Scholars of “dead tree technologies” feel increasingly uneasy in a culture overwhelmingly consumed with innovation.
Media in Transition 6: stone and papyrus, storage and transmission
What are the implications of the tension between storage and transmission for education, for individual and national identities, for notions of what is public and what is private?
Podcast and video: Robert Darnton, “Books and Libraries in the Digital Age”
Robert Darnton, director of the University Library and the Carl H. Pforzheimer University Professor at Harvard, discusses the emergence of the discipline of the history of the book, the future of books and reading, and his own vision of the ways in which new and old media can reinforce each other, strengthening and transforming the world of learning.
Preserving Our Digital Heritage
William Uricchio: “UNESCO, long concerned with world heritage sites such as the Taj Mahal, extended its remit to include something far more ephemeral.”
As the World Turns in a Convergence Culture
How the soap opera industry is and could be further adapting to the technological and social changes of a convergence culture to maintain and revitalize the genre’s relevance for viewers and advertisers alike.
Animation Archive Draws on CMS Expertise
MIT’s Comparative Media Studies and Foreign Languages and Literatures have joined forces to create a digital archive of animated works produced at the Beijing Film Academy’s (BFA) Animation School.
