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Featuring a wide assortment of interviews and event archives, the MIT Comparative Media Studies/Writing podcast features the best of our field's critical analysis, collaborative research, and design -- all across a variety of media arts, forms, and practices. You can learn more about us, including info about our faculty and academic programs and how to join us in person for events, at cmsw.mit.edu.

Episode Date
A Reading with Poet Laureate Arthur Sze
Apr 05, 2026
"Pomegranate" reading and discussion, with the book's author Helen Elaine Lee
Oct 04, 2023
Bernard Geoghegan, “Learning to Code: From Information Theory to French Theory”
Apr 09, 2023
Francesca Bolla Tripodi, “The Propagandists’ Playbook”
Feb 28, 2023
Lupe Fiasco presents “Rap Theory & Practice: an Introduction”
Dec 05, 2022
The Whole World Is Watching How 1968 Helps Us Frame The Present
Oct 06, 2022
The Long & Ambiguous (pre)history Of Audiovisual In The Black Experience
Oct 06, 2022
The Forensic Citizen Learning From The Past, Preparing For The Future
Oct 06, 2022
Resilient Witnessing In The Face Of Human Rights Abuses, Distrust, And Deepfakes
Oct 06, 2022
Moving Images In Absentia Courtroom Looking In The Age Of Hyper - Mediation
Oct 05, 2022
Mary Beth Meehan and Fred Turner, “Seeing Silicon Valley”
May 05, 2022
Charles North - The William Corbett Poetry Series 01
Apr 21, 2022
Saving the News: Why the Constitution Calls for Government Action to Preserve Freedom of Speech
Apr 15, 2022
Oscar Winberg, "Archie Bunker Goes to Washington"
Apr 11, 2022
Jens Pohlmann, "Platform Regulation and the Digital Public Sphere"
Apr 01, 2022
“Our Ancestors Did Not Breathe This Air”, Six Muslim Women in STEM
Mar 31, 2022
Racquel Gates, “Reintroducing Melvin Van Peebles”
Mar 18, 2022
Katherine Jewell, "Party City: WMBR, Institutional Change, and Democratic Media"
Mar 11, 2022
David Thorburn: William Corbett Poetry Series
Mar 03, 2022
Jorge Caraballo, “How to Use Audio Storytelling to Cultivate a Community and Keep it Engaged”
Feb 18, 2022
Eric Freedman, "Non-Binary Binaries and Unreal MetaHumans"
Feb 11, 2022
Lynn Nottage’s "By the Way, Meet Vera Stark" and the Making of Black Women’s Film History
Feb 04, 2022
Uplifting Us: Design Opportunities in Centering Racialized Experiences in Games
Dec 10, 2021
Craig Robertson, “The Filing Cabinet and the Gendering of Information Work”
Nov 18, 2021
Graphic Materiality, Trauma, and Expressionist Comics: Artist’s Talk With Leela Corman
Nov 04, 2021
Edward Schiappa, "The Transgender Exigency: The Role of Media Representation"
Oct 29, 2021
Memorial Colloquium for Professor Jing Wang
Oct 21, 2021
Nick Thurston, "Document Practices: The Art of Propagating Access"
Oct 14, 2021
Educated Viewers: Civic Spectatorship, Media Literacy, and American Schools
Sep 30, 2021
Sulafa Zidani, “Messy on the Inside: Internet Memes as Mapping Tools of Everyday Life”
Sep 22, 2021
Sandra Rodriguez, "Creating and Interacting with Virtual Entities"
May 19, 2021
Jonathan Sterne, "Diminished Vocalities: On Prostheses and Abilities"
Apr 24, 2021
Promotional Narratives, Science Fiction, and the Case for Mars Colonization
Apr 06, 2021
Measuring Equity-Promoting Behaviors in Digital Teaching Simulations: A Topic Modeling Approach
Mar 12, 2021
Charisse L’Pree: "What is a Media Psychography? A 20-year Methodological Journey"
Feb 23, 2021
Reworking the Archive: The Southeast Chicago Archive and Storytelling Project
Dec 04, 2020
#BlackInTheIvory: Academia’s Role in Institutional Racism
Dec 03, 2020
BORDERx: A Crisis In Graphic Detail
Nov 20, 2020
Beyond the Living Dead: Treasures from the George A. Romero Archive
Nov 12, 2020
Patricia Saulis, “Two-Eyed Seeing in Environmental Justice and Media”
Nov 05, 2020
Lana Swartz, "New Money: How Payment Became Social Media"
Oct 29, 2020
Media Distortions: Understanding the Power Behind Spam, Noise, and Other Deviant Media
Oct 22, 2020
Race and Representation of Syrian, Palestinian, and Norwegian Refugees in the News
Oct 16, 2020
Eric Gordon, "Towards a Meaningfully Inefficient Smart City"
Oct 07, 2020
Jing Wang, "Walking Around Obstacles: Nonconfrontational Activists In Gray China"
Oct 02, 2020
Justin Reich, "Failure to Disrupt: Why Technology Alone Can’t Transform Education"
Sep 25, 2020
Kishonna Gray, "Exploring the Black Cultural Production of Gamers in Transmediated Culture"
Sep 16, 2020
Shawna Kidman: "The Infrastructure of the U.S. Comic Book Industry"
Mar 06, 2020
Marina Bers, “Coding in Early Childhood: Storytelling or Puzzle Solving?”
