Video: “Virtual Reality Meets Documentary: A Deeper Look”
Featuring the leading creators in the virtual reality space, helping us better understand VR’s potentials and implications for documentary and journalism.
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MIT Launches $5 Billion Capital Campaign
The MIT Campaign for a Better World includes major opportunities to support CMS/W through more than half a dozen funds.
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Podcast: Fox Harrell, “Reflections on Advanced Identity Representation”
Fox Harrell presents outcomes from his National Science Foundation-supported Advanced Identity Representation project, which helped reveal social biases in existing systems and implements systems to respond to those biases with greater nuance and expressive power.
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Video, podcast and summary: “Being Muslim in America (and MIT) in 2016”
How hateful, discriminatory rhetoric influences public opinion, its impact on the daily lives of Muslim-Americans, and strategies for combating it.
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Loss, Mourning, and Climate Change
What might mourning loss due to climate change reveal about the deeper relationship between human and non-human life in the environment?
MIT Comparative Media Studies/Writing
An innovative program that applies critical analysis, collaborative research, and design across a variety of media arts, forms, and practices. More about Comparative Media Studies/Writing >
Information for MIT Students
Courses, registration, administrative contacts, information about the Writing and Communications Center and Writing Across the Curriculum, and more.
Podcast: Caroline Jack, “How Facts Survive In Public Service Media”
When the Ad Council bombarded television viewers with messages on economic literacy, was it information or propaganda?
Jobs and Networking
Job openings at CMS/W, including for postdocs and visiting scholars — and related jobs elsewhere. Plus, join the CMS/W LinkedIn group for job contacts.
Recent Posts
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Kurt Fendt wins student-nominated Teaching with Digital Technology Award
The award recognizes Fendt’s incorporation of collaboration-focused digital humanities tools, including two that Fendt himself helped develop, Annotation Studio and Metamedia.
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Podcast, Nick Seaver: “What Do People Do All Day?”
“If we want to make sense of new algorithmic industries, we’ll need to understand how they make sense of themselves.”
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Video and podcast: Michael Taussig, “Mooning Texas”
Introduced by Prof. Ian Condry, Global Studies and Languages, MIT.
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Podcast: Lisa Glebatis Perks, “Media Marathoning and Affective Involvement”
Lisa Glebatis Perks draws from discourse gathered from over 100 marathoners to describe some of marathoners’ most common emotional experiences, including anger, empathy, parasocial mourning, nostalgia, and regret.
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Video, podcast, and summary: “Excellence in Teaching”
What separates a good teacher from a great one? Former poet laureate Robert Pinsky, Weisskopf Professor of Physics Alan Guth and MIT biology professor Hazel Sive–all honored teachers–will explore these issues with Literature professor and Communications Forum director emeritus David Thorburn.
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Podcast: “A Conversation with Guy Maddin”
With William Uricchio, Guy Maddin discusses why we should bother digging up filmic and narrative memories from oblivion.
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Searchable MIT President’s Reports, 1872-2014
The first combined searchable collection of every MIT President’s Report. All 57,000 pages of them, going back to 1872.