Joel Burges and Wayne Marshall, MIT’s Mellon Fellows in the Humanities (2009-11), will contribute to the rethinking of media studies at MIT by taking up the shared metaphor of fashion—the fashionable, the old-fashioned, the re-fashioned.
Old-fashioned Futures and Re-fashionable Media
Joel Burges and Wayne Marshall will contribute to the rethinking of media studies at MIT by taking up the shared metaphor of fashion.
Podcast: Wayne Marshall, “Skinny Jeans and Fruity Loops: the Networked Publics of Global Youth Culture”
What can we learn about contemporary culture from watching dayglo-clad teenagers dancing geekily in front of their computers in such disparate sites as Brooklyn, Buenos Aires, Johannesburg, and Mexico City?