Feb 28, 2020
Desmond Upton Patton: “Contextual Analysis of Social Media”
Feb 21, 2020
Creative Agency: Making, Learning, and Playing towards Understanding Computational Content
Feb 14, 2020
Can Journalists Save the Planet?
Dec 02, 2019
Eric Klopfer: "Design Based Research on Participatory Simulations"
Nov 15, 2019
Lucy Suchman: "Artificial Intelligence and Modern Warfare"
Nov 08, 2019
William Uricchio: "Why Co-Create? And Why Now? Reports from A Field Study"
Oct 24, 2019
If I Could Reach the Border…
Oct 18, 2019
Anushka Shah: "How Entertainment Can Help Fix the System"
Oct 15, 2019
Nick Montfort: "Poet/Programmers, Artist/Programmers, and Scholar/Programmers”
Sep 27, 2019
Christopher Weaver: “Amplius Ludo, Beyond the Horizon”
Sep 16, 2019
Remarks By Conference Planning Committee Member Professor Lisa Parks
May 18, 2019
Plenary 2: Digital Technologies and Cultures
May 18, 2019
Plenary 1: Culture Industries
May 17, 2019
Haidee Wasson, "Do-it Yourself Cinema: Portable Film Projectors as Media History"
Apr 18, 2019
Civic Arts Series: Lauren Boyle, “Thumbs Type and Swipe”
Apr 11, 2019
The Battle of Algiers as Ghost Archive - Specters of a Muslim International
Apr 04, 2019
An Evening with Comedienne Cameron Esposito
Apr 03, 2019
Gaming the Iron Curtain: Computer Games in Communist Czechoslovakia as Entertainment and Activism
Mar 20, 2019
Social Media Entertainment
Mar 15, 2019
Dispatches from The Golden Age of Audio
Mar 05, 2019
“The Good Stuff”: The Intersections of Work, Leisure, and Relational Bonding on Tumblr and Patreon
Feb 28, 2019
Caren Kaplan: "Bringing the War Home"
Feb 21, 2019
The Language of Civic Life: Past to Present
Nov 28, 2018
Civic Arts Series: Myron Dewey, "Protecting the Water in Solidarity and Unity"
Nov 19, 2018
The Consequences of America’s Miracle Machine
Nov 13, 2018
Brian Michael Bendis - The 2018 Julius Schwartz Lecture at MIT
Nov 11, 2018
2018 CMS Alumni Panel: Nick Seaver, Colleen Kaman, and Sean Flynn
Oct 31, 2018
#MoreThanCode: Practitioner-led Research to Reimagine Technology for Social Justice
Oct 26, 2018
Civic Arts Series: Marisa Morán Jahn
Oct 19, 2018
What’s So Funny About Oppressive Regimes?
Oct 18, 2018
How To Fight A Nazi
Oct 10, 2018
Civic Arts Series - Daniel Bacchieri
Oct 04, 2018
Collective Intelligence
Sep 28, 2018
Thomas Allen Harris: “Collective Wisdom” Keynote
Sep 19, 2018
Civic Arts Series: Erik Loyer
Sep 13, 2018
Imperial Arrangements: South African Apartheid and the Force of Photography
May 11, 2018
Bunk and the History of Hoaxes with Kevin Young
Apr 30, 2018
Between Participation and Control: A Long History of CCTV
Apr 27, 2018
Republican Resistance in the Age of Trump
Apr 17, 2018
The City Talks: Storytelling at the New York Times's Metro Desk
Apr 13, 2018
Youth And Privacy In The Americas
Apr 09, 2018
Intimate Worlds - Reading For Intimate Affects In Contemporary Video Games
Apr 09, 2018
The Motives Of Narrative And Style In Food Text Creation On Social Media
Apr 09, 2018
When To Start Freaking Out - Audience Engagement On Social Media During Disease Outbreaks
Apr 09, 2018
Music Fandom and the Shaping of Online Culture
Apr 06, 2018
The Tip of the Iceberg: Sound Studies and the Future of Afrofuturism
Mar 09, 2018
Designing for a Neurodiverse World
Mar 02, 2018
The (Non)Americans: Tracking and Analyzing Russian Influence Operations on Twitter
Mar 02, 2018
ICTs for Refugees and Displaced Persons
Feb 23, 2018
Eric Klopfer: "From Augmented to Virtual Learning"
Feb 09, 2018
Has Silicon Valley Lost Its Humanity?
