“In many ways,” says CMS director Henry Jenkins, “my commitment to social justice was shaped in reality by Martin Luther King and in fantasy by ‘Star Trek.'”
Computers, Cut-ups and Combinatory Volvelles: An Archaeology of Text-Generating Mechanisms
If we accept physically cutting paper or spinning a volvelle as a readerly and writerly act, then we must also erase the boundaries we have drawn between “the book” as a material form and “the digital” as an epistemology, reconsidering the various literacies each facilitates or forecloses.
From the archives, Henry Jenkins on digital culture and violence
Via @henryjenkins comes this video featured in an MIT course “Media, Education and the Marketplace” just after the Columbine shootings.
Podcast: Tucker Eskew, “The Discipline of Political Messages in an Unruly Era”
Political adviser Tucker Eskew explores the permanent campaign of the last ten years. What is “message discipline” in an era of atomized opinion leadership – a necessity or a fool’s errand?
CMS’ Madeline Clare Elish wins 2009 MISTI fellowship
“Graduate student in Comparative Media Studies, Madeline Clare Elish, will explore the intersection of art, science and technology at the Medialab-Prado in Madrid, Spain.”
CMS: Born for Collaboration
From its early days the Comparative Media Studies program has worked with partners from all over MIT. It has collaboration written in its genes.
Ellen Hume in the American Prospect, “Defining Public Media for the Future”
Ellen Hume, research director of the Center for Future Civic Media, discussed public media at prospect.org with Jessica Clark of American University, Kinsey Wilson of NPR, Rey Ramsey of One Economy, and Sascha Meinrath of the New America Foundation.
