Recent Videos posted to Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences on MIT Video

Soap Box: The Political Life of Cheese

Tue, 14 May 2013 17:30:52 GMT

Heather Paxson, an associate professor in MIT's Anthropology Program, studies the people and culture behind the renaissance of artisanal cheese making in the United States.

MIT Communications Forum: News or Entertainment – Press and Modern Political Campaigns

Wed, 17 Apr 2013 17:30:45 GMT

Opening Remarks: Noel Jackson
Moderator: Seth Mnookin
Panelists: Ta-Nehisi Coates and Mark Mckinnon

Recorded April 11, 2013

The Film Experience - Lecture 16 (2007): Film in the 1970s, Part II

Tue, 02 Apr 2013 07:08:38 GMT

Note: This video is from the Fall 2007 class. This lecture continues the discussion of transformation and subversion in 1970s films, specifically as embodied in work of director Robert Altman. Outline - Robert Altman (1925-2006) - Career - Defining qualities: - Moral skepticism - Sympathy for the marginal - Plot vs. character - Fiction vs. "reality" - McCabe and Mrs. Miller (1971) - "Ruin the sacred truths" - Sound and image: a new realism? - Hero/savior—clown or fool - Love story: gal from the East - Founding myth: Presbyterian Church - The ending: slapstick murder as the town is born

The Film Experience - Lecture 4 (2007): Chaplin, Part II

Tue, 02 Apr 2013 07:07:58 GMT

Note: This video is from the Fall 2007 class. This lecture continues discussion of Charlie Chaplin, comparing his films to those of Buster Keaton. Outline: - Keaton vs. Chaplin - Three passages - Cops (1922) - The Gold Rush (1925) - City Lights (1931) - Modern Times (1936 - Context - A culminating film - The gamin - Sound - Structure - Chaplin's complexity

The Film Experience - Lecture 15 (2007): Film in the 1970s, Part I

Tue, 02 Apr 2013 07:07:41 GMT

Note: This video is from the Fall 2007 class. This lecture discusses dramatic changes in American film of the late 60s and early 70s: the end of the studio era, social transformation, and television as the new consensus medium. Outline - Transformations and subversion - Directors - Actors - Style and endings - Dissenting genres - Social history - Vietnam war - Assassinations - JFK, LBJ, Nixon - Watergate - Film and Television - A new consensus medium - Two versions of MASH

The Film Experience - Lecture 19 (2007): Italian Neorealism, Part I

Tue, 02 Apr 2013 07:07:33 GMT

Note: This video is from the Fall 2007 class. This session introduces some characteristics of Italian neorealist cinema, especially the 'principle of multiplicity' in which aspects of the film serve multiple functions. Outline - The Opening of Bicycle Thieves - The multiplicity principle - Historical Context - WW II - Italian film under Fascism - Hollywood film - Origins - Italian, German, French - Key Features - Character vs plot, mise en scene, the contemporary world - Central Figures - Zavattini, Visconti, Rosselini, De Sica - The Neorealist Counter-plot - The beginning of Open City

Junot Díaz on 'The Colbert Report'

Tue, 26 Mar 2013 13:55:21 GMT

The Rudge and Nancy Allen Professor of Writing at MIT made an appearance on the Comedy Central show on March 25, 2013.

A Phantasmal Media Approach to Empowerment, Identity and Computation

Tue, 19 Mar 2013 17:30:48 GMT

Courtesy of the Pacific Centre for Technology and Culture

Part of Digital Inflections: Visions for the Posthuman Future

Dr. Fox Harrell, Associate Professor of Digital Media in the Comparative Media Studies Program and Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory at MIT.

Focusing on questions of social identity, empowerment and computation, Fox Harrell explores the emerging world of “phantasmal identities,” that moment when the meaning of social identity is complicated by its intersection with computing technologies including social networking, gaming, virtual worlds and more. Here, social identities are not addressed only through persistent issues of class, gender, sex, race, and ethnicity, but also through dynamic construction of social categories, body language, discourse, metaphorical thought, gesture, fashion, and so on. When these “real” identities meet their counterparts in the virtual world, the results are identities that are a sudden blend of cultural ideas and sensory imagination, namely the increasing development of “phantasmal identities.”

A Conversation with Nate Silver

Fri, 08 Mar 2013 08:06:40 GMT

The statistician and political polling analyst Nate Silver discussed his career and the ways in which statistics are changing the face of journalism.

