Rogelio Lopez’s thesis, examining media strategies by emphasizing concrete media practices of movement actors.
Podcast: Media in Transition 8, “Summing Up, Looking Ahead”
Roderick Coover, Temple University; Theo Hug, University of Innsbruck; Molly Sauter, MIT; Dan Whaley, hypothes.is; Moderator: James Paradis, MIT
Video: “News or Entertainment? The Press in Modern Political Campaigns”
With The Atlantic’s senior editor Ta-Nehisi Coates and political consultant Mark McKinnon.
Podcast, Gediminas Urbonas
Gediminas Urbonas is artist and educator, and co-founder (with Nomeda Urbonas) of Urbonas Studio – an interdisciplinary research program that advocates for the reclamation of public culture.
Podcast: Kelley Kreitz, “Yellow Journalism as Civic Media?: Rewiring an Experiment with Nineteenth-Century News”
Revisiting the activist impulse behind yellow journalism provides a window on a changing media ecology in which the future of news was under debate.
Podcast, Francis Steen: “The News as a Social Process for Improving Society”
Francis Steen on coverage of the 2011 attack in Norway, that the news is not primarily about reporting what happened but about constructing narratives.
Molly Sauter: “Policy Effects of Media Portrayals of Hacktivists”
“I’ll be questioning what these trends of laws, regulations, and apparent media biases mean for the future of hacktivism and digital activism.”
