Last week’s launch of the International New York Times—which brought an end to the International Herald Tribune brand—offers an opportunity to put today’s changing world of news in historical perspective.
Podcast and Liveblog: Zeynep Tufekci, “The Boom-Bust Cycle of Social Media-Fueled Protests”
Zeynep Tufekci discusses features of boom and bust protest movements, drawing upon Gezi, the Arab Spring, and the Occupy and M15 movements.
Information Visualization as Creative Nonfiction
Narrative thinking as an orienting concept to support the production and evaluation of information visualizations.
From Huelga! to Undocumented and Unafraid!: A Comparative Study of Media Strategies in the Farm Worker Movement of the 1960s and the Immigrant Youth Movement of the 2000s
Rogelio Lopez’s thesis, examining media strategies by emphasizing concrete media practices of movement actors.
Televisual Sports Videogames
Abe Stein’s thesis on how these videogames are situated in the sports media industrial complex of North America and how their design is meaningful for fans.
Podcast and Liveblog: “Born Digital” with John Palfrey
John Palfrey on how the digital generation is different from its analog ancestor and whether they have different notions of privacy, community, and identity.
CMS/W Studies Pro Wrestling: Former MIT Students Cut Their Promos on the Value of Studying Pop Culture
“It can be a great lens into human culture, social connection, and processes of meaning-making…but I feared the depth behind it could get lost in the process.”
