MIT Global Media Technologies & Cultures Lab

What can we learn from past technology-based educational projects? Check out this post on the history of Brazilian Satellites during the 60s and 70s by @IagoZuk, former research assistant at @MIT_GMTaC and recent graduate from @mit_cmsw. globalmedia.mit.edu/2020/10/26/med…

What are the latest developments in digital sovereignty in the European Union? Check out the newest post in the Network Sovereignty Blog: "European Digital Sovereignty: EU’s Projection of Normative Power?" by Abid Adonis, researcher at @AWCPH_UI. globalmedia.mit.edu/2020/09/09/eur…

A letter signed by more than 350 media and communication scholars to TV Network CEOs, as well as FCC commissioners, was covered in Los Angeles Times and The Hill. The letter was started by professors Anna Everett (UC Santa Barbara) and Lisa Parks (MIT). globalmedia.mit.edu/2020/08/14/let…

Lab news: Lisa Parks and Rachel Thompson published a peer-reviewed article, “The Slow Shutdown: Information and Internet Regulation in Tanzania From 2010 to 2018 and Impacts on Online Content Creators” in the International Journal of Communication. globalmedia.mit.edu/2020/08/13/lis…

What are the different meanings that "digital sovereignty" has acquired over the years in academic and public discourse? In this blog post, @stephctr offers a short summary of what has been written during the last couple of decades on this topic. globalmedia.mit.edu/2020/08/05/the…

For @MIT_GMTaC I made a zine that traces cable TV infrastructures and the ways that people pirated content prior to the conversion to digital.

What techniques were used in the past to disrupt cable TV infrastructure? Check out the newest post in the Network Sovereignty Blog: "Notes on Creating the Zine, Cable TV Infrastructures: A Glossary of Illegal Access" by @danielwcarter globalmedia.mit.edu/2020/07/02/not…

Mobile politics is contentious politics! The ban of 59 apps by Indian govt cannot come at a better time for my article in @MIT_GMTaC. In this post, I discuss my ongoing research on mobile apps and app stores, including also a short preview of a forthcoming work with @lotus_ruan.

What are the politics behind mobile applications, app stores, and operating systems? Check out the most recent post in the Network Sovereignty Blog: "Mobile Politics: Infrastructural Chokepoints and Geopolitical Flashpoints" by @LRJia globalmedia.mit.edu/2020/07/01/mob…

What different technological alternatives can be imagined and realized by activists and civil society? Read the most recent post in the Network Sovereignty Blog: "Networked Sovereignties: Imagining Alternative Futures in Barcelona" by @caseyrlynch globalmedia.mit.edu/2020/07/01/net…

In Tallinn, from my Uber driver to the Estonian president, I heard a range of criticisms and praise for e-Estonia. In this (illustrated) essay published @MIT_GMTaC, I sort through this myth-making to connect the issues of national belonging/exclusion and digital inequities.

How the introduction of government digital services contribute to reproduce social exclusion in Nordic Europe? Check out the newest post in the Network Sovereignty Blog: "National Belonging and Exclusion in Estonia’s Networked Sovereignty" by @sbudnitsky globalmedia.mit.edu/2020/06/23/nat…

What are the challenges to exercising network sovereignty for Native Nations in the US? Check out the new post by @marisaelena1979 and Morgan Vigil-Hayes: "Wardriving and Warflying: Collecting Accurate Spectrum and Coverage Data in Indian Country." globalmedia.mit.edu/2020/06/22/not…

iSchool faculty @amelia_acker shares new research on "Platforms, Community Archives and Remembering the Pandemic" in this blog post: globalmedia.mit.edu/2020/06/09/pla…

How Chinese citizens are using platforms to share documents, narratives, and data about their experience of the pandemic? Check out the new post in the Network Sovereignty Blog by @amelia_acker: "Platforms, Community Archives and Remembering the Pandemic" globalmedia.mit.edu/2020/06/09/pla…

Check out the newest publication in the Network Sovereignty Blog titled "Building a Fugitive Communication Infrastructure during the South African Liberation Struggle" written by Sophie Toupin, PhD candidate at @AHCS_McGill globalmedia.mit.edu/2020/06/04/bui…

Graduate research assistant @da_cerna just published a post in @BigDataSur/@data_ctive's blog "COVID-19 from the margins" on how the Peruvian state is using social welfare databases to distribute financial support during the coronavirus crisis. data-activism.net/2020/06/bigdat…

@IagoZuk will pursue an internship with the International Telecommunications Union (