Digital Learning at MIT

Fri, 01 Feb 2013 21:30:44 GMT

Recorded Jan. 30, 2013

J.Locke, Op.Cit: Invocations of Law on Snowy Streets

Mon, 07 Jan 2013 08:05:40 GMT

Junot Díaz on 'Moyers & Company'

Wed, 02 Jan 2013 20:54:32 GMT

MIT Professor of Writing Junot Díaz sat down with journalist Bill Moyers on "Moyers and Company."

Krista Lynes: Creative Geographies: Video Beyond the Global Village

Wed, 26 Dec 2012 18:30:10 GMT

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 apparatus and subject in a new kind of materialism governed by measurement, a machinic time closer to the chronometer than the cinema. This produced a “kaleidoscopic” image of distinct streams whose historicism was revealed by the very organization of videographic space and time. Professor Lynes’s talk will extend Jameson’s insights to questions of representation and cultural production under the current crises and failures of market structures in the 21st century, and the (speculative, generative) co-incidences between protest movements around the globe, focusing specifically on artworks that juxtapose chronometric and cinematic time.

Krista Lynes’ writing has been included in the journals Signs and Third Text, as well as the anthology Space (Re)Solutions: Intervention and Research in Visual Culture (2011). Her book, Prismatic Media, Transnational Circuits: Feminism in a Globalized Present, is forthcoming in Palgrave Macmillan’s “Global Cinema” series in 2013.

New Methods, New Markets for Independent Film (CMS Colloquium)

Wed, 12 Dec 2012 08:06:49 GMT

Recorded 12/6/12

MIT Glass Lab Musical Instruments

Tue, 11 Dec 2012 18:30:16 GMT

MIT CAST visiting artist Mark Stewart, Glass Lab faculty and students experiment with the acoustic properties of glass on Oct, 23rd, 2012.

Filmed by Erik Demaine and Nicole Teeny.
http://arts.mit.edu/cast/artist/stewart/

Cara Brown Interview

Tue, 11 Dec 2012 08:05:57 GMT

A talk with biological engineering student Cara Brown.

Women Who Inspire: Elaine Kwon

Mon, 03 Dec 2012 14:37:18 GMT

Kwon is celebrated concert pianist, a martial arts expert and Nike fitness model and a lecturer at MIT

The Listening Room and music at MIT

Fri, 02 Nov 2012 20:30:00 GMT

The School of Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences' Web-based collection showcases the Institute’s longstanding engagement with music.

Junot Diaz Book Reading

Fri, 05 Oct 2012 07:05:35 GMT

Pulitzer Prize-winning author and MIT Professor of Writing, Junot Díaz, reads from his new book This is How You Lose Her.

Fiction Writer Junot Díaz: 2012 MacArthur Fellow | MacArthur Foundation

Tue, 02 Oct 2012 12:52:12 GMT

Pulitzer Prize-winning author and writing professor receives unrestricted $500,000 prize.

John Crespi, Picturing the Purge: Chinese Cartoon Imagery from the 1930s to the 1950s, Part Four

Tue, 28 Aug 2012 07:11:22 GMT

MIT Visualizing Cultures

Picturing the Purge: Chinese Cartoon Imagery from the 1930s to the 1950s

Presented by John Crespi, Luce Associate Professor of Chinese; Director of Asian Studies, Colgate University

Visualizing Cultures was launched at MIT in 2002 to explore the potential of the Web for developing innovative image-driven scholarship and learning. The VC mission is to use new technology and hitherto inaccessible visual materials to reconstruct the past as people of the time visualized the world (or imagined it to be).

John Crespi, Picturing the Purge: Chinese Cartoon Imagery from the 1930s to the 1950s, Part One

Mon, 27 Aug 2012 07:10:14 GMT

John Crespi, Picturing the Purge: Chinese Cartoon Imagery from the 1930s to the 1950s, Part Two

Mon, 27 Aug 2012 07:10:14 GMT

John Crespi, Picturing the Purge: Chinese Cartoon Imagery from the 1930s to the 1950s, Part Three

Sun, 26 Aug 2012 20:30:16 GMT

Henry Jenkins at Alcala - The Samba School Revisited: Play, Performance, and Participation in Education.

Fri, 24 Aug 2012 20:30:15 GMT

Henry Jenkins, Director of the Comparative Media Studies Program at MIT, at the University of Alcala in Spain delivering a talk entitled "The Samba School Revisited: Play, Performance, and Participation in Education."

