How the Amar Chitra Katha (ACK) series of comic books function as public culture, creating a platform around which groups and individuals negotiate and re-negotiate their identities.
Stepping Your Game Up: Technical Innovation Among Young People of Color in Hip-Hop
Hip-hop culture through media technologies, historical examination of the hip-hop mixtape economy, and analysis of the “Crank Dat” online dance craze.
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?
Playing with Stuff: The Material World in Performance
John Bell examines the nature and implications of object performance both as a global cultural tradition and as a contemporary medium that dominates our culture.
Transformational Tales: Media, Makeovers, and Material Culture
American makeover culture, thorough detailed case studies that represent an increasing confluence of commerce, entertainment, and, at times, spirituality.
Podcast: “Slightly More Than Expected from a Band of Novelists: On How and Why a Group of Writers Called Wu Ming Set to Disrupt Italian (nay, European) Literature and Popular Culture (and then Came to Boston to Brag About It)”
Wu Ming 1 is a founding member and representative of the Wu Ming Foundation, a collective of writers from Italy.
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.”
