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.
Wyn Kelley on Herman Melville's Moby-Dick
Wyn Kelley on Herman Melville's Moby-Dick
Wyn Kelly discussion how her thoughts on Melville's Moby-Dick changed after she worked with Ricardo Pitts-Wiley on the play, Moby-Dick: Then and Now.
Why Animation?
Why Animation?
What is unique about animation as a media form? Featuring Luis Blackaller and Frank Espinosa.
What is Participatory Culture?
What is Participatory Culture?
Henry Jenkins discussing the characteristics of Participatory Culture.
What is a Challenge?
What is a Challenge?
An overview of what is a challenge and some rules of thumb when creating a challenge.
What are the New Media Literacies?
What are the New Media Literacies?
Henry Jenkins discussing how ProjectNML, and in particular the teachers' strategy guide "Reading in a Participatory Culture," defines the new media literacies.
What are Big Games?
What are Big Games?
At the 2006 Come out and Play Festival in NYC, NML interviewed game designers and enthusiasts to find out what "big games" are and how they work.
Warning: The Back Button
Warning: The Back Button
Learn how to navigate between pages within the Learning Library
VoIP Drupal webinar: Building sites that make and receive ...
VoIP Drupal webinar: Building sites that make and receive phone calls
As part of this webinar, you will learn about VoIP Drupal, a new open source framework that makes it easy to build websites that almost literally pick-up the phone.
Violence in "Moby-Dick: Then and Now"
Violence in "Moby-Dick: Then and Now"
A short video clip discussing the violence seen in the play, "Moby-Dick: Then and Now" directed by Ricardo Pitts-Wiley.
The Sermon in "Moby-Dick: Then and Now"
The Sermon in "Moby-Dick: Then and Now"
The Sermon as performed (in two parts) in the play Moby-Dick: Then and Now.
The Plot of Moby-Dick: Then and Now
The Plot of Moby-Dick: Then and Now
A video describing the basic plot of the play, Moby-Dick: Then and Now.
The One as a Subculture
The One as a Subculture
A video clip describing how The One, the youth crew depicted in Moby-Dick: Then and Now, can be seen as a subcultural community.
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