“We found that teaching them how to use the tools is probably less important than teaching them how to position themselves, how to brand themselves.”
Introducing Ed Schiappa
New to MIT but long familiar to CMS/W, Edward Schiappa brings a background in both classical rhetoric and contemporary media studies — a rare combination.
Whitepaper: “Annotation Studio: Bringing a Time-Honored Learning Practice into the Digital Age”
Annotation Studio integrates a powerful set of textual interpretation tools behind an interface that makes using those tools intuitive for undergraduates and their instructors.
User-Generated Censorship: Manipulating the Maps Of Social Media
Chris Peterson’s thesis investigates user-generated censorship: intervention by which users strategically manipulate social media to suppress speech.
Podcast: “10 PRINT CHR$(205.5+RND(1)); : GOTO 10”
The book was written collaboratively by ten authors and focuses on a single line of now-unfamiliar code.
Distributed Denial of Service Actions and the Challenge of Civil Disobedience on the Internet
This thesis examines the history, development, theory, and practice of distributed denial of service actions as a tactic of political activism.
Remaking English Literature: Editors at Work Between Media
Hyper-mediation and media convergence are forcing critics to confront an “unbinding of the book” that began in practice decades before the Internet age.