Read more on his blog: http://henryjenkins.org/2012/08/how_i_spent_my_summer_vacation_3.html

Allen Hockley, Introduction to 19th Century Photography in East Asia

Tue, 17 Jul 2012 20:30:10 GMT

Allen Hockley
Associate Professor of Art History, Dartmouth College
http://www.dartmouth.edu/~arthist/allen.html

Allen Hockley is a specialist in 19th and early-20th-century photography in and about Asia; his work for VC introduces some of the pioneer commercial photography in 19th-century Japan.

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Visualizing Cultures was launched at MIT in 2002 to explore the potential of the Web for developing innovative image-driven scholarship and learning. The VC mission is to use new technology and hitherto inaccessible visual materials to reconstruct the past as people of the time visualized the world (or imagined it to be).

Read more: http://ocw.mit.edu/ans7870/21f/21f.027/home/index.html

Unbound symposium: Reshaping the Book (May 4)

Fri, 01 Jun 2012 07:03:50 GMT

Unbound: Speculations on the Future of the Book
Reshaping the Book

Participants: Gita Manaktala (MIT Press), Christian Bök (University of Calgary), Bob Stein (SocialBook)
Moderator: Amaranth Borsuk (MIT Writing and Humanistic Studies and Comparative Media Studies)

Read more about Unbound: http://futurebook.mit.edu/symposium/schedule/

Unbound symposium: The Xenotext, So Far with Christian Bök (May 3)

Fri, 01 Jun 2012 07:03:50 GMT

Unbound: Speculations on the Future of the Book
The Xenotext, So Far with Christian Bök

We started the event with a kick-off reading, co-sponsored with Purple Blurb, featuring experimental poet Christian Bök, who has striven for ten years to engineer an unkillable bacterium so that it becomes not only a durable archive for storing a poem in its genome, but also an operant machine for writing a poem in response–a poem that might, in fact, outlive terrestrial civilization. Bök was introduced by Nick Montfort, and student readers Aimee Harrison and Alvin Mwijuka shared their work.

Read more about Unbound: http://futurebook.mit.edu/symposium/schedule/

Unbound symposium: Unbinding the Book (May 4)

Fri, 01 Jun 2012 07:03:50 GMT

Unbound: Speculations on the Future of the Book
Unbinding the Book

Participants: Bonnie Mak (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign), James Reid-Cunningham (Boston Athenaeum), Wyn Kelley (MIT Literature), Mary Fuller (MIT Literature)
Moderator: Gretchen Henderson (MIT Writing and Humanistic Studies)

Read more about Unbound: http://futurebook.mit.edu/symposium/schedule/

Telling Stories about Technology in an Asian Century

Mon, 14 May 2012 20:30:12 GMT

Morison Prize Lecture
Recorded on 5/11/12

Gregory Clancey - Associate Professor, Department of History, Faculty of Arts & Social Sciences, National University of Singapore; Master, Tembusu College

Gregory Clancey is concurrently an Associate Professor in the Department of History and Leader of the STS (Science, Technology, and Society) Research Cluster at the Asia Research Institute (ARI). He formerly served NUS as Assistant Dean of the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences, and as Chairman of the General Education Steering Committee, on which he’s still a member. A/P Clancey received his PhD in the Historical and Social Study of Science and Technology from MIT, and has been a Fulbright Graduate Fellow at Tokyo University, and a Lars Hierta Fellow at the Royal Institute of Technology (KtH) in Stockholm, Sweden. He has won three NUS teaching awards.

Assoc. Prof. Clancey’s research centers on the cultural history of science & technology, particularly in modern Japan and East Asia. His book Earthquake Nation: The Cultural Politics of Japanese Seismicity (Berkeley: U. of California Press, 2006) won the Sidney Edelstein Prize from the Society for the History of Technology in 2007, and was selected as one of the “11 Best Books about Science” for the UC Berkeley Summer Reading List, sent to all incoming Freshmen in 2009. He is co-editor of Major Problems in the History of American Technology (Boston: Houghton-Mifflin, 1998) and Historical Perspectives on East Asian Science, Technology and Medicine (Singapore: Singapore U. Press & World Scientific 2002).

The Morison Prize & Lecture
The family of the late Professor Elting Morison (a founder of the STS Program and a member of the MIT faculty for 35 years) and the Hitchiner Manufacturing Company have endowed the Morison Lecture and Prize in Science, Technology, and Society. The prize is given to a person who embodies the Morison family ideal of combining humanistic values with effectiveness in the world of practical affairs, and in particular, in science and technology.

