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This reading, part of MIT’s William Corbett Poetry Series, welcomes former U.S. Poet Laureate Arthur Sze back to the campus where he began h...
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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, an...

This reading, part of MIT’s William Corbett Poetry Series, welcomes former U.S. Poet Laureate Arthur Sze back to the campus where he began h...

The acclaimed author of "The Serpent’s Gift", Helen Elaine Lee, returns with this poetic and powerful journey of healing and autonomy. About...

How and why, in the latter half of the twentieth century, did informatic theories of “code” developed around cybernetics and information the...

The Propagandists’ Playbook: How Conservative Elites Manipulate Search and Threaten Democracy peels back the layers of the right-wing media...

An exploration into the underlying fundamental functions, structures, and principles of rap. Open to the public, the talk was hosted at MIT...

Professor Heather Hendershot's opening plenary from the "Bearing Witness, Seeking Justice" conference, with initial remarks by Dean Agustín...

Full title: “Between freedom & oppression: The long & ambiguous (pre)history of audiovisual in the Black experience” Featuring Chakanetsa Ma...

William Uricchio is Professor of Comparative Media Studies at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and founder of the MIT Open Document...

Sam Gregory is Director of Programs, Strategy & Innovation at WITNESS, which helps people use video and technology to protect human rights;...

Kelli Moore is an Assistant Professor of Media, Culture, and Communication at New York University who examines how media and technology prod...

Video also available at https://cms.mit.edu/video-seeing-silicon-valley-mary-beth-meehan-fred-turner. Acclaimed photographer Mary Beth Meeha...

Charles North has published twelve books of poems, three books of critical prose, and collaborations with artists and other poets. With Jame...

In her 2021 book Saving the News: Why the Constitution Calls for Government Action to Preserve Freedom of Speech, our guest Martha Minow “ou...

This talk reconsiders the role of television entertainment in American political life in the 1970s and beyond. Focusing on the situation com...

In this talk, Jens Pohlmann compares the discourse about the regulation of social media platforms and its effect on freedom of expression in...

These six poets met as undergrads at MIT, brought together by the many things they shared: the challenges of being women in STEM, their life...

In this talk, Racquel Gates presents her experience working as consulting producer on the Criterion release of Melvin Van Peebles: Essential...

College radio has long been known as the weird, wacky signals on the left of the FM dial offering music that would never be mainstream. But...

David Thorburn has been a teacher of literature for 57 years, 46 of them at MIT where he is Professor of Literature and Comparative Media an...

Podcasts are in a golden age and are being used to effectively communicate new ideas, tell compelling stories, and build highly participativ...

Video game engines have promoted a new cultural economy for software production and have provided a common architecture for digital content...

Lynn Nottage’s 2011 satirical play By the Way, Meet Vera Stark stages the life and legacy of the fictional Vera Stark, a Black maid and stru...

Transcript and video available at https://cms.mit.edu/video-alexandra-to-design-opportunities-centering-racialized-experiences-game. People...

In this talk, Craig Robertson provides a brief overview of the some of the themes of his recent book, The Filing Cabinet: A Vertical History...

Graphic novel creator Leela Corman talk's and Q&A about her graphic novels and short comics on the topics of generational and personal traum...

This presentation defines the phrase “transgender exigency” as a situation marked by an urgent need; in this case, the need to address the p...

Video and transcript available at https://cms.mit.edu/video-memorial-colloquium-in-honor-of-jing-wang ====== Professor Jing Wang — a beloved...

This talk introduces arguments and examples from Nick Thurston’s current book project, Document Practices, which explores aesthetic and poli...

In this talk, Victoria Cain provides a brief overview of some of the themes of her new book, Schools and Screens: A Watchful History, and a...

With the proliferation of social media, internet memes have become a ubiquitous part of everyday communication. However, the power of memes...

Video and transcript: https://cms.mit.edu/video-sandra-rodriguez-creating-interacting-virtual-entities-vr-ai-human-experiences/ Drawing from...

Video and transcript: https://cms.mit.edu/video-jonathan-sterne-diminished-vocalities-on-prostheses-and-abilities/ In this talk, Jonathan St...

Video and transcript: https://cms.mit.edu/video-james-wynn-promotional-narratives-mars-colonization. Given the enormous impact that colonial...

Digital simulations offer learning opportunities to engage and reflect on systemic issues of racism and structural violence against communit...

What is your relationship with media technologies? When we say things like “I love television,” “I hate the internet,” or “I can’t live with...

What are some unexplored ways that online environments can help us rethink “the archive”? How might i-doc storytelling tools expand what an...

https://commforum.mit.edu/blackintheivory-academias-role-in-institutional-racism-96af14c37f5f For many Black scientists and researchers, wor...

In 2018, the United States enacted a “zero tolerance” policy which criminalized the act of seeking asylum. In June 2019, the inhumane condit...

Warning: contains spoilers and strong language. With his 1968 debut Night of the Living Dead, George A. Romero helped to inaugurate a new er...

Two-eyed seeing has been a contemporary concept by two Indigenous Mikmaq Elders in Cape Breton Canada. Through the use of Indigenous Oral Tr...

Lana Swartz, ’09, is joined by Aswin Punathambekar, ’03, to discuss Swartz’s new book New Money: How Payment Became Social Media (Yale Unive...

Media Distortions is about the power behind producing deviant media categories. It shows the politics behind categories we take for granted...

This talk will discuss contemporary US feelings towards Syrian and Palestinian refugee resettlement and expectations for “appropriate” refug...

Mainstream “smart” city discourse offers a technocentric, efficiency-driven utopian fantasy that elides or exacerbates many urban problems o...

Is there digital activism in China? What is it like to be an activist running a grassroots NGO in a land of censors? Is the state-public rel...

In the 2000s and 2010s, education technology evangelists promised that new learning media would transform schooling and education. Then, a p...

With this presentation, Dr. Kishonna Gray illustrates a framework for studying the intersectional development of technological artifacts and...

This talk discusses the history of the American comic book industry during the 20th century. This medium has dominated the film and televisi...

Computer programming is an essential skill in the 21st century and new policies and frameworks are in place for preparing students for compu...

While natural language processing affords researchers an opportunity to automatically scan millions of social media posts, there is growing...