Lana Swartz’s book New Money frames money as a media technology, one in major transition.
Video: Justin Reich, “Failure to Disrupt: Why Technology Alone Can’t Transform Education”
Justin Reich explores the recent history of large scale learning technologies to explain why technology provides such uneven support to students.
Video: Kishonna Gray, “Intersectional Tech: Exploring the Black Cultural Production of Gamers in Transmediated Culture”
Illustrating a framework for studying the intersectional development of technological artifacts and systems and their impact on Black cultural production and social processes.
Podcast: Lucy Suchman, “Artificial Intelligence & Modern Warfare”
Lancaster University’s Lucy Suchman’s concern is with the asymmetric distributions of sociotechnologies of (in)security, their deadly and injurious effects, and the legal, ethical, and moral questions that haunt their operations.
Podcast: Sasha Costanza-Chock, “#MoreThanCode: Practitioner-led Research to Reimagine Technology for Social Justice”
Sasha Costanza-Chock explores key findings and recommendations from #MoreThanCode (morethancode.cc), a recently-released field scan based on more than 100 practitioner interviews.
#MoreThanCode: Practitioner-led Research to Reimagine Technology for Social Justice
Sasha Costanza-Chock explores key findings and recommendations from #MoreThanCode (morethancode.cc), a recently-released field scan based on more than 100 practitioner interviews.
Professor Lisa Parks awarded MacArthur Fellowship — the “Genius Grant”
MIT health care economist Amy Finkelstein and CMS/W media studies scholar Parks are the latest MIT faculty to nab prestigious “genius grants.”
