“As a general principle, the idea that the work that we do should have value digitally and have universal access,” is what Greenblatt said he had been calling for for years.
Ellen Hume to speak on news literacy
Helping young people learn how to navigate the news in ways that make them feel more connected to their world.
Podcast and video: Robert Darnton, “Books and Libraries in the Digital Age”
Robert Darnton, director of the University Library and the Carl H. Pforzheimer University Professor at Harvard, discusses the emergence of the discipline of the history of the book, the future of books and reading, and his own vision of the ways in which new and old media can reinforce each other, strengthening and transforming the world of learning.
Podcast: Stephen Greenblatt
With respondent Diana Henderson, Stephen Greenblatt speaks on the transformation of literary study in America and his own career as a teacher and writer.
William Uricchio in the Hollywood Reporter
“‘Television is a parasite that lives on the back of other platforms,’ said MIT professor and media historian William Uricchio in his keynote.”
Podcast: Stefan Helmreich, “Submarine Media: Sounding the Sea with Cyborg Anthropology”
A first-person anthropological report on a dive to the seafloor in the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution’s three-person submersible, Alvin, meditating on the sounds rather that the sights of the dive.
Podcast and video: Communications Forum: “The Campaign and the Media 1”
How have American news media responded to this historic presidential campaign?
