At this Colloquium, we publicly honored our beloved colleague’s life and work, featuring brief talks by some of those who knew her best.
Video, Nick Thurston: “Document Practices: The Art of Propagating Access”
As buzz terms like “post-truth” and “deep fake” remind us, the social lives of documents are entwined with the techno-political conditions of the communities who produce, save and share them.
Video: Victoria Cain, “Educated Viewers: Civic Spectatorship, Media Literacy, and American Schools”
The struggle of successive generations of education reformers who attempted to meet massive social and economic crises through careful instruction in media viewing and collective discussion.
Messy on the inside: internet memes as mapping tools of everyday life
The power of memes cannot be fully understood without considering their role in the complex relationship between technology, space, and politics.
Video: Sulafa Zidani, “Messy on the Inside: Internet Memes as Mapping Tools of Everyday Life”
The power of memes cannot be fully understood without considering their role in the complex relationship between technology, space, and politics.
Faculty job opening: Assistant Professor of Media Studies
This tenure-track position has a focus on media industries and/or computational media. Application deadline: Nov 1, 2021. Full information at academicjobsonline.org.
Transformative truth-telling at the MIT Open Documentary Lab
The lab’s artists and technology scholars are exploring representation and reality — and shaping the future of storytelling.
