Recent provocations about the role of “big data” in human communication research and technology studies deserve an outline of the value of anthropology, as a particular kind of “big data”.
Podcast: Media in Transition 8, “Counterpublics: Self-Fashioning and Alternate Communities”
How is digital technology generating counterpublics — categories of identity and belonging in opposition to established norms of personhood or community?
Podcast: Media in Transition 8, “Summing Up, Looking Ahead”
Roderick Coover, Temple University; Theo Hug, University of Innsbruck; Molly Sauter, MIT; Dan Whaley, hypothes.is; Moderator: James Paradis, MIT
Podcast: Media in Transition 8, “Surveillance: Big Data and Other Watchers”
Do the ramifying surveillance systems for observing and recording our routine activities fundamentally threaten our privacy and freedom?
Podcast: Media in Transition 8, “Oversharing: The End of Privacy?”
Amid disquiet over encroachments on privacy by government and corporations, are young people not respecting the traditional boundaries of privacy?
Video: “News or Entertainment? The Press in Modern Political Campaigns”
With The Atlantic’s senior editor Ta-Nehisi Coates and political consultant Mark McKinnon.
Podcast: “News or Entertainment? The Press in Modern Political Campaigns”
Is our political journalism serving democratic and civic ideals?
