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.
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.
Class on digital humanities premieres with tech-savvy approaches
New class offers MIT students the chance to pair technical know-how with real-world art and humanities projects at local museums.
Building culture in digital media
Fox Harrell’s new book presents a ‘manifesto’ detailing how computing can create powerful new forms of expression and culture.
Broadcasting rights
MIT professor Heather Hendershot studies the conservative movement’s strategic use of television through the decades.
Big game hunter
MIT sociologist T.L. Taylor studies the subcultures of online gaming and the nascent world of online e-sports.
Diversifying your online world
In a new book, MIT’s Ethan Zuckerman asserts that we need to overcome the Internet’s sorting tendencies and create tools to make ourselves ‘digital cosmopolitans.’
Playing with Einstein
MIT Game Lab releases OpenRelativity, a game-development tool to help developers and educators experiment with the effects of special relativity.
Nate Silver presents forecasting work as antidote to ‘terrible’ political pundits
In MIT talk, celebrated election forecaster offers critique of media, advice to students and hints about his future projects.
Why are Japanese cartoons a global hit?
MIT scholar’s new book heralds ‘creative collaboration’ with the masses as the key to anime’s worldwide popularity.