Published on August 14th, 2020A letter signed by more than 350 media and communication scholars to TV Network CEOs, as well as commissioners with the Federal Communications Commission, was covered in Los Angeles Times and The Hill. The letter was started by professors Anna Everett (UC Santa Barbara) and Lisa […]
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Published on August 13th, 2020Lisa Parks and Rachel Thompson published a peer-reviewed article, “The Slow Shutdown: Information and Internet Regulation in Tanzania From 2010 to 2018 and Impacts on Online Content Creators” in the International Journal of Communication in August 2020. An abstract is provided below and the full pdf is available […]
Published on June 2nd, 2020Graduate research assistant Diego Cerna Aragon published a post in DATACTIVE‘s blog “COVID-19 from the margins” on how the Peruvian state is using social welfare databases to distribute financial support during the coronavirus crisis. Here is the teaser of the post: The Peruvian tragedies are manifold. […]
Published on May 20th, 2020Wednesday, May 20, 2-3:30 p.m. RSVP to get Zoom link. This session, conducted via Zoom, is the first in a series of Digital Humanities workshops to be facilitated by the University of Montana’s Humanities Institute. To launch the series, Lisa Parks, MIT Professor of Comparative Media […]
Published on May 15th, 2020The GMTaC Lab celebrates graduate student research assistants, Iago Bojczuk and Han Su, who completed their master’s degrees in Comparative Media Studies in 2020. Bojczuk’s thesis is entitled Media Cartographies of Broadband Access in Brazil: The Case of the Geostationary Defense and Strategic Communications Satellite (SGDC-1) and Rural Schools and Su’s thesis […]
Published on May 15th, 2020GMTaC lab RA Iago and Han successfully defensed their theses. Here are the abstracts. Media Cartographies of Broadband Access in Brazil: The Case of the Geostationary Defense and Strategic Communications Satellite (SGDC-1) and Rural Schools by Iago Bojczuk Abstract The launch of the Geostationary Defense and […]
Published on May 12th, 2020Professor Lisa Parks cited in Time magazine article about the history of video chat technology.
Published on April 26th, 2020Graduate research assistant Kelly Wagman was awarded a MIT PKG Summer Fellowship to work with Urban Rivers, a startup non-profit, on designing and developing a remote-controlled trash collecting robot. Urban Rivers, based in Chicago, is currently working on rebuilding wildlife along the Chicago riverfront. The trash robot is […]
Published on April 8th, 2020GMTaC lab RA Iago Bojczuk and Han Su will present their thesis on April 10th at 11 am. Welcome to join us! You can register for the presentation webinar here: https://mit.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_oxtCd1DyTy6VglFFEy6jDQYou can see the presenters and their thesis titles here: https://cmsw.mit.edu/event/cms-thesis-day-2020/