MIT Graduate Program in Comparative Media Studies
Studying Media and Making Media
Johanna Drucker asks, "Are the standard metrics and conventions developed for analysis of empirical inquiries fundamentally at odds with tenets of traditional humanistic interpretation?"
David Carr and Dan Kennedy discuss the best and the worst examples of news on the net, online-only news sites, hyperlocal news and collaborative journalism, business models for online newspapers, and the impact of social media on journalism.
With Alison Byerly and Steven Pinker, we ask how digital tools and systems have already begun to transform humanistic education.
Micah Sifry and Daniel Schuman address the question: "What are the legal dangers for publishing secrets in the crowdsourced era?"
What new media tools and strategies can be used to help everyone better prepare for the unique communications challenges of slow-moving crises?
As newspapers continue their mutation into digital formats and as news and information are available from a seeming infinity of websites, what do we actually know about the dynamics of news-consumption online?
Sherry Turkle, eminent MIT professor and author most recently of Alone, Together, discusses her darkening view of our digitizing world.
This Forum will assess the state of local journalism, paying special attention to the changing environment for news in New England.
As a prologue to the Futures of Entertainment conference, this Forum will focus on the emergence of powerful new production cultures in such cities as Mumbai, Shanghai, and Rio de Janeiro.
What is the likely impact on audiences and on the international media landscape of such cities as Mumbai, Shanghai, and Rio de Janeiro?
How can professional reporters and editors help to assure that quality journalism will be recognized and valued in our brave new digital world?
How has electronic literature influenced other media, including the Web and the book? What are the implications of having literary projects in the digital sphere alongside other forms of communication and art?
What urgent initiatives are underway to assure universal access to our print inheritance and to the digital communication forms of the future?
How has Nigerian cinema in particular influenced local television and film markets in other countries across West Africa, and across the continent?
How is new access to the power of the visual changing our journalism? What current projects are particularly significant?
