Staged Empathy: Empathy and Visual Perception in Virtual Reality Systems
Ainsley Sutherland’s thesis proposes “staged empathy” as a new analytical framework to examine how virtual reality work provokes empathic feeling.
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The Production Process of “Do Not Track”
Deniz Tortum’s Docubase case study of production process of “Do Not Track”, an interactive web documentary about internet privacy.
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Hacking the Future of Publishing
“With or without our consent and awareness, the experience of reading is changing under us,” Anika Gupta, ’16, writes.
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“The right side of history”: MIT releases its climate change report
“The time has come for MIT to play a prominent, visible part in the action and solutions needed to confront the climate challenge. “
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Driverless Dreams: Technological Narratives and the Shape of the Automated Car
Erik Stayton, ’15, examines dominant and alternative paradigms of ground vehicle automation, and concludes that current and imagined automation technology is far more hybrid than is often recognized.
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E-Sports Broadcasting
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Creativity in Chinese technology communities and its implication in China’s development mode shift from “Made in China” to “Created in China.”
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Engineering the American Dream: A Study of Bias and Perceptions of Merit in the High-Tech Labor Market
Bias and algorithmic recruitment in the high-tech labor market, how CODE2040 is diversifying its applicant pool, and ways to increase tech’s diversity.
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New report: Transformative Media Organizing in LGBTQ/Two-Spirit Communities
Associate Prof. Sasha Costanza-Chock, Civic Media’s Rahul Bhargava, and recent CMS grads Heather Craig and Yu Wang help author this “Out for Change” report.
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