What have online bulletin board systems (BBS) brought to China where traditional media primarily serve as the mouthpiece of the government?
Benjamin Mako Hill at the 10th annual Open Source Conference
Benjamin Mako Hill from the MIT Center for Future Civic Media presented on the ways that errors in everyday technology can present opportunities for encouraging the right kind of thinking.
The “New” Sounds of the Slap-of-the-Stick: Termite Terrace (1937-1943) and the Slapstick Tradition
The theatrical animated cartoons made at Termite Terrace between 1937 and 1943 embody the slapstick tradition, reinvigorate it, and transform it.
CMS grad Huma Yusuf’s article points to resolution
“Dr A Q Khan might help defuse mounting tensions between Pakistan and the US as well as Afghanistan.”
Junot Díaz on the Colbert Report
Junot Díaz talks about his Pulitzer Prize winning The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao on The Colbert Report.
William Uricchio to present learned lessons from GAMBIT at GLS 4.0
Uricchio will present lessons learned from the Singapore-MIT GAMBIT Game Lab’s first year at the fourth Games, Learning and Society Conference July 10-11.
William Uricchio to give keynote at European Network for Cinema and Media Studies conference
William Uricchio will speak about new directions in archiving — social tagging, access, recycling and the broader implications for the interaction between history and memory.
