Sensationalism, gatekeeping, and media figurations mean audience engagement is not merely a journalistic, revenue‐oriented concern — it is a public health concern too.
From Trump Tower to the White House, in 140 Characters: The Hyper-Mediated Election of a Paranoid Populist President
Trump’s political communications reached a wider audience, on a sturdier basis, than earlier figures who had similarly adopted a “paranoid populist” philosophy.
Featured work from Philip Napoli, this Thursday’s speaker
Ahead of Phil Napoli’s talk, we’d like to feature a bit more of his work from the last few years.
In Medias Res, Fall 2014
Featuring the photography of B.D. Colen, introductions to Coco Fusco and Marjorie Liu, the awesomeness of @mitblogs_ebooks, and alumni updates.
Video: “Public Communications in Slow-Moving Crises”
Like the housing collapse or the recent Gulf oil spill, some crises are complex, difficult to warn of, and don’t cleanly fit traditional media frames. They are slow-moving crises.
From Enclosure to Embrace: Punitive Isolation and Network Culture
Understanding correctional policy in an information society must proceed from a communicative, as well as punitive, framework.
