CMS Colloquium Podcast

Video: William Uricchio, Introductory Statement: CMS 10th Anniversary

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Video: Dean Deborah Fitzgerald, Introductory Statement: CMS 10th Anniversary

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Podcast: CMS 10th Anniversary: "International Media Flows: Global Media and Culture"

Panelists: Aswin Punathambekar, Xiaochang Li, Ana Domb, Orit Kuritsky, and ...

Panelists: Aswin Punathambekar, Xiaochang Li, Ana Domb, Orit Kuritsky, and Jing Wang Aswin Punathambekar is an Assistant professor in the Department of Communication Studies at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor. He teaches and writes about media globalization, with a focus on South Asia and the South Asian diaspora. Xiaochang Li lives in New York, where she consults as something of a media and branding mercenary, specializing in the intersection of globalization, digital media, and rampant delight. Ana Domb recently graduated from CMS and is currently working on user experience research at The Meme, a design consultancy firm based out of Cambridge. Orit Kuritsky--a scriptwriter, content editor, and creative director--is also a graduate of the CMS master's program. Jing Wang is a professor in Chinese Cultural Studies and the Director of New Media Action Lab. She is a CMS-affiliated faculty currently working on a project (NGO2.0) that brings together social media and nonprofit organizations in China. Download!

Podcast: CMS 10th Anniversary: "Participatory Culture: The Culture of Democracy and Education in a Hypermediated Society"

Panelists: Erin Reilly, Karen Schrier, Sangita Shresthova, Pilar Lacasa, and ...

Panelists: Erin Reilly, Karen Schrier, Sangita Shresthova, Pilar Lacasa, and Mitch Resnick Erin Reilly is Research Director for Project New Media Literacies, a past CMS project now housed at the University of Southern California. Karen Schrier, a CMS grad, is the Director of Interactive Media and Technology at ESI Design and a part-time doctoral student at Columbia University in games and learning. Sangita Shresthova is a Czech/Nepali international development specialist, filmmaker, media scholar, and dancer, who currently manages Henry Jenkins new project on participatory culture and civic engagement at USC. Pilar Lacasa is a researcher at Alcalá University in Spain. She also works on a project for Electronic Arts in Spain about how to use commercial games in education. Mitch Resnick is Professor of Learning Research at the MIT Media Laboratory. He develops new technologies that engage children in creative learning experiences and is a principal investigator with the MIT Center for Future Civic Media, a CMS-partnered project. Download!

Podcast: CMS 10th Anniversary: "Creativity and Collaboration in the Digital Age"

Panelists: Beth Coleman, Philip Tan, Ivan Askwith, Clara Fernandez-Vara Beth ...

Panelists: Beth Coleman, Philip Tan, Ivan Askwith, Clara Fernandez-Vara Beth Coleman is Assistant Professor of Writing and New Media in the Program in Writing and Humanistic Studies and Comparative Media Studies. Her fields of research interest include new media, contemporary aesthetics, electronic music, critical theory and literature, and race theory. Philip Tan is a CMS grad who now directs the Singapore-MIT GAMBIT Game Lab, a partnership between MIT/CMS and the government of Singapore to explore new directions for the development of games as a medium. Ivan Askwith is a CMS grad working in New York City as Director of Strategy at Big Spaceship, a digital creative agency. Clara Fernandez-Vara is a Postdoctoral Researcher at the Singapore-MIT GAMBIT Game Lab and a graduate of the CMS master's program. Download!

Podcast: CMS 10th Anniversary: "Applied Humanities: Transforming Humanities Education"

Panelists: Pete Donaldson, Kurt Fendt, Scot Osterweil, Rekha Murthy, Matthew ...

Panelists: Pete Donaldson, Kurt Fendt, Scot Osterweil, Rekha Murthy, Matthew Weise Pete Donaldson is a Professor in the MIT Literature section, which he headed from 1990 until 2005. Kurt Fendt is Research Director in Foreign Languages and Literatures and the Comparative Media Studies Graduate Program and directs the HyperStudio, a CMS research project. Scot Osterweil leads several Education Arcade projects promoting learning in math, literacy, history, science and foreign language. Rekha Murthy, CMS '05, works at the intersection of public radio and digital media, currently overseeing distribution and content strategy initiatives for PRX, an online distributor of audio programs to public radio networks, stations, and audio platforms including mobile, internet, and satellite radio. Matthew Weise, CMS '04, is Lead Game Designer at the Singapore-MIT GAMBIT Game Lab. Download!

Podcast: CMS 10th Anniversary: "William Uricchio's Introductory Remarks"

CMS director William Uricchio discusses the history of the program, ...

CMS director William Uricchio discusses the history of the program, some of the challenges it has faced, as well as the unique role it has assumed at MIT and within higher education when it comes to a new vision of the humanities. Download!

Podcast: CMS 10th Anniversary: "Dean Deborah Fitzgerald's Introductory Remarks"

Deborah Fitzgerald, Dean of MIT's School of Humanities, Arts, and ...

Deborah Fitzgerald, Dean of MIT's School of Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences, opens the CMS 10th Anniversary symposium with her remarks on the role of CMS at MIT and the essence of applied humanities education within the MIT mission. Download!

Podcast: Communications Forum: "Jenkins' Farewell"

Henry Jenkins' 20-year presence at MIT was formative for him ...

Henry Jenkins' 20-year presence at MIT was formative for him and profoundly valuable for MIT. A year after his departure for USC, Jenkins returns to talk with long-time colleagues about his pioneering scholarship on digital culture, his work as the founding director of Comparative Media Studies, and his experiences as a teacher and housemaster at MIT. Download! (Intro music: "If Given the Option" by And a Few to Break)

Podcast: Communications Forum: "Civics in Difficult Places"

This global call-in show, hosted by MIT Center for Future ...

This global call-in show, hosted by MIT Center for Future Civic Media fellow Ethan Zuckerman, featured a number of journalists, advocates and programmers who utilize new technologies to gather information in contentious geographic regions: Cameran Ashraf, Iran Mehdi Yahyanejad, Iran Georgia Popplewell, Haiti Huma Yusuf, Pakistan Ruthie Ackerman, Liberia Brenda Burrell and Bev Clark, Zimbabwe Lova Rakotomalala, Madagascar Co-Sponsor: MIT Center for Future Civic Media. Download!