Fox Harrell: “In the face of peer evaluations that put researchers back in a prescribed box we should incorporate or combine review systems from various disciplines.”
The Evolution of Intimacy: Advertising Personal Computers in the 1980s
Based an analysis of over 500 magazine advertisements, this thesis examines how they positioned the personal computer as a domestic machine.
Video and podcast: Thomas Pettitt, “The Gutenberg Parenthesis: Oral Tradition and Digital Technologies”
Is our emerging digital culture a return to practices and ways of thinking that were central to human societies before the advent of the printing press?
Video: Thesis Presentations 2010. Florence Gallez: “Open Park Online News Production: A Proposal for a Code of Ethics for Collaborative Journalism in the Digital Age”
Florence Gallez develops a secure online space for media professionals and their audience to collaborate on news stories’ reporting and writing.
Podcast: “Government Transparency and Collaborative Journalism”
What new ways of gathering and presenting information are evolving from the nexus of government transparency and digital connectedness?
Podcast: Elisa Kreisinger, “Political Remix Video: A Participatory Post-Modern Critique of Popular Culture”
Remixers are on the front lines of the battle between new media technologies and impeding copyright laws that threaten to obstruct the public discursive space for critiquing popular culture.
CMS is a top place to find “tech-focused advertising talent”: AdAge
“Look beyond portfolio schools to the growing group of programs that incubate tech-minded talent. Favorites include […] MIT’s Comparative Media Studies program.”
