As we celebrate the 10th year of Comparative Media Studies, we continue to feature great items from our archives. This week: a feature piece by alum/researcher Sam Ford interviewing comics great Frank Espinosa.
Podcast: Nick Montfort, “Code and Platform in Computational Media”
Adding these neglected levels — programming and computing systems — to digital media studies can help to advance the field.
Podcast: John Picker, “Transatlantic Acousmatics”
Tracing a transatlantic route from fiction to radio and sound film back to fiction, this approach offers a new way to characterize a crucial period of change from the late Victorian to the modern world.
Podcast: Randy Testa, “Telling Stories In Print, Online and Onscreen: Walden Media and Family Audiences”
Randy Testa, VP of Education and Professional Development, Walden Media, discusses creating educational content in tandem with commercial family films.
Wyn Kelley on Herman Melville’s Moby-Dick
Wyn Kelly discussion how her thoughts on Melville’s Moby-Dick changed after she worked with Ricardo Pitts-Wiley on the play, Moby-Dick: Then and Now.
Greenblatt, Henderson, and Thorburn, from the MIT Communications Forum, on if:book
“As a general principle, the idea that the work that we do should have value digitally and have universal access,” is what Greenblatt said he had been calling for for years.
Podcast: Stephen Greenblatt
With respondent Diana Henderson, Stephen Greenblatt speaks on the transformation of literary study in America and his own career as a teacher and writer.
