By illuminating Sixth Generation Cinema, I aim to provide a glimpse into 1990s China where reforms have brought heartening as well as disturbing changes.
The Construction of Photojournalism: Visual Style and Branding in the Magnum Photos Agency
The visual style of photographic representation developed by the Magnum Photos agency, the most prestigious international agency for photojournalists.
The Medium Still Isn’t the Message: Revisiting the Link Between Communication Technologies and Political Liberalization
Questioning the claims presently being made on behalf of the Internet as a unidirectional causal agent in socio-political liberalisation.
The Commoditable Block Party: Electric Signs in Manhattan, 1881-1917
The form and content of the electric bulb sign in Manhattan from 1892 to 1917 — and how this unique medium engaged with its environment and audience.
A Digital Assemblage: Diagramming the Social Realities of the Stikine River Watershed
The landscape of the Stikine River Watershed through varied perspectives and heterogeneous data sets, using landscape as a condition for relating factors of knowledge, discourse, and power.
MIT News Office on ‘BollySpace’
The MIT News Office has an article entitled “‘BollySpace’ melds Indian film traditions with digital media”, about an initiative by CMS graduate students Aswin Punathambekar, Zhan Li and Sangita Shresthova.
In Medias Res, Spring 2002
A Latin term that literally means “in the middle of things” or “in the thick of things,” in media res is often used to refer to the act of joining the story already in progress in theater or literature.