Engaging Neighborhoods - Berliner sehen

Thu, 10 May 2012 07:03:29 GMT

The contemporary video core of Berliner sehen consists of 18 hours of natural conversations with Berlin residents from different social backgrounds. Spoken in authentic German, they acquaint students with the many facets of individual lives. Together with the extensive archive of texts, images, historical audio and video, these conversations form an expansive narrative network that engages students in exploring key cultural issues from diverse points of view. The footage for Berliner sehen was filmed during Summer 1995 by the Berlin-based German documentary video artists INTERACT, who worked in close collaboration with project directors Crocker and Fendt to create a video expressly designed for the hypermedia format of this project.

Read more about Berliner sehen: http://web.mit.edu/fll/www/projects/BerlinerSehen.shtml

Alone Together: Why We Expect More from Technology and Less from Each Other

Tue, 08 May 2012 07:03:48 GMT

Professor Sherry Turkle, founder and director of the MIT Initiative on Technology and Self, believes that the time is ripe for widespread rethinking of the way we interact through technology. An expert on mobile devices, social networking, and sociable robotics, she writes on the “subjective side” of people’s relationships with modern communication, especially computers.

On May 2, 2012, Turkle offered her thoughts on the growth of the digital world and the changes it has brought to contemporary lives, and answered questions from the worldwide MIT alumni community. Listen to the audio then join the discussion online.

TED Talks 2012: Sherry Turkle - Connected, but alone?

Mon, 09 Apr 2012 13:14:05 GMT

Sherry Turkle studies how our devices and online personas are redefining human connection and communication -- and asks us to think deeply about the new kinds of connection we want to have.

Telling the Stories of Science Panel 1

Tue, 27 Mar 2012 16:37:30 GMT

Attention and Memory: How the Brain Does What It Does

Robert Lepage: MIT Student Workshop

Sat, 24 Mar 2012 07:03:11 GMT

Robert Lepage visited MIT on Sunday, Feb. 12, to initiate a collaborative workshop with MIT students and launch the class 21M.805, Performance and Design Practicum.

Daron Acemoglu on Why Nations Fail

Fri, 23 Mar 2012 14:30:07 GMT

It is among the grandest topics in scholarship: Why do some nations, such as the United States, become wealthy and powerful, while others remain stuck in poverty? And why do some of those powers, from ancient Rome to the modern Soviet Union, expand and then collapse? From Adam Smith and Max Weber to the current day, scores of writers have grappled with these questions. Some scholars, like Weber, have argued that religious or cultural differences create vastly different economic outcomes among countries. Others have asserted that a lack of natural resources or technical expertise has prevented poor countries from creating self-sustaining economic growth.

Economists Daron Acemoglu of MIT and James Robinson of Harvard University have another answer: Politics makes the difference. Countries that have what they call "inclusive" political governments -- those extending political and property rights as broadly as possible, while enforcing laws and providing some public infrastructure -- experience the greatest growth over the long run. By contrast, Acemoglu and Robinson assert, countries with "extractive" political systems -- in which power is wielded by a small elite -- either fail to grow broadly or wither away after short bursts of economic expansion.

Read more at: http://web.mit.edu/newsoffice/2012/why-nations-fail-0323.html

Center for International Studies Starr Forum — Libya: War and its Aftermath

Thu, 08 Mar 2012 08:03:37 GMT

Michael Brown documented the face of battle in Libya using a camera phone, challenging the standard script for war reportage.

John Dower, Japan in the Modern World 2/15/12

Tue, 28 Feb 2012 21:30:07 GMT

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, China in the Modern World

Mon, 27 Feb 2012 21:30:07 GMT

John Dower speaks on "China in the Modern World" as part of the Visualizing Cultures Lectures series.

John Dower, Asia in the Modern World

Sat, 18 Feb 2012 08:03:05 GMT

About Visualizing Cultures, Part 2

Thu, 09 Feb 2012 08:02:52 GMT

Visualizing Cultures was launched at MIT in 2002 to explore the potential of the Web for developing innovative image-driven scholarship and learning. The VC mission is to use new technology and hitherto inaccessible visual materials to reconstruct the past as people of the time visualized the world (or imagined it to be).