Dec 04, 2017
Fall 2017 Alumni Panel
Nov 17, 2017
Cloud Policy: Anatomy of a Regulatory Crisis
Oct 27, 2017
Mapping Climate Change: Contested Futures in New York City’s Flood Zone
Oct 19, 2017
An Evening with Sarah Vowell
Oct 05, 2017
The Mediated Construction of Reality - From Berger and Luckmann to Norbert Elias
Sep 29, 2017
Platforms in the Public Interest: Lessons from Minitel
Sep 22, 2017
Walter Menendez: "Engineering Virality: BuzzFeed’s Scientific Approach To Creating Content"
Sep 16, 2017
Playful Practice: Designing the Future of Teacher Learning
Sep 08, 2017
Nicole Hemmer: "From Taft to Trump: How Conservative Media Activists Won — and Lost — the GOP"
May 12, 2017
The Contingencies of Comparison: Rethinking Comparative Media
May 04, 2017
Michael Lee: "The Conservative Canon Before and After Trump"
Apr 28, 2017
The Spiciest Memelord - An Interview with Jeopardy Champ Lilly Chin
Apr 22, 2017
An Evening With Aparna Nancherla
Apr 18, 2017
Barbie and Mortal Kombat 20 Years Later
Apr 07, 2017
Glorianna Davenport, "The Networked Sensory Landscape Meets the Future of Documentary"
Mar 24, 2017
Charles Musser, "From Stereopticon to Telephone: The Selling of the President in the Gilded Age"
Mar 17, 2017
Sexual Harassment and Gender Equity in Science
Mar 13, 2017
Paul Roquet: "Desktop Reveries: Hand, Software, and the Space of Japanese Artist Animation"
Mar 01, 2017
Race and Racism in the 2016 Presidential Election
Feb 23, 2017
Nathan Matias: "Authoritarian and Democratic Data Science in an Experimenting Society"
Feb 16, 2017
Exploratory Programming for the Arts and Humanities
Feb 03, 2017
Kishonna Gray, "#Misogynoir, #SolidarityIsForWhiteWomen, and other forms of Black Digital Feminisms"
Dec 09, 2016
André Brock: "Black + Twitter: A Cultural Informatics Approach"
Dec 01, 2016
Fall 2016 Alumni Panel
Nov 18, 2016
An Evening with John Hodgman
Nov 16, 2016
Jennifer Stromer-Galley, "Using Social Listening Tools to Understand the Presidential Campaign"
Nov 04, 2016
The Turn to “Tween”: An Age Category and Its Cultural Consequences
Oct 24, 2016
Time Traveling with James Gleick
Oct 18, 2016
Allison Hahn, "Mobile Media, Protest, and Debate in Maasai and Mongolian Land Disputes"
Oct 07, 2016
Douglas O'Reagan: "Next Stage Planning for the Digital Humanities at MIT"
Sep 30, 2016
Christine Walley: "The Exit Zero Project"
Sep 24, 2016
Sun-ha Hong: "Knowledge's Allure: Surveillance and Uncertainty"
Sep 19, 2016
“Innovation” and “Engagement”: Experiments with What Industry Buzzwords Can Mean in Practice
Sep 09, 2016
Virtual Reality Meets Documentary: A Deeper Look
May 04, 2016
Fox Harrell: "Reflections On Advanced Identity Representation"
May 03, 2016
Nick Seaver: "What Do People Do All Day"
Apr 20, 2016
Michael Taussig: "Mooning Texas"
Apr 14, 2016
Being Muslim in America (and MIT) in 2016
Apr 12, 2016
Lisa Glebatis Perks: "Media Marathoning and Affective Involvement"
Apr 04, 2016
A Conversation with Guy Maddin
Mar 13, 2016
Excellence in Teaching
Mar 03, 2016
Vincent Brown: "Designing Histories of Slavery for the Database Age"
Feb 27, 2016
Caroline Jack: "How Facts Survive In Public Service Media"
Feb 24, 2016
Is There a Future for In-Depth Science Journalism?
