Hector Postigo on a theoretical framework for understanding how, generally, social media’s technical feature-sets create a system of capture and conversion.
Chris Hayes and Ta-Nehisi Coates: “Election Year 2012 and The Twilight of the Elites”
In Twilight Of The Elites, journalist and MSNBC host Chris Hayes asks: are the institutions which foster America’s leadership class working as intended?
Video: “New Media in West Africa”
How has Nigerian cinema in particular influenced local television and film markets in other countries across West Africa, and across the continent?
Podcast, Tracy Fullerton: “Finer Fruits: Experiment in Life and Play at Walden”
Tracy Fullerton on Walden, a game that simulates Henry David Thoreau’s experiment in living a simplified existence as articulated in his book Walden.
Podcast, “New Media in West Africa”
Despite many infrastructural and economic hurdles, entertainment media industries are burgeoning in West Africa.
Ian Condry on “How Virtual Pop Star Hatsune Miku Blew Up in Japan”
Associate Professor Ian Condry — a specialist on anthropology in Japan — spoke with Wired Magazine about one of his favorite topics, the virtual pop star Hatsune Miku.
Video, Robert Darnton and Susan Flannery: “Digitizing the Culture of Print: The Digital Public Library of America and Other Urgent Projects”
How are libraries coping with the promise and perils of our impending digital future?
