MIT Graduate Program in Comparative Media Studies
Studying Media and Making Media
Statistician and political polling analyst Nate Silver will discuss his career -- from student journalist to baseball prognosticator to the creator of FiveThirtyEight.com.
D.T. Max, staff writer at the New Yorker, looks at David Foster Wallace and irony, with an eye especially on his 1990's attacks on David Letterman and the novelist Mark Leyner.
In this Communications Forum, Anant Argawal, Alison Byerly, and Daphne Koller look at how digital technologies are transforming teaching and learning both on and off campus.
David Novak on the "cultural feedback" of noise music through its recorded forms, technologies of live performance, and creative practices of musicians and listeners.
