In China, when doctor-patient tension intensifies, some news media tend to blame the doctors, using misleading narratives to create sensationalism, thereby aggravating the antagonism between the society and medical professionals.
Podcast: Justin Reich, “Playful Practice: Designing the Future of Teacher Learning”
As a learning scientist, Justin Reich investigates the complex, technology-rich classrooms of the future and the systems we need to prepare educators to thrive in those environments.
An Evening with Sarah Vowell
On October 5th, best-selling author Sarah Vowell brings history and humor to MIT.
Increasing Equity through Educational Technology
Justin Reich looks to transform educational settings by equipping teachers with the technology tools they need to best serve all students.
Operational Images and the Interpretive Turn
Through the history of cartography, surveillance, and reconnaissance runs a long tale of instrumentalization, a history of calculable images primed for machine-readability.
Re-Enchanting Spaces: Location-based Media, Participatory Documentary, and Augmented Reality
“In keeping with an emphasis on new forms of storytelling, I propose a taxonomy for location-based media that distinguishes three different levels of participation and user agency: Consumption, Interaction, and Participation.”
Podcast: Nicole Hemmer, “From Taft to Trump: How Conservative Media Activists Won — and Lost — the GOP”
Nicole Hemmer explains how conservative media activists won the GOP for the right — and how in the era of Trump, they lost it.
