With William Uricchio, Guy Maddin discusses why we should bother digging up filmic and narrative memories from oblivion.
Podcast: Vincent Brown, “Designing Histories of Slavery for the Database Age”
Wrestling creatively with archival problems of the social history of slavery, Vincent Brown charts pathways for pondering history’s most painful subjects.
Podcast: Caroline Jack, “How Facts Survive In Public Service Media”
When the Ad Council bombarded television viewers with messages on economic literacy, was it information or propaganda?
Video, podcast and summary: “Is There a Future for In-Depth Science Journalism?”
Hear from the editor and reporters from STAT, a new publication launched with a significant investment by Boston Globe Media Partners that focuses on health, medicine, and scientific discovery.
World Goin’ One Way, People Another: Subcreation and Politics in The Wire
“If academia has anything to do with the staying power of a media text (and for my own sake, I hope it does), The Wire will undoubtedly live on as a cultural touchstone for years to come.”
Video and podcast: John Jennings, “The Cipher Back to Here”
John Jennings’ current comics projects include the hiphop adventure comic “Kid Code: Channel Zero”, the supernatural crime noir story “Blue Hand Mojo”, and the upcoming graphic novel adaptation of Octavia Butler’s classic dark fantasy novel “Kindred”.
Podcast: Vivek Bald, “Documenting South Asian America’s Interracial Past”
Vivek Bald, an Associate Professor in CMS/W and member of the MIT Open Documentary Lab, discusses his transmedia project documenting the lives of Bengalis who entered the United States at the height of the Asian Exclusion Era.
