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Celebrity culture and the brutal economics of print journalism have conspired to kill arts criticism, but it has begun migrating to the web, where it just may survive and even thrive.
04/22/2010 5:00 PM Bartos theaterHenry Jenkins, Provost's Professor of Communication, Journalism, and Cinematic Arts at the University of Southern California; William Uricchio, Professor of Comparative Media StudiesDescription: In conversation with William Uricchio, ...
The MIT Center for International Studies undertakes research, teaching, international education, and public and policy engagement on a broad range of global issues.
True stories and their fictional spin-offs — especially bloody ones — occupy an enduring spot in western culture.
Rubin describes his work at EmTech 2011: Letting consumers analyze their sleep Zeo In college at Brown University, Ben Rubin had an odd nighttime ritual. He would hook himself up to an old polysomnography machine, a refrigerator-size device that clinics use to diagnose sleep disorders. He ...
Nostalgia, anxiety and optimism mix in this panel devoted to imagining what lies ahead for the book, as publishing professionals and others discuss the impact of digital technology on the business.
European archivists grapple with the legal obligations, civic responsibilities and future prospects of their collections, which, thanks to the Internet and other new technologies, are increasingly awash in image and sound.
Scholars of "dead tree technologies" feel increasingly uneasy in a culture overwhelmingly consumed with innovation
In the final session of the 2007 conference, panelists distill their experiences and impressions from the preceding days and offer suggestions for future events.
Krista Lynes, Assistant Professor, Communication Studies Department, Concordia University in Montreal, Canada In his critical analysis of postmodern culture, Fredric Jameson asserted that the particular temporality of video, its “total flow,” bound ...
Knut Åsdam is an artist and filmmaker whose work explores the subjectivity of social structures, history, language, struggle and the body.
MIT Professor of Writing Junot Díaz sat down with journalist Bill Moyers on "Moyers and Company."
Pulitzer Prize-winning author and MIT Professor of Writing, Junot Díaz, reads from his new book This is How You Lose Her.
The Rudge and Nancy Allen Professor of Writing at MIT made an appearance on the Comedy Central show on March 25, 2013.
Part of a two-day conference that consisted of image-driven presentations addressing both Asian and non-Asian representations of 19th and 20th-century developments in the history of East and Southeast Asia.
John Dower speaks on "China in the Modern World" as part of the Visualizing Cultures Lectures series.
Part of a two-day conference that consisted of image-driven presentations addressing both Asian and non-Asian representations of 19th and 20th-century developments in the history of East and Southeast Asia.
MIT Visualizing CulturesPicturing the Purge: Chinese Cartoon Imagery from the 1930s to the 1950sPresented by John Crespi, Luce Associate Professor of Chinese; Director of Asian Studies, Colgate UniversityVisualizing Cultures was launched at MIT in 2002 to ...
MIT Visualizing CulturesPicturing the Purge: Chinese Cartoon Imagery from the 1930s to the 1950sPresented by John Crespi, Luce Associate Professor of Chinese; Director of Asian Studies, Colgate UniversityVisualizing Cultures was launched at MIT in 2002 to ...
MIT Visualizing CulturesPicturing the Purge: Chinese Cartoon Imagery from the 1930s to the 1950sPresented by John Crespi, Luce Associate Professor of Chinese; Director of Asian Studies, Colgate UniversityVisualizing Cultures was launched at MIT in 2002 to ...
