Desmond Upton Patton introduces a critical systematic approach for extracting culture, context and nuance in social media data. The Contextual Analysis of Social Media (CASM) approach considers and critiques the gap between inadequacies in natural language processing tools and differences in geographic, cultural, and age-related variance of social media use and communication.
When Information Technology Meets Diversity, Creativity, and Social Change
Brazilian undergrads “often do not have opportunities to think entrepreneurially or to apply their technical knowledge while taking into consideration other humanities and social sciences disciplines such as anthropology, media studies, history, geography, and political science.”
Podcast: Matthew Berland, “Creative Agency: Making, Learning, and Playing towards Understanding Computational Content”
Matthew Berland on how we can create environments where learners are supported in developing creative agency, and how we might assess or evaluate success.
The 20th Anniversary of CMS
“What I found in talking at this personal rather than institutional level was that the draw of CMS was simultaneously more idealistic and pragmatic than we’ve described in the past.”
Podcast: Eric Klopfer, “Design Based Research on Participatory Simulations”
CMS/W Professor Eric Klopfer and The Education Arcade are currently working on a set of “Participatory Simulations”: mobile collaborative systems-based games.
In Medias Res 2019
“Recent months have been filled with wonderful moments as we celebrate the twentieth anniversary of the Comparative Media Studies program.”
Podcast: Lucy Suchman, “Artificial Intelligence & Modern Warfare”
Lancaster University’s Lucy Suchman’s concern is with the asymmetric distributions of sociotechnologies of (in)security, their deadly and injurious effects, and the legal, ethical, and moral questions that haunt their operations.