Feb 19, 2016
Amanda Lotz: "Television Didn't Die -- But Broadband Distribution Revolutionized It"
Feb 09, 2016
John Jennings: "The Cipher Back To Here"
Feb 04, 2016
Vivek Bald: "Documenting South Asian America's Interracial Past"
Jan 24, 2016
CMS alumni panel: On the virtues of preparing students for jobs that don't yet exist
Jan 12, 2016
Comparative Media Studies graduate alumni panel, Fall 2015
Nov 21, 2015
Graduate Program Information Session, Fall 2015
Nov 17, 2015
Women in Politics - Representation and Reality
Nov 11, 2015
Tom Levenson: "Einstein, Mercury, And The Hunt For Vulcan"
Nov 05, 2015
Stuart Brotman: "Global Internet Development Viewed Through The Net Vitality Lens"
Nov 03, 2015
Heather Hendershot; "From Firing Line To The O'Reilly Factor"
Oct 23, 2015
Sarah Zaidan, "The Adventures Of Ms. Meta: Celebrating The Female Superhero Through Digital Gaming"
Oct 18, 2015
From The Neolithic Era To The Apocalypse: How To Prepare For The Future By Studying The Past
Oct 08, 2015
Jim Crow and the Legacy of Segregation Outside of the South
Oct 07, 2015
Hiromu Nagahara: "Hierarchy And Democracy In Modern Japan's Mass Media Revolution"
Sep 30, 2015
Jane McGonigal discusses "SuperBetter" with MIT's Scot Osterweil
Sep 15, 2015
Danielle Keats Citron and Brianna Wu: "Hate Crimes In Cyberspace"
May 05, 2015
Ryan Cordell: “Melville in the First Age of Viral Media”
May 02, 2015
Thomas DeFrantz: "Queer Social Dance, Political Leadership, and Black Popular Culture"
Apr 23, 2015
The Spooky Science of the Southern Reach: An Evening with Jeff VanderMeer
Apr 19, 2015
Kevin Driscoll, "Re-Calling The Modem World: The Dial-Up History Of Social Media"
Apr 08, 2015
George Yúdice: "Cultural Studies and the Expediency of Culture, Rethought"
Apr 02, 2015
Kristin Cashore and Kenneth Kidd, "Coming of Age in Dystopia: The Darkness of Young Adult Fiction"
Mar 22, 2015
Coco Fusco, "Dangerous Moves: Performance and Politics in Cuba"
Mar 12, 2015
Catherine E. Clark: "Media And Memory At The Vidéothèque De Paris"
Mar 06, 2015
Women in Science
Mar 01, 2015
Bobbie Chase and Marjorie Liu: "The State Of The Comic Book Medium"
Feb 09, 2015
Making Computing Strange: Cultural Analytics And Phantasmal Media
Dec 04, 2014
Paul Levitz, in Conversation With Junot Diaz
Nov 12, 2014
Book release for "Out of the Shadows, Into the Streets"
Nov 05, 2014
Ultimate Truths: Comparing Science and The Humanities
Nov 04, 2014
CMS Alumni Panel
Oct 21, 2014
Doris Sommer: "Welcome Back, To The Humanities As Civic Engagement"
Oct 14, 2014
Documentaries, Journalism, And The Future Of Reality-Based Storytelling
Oct 12, 2014
Caetlin Benson-Allott: "What Remote Controls Can Teach Us About The Nature Of Control"
Sep 24, 2014
Philip Napoli, "Media Impact Assessment and Beyond"
Sep 17, 2014
Sinan Aral, "Social Influence And The Dynamics Of Online Reputation"
Sep 11, 2014
Eduardo Marisca on Peru and the Creative Industries Prototyping Lab
Jun 26, 2014
Philip Jones: "Gaming In Color"
May 08, 2014
Tarleton Gillespie: “Algorithms, and the Production of Calculated Publics”
Apr 30, 2014
Online Annotation and the Future of Reading
Apr 29, 2014
Susan Murray, "Defining and Managing Electronic Color in the Post-War Era"
Apr 14, 2014
Science In Fiction
Apr 06, 2014
Barry Werth, "The Antidote: Reporting From Inside The World Of Big Pharma"
Mar 19, 2014
Henry Jenkins Returns
Mar 08, 2014
Helen Nissenbaum: "Resisting Data's Tyranny With Obfuscation"
Mar 08, 2014
Miguel Sicart: “Playing in the Age of Computing Machinery"
Feb 12, 2014
Toni Morrison and Junot Díaz at the New York Public Library
Dec 13, 2013
Long-Form Journalism: Inside The Atlantic
Dec 06, 2013
MIT Alumni In The Game Industry
Dec 03, 2013
Mary Flanagan, "The Unanticipated Processes And Consequences Underlying Games"
Nov 20, 2013
Sonia Livingstone, "The Class: Living And Learning In The Digital Age"
Nov 11, 2013
Todd Harper, "Let's Fight Like Gentlemen: The Culture Of Fighting Games"
Oct 29, 2013
Coco Fusco, "A Performance Approach To Primate Politics"
Oct 23, 2013
Zeynep Tufekci, "The Boom-Bust Cycle Of Social Media-Fueled Protests"
Oct 17, 2013
John Palfrey, "Born Digital"
Oct 10, 2013
Ethan Zuckerman, "Digital Cosmopolitanism And Cognitive Diversity"
Sep 27, 2013
Hong Qu, "Keepr: Algorithm For Extracting Entities, Eyewitnesses And Amplifiers"
Sep 18, 2013
Conversation with Leo Marx, Lucy Marx, and Rosalind Williams
Sep 15, 2013
What's In a Slash?
