Wrestling with the indispensability and inadequacy of Anglo-American paradigms in Asian, African, and Latin American contexts.
In Medias Res, Fall 2008
Junot Díaz has long been a supporter of CMS, and we are all justly proud of the extraordinary critical response to the novel, which won the Pulitzer Prize.
Podcast: Media in Transition 5: “Summary Perspectives”
Suzanne de Castell, Fred Turner, Siva Vaidhyanathan, Jose van Dijck, and Nick Montfort wrap up Media in Transition 5.
Podcast: Media in Transition 5: “Reproduction, Mimicry, Critique and Distribution Systems in Visual Art”
What are the tradeoffs artists make between creating artificial scarcity to increase a work’s unique value and increasing its visibility through broader reproduction? How are the needs of those who teach and write on video going to be met in the face of hyper-commodification?
Podcast: Media in Transition 5: “Collaboration and Collective Intelligence”
“Collective Intelligence” and “the wisdom of crowds” have become central buzz phrases in recent discussions of networked culture. But what do they really mean? What do we know about the new forms of collaboration that is emerging as people work together across geographic distances online?
Media in Transition 5: creativity, ownership and collaboration in the digital age
Our understanding of the technical and social processes by which culture is made and reproduced is being challenged and enlarged by digital technologies.
In Medias Res, Spring 2007
What kind of discipline does CMS represent? It is not a discipline in any traditional sense of the word. CMS is radically interdisciplinary.
