This issue of In Medias Res features the role of the arts in CMS/W — its history, alumni accomplishments in arts research, and events foregrounding the field.
Video: Rosalind Williams: “Communications Forum: Public Communications in Slow-Moving Crises”
MIT historian Rosalind Williams on how some crises are complex, difficult to warn of, and don’t cleanly fit traditional media frames.
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.
Podcast: “Public Communications in Slow-Moving Crises”
Like the Gulf oil spill, some crises slow moving. The media struggle to rhetorically or technologically cover these simmering, rather than boiling, dramas.
Public Communications in Slow-Moving Crises
What new media tools and strategies can be used to help everyone better prepare for the unique communications challenges of slow-moving crises?