Sep 11, 2013
The Phoenix Burns Out: Remembering A Boston Institution
Sep 11, 2013
Media in Transition 8: "Summing Up, Looking Ahead"
Jun 21, 2013
Media in Transition 8: "Counterpublics: Self-Fashioning and Alternate Communities"
Jun 21, 2013
Media in Transition 8: "Surveillance: Big Data and other Watchers"
Jun 21, 2013
Media in Transition 8: "Oversharing: The End of Privacy?"
Jun 21, 2013
Mary L. Gray, "Size Is Only Half the Story: Valuing the Dimensionality of BIG DATA"
Jun 21, 2013
News or Entertainment: The Press in Modern Political Campaigns
Jun 21, 2013
A Conversation with Nate Silver
Jun 21, 2013
A Conversation with Ta-Nehisi Coates
Jun 21, 2013
Media in Transition 7: "Unstable Platforms"
Jun 12, 2013
Nick Montfort, "Code and Platform in Computational Media"
Jun 06, 2013
Stephen Duncombe, "Art of the Impossible: Utopia, Imagination, and Critical Media Practice"
Jun 05, 2013
Ethan Gilsdorf, "Fantasy Freaks and Gaming Geeks"
Jun 03, 2013
Randy Testa, "Telling Stories In Print, Online and Onscreen: Walden Media and Family Audiences"
May 30, 2013
Christina Klein, "Transnational U.S.-Asian Cinema: The Case of Tekkon Kinkreet"
May 30, 2013
John Bell, "Playing with Stuff: The Material World in Performance"
May 29, 2013
10 PRINT CHR$(205.5+RND(1)); : GOTO 10
May 19, 2013
MIT's ZigZag on Podcasting and the Future of Media
May 12, 2013
Frank Espinosa, "Rocketo"
May 12, 2013
David Novak, "The Cultural Feedback of Noise"
Apr 07, 2013
Jesper Juul, "The Pain of Playing Video Games"
Mar 17, 2013
D.T. Max, "Angels of Death: David Foster Wallace and the Battle against Irony, Letterman and Leyner"
Mar 10, 2013
Gregory Crane, "Automated Methods, Human Understanding, and Digital Libraries of Babel"
Feb 20, 2013
Convergence Journalism: Emerging Documentary and Multimedia Forms of News
Feb 17, 2013
Marcella Szablewicz, "Digital Games and Affect in Urban China"
Feb 13, 2013
Al Filreis, "Teaching Modern & Contemporary American Poetry to 36k"
Dec 12, 2012
Mark Turner, "Minding the News"
Nov 28, 2012
Hector Postigo, "Cultural Production and Social Media as Capture Platforms: How the Matrix Has You"
Nov 14, 2012
New Media in West Africa
Nov 08, 2012
Tracy Fullerton, "Finer Fruits: Experiment in Life and Play at Walden"
Nov 08, 2012
Digitizing the Culture of Print: The Digital Public Library of America and Other Urgent Projects
Nov 01, 2012
Linda Gregerson, "Why I Write Poems"
Oct 25, 2012
Gediminas Urbonas
Oct 21, 2012
Tom Streeter, "What Would Pierre Bourdieu Say About Facebook"
Oct 11, 2012
Kelley Kreitz, “Yellow Journalism as Civic Media?”
