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.’
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.
Life in BASIC
Nick Montfort and colleagues examine cultural significance of computer code in new book.
Historian Craig Wilder featured in new Ken Burns film
The head of the MIT History section served as a consultant on the director's latest documentary, “The Central Park Five.”
Watch ‘The Story and the Algorithm’ live
Civic Media Conference to be broadcast and liveblogged at knightfoundation.org/live.
Communicating the climate challenge
New York Times’ Andrew Revkin shares lessons with MIT faculty, students at Earth Day colloquium.
MIT's Communication Forum conducts a conversation for scholars — and citizens
Has explored media and change for more than 30 years
Robert Lepage launches workshop on Feb. 12
MIT students collaborate with McDermott Award recipient Lepage and discover creative possibilities of playing cards.
Profile: David Thorburn
Professor of literature and director of the MIT Communications Forum on the past and future of communications.
Traditional social networks fueled Twitter’s spread
Site’s U.S. growth relied primarily on media attention, geographic proximity of users.