Said and Done for October 2014
Digest of the MIT humanities, arts, and social sciences features a Nobel Prize, a new professorship in the Department of Linguistics and Philosophy, three new SHASS websites, and more.
Department
Comparative Media Studies/Writing
Creating user-friendlier environments
Federico Casalegno designs technology environments that keep human experience at the center of user experience.
Coco Fusco joins SHASS as an MLK Visiting Scholar for 2014-15
Acclaimed interdisciplinary artist and writer will serve in CMS/W.
Media Lab to bring more digital tools into newsrooms with $1.2 million Knight Foundation grant
The Future of News initiative aims to bridge the gap between journalism, technology, and civic engagement.
A new kind of media theory
MIT professor Fox Harrell works to enrich the subjective and ethical dimensions of the digital media experience.
3 Questions: Seth Mnookin on research to encourage vaccination
MIT professor co-authors AAAS report calling for dedicated research on vaccination decisions.
2014 CMS Media Spectacle
April 28 competition will showcase videos by the MIT community in Building 32-155. Prizes awarded to best entries in animation, documentary, and experimental, among others.
3 Questions with Seth Mnookin
Journalist and best-selling author discusses the challenges and impacts of science writing
Symposium marks 50th anniversary of ‘The Machine in the Garden’
Enduringly influential book by Leo Marx, MIT professor emeritus