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.
How Not to Make a Documentary
How Not to Make a Documentary
Adam Enatsky and Paul Kim produced an informative and funny video called "How Not to Make a Documentary." Their video profiles documentary filmmaker and cultural worker Louis Massiah, while at the same time chronicles pitfalls novice doc filmmakers should avoid. The Center for Social Media ...
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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 ...
i am elizabeth
i am elizabeth
About this film: My name is Alex Rivest. I am currently a graduate student at MIT, getting my PHD in Neuroscience. I made this film because we have to follow what inspires us. There are so many people who are doing something they do not want to do, simply to support what they do want to do. ...
i am irenes
i am irenes
About this film: My name is Rebecca Ochoa. I did this project because I didn't want the memory of my Grandmother and her art work to be forgotten. I composed a symphonic piece inspired from one of her painting, an autumn scene of the farm she grew up on in Canada. i feel remembering you ...
i am jeff morris
i am jeff morris
About this film: My name is Nishima. I met Jeff in Central Square when I held the door open for him to enter one of his two favorite liquor stores in Cambridge. "The people are nice there", he told me when I greeted him on his way out. Within seconds, I learned more about Jeff's life than I ...
i am lucas
i am lucas
About this film: My name is Suzanne. I moved to Boston from my home Mexico with my husband and kids 6 months ago. I did this video on my son Lucas because I wanted to show how uprooted he feels being here in this new country away from home.
i am phil beach
i am phil beach
About this film: My name is Daniel Hernandez. I am a student at MIT. I decided to make a film about a local musician who is passionate about music. Most great artists go unrecognized their entire lives. Phil Beach is a musician who currently lives in Boston, Massachusetts. Ways to help: ...
i am rohan
i am rohan
About this film: My name is Deepti Nijhawan and I am an urban planner. i coordinate the India program at MIT. My husband Vinit and I have three sons, Rishi, Arun and Rohan. I chose to make my first documentary film on Rohan, my youngest, a deeply happy and extraordinary empathetic young man. ...
i am tafsiro
i am tafsiro
About this film: My name is Devon Cone. I love Somalis. I met Tofsiro after trying to get her cousins from a refugee camp in Kenya to join her in Boston. She arrived here unable to speak English when she was 6 years old. Somali women are amazing example os strength and dignity amidst ...
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