Andrew Whitacre
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Massachusetts, United States
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Podcast: Exploratory Programming for the Arts and Humanities
MIT professor Nick Montfort talks about his new book and how learning to explore code isn't just for the tech-inclined -- programming can be a way for arts and humanities scholars to discover answers...and questions...they've never seen before. → Read More
Film director Thorsten Trimpop wins Golden Dove at Leipzig Festival
The prestigious prize is for Open Documentary Lab fellow Trimpop's film Furusato, chronicling the effects of Japan's nuclear disaster at Fukushima. → Read More
Podcast, Kishonna L . Gray: "#Misogynoir, #SolidarityIsForWhiteWomen, and other forms of Black Digital Feminisms"
Operating under the structures of masculinity, heterosexuality, and Whiteness sustained in digital spaces, marginalized women resist hegemonic realities. → Read More
Podcast: André Brock, "Black + Twitter: A Cultural Informatics Approach"
André Brock unpacks Black Twitter from two perspectives: the interface and associated practice alongside discourse analysis of its utility and audience. → Read More
Podcast: Jennifer Stromer-Galley, "Illuminating 2016: Using Social Listening Tools to Understand the Presidential Campaign"
Jennifer Stromer-Galley describes large-scale collection and machine learning to study how presidential candidates and the public have used social media. → Read More
Video and podcast: "The Turn to 'Tween': An Age Category and its Cultural Consequences"
How are “tweens” represented in popular culture? And how does this relatively new category deal with race, class, and gender identity? → Read More
Video and podcast: "Time Traveling with James Gleick"
Best-selling author and science historian James Gleick discusses his career, the state of science journalism, and his newest book Time Travel: A History. → Read More
Communicating Humanities Research Through Video
What do you need (and not need) to produce video that tells a story about research? How do you determine whether the benefits outweigh the costs? → Read More
Podcast: Allison Hahn, "This Land Is Our Land: Mobile Media, Protest, and Debate in Maasai and Mongolian Land Disputes"
How has mobile media changed the ways that nomadic communities receive and send information, engage state actors, and participate in international deliberations? → Read More
Podcast: Douglas O'Reagan, "Next Stage Planning for the Digital Humanities at MIT"
Douglas O’Reagan updates the audience on his efforts and invite suggestions and ideas concerning the future of digital humanities at MIT. → Read More
Podcast: Christine Walley, "The Exit Zero Project: A Transmedia Exploration of Family and Class in Postindustrial Chicago"
Christine Walley on the traumatic effects of losing the steel industry in Chicago and how it found expression in a book, website, and documentary film. → Read More
Podcast: Sun-ha Hong, "Knowledge's Allure: Surveillance and Uncertainty"
Struggles with "big" data and surveillance are not just a question of privacy and security, but how promises of knowledge and its bounty enact a redistribution of authority → Read More
Junot DÃaz receives Hispanic Heritage Award for Literature
Ceremony to be broadcast on PBS on September 30, and DÃaz will share the stage with other winners, including Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor. → Read More
Video: "Virtual Reality Meets Documentary: A Deeper Look"
Featuring the leading creators in the virtual reality space, helping us better understand VRâs potentials and implications for documentary and journalism. → Read More
Kurt Fendt wins student-nominated Teaching with Digital Technology Award
The award recognizes Fendt's incorporation of collaboration-focused digital humanities tools, including two that Fendt himself helped develop. → Read More
Podcast: Fox Harrell, âReflections on Advanced Identity Representationâ
Fox Harrell presents outcomes from his National Science Foundation-supported Advanced Identity Representation project, which helped reveal social biases in existing systems and implements systems to respond to those biases with greater nuance and expressive power. → Read More
Podcast: Lisa Glebatis Perks, "Media Marathoning and Affective Involvement"
Lisa Glebatis Perks describes some of marathonersâ most common emotional experiences, including anger, empathy, mourning, nostalgia, and regret. → Read More
Podcast: "A Conversation with Guy Maddin"
With William Uricchio, Guy Maddin discusses why we should bother digging up filmic and narrative memories from oblivion. → Read More
Searchable MIT President's Reports, 1872-2014
The first combined searchable collection of every MIT President's Report. All 57,000 pages of them, going back to 1872. → Read More
Podcast: Caroline Jack, "How Facts Survive In Public Service Media"
When the Ad Council bombarded television viewers with messages on economic literacy, was it information or propaganda? → Read More