Report Card on the War on Terror

Tue, 13 Dec 2011 02:03:00 GMT

Gary Hart, Former Colorado Senator and one-time presidential candidate; Co-Chair, Hart-Rudman Commission on Homeland Security in the 21st Century (1998-2001); Daniel Benjamin, Senior Fellow, International Security Program, Center for Strategic & International Studies ; Steven Simon, Senior Analyst, RAND Corporation

Description: Gary Hart wields his national security expertise to query these two authors in detail on their latest collaboration. Benjamin summarizes the book this way: "By pursuing the policies we have, we are hastening the next attack. I'm not talking about a run of the mill attack, the kind society could learn to live with, but a really big attack, which will endanger our institutions, confidence and society." The authors believe the U.S. intervention in Iraq has spawned a new Iraqi insurgency and energized the greater Islamic jihad. Hart asks if it's solely U.S. policy that's creating an increasingly virulent movement, or whether homegrown "Islamic brutality" and belief must share some blame. Simon responds that our actions in the Middle East and elsewhere make it very difficult for Islamic moderates to counter "the observed experience of Muslims in many parts of the world." A lot of energy that went into Arab nationalism, says Benjamin, now enters a violent movement "to embrace justice, freedom and fairness." He continues, "The sense of imposition by the West will remain there, and grievances won't go away even if we pull up stakes tomorrow."

The authors warn that Islamic fighters in Iraq are getting valuable experience in military operations in urban terrain, which they will likely apply to Western cities. They call for a new policy in the Middle East and South Asia, involving functioning alliances to counter terrorism, as well as creating incentives for hostile leaders to change their behaviors. Benjamin says, "Don't conduct foreign policy adventures," because these inevitably give "the bin Laden argument a powerful leg up. We've got to stop doing that. We need people to go back to believing in America as the upholder of ideals it was not too long ago."

Host(s): School of Humanities, Arts & Social Sciences, Center for International Studies

The Street Just Out of Sight

Tue, 06 Dec 2011 17:32:57 GMT

Meet 2011 TR35 Winner Ben Rubin

Wed, 30 Nov 2011 05:00:00 GMT

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 wanted to create a wearable alarm clock that would measure brain activity and wake the user in an optimal phase of light sleep. Before he graduated, Rubin cofounded a company called Zeo, and in 2009 it began selling the first consumer device that detects the user's phase of sleep. Read more: http://techre.vu/w5tW71

Caspar Hare - How we (should) decide

Tue, 22 Nov 2011 16:02:49 GMT

Associate professor in the Department of Linguistics and Philosophy Caspar Hare aims to develop theories of practical rationality that may just help us make real-world decisions. Read more about Hare's work at http://web.mit.edu/newsoffice/2011/pr

Spreadable Media: Creating Value and Meaning in a Networked Society.

Mon, 21 Nov 2011 13:44:42 GMT

How are the shifting relations between media producers and their audiences transforming the concept of meaningful participation? And how do alternative systems for the circulation of media texts pave the way for new production modes, alternative genres of content, and new relationships between producers and audiences? Henry Jenkins, Sam Ford, and Joshua Green-co-authors of the forthcoming book Spreadable Media-share recent experiments from independent filmmakers, video game designers, comic book creators, and artists and discuss the promises and challenges of models for deeper audience participation with the media industries, setting the stage for the issues covered by the conference.

Speakers: Henry Jenkins (University of Southern California), Sam Ford (Peppercom Strategic Communications) and Joshua Green (Undercurrent)

Here We Are Now (Entertain Us): Location, Mobile, and How Data Tells Stories

Mon, 21 Nov 2011 13:41:04 GMT

Location-based services and context-aware technologies are altering the way we encounter our environments and producing enormous volumes of data about where we go, what we do, and how we live and interact. How are these changes transforming the ways we engage with our physical world, and with each other? What kind of stories does the data produce, and what do they tell us about our culture and social behaviors? What opportunities and perils does this information have for businesses and individuals? What are the implications for brands, audiences, content producers, and media companies?

Moderator: Xiaochang Li (New York University)

Panelists: Germaine Halegoua (University of Kansas), Dan Street (Loku) and Andy Ellwood (Gowalla)

At What Cost?: The Privacy Issues that Must Be Considered in a Digital World.

Mon, 21 Nov 2011 13:39:20 GMT

The vast range of new experiments to facilitated greater audience participation and more personalized media content bring are often accomplished through much deeper uses of audience data and platforms whose business models are built on the collection and use of data. What privacy issues must be considered beneath the enthusiasm for these new innovations? What are the fault lines beneath the surface of digital entertainment and marketing, and what is the appropriate balance between new modes of communication and communication privacy?

Participants: Jonathan Zittrain (Harvard University) and Helen Nissenbaum (New York University)

Introduction (Day 2)

Mon, 21 Nov 2011 13:38:26 GMT

Grant McCracken (author of Chief Culture Officer; Culturematic)

The Futures of Serialized Storytelling

Mon, 21 Nov 2011 13:37:30 GMT

variety of experiments with serialized video storytelling. What can we learn from some of the most compelling emerging ways to tell ongoing stories through online video, cross-platform features and applications and real world engagement? What models for content creation are emerging, and what are the stakes for content creators and audiences alike?

