The report is the first thorough mapping of the ongoing convergence between interactive and participatory practices within digital journalism.
In Medias Res, Fall 2015
For Fall 2015, we cheer that MIT was recently named by Times Higher Education as America’s #3 school for the humanities.
Staged Empathy: Empathy and Visual Perception in Virtual Reality Systems
Ainsley Sutherland’s thesis proposes “staged empathy” as a new analytical framework to examine how virtual reality work provokes empathic feeling.
E-Sports Broadcasting
A look at e-sports broadcasting within the larger sports media industrial complex, e-sportscasters, and the economics behind the growing e-sports industry.
Heike, Jike, Chuangke: Creativity in the Chinese Technology Community
Creativity in Chinese technology communities and its implication in China’s development mode shift from “Made in China” to “Created in China.”
Engineering the American Dream: A Study of Bias and Perceptions of Merit in the High-Tech Labor Market
Bias and algorithmic recruitment in the high-tech labor market, how CODE2040 is diversifying its applicant pool, and ways to increase tech’s diversity.
Driverless Dreams: Technological Narratives and the Shape of the Automated Car
Erik Stayton, ’15, examines dominant and alternative paradigms of ground vehicle automation, and concludes that current and imagined automation technology is far more hybrid than is often recognized.
