThanCode: Practitioner-led Research to Reimagine Technology for Social Justice”
Sasha Costanza-Chock explores key findings and recommendations from #MoreThanCode (morethancode.cc), a recently-released field scan based on more than 100 practitioner interviews.
Video and podcast: Marisa Morán Jahn, part of the Civic Arts Series
Marisa Morán Jahn is a multi-media artist, writer, educator and activist, whose colorful, often humorous uses of personae and media create imaginative pathways to civic awareness of urgent public issues.
Video and podcast: How to Fight a Nazi
Christian Picciolini was 14 when he became a Neo-Nazi skinhead. He denounced eight years later and dedicated himself to helping others disengage from extremist groups.
Video and Podcast: What’s So Funny About Oppressive Regimes?
Daily Show producer Sara Taksler joins Dr. Amber Day, author of Satire and Dissent: Interventions in Contemporary Political Debate, to discuss the power of free speech.









