MIT Comparative Media Studies / Writing

11/12/2022

Join us at the War Memorial Auditorium as we bring the music of Renaissance nuns to life with this immersive musical program!

Get your tickets now: https://www.clausura.org/tickets

03/03/2021

Composer Holly Herndon will serve as a panelist on the “Deep Time & Intelligence” panel as part of the "Unfolding Intelligence" Symposium.

For her most recent album, Proto, Herndon staged the training of an AI as a ritual encounter between a chorus of human callers and a respondent alien intelligence. Herndon has carefully structured her engagement with the heterodox scientific and economic backdrop of computer music, addressing both the science of extremophiles and ASMR, for example, while also shaping and supporting a discussion of scene ownership in digital music economies. As a participant on the “Deep Time & Intelligence” panel, Herndon blurs distinctions between laboratory, studio, stage, and dance floor. Learn more: http://mitsha.re/tUjw50DOgnt
MIT Comparative Media Studies / Writing MIT EECS Department

02/19/2021

CMS/W Professor Heather Hendershot writes today in the Washington Post about the legacy of Rush Limbaugh:

"With the spread of cable came the emergence of niche channels and programming and the decline of the notion of a singular mass audience. Limbaugh brought this niche approach to political radio, which could now be crafted for listeners who found network news too neutral and the Sunday public affairs programs too dry.

And herein lies Limbaugh’s legacy. If he succeeded where Smoot and others failed, it was not just because of the demise of the Fairness Doctrine but also because of the rise of a 'fun' right-wing media style that could be handily monetized."

Regulation won’t eliminate the market into which Limbaugh tapped.

02/18/2021

When you watch the Mars landing today, marvel at the difference between what we can see today vs the best we could see in this 1909 set of enlarged photographs.

[Source: E.E. Barnard, Yerkes Observatory, 1909, September 28. Retrieved from https://cmswm.it/37qcFFT]

02/10/2021

Congratulations to CMS/W Professor Helen Elaine Lee, winner of one of this year's MLK Leadership Awards! For the MIT community, today starting at noon, join the 47th Annual Martin Luther King Jr Celebration hosted by the Institute Community and Equity Office https://cmswm.it/3pbFL1U.

The Institute Community and Equity Office and MindHandHeart have compiled a list of MIT support offices and their responses to the Covid-19 pandemic. Focused on health and wellbeing, diversity, equity, and inclusion, finances, and academics, these offices are working hard to keep MIT services and pr...

02/09/2021

Global student program offers insight and recommendations for policymakers

02/04/2021

Bryan Stevenson, a civil rights lawyer acclaimed for his work confronting bias against the poor and people of color in the U.S. justice system, will deliver the address at MIT’s 2021 Commencement exercises on June 4, 2021.

02/03/2021

Our school has two part-time freelance communications positions open!

• Design, Website, and Digital Materials Associate

• Media Relations Associate

More info:

The MIT School of Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences (SHASS) is one of the five schools of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. The 20+ fields, disciplines, projects, and areas of research at the School represent the most diverse range of scholarship at MIT.

01/29/2021

Highlighting the new edited volume by CMS/W visiting professor Eric Gordon: "Ludics—Play as Humanistic Inquiry". Co-edited with his Emerson College colleague Vassiliki Rapti, the full text of their introduction is free to download.

"Play is an antidote to dark times. Rather than an escape hatch, it provides opportunity for discovery, connection, joy, care, and relational aesthetics."

01/26/2021

can't leave without making one more post of this format