Comparative Media Studies @ MIT kicked off the 2013 academic year yesterday with orientation presentations. The second-year CMS grad students pulled together a 10-minute presentation about their thesis topic and summer research and then presented to faculty, staff and incoming graduate students. I thought you’d be interested! RE: points in […]
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No pun intended: I want to share something with you! I’ve been collecting terms around the peer economy. Stripped down to its core, this work paradigm is essentially about freelancing. It’s 1099s, independent contractors and sole proprietors. Collaborative, sharing, peer, consumption, economy… Those are enough terms to make heads spin. […]
Atray is a medical researcher. I’m a journalist by training with a bent for community. We each have roots in different strands of critical analysis. As roommates, we spent hours discussing science, cultural context and how to measure impact. One topic we often returned to is whether science can fit […]
“We are new into your thing. We have never been there before; we never wanted to go before until some one of your people, Bill Bunge, whether you want him or not, was telling us about geography and what it could do for us. He showed that geography could be […]
Last Tuesday Groundwork Somerville officially dedicated their South Street Farm and with it, the exciting new data mural that the Green Team has worked so hard to finish painting. The Story The mural is one of our four pilot Data Murals – an infographic that tells the story of what […]