Published on January 16th, 2019 A team of scholars and students from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) is leading a Social IT Solutions workshop with lecturers and students from the Dar es Salaam Institute of Technology (DIT) and the State University of Zanzibar (SUZA) from January 7-18, 2019. The […]
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Published on November 21st, 2018 Call for Submissions Disaster Media: A thematic stream for the journal Media+Environment; seeking to explore media, space, and the geopolitical quandaries of visualizing and mobilizing disaster relief; edited by Janet Walker and Lisa Parks. This “Disaster Media” stream is slated for publication in the first […]
Published on November 2nd, 2018Myron Dewey (Newe-Numah/Paiute-Shoshone) is an indigenous citizen journalist, educator, documentary filmmaker and the developer of Digital Smoke Signals, a social networking and filmmaking initiative, emerging out of the Standing Rock Sioux Reservation protests against the Dakota Access Pipeline project of 2016-17. Using a full range of contemporary […]
Published on October 4th, 2018The GMTaC lab is pleased to share the fantastic news that Professor Lisa Parks of MIT Comparative Media Studies / Writing has just been announced as a MacArthur Fellow. The fellowship is colloquially known as the “genius grant” and is awarded to individuals who have shown “extraordinary originality and […]
Published on October 3rd, 2018The GMTaC Lab has partnered with the Hivos Foundation to support the Digital Earth project, which grants fellowships to artists or designers based in Africa or Asia who are exploring issues of digital materiality. Lisa Parks will work as a research mentor to Emo de Medeiros, an […]
Published on October 1st, 2018DISTRIBUTION MATTERS A new MIT Press book series Distribution Matters explores how media content, ideas, and information move through the world — and to what effect. Distribution networks — from postal services to social media platforms — affect in essential ways who has access to cultural […]
Published on September 9th, 2018The Media in Transition (MiT) conference is back! The Comparative Media Studies program will be hosting MiT10: A Reprise – Democracy and Digital Media from May 17-18, 2019 in Cambridge, MA. In 1998, MIT’s Comparative Media Studies program held the first Media in Transition (MiT) conference and […]
Published on July 20th, 2018 GMTaC Director Prof. Lisa Parks discusses her research on the way satellites and other aerial technologies have changed society in an article from MIT News: http://news.mit.edu/2018/contemplating-eyes-sky-lisa-parks-satellites-0720
Published on July 11th, 2018GMTaC Lab has joined with the Hivos Foundation, a development aid organization, to support the Digital Earth Fellowship Project. Digital Earth is a 6 month-long fellowship for artists and designers based in Africa or Asia, working across a variety of media, who would like to investigate our […]