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Book Series: Distribution Matters

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 […]

Call for Papers: Media in Transition Conference 2019

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 […]

Netflix, Hulu, Data, Oh My

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).  […]

Amazon: The Ever Expanding Data Feast

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 […]

Student Reflection on the Media, Refugees, & ICTs Workshop

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 […]