Moderator: Laurie Baird (Georgia Tech)

Panelists: Matt Locke (Storythings, UK), Steve Coulson (Campfire), Lynn Liccardo (soap opera critic), and Denise Mann (University of California-Los Angeles)

The Futures of Music

Mon, 21 Nov 2011 13:32:14 GMT

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 other media industries learn from emerging models of content creation and circulation?

Moderator: Nancy Baym (Kansas University)

Panelists: Mike King (Berklee College of Music), João Brasil (Brazilian artist), Chuck Fromm (Worship Leader Media), Erin McKeown (musical artist and fellow with the Berkman Center for Internet and Society at Harvard University) and Brian Whitman (The Echo Nest)

Cities and the Future of Entertainment

Tue, 15 Nov 2011 15:45:53 GMT

Academic Writing Symposium, Chapter 25

Mon, 14 Nov 2011 21:31:01 GMT

Academic Writing Symposium, Chapter 24

Mon, 14 Nov 2011 21:02:42 GMT

Academic Writing Symposium, Chapter 23

Mon, 14 Nov 2011 20:33:35 GMT

Academic Writing Symposium, Chapter 22

Mon, 14 Nov 2011 20:29:39 GMT

Academic Writing Symposium, Chapter 21

Mon, 14 Nov 2011 19:24:57 GMT

Academic Writing Symposium, Chapter 20

Mon, 14 Nov 2011 18:59:25 GMT

Academic Writing Symposium, Chapter 19

Mon, 14 Nov 2011 16:04:05 GMT

Academic Writing Symposium, Chapter 18

Mon, 14 Nov 2011 15:50:39 GMT

Academic Writing Symposium, Chapter 17

Thu, 10 Nov 2011 21:58:50 GMT

Academic Writing Symposium, Chapter 16

Thu, 10 Nov 2011 21:43:06 GMT

Academic Writing Symposium, Chapter 15

Thu, 10 Nov 2011 21:39:02 GMT

Academic Writing Symposium, Chapter 14

Thu, 10 Nov 2011 21:31:11 GMT

Academic Writing Symposium, Chapter 13

Thu, 10 Nov 2011 21:00:40 GMT

Academic Writing Symposium, Chapter 12

Thu, 10 Nov 2011 20:53:22 GMT

Academic Writing Symposium, Chapter 11

Thu, 10 Nov 2011 20:43:04 GMT

Academic Writing Symposium, Chapter 8

Thu, 10 Nov 2011 20:36:11 GMT

Academic Writing Symposium, Chapter 10

Thu, 10 Nov 2011 20:11:30 GMT

Academic Writing Symposium, Chapter 9

Thu, 10 Nov 2011 20:06:05 GMT

Academic Writing Symposium, Chapter 7

Thu, 10 Nov 2011 19:00:26 GMT

Academic Writing Symposium, Chapter 6

Thu, 10 Nov 2011 18:46:41 GMT

Academic Writing Symposium, Chapter 5

Thu, 10 Nov 2011 18:26:35 GMT

Academic Writing Symposium, Chapter 4

Thu, 10 Nov 2011 17:59:12 GMT

Academic Writing Symposium, Chapter 3

Thu, 10 Nov 2011 17:41:07 GMT

October 29, 2011

Academic Writing Symposium, Chapter 2

Thu, 10 Nov 2011 17:10:24 GMT

October 29, 2011 Academic Writing Symposium

Academic Writing Symposium, Chapter 1

Thu, 10 Nov 2011 16:31:15 GMT

October 29, 2011 Academic Writing Symposium

MIT School of Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences -- 2011 Muh Alumni Award Lecture -- given by Dr. Joseph E. Aoun, PhD '82, President of Northeastern University

Thu, 27 Oct 2011 18:09:04 GMT

The Future of American Higher Education in the Global Knowledge Marketplace: Dr. Joseph E. Aoun, PhD '82, and President of Northeastern University, delivers the Robert A. Muh Alumni Award Lecture in the Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences. -- Recorded at MIT Bartos Theater, 26 October 2011

No One Writes Alone: Peer Review in the Classroom, A Guide For Students

Wed, 12 Oct 2011 22:34:40 GMT

No One Writes Alone: Peer Review in the Classroom, A Guide For Instructors

Wed, 12 Oct 2011 22:32:34 GMT

Common Threads: The Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences at MIT

Wed, 05 Oct 2011 16:49:33 GMT

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.

