Media
Channel | updated April 25, 2013
Videos from MIT's units looking into media and its impact on society, including the MIT Media Lab, the Center for Civic Media, Comparative Media Studies, and more.
The Futures of Children's Media
The Futures of Children's Media
Children's media has long been an innovator in creating new ways of storytelling. In a digital era, what emerging practices are changing the ways in which stories are being told to children, and what are the challenges unique to children's properties in an online communication environment? ...
The Futures of Nonfiction Storytelling
The Futures of Nonfiction Storytelling
Digital communication has arguably impacted the lives of journalists more than any other media practitioner. But new platforms and ways of circulating content are providing vast new opportunities for journalists and documentarians. How have-and might-nonfiction storytellers incorporate many ...
The Futures of Music
The Futures of Music
The music industry is often cited as the horror story that all other entertainment genres might learn from: how the digital era has laid waste to a traditional business model. But what new models for musicians and for the music industry exist in the wake of this paradigm shift, and what can ...
Scot Osterweil on games
Scot Osterweil on games
With Eric Klopfer's introduction, Scot Osterweil, research director of The Education Arcade, shares his thoughts on the nature of games -- and our need for them.
HyperStudio, with executive director Kurt Fendt
HyperStudio, with executive director Kurt Fendt
Fendt: What's really exciting about the work we do in HyperStudio is to explore the possibility -- the potential -- of digital media for learning and research in the humanities and social sciences. [...] In the humanities, we have to be the ones who influence the ...
Mobile Experience Lab, with director Federico Casalegno
Mobile Experience Lab, with director Federico Casalegno
"The mission of the Mobile Experience Lab is to design and rethink connectivity between people, information, and places. And we try to reinvent media and technologies to improve how people communicate and how people interact with physical space."
Fox Harrell and the Imagination, Computation, and ...
Fox Harrell and the Imagination, Computation, and Expression Lab
Professor Fox Harrell discusses his work with the Imagination, Computation, and Expression Lab — one of serveral research groups within the MIT Comparative Media Studies program.
Civic Media, with Audubon Dougherty
Civic Media, with Audubon Dougherty
"It's never about the technology. Ever." Audubon Dougherty of the MIT Center for Civic Media (part of the Comparative Media Studies program) talks about her work on M-Generations, in which communities employ familiar mobile devices to document their own stories.
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