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Part of the "Common Threads" video, produced for the MIT 150th celebration, this clip features the vital role of humanities, arts, and social sciences at MIT.
What Turkle worries about are people who are inseparable from their devices, who can't enjoy, as she does, "a solitary walk across the dunes."
March 11 Speakers: Amy Trubek and Brad Weiss. Taste is at once a subjective aesthetic experience and also subject to normative judgment.
The 50th anniversary celebration for arts and humanities programs at MIT featured several symposia and a medal ceremony held on Oct. 6-7, 2000.
Two panelists debate whether journalism in a digital age amounts to feast or famine, and differ on even basic questions.
MIT150 Symposium Economics and Finance: From Theory to Practice to Policy Welcome Deborah K. Fitzgerald - Kenan Sahin Dean, MIT School of Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences Moderator Ricardo Caballero PhD '88 - Ford Professor of Economics and Department Head, MIT ...
What's a journalist to do when a major story must be coaxed reluctantly into public view, or emerges on what seems like a geological time scale?
Writer Joe Haldeman talks about his creative process.
This video covers the question and answer segment of the Sensing the Unseen: The Elusive seminar with speakers Hillel Schwartz and Steven Feld. The session took place on October 22nd, 2010.
11/04/2010 5:00 PM E14-633Micah Sifry, Founder, Editor, Personal Democracy Forum; Daniel Schuman, Policy Counsel, Sunlight Foundation; David Ardia, Fellow, Berkman CenterDescription: While these panelists diverge on the precise metaphor -- 'picking through a minefield,' 'hacking through the ...
Reports of the demise of the humanities are exaggerated, suggest these panelists, but there may be reason to fear its loss of relevance.
The bottom-line mentality that swept American life in the last few decades, often overriding considerations of principle and professionalism in business, politics, the arts, higher education, journalism and other spheres, left its mark on philanthropy and the ...
Two seasoned media observers map out shifting terrain in the news industry, as digital forces shake up print journalism.
Washington stubbornly sticks to national security policies that don't work, are devoid of moral considerations, and rob future generations, says Andrew J. Bacevich
Tools developed by Martin Wattenberg and his associate Fernanda Viégas, have changed the way people look at and use visualizations, by empowering and equipping users with the methodology needed to ask different question
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, ...
In a live demonstration of globe-straddling communication technologies like Skype, this forum connects to citizen journalists and activists around the world, some of whom frequently test the limits of governmental authority.