MIT Communications Forum: A Conversation with Sherry Turkle

Tue, 12 Apr 2011 04:00:00 GMT

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."

comment on rotman

Sun, 27 Mar 2011 23:45:16 GMT

Sensing the Unseen: The Evanescent: Tasting

Thu, 17 Mar 2011 17:39:22 GMT

March 11 Speakers: Amy Trubek and Brad Weiss. Taste is at once a subjective aesthetic experience and also subject to normative judgment.

School of Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences 50th Anniversary Celebration (2000)

Tue, 08 Mar 2011 22:08:10 GMT

The 50th anniversary celebration for arts and humanities programs at MIT featured several symposia and a medal ceremony held on Oct. 6-7, 2000.

MIT Communications Forum: Online News — Public Sphere or Echo Chamber?

Thu, 24 Feb 2011 05:00:00 GMT

Two panelists debate whether journalism in a digital age amounts to feast or famine, and differ on even basic questions.

MIT150 symposium: Economic Policy Challenges — Macroeconomics and Fiscal Policy

Mon, 14 Feb 2011 14:16:42 GMT

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

Panel
Olivier Blanchard PhD '77 - Class of 1941 Professor of Economics, MIT and Chief Economist, International Monetary Fund
Pedro Aspe PhD '78 - Co-Chairman, Evercore Partners and Chairman and CEO, Protego
Robert J. Gordon '67 - Stanley G. Harris Professor of the Social Sciences, Northwestern University
Paul Krugman PhD '77 - Professor of Economics and International Affairs, Princeton University [via telephone]
N. Gregory Mankiw PhD '84 - Robert M. Beren Professor of Economics, Harvard University
Christina Romer PhD '85 - Class of 1957-Garff B. Wilson Professor of Economics, University of California, Berkeley

MIT Communications Forum: Communications in Slow-Moving Crises

Thu, 18 Nov 2010 05:00:00 GMT

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?

Joe Haldeman Lunchtime Lecture

Wed, 10 Nov 2010 14:14:16 GMT

Writer Joe Haldeman talks about his creative process.

Sensing the Unseen: The Elusive -- Wayne Marshall's "Taximan"

Tue, 09 Nov 2010 17:13:27 GMT

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Sensing the Unseen: The Elusive -- Tandem Discussion

Tue, 09 Nov 2010 16:20:13 GMT

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.

Civic Media and the Law

Thu, 04 Nov 2010 04:00:00 GMT

11/04/2010
5:00 PM
E14-633

Micah Sifry, Founder, Editor, Personal Democracy Forum; Daniel Schuman, Policy Counsel, Sunlight Foundation; David Ardia, Fellow, Berkman Center

Description: While these panelists diverge on the precise metaphor -- 'picking through a minefield,' 'hacking through the underbrush,' 'navigating uncharted waters' -- they all agree that the web poses novel dilemmas and hazards for truth"seeking and speaking citizens.

First the good news: "There was a conscious decision by Congress to give online space some breathing room," says David Ardia, shielding website operators "who allow others to use their site to speak out" from liability for some published content. This has permitted the explosive rise of YouTube and blogging services that serve as platforms for the masses. On the other hand, copyright and other legal claims are being successfully prosecuted against website hosts and posters.

Ardia worries about the underreported phenomenon of citizen journalists who post on the web and find themselves "fighting an authority." There is "an extensive chilling effect," says Ardia "If you discover information that shows government corruption or puts powerful institutions on the defensive, you run the real risk of having them lawyer up, come after you, or put you in a position where you can't afford to stand up for your rights."

Another emerging issue: When web content is construed as invading privacy, legal suits arise that lead to a delicate dance between free speech and privacy. "Horrible things are said and done through the internet," says Ardia, "but overall the impact is far more beneficial than harmful. As we start to fix instances of bad conduct, we run a great riskof correcting one thing, but at the cost ofspeech that should be protected."

While the Obama Administration has pledged to make government more transparent, there is wild inconsistency in how federal, state and local governments make their work available. Daniel Schuman describes how some public authorities offer "giant data sets" lacking the kind of sophisticated formats that enable fruitful vetting. Congress members must post an earmarks request online, but Schuman says, "If you want to find it, good luck." And in certain areas, there is no web data at all: For access to congressional ethics information, someone must visit Capitol Hill in person at the right time, and copy pertinent pages. Schuman researched a "fantastic, sortable, downloadable" database describing the disbursement of Wall Street bailout money. The drawback: license provisions that permit the database owner "to pull back" the information, posing a major "impediment to people who want to use this information to talk about what's going on."

