3 Questions: Heather Hendershot on the state of US political discourse
Media historian and expert on conservatism considers the end of rational dialog.
Does cable news shape your views?
MIT study finds partisan news coverage has a bigger impact on viewers without strong media preferences.
Changing the face of conservatism in the U.S.
New book by professor Heather Hendershot explores impact of William F. Buckley’s “Firing Line.”
Report: How interactive documentaries represent a new form of innovation in digital journalism
MIT report represents the first thorough mapping of the ongoing convergence between interactive and participatory practices within digital journalism.
How can one tree tell the story of climate change?
With help from a single red oak, five MIT Knight Science Journalism colleagues explore storytelling as a way to convey the impacts of a changing climate.
Our connection to content
Using neuroscience tools, Innerscope Research explores the connections between consumers and media.
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.
Film, form, and feeling
MIT professor’s new book studies formal properties of movies and the structure of our emotions.
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.
Broadcasting rights
MIT professor Heather Hendershot studies the conservative movement’s strategic use of television through the decades.
Podcasting 101: A guide to getting started
Podcasting, which faded in popularity with the rise of YouTube, is experiencing a second wave of interest.
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.’