Thomas Levenson: “Stop Trying to Make ‘Wuhan Virus’ Happen”
The term Wuhan virus treats COVID-19 as a Chinese scourge—and ignores an ugly history. Via The Atlantic. The post Thomas Levenson: “Stop Trying to Make ‘Wuhan Virus’ Happen” appeared first on MIT...
View ArticleRemote Learning Guidance From State Education Agencies During the COVID-19...
CMS/W Assitant Professor Justin Reich and the Teaching Systems Lab report their recommendations and best practices for state education agencies providing remote learning guidance during COVID-19 school...
View ArticleRegister now (for free): Media Arts and Design | Blockchain Conference 2020...
Media Arts and Design | Blockchain Conference 2020 (May 2-3, 2020 @ Drexel University – 100 % online): Drexel University’s Department of Digital Media, supported by the Education Arcade @ MIT, the LIVE...
View ArticleAttacking climate change, one human story at a time
CMS/W course arms students with the rhetorical weaponry to fight global warming. The post Attacking climate change, one human story at a time appeared first on MIT Comparative Media Studies/Writing.
View ArticleWhat role can blockchain technologies play during the Covid-19 crisis (and...
Essay on the possible use of blockchain technologies to assist in a positive way during & after the Covid-19 crisis. About the author and his motivations for this blog post My name is Alexander...
View ArticleQ&A: Seth Mnookin on Covid-19 and the public understanding of science
"The response is varying a lot in different parts of the country, in many cases according to the political leanings of an area or a region. And that’s going to cause real problems." The post Q&A:...
View ArticleEmpathy for the game master: how virtual reality creates empathy for those...
This article rethinks the notion of virtual reality (VR) as an ‘empathy machine’ by examining how VR directs emotional identification not toward the subjects of particular VR titles, but toward VR...
View ArticleMedia Arts and Design | Blockchain Conference 2020 – a recap of the two-day...
What impact do Blockchain technologies have on media, arts and design? Which case studies already exist? And how will the future look like? The Media Arts and Design | Blockchain conference on the...
View ArticleStudent poems during COVID-19: “Pandemic Spring”
In the weeks since they had to leave MIT, the students in my Poetry Writing Workshop have done some of the finest work of the semester. Ed Barrett noticed the same thing. It turns out that stress,...
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Media, Arts and Design | AI Conference 2020 (Call for Abstracts; Register as...
What impact will artificial intelligence (AI) have on media, arts and design? Which case studies already exist? What examples are to be found in the past? And how will the future look like? The Media,...
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