Another problem involves credentialing of online journalists. "Members of the civic media simply can't get in the door" of press galleries in some House and Committee meetings, and forget recording Supreme Court justices by cellphone or other electronic devices. "As a private citizen, it's hard and expensive to push back," says Schuman. The Wikileaks disclosures are shaking up discussions of government transparency as well as those about online freedoms. Says Schuman, "It makes the political climate more difficult. Irresponsible journalism will need to be protected, and condemned when done in this kind of way." Moderator Micah Sifry sees an overreaction: "Leaks happen every day in Washington; secret information is out there all the timeNo one is prosecuted. It's the currency of information there." Ultimately, says Ardia, we want to "bring information together in a way that moves us from a glut of data to real knowledge, and hopefully to wisdom, to make better decisions as a society. We are moving in that direction. I'm optimistic."

About the Speaker(s): Micah L. Sifry launched Personal Democracy Forum, a daily website and annual conference on how technology is changing politics. He is also the editor of the group blog TechPresident, which focuses on how campaigns use the web.

Sifry also consults on how political organizations, campaigns, non"profits and media entities can adapt to and thrive in a networked world. Current clients include the Sunlight Foundation, the Campaign for America's Future, and Air America.

From 1997 to 2006, he worked closely with Public Campaign, a non"profit, non"partisan organization focused on comprehensive campaign finance reform, as its senior analyst. Prior to that, Sifry was an editor and writer with The Nation magazine for 13 years.

He is the author or editor of four books, including Is That a Politician in Your Pocket? (John Wiley & Sons, 2004), written with Nancy Watzman. He is also an adjunct professor of political science at City University of New York/Graduate Center.

Host(s): School of Humanities, Arts & Social Sciences, Communications Forum (From the MIT World collection)

Humanities in the Digital Age

Wed, 20 Oct 2010 04:00:00 GMT

Reports of the demise of the humanities are exaggerated, suggest these panelists, but there may be reason to fear its loss of relevance.

Starr Forum: Reclaiming the Moral Life of Philanthropy

Mon, 18 Oct 2010 18:22:09 GMT

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 not-for-profit world as well. Along the way the clarity of core values like justice and equality too often gave way to utilitarian approaches based on effectiveness and cost-benefit analyses.These have their place, but only if grounded in a strong moral framework. Speaker: Gara LaMarche, CEO and President, Atlantic Philanthropies Introduction: Deborah Fitzgerald, Dean, School of Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences, MIT

MIT Communucations Forum: Online Migration of Newspapers

Thu, 07 Oct 2010 04:00:00 GMT

Two seasoned media observers map out shifting terrain in the news industry, as digital forces shake up print journalism.

Washington Rules: America's Path to Permanent War

Tue, 14 Sep 2010 04:00:00 GMT

Washington stubbornly sticks to national security policies that don't work, are devoid of moral considerations, and rob future generations, says Andrew J. Bacevich

Numbers, Words and Colors

Fri, 21 May 2010 04:00:00 GMT

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

Dean Deborah Fitzgerald, Introductory Statement: CMS 10th Anniversary

Fri, 07 May 2010 14:54:00 GMT

MIT Commnuications Forum: Jenkins' Farewell — Reflections on a Career at MIT

Thu, 22 Apr 2010 04:00:00 GMT

04/22/2010
5:00 PM
Bartos theater

Henry Jenkins, Provost's Professor of Communication, Journalism, and Cinematic Arts at the University of Southern California; William Uricchio, Professor of Comparative Media Studies

Description: In conversation with William Uricchio, Henry Jenkins returns to reflect on his time at MIT and offers insights into MIT's culture, his new life at USC, and the state of digital cultures, new media and collective intelligence.

Jenkins shares that complex feeling of loving and hating MIT, at the same time and often within the course of one day. Providing his own insights into MIT's culture and the legacy of IHTFP, he looks back on a long career and the evolution of film and media studies into the Comparative Media Studies program we know today. He attributes his longevity at MIT to the inspiration provided by the students, and makes a strong case for the value of humanities education, while questions remain for some on how the humanities fit into an MIT education.

The reflection ends with Jenkins reading The Cat in the Hat-his annual salute to Dr. Seuss. This tradition, began 18 years ago, became a staple of IAP. Jenkins says he is reminded "how much it characterizes to me that creativity and imagination, which is so vital at MIT, and that we turn our back on at our own peril."

Host(s): School of Humanities, Arts & Social Sciences, Communications Forum (From the MIT World collection)

MIT Communications Forum: Civics in Difficult Places

Thu, 15 Apr 2010 04:00:00 GMT

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.