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 […]
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Published on October 1st, 2018A blog post by GMTaC Research Assistant Iago Bojczuk. In the late 1990s, Time magazine had the following headline stamped on its cover page: “Pokémon: For many kids it’s now an addiction—cards, video games, toys, a new movie. Is it bad for them?”1 That edition came out only […]
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 August 3rd, 2018A blog post by Graduate RA student Annis R. Sands. With the stiff competition for eyeballs in the subscription video on demand (SVOD) landscape, it was a little surprising to learn that two of Amazon’s chief SVOD rivals, Netflix and Hulu, used Amazon Web Services (AWS). […]
Published on August 3rd, 2018A blog post by Graduate RA student Annis R. Sands. On May 9th, 2018, I co-presented research on the historical emergence of Amazon.com with Vicky Zeamer, a fellow MIT graduate student and Research Assistant in the Global Media Technologies and Cultures (GMTaC). We presented these preliminary […]
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 […]
Published on May 24th, 2018In the post-9/11 era, media technologies have become increasingly intertwined with vertical power as airwaves, airports, air space, and orbit have been commandeered to support national security and defense. In this book, Lisa Parks develops the concept of vertical mediation to explore how audiovisual cultures enact […]
Published on May 22nd, 2018Written by Annis R. Sands, Graduate Research Assistant in the GMTaC Lab In February 2018, I participated in the Media, Refugees, and ICTs workshop hosted by the Global Media Technologies and Cultures Lab. Prior to the workshop, I had very little knowledge about public policy on […]