Oct 10, 2012
Jeffrey Hamburger, "Script as Image"
Sep 29, 2012
Jim Bizzocchi, "Close-Reading Media Poetics"
Sep 26, 2012
George Lakoff, "The Brain's Politics: How Campaigns Are Framed and Why"
Sep 23, 2012
Nancy Baym, "Artist-Audience Relations in the Age of Social Media"
Sep 16, 2012
Francis Steen, "The News as a Social Process for Improving Society"
Sep 10, 2012
Johanna Drucker, "Designing Digital Humanities"
May 07, 2012
Frontiers of Electronic Literature, with Katherine Hayles and Rita Raley
May 06, 2012
Unbinding the Book
May 02, 2012
Electronic Literature and Future Books
May 02, 2012
Reshaping the Book
May 02, 2012
The Xenotext, So Far
May 01, 2012
S. Craig Watkins, "The Digital Edge: Exploring the Digital Practices of Black and Latino Youth"
Apr 26, 2012
Adapting Journalism to the Web
Apr 09, 2012
Jesse Shapins, "Mapping the Urban Database Documentary"
Mar 26, 2012
David Kelley, "The Color of Seawater Through a Picture Window"
Mar 26, 2012
Documentary Film and New Technologies
Mar 20, 2012
The Future of the Post Office
Mar 15, 2012
Sasha Costanza-Chock, "Media Culture in the Occupy Movement"
Mar 07, 2012
Heather Chaplin, "Games and Journalism"
Feb 23, 2012
Tracing Playographies: Methods and Approaches to Research Transformative Experiences in Video Games
Feb 16, 2012
Clara Fernández-Vara, "Performing Videogame Narratives in Space: Indexical Storytelling"
Feb 09, 2012
Contemporary Network Television News Reporting About Latinos
Feb 08, 2012
Jeremy Douglass, "Visualizing Play: Graphic Approaches to Game Analysis and Innovation"
Feb 02, 2012
T.L. Taylor, "Professional Play and the E-sports Industry"
Jan 29, 2012
Jessica Hammer, "What Games Mean (And How They Mean It)"
Jan 24, 2012
Konstantin Mitgutsch, "Purposeful Games: Research and Design"
Jan 23, 2012
Anne Balsamo, "Designing Culture: The Technological Imagination at Work"
Jan 22, 2012
Heather Hendershot, "Right-Wing Broadcasting, Cold War America, and the Conservative Movement"
Jan 11, 2012
Philip Napoli, "Social Media, Television, and the 'Institutionally Effective' Audience"
Jan 02, 2012
John Hartley, "A Cultural Science Approach to Cultural and Media Studies"
Jan 02, 2012
Frank Lantz, "The Aesthetics of Games"
Dec 15, 2011
Ian Bogost, "The Cartoonist and the Whaler: Notes on the Future of Journalism and Other Media"
Dec 15, 2011
Fred Turner, "The Family of Man and the Politics of Attention in Cold War America"
Dec 14, 2011
Cities and the Future of Entertainment
Nov 13, 2011
Marina Bers, "The Design of Digital Experiences for Positive Youth Development"
Nov 02, 2011
Surveillance and Citizenship
Oct 27, 2011
John Bryant, "Revision, Culture, and the Machine: How Digital Makes Us Human"
Oct 23, 2011
Federico Casalegno, "Designing Connections"
Oct 11, 2011
Local News in the Digital Age
Sep 22, 2011
Scott Nicholson, "Breaking up the Monopoly with Modern Board Game Design"
Sep 08, 2011
Media in Transition 7: "Summing Up, Looking Ahead"
May 16, 2011
Media in Transition 7: "Power and Empowerment"
May 14, 2011
Media in Transition 7: "Archives and Cultural Memory"
May 13, 2011
Cynthia Young and Anamik Saha, "Race and Representation after 9/11"
May 08, 2011
Richard Rogers, "The End of the Virtual: Digital Methods"
May 02, 2011
Mark Dery, "(Face)book of the Dead"
Apr 25, 2011
Amaranth Borsuk, "Between Page and Screen: Digital, Visual, and Material Poetics"
Apr 13, 2011
A Conversation with Sherry Turkle
Apr 12, 2011
John Ellis, "How Documentary Went Digital: Implications of Informal Filming and Skeptical Audiences"
Mar 17, 2011
Purple Blurb: "Computers and Creativity"
Mar 14, 2011
Public Sphere or Echo Chamber
Feb 24, 2011
Clara Fernández-Vara, "Theatre and Videogames as Performance Activities"
Feb 23, 2011
Christoph Lindner, "Amsterdam and New York: Transnational Photographic Exchange"
Feb 09, 2011
Gabriella Coleman, "Anonymous, Politics of Spectacle, Geek Protests against Scientology"
Jan 23, 2011
Sasha Costanza-Chock, "Transmedia Mobilization in the Los Angeles Immigrant Rights Movement"
Jan 23, 2011
Nitin Sawhney, "Creative DIY Cultures and Civic Agency among Marginalized Youth"
Jan 10, 2011
Communications in Slow-Moving Crises
Nov 18, 2010
Trace Beaulieu and Mary Jo Pehl, "MST3K and Cinematic Titanic"
Nov 07, 2010
Eric Gordon, "How Neighborhoods Use Local Engagement Games to Plan for the Future"
Nov 04, 2010
Civic Media and Law
Nov 04, 2010
NGO 2.0: When Social Action Meets Social Media
Oct 21, 2010
Humanities in the Digital Age
Oct 21, 2010
The Online Migration of Newspapers
Oct 07, 2010
Francisco Ricardo, "The Aesthetics of Projective Spatiality: New Media as Critical Objects"
Oct 04, 2010
Fox Harrell, "The Imagination, Computation, and Expression Lab"
Sep 26, 2010
CMS 10th Anniversary: "Participatory Culture: Democracy and Education in a Hypermediated Society"
Apr 27, 2010
CMS 10th Anniversary: "International Media Flows: Global Media and Culture"
Apr 27, 2010
CMS 10th Anniversary: "Applied Humanities: Transforming Humanities Education"
Apr 26, 2010
CMS 10th Anniversary: "Creativity and Collaboration in the Digital Age"
Apr 26, 2010
CMS 10th Anniversary: “Dean Deborah Fitzgerald’s Introductory Remarks”
Apr 25, 2010
CMS 10th Anniversary: "William Uricchio's Introductory Remarks"
Apr 25, 2010
Henry Jenkins' Farewell
Apr 21, 2010
Civics in Difficult Places
Apr 14, 2010
The Gutenberg Parenthesis: Oral Tradition and Digital Technologies
Apr 13, 2010
Government Transparency and Collaborative Journalism
Mar 18, 2010
Ian Condry and Cynthia Breazeal, "Robots and Media"
Mar 08, 2010
Joel Burges and Wayne Marshall, "Old-fashioned Futures and Re-fashionable Media"
Feb 04, 2010
Lisa Nakamura, "Race, Rights, and Virtual Worlds: Digital Games as Spaces of Labor Migration"
Dec 17, 2009
McKenzie Wark, "From Gamer Theory to Critical Practice"
Dec 13, 2009
Mia Consalvo, "Western Otaku: Games Crossing Cultures"
Dec 07, 2009
Angela Ndalianis, "Viva Las Vegas: A Neo-Baroque Conception of the World"
Dec 03, 2009
Siva Vaidhyanathan, "The Googlization of Everything"
Dec 01, 2009
Booklife: The Private and the Public in Transmedia Storytelling and Self-Promotion
Nov 23, 2009
Wayne Marshall, "Skinny Jeans and Fruity Loops: the Networked Publics of Global Youth Culture"
Nov 12, 2009
The Culture Beat and New Media: Arts Journalism in the Internet Era
Nov 12, 2009
John Picker, "Transatlantic Acousmatics"
Nov 01, 2009
Richard Rouse, "Cinematic Games"
Nov 01, 2009
Elisa Kreisinger, "Political Remix Video"
Oct 15, 2009
Race, Politics, and American Media
Oct 08, 2009
Hanna Rose Shell, "How Not to Be Seen"
Sep 30, 2009
Ralph Baer, "Anecdotes from a Lifetime of Electronic Product Creation"
May 28, 2009
Tucker Eskew, "The Discipline of Political Messages in an Unruly Era"
May 03, 2009
Media in Transition 6: "Institutional Perspectives on Storage"
Apr 27, 2009
Media in Transition 6: "The Future of Publishing"
Apr 27, 2009
Media in Transition 6: "Summary Perspectives"
Apr 25, 2009
Media in Transition 6: "New Media, Civic Media"
Apr 23, 2009
Media in Transition 6: "Archives and History"
Apr 23, 2009
Global Media
Apr 22, 2009
Chris Claremont, "Opening Doors, Building Worlds: The Origins of the X-Men"
Apr 20, 2009
On the WOW Pod: A Design for Extimacy and Fantasy-Fulfillment for the World of Warcraft Addict
Apr 15, 2009
Film Music and Digital Media
Apr 02, 2009
John Bryant and Wendy Seltzer, "Authorship, Appropriation, and the Fluid Text: Versions of the Law"
Mar 23, 2009
Jennifer Robertson, "Gendering Robots: Posthuman Sexism in Japan"
Mar 05, 2009
Popular Culture and the Political Imagination
Feb 25, 2009
Celia Pearce, "Identity-as-Place: Fictive Ethnicities in Online and Virtual Worlds"
Feb 07, 2009
Michael Mateas, "The Authoring Challenge for Interactive Storytelling"
Nov 30, 2008
The Campaign and the Media 2
Nov 12, 2008
Tak Toyoshima, "Tracking Secret Asian Man"
Nov 02, 2008
Comics and Social Conflict
Oct 29, 2008
Robert Darnton, "Books and Libraries in the Digital Age"
Oct 15, 2008
Stephen Greenblatt
Oct 14, 2008
Stefan Helmreich, "Submarine Media: Sounding the Sea with Cyborg Anthropology"
Oct 06, 2008
The Campaign and the Media 1
Oct 01, 2008
The Myths and Politics of Media Violence Research
Sep 14, 2008
A Conversation with Junot Díaz
Sep 13, 2008
Edward Dimendberg, "Remembering Los Angeles in the Digital Age: Pat O'Neill's The Decay of Fiction"
May 16, 2008
Youth and Civic Engagement
May 15, 2008
Our World Digitized: The Good, the Bad, the Ugly
May 14, 2008
How and Why a Group of Writers Called Wu Ming Set to Disrupt Italian Literature and Popular Culture
May 10, 2008
Gregory Anderson, "The Show Business High Wire Act"
May 10, 2008
Learning through Remixing
Apr 27, 2008
A Talk with Denis Dyack
Mar 19, 2008
Global Television
Mar 12, 2008
John Romano, "Prime Time in Transition"
Mar 05, 2008
Viral Media: How's and Why's
Feb 20, 2008
Futures of Entertainment 2: "Opening Remarks (Second Day)"
Nov 16, 2007
Futures of Entertainment 2: "Cult Media"
Nov 16, 2007
Futures of Entertainment 2: "Advertising and Convergence Culture"
Nov 16, 2007
Futures of Entertainment 2: "Opening Comments"
Nov 15, 2007
Futures of Entertainment 2: "Metrics and Measurement"
Nov 15, 2007
Futures of Entertainment 2: "Fan Labor"
Nov 15, 2007
NBC's Heroes: Appointment TV to Engagement TV?
Nov 14, 2007
Games and Civic Engagement
Nov 07, 2007
Collective Intelligence
Oct 03, 2007
Lee Hunt's New Best Practices 2007
Sep 24, 2007
What Is Civic Media
Sep 19, 2007
B. Joseph Pine II, "Technology & Media in the Experience Economy"
Sep 16, 2007
The Harry Potter Alliance: How the Myth of Harry Potter Is Changing the World
Sep 12, 2007
Soap Opera Writer Kay Alden
May 01, 2007
Media in Transition 5: "Reproduction, Mimicry, Critique and Distribution Systems in Visual Art"
Apr 28, 2007
Media in Transition 5: "Summary Perspectives"
Apr 28, 2007
Media in Transition 5: "Copyright, Fair Use and the Cultural Commons"
Apr 27, 2007
Media in Transition 5: "Folk Cultures and Digital Cultures"
Apr 26, 2007
Media in Transition 5: "Collaboration and Collective Intelligence"
Apr 26, 2007
Sharon Mazer, "What's Live Got To Do With It"
Apr 25, 2007
Michael Cuthbert, "Ambiguity, Process, and Information Content in Minimal Music"
Apr 17, 2007
Mick Foley, "The Real World's Faker Than Wrestling"
Apr 11, 2007
Evangelicals and the Media
Apr 04, 2007
This One's Gonna Be a Slobberknocker: WWE's Jim Ross
Mar 21, 2007
Alan Moore, "Old World, New World"
Mar 14, 2007
Frank Moss and Henry Jenkins, "What's New at the Media Lab"
Feb 28, 2007
Remixing Shakespeare
Feb 14, 2007
Sharon Kinsella, "Men Imagining a Girl Revolution"
Nov 28, 2006
Jesper Juul, "Half-Real: A Video Game in the Hands of a Player"
Nov 27, 2006
Futures of Entertainment 2006: "Fan Cultures"
Nov 17, 2006
Futures of Entertainment 2006: Henry Jenkins, "Opening Remarks"
Nov 16, 2006
Futures of Entertainment 2006: "Television Futures"
Nov 16, 2006
Futures of Entertainment 2006: "User-Generated Content"
Nov 16, 2006
Futures of Entertainment 2006: "Transmedia Properties"
Nov 16, 2006
Futures of Entertainment 2006: "Viscerality and Web 2.0"
Nov 16, 2006
Futures of Entertainment 2006: "Not the Real World Anymore"
Nov 16, 2006
Joe Haldeman, "The Craft of Science Fiction"
Nov 15, 2006
Timothy Stoneman, "Media Evangelism in the Global South"
Nov 01, 2006
New Media and Art
Oct 25, 2006
Scott Donaton, "Lost Control: Marketing in the Age of Consumer Empowerment"
Oct 10, 2006
Why Newspapers Matter
Oct 04, 2006
News, Information, and the Wealth of Networks
Sep 20, 2006
The Emergence of Citizens' Media
Sep 18, 2006
Scott McCloud, "Making Comics"
Sep 13, 2006
Brenda Brathwaite, "Sex in Games"
Feb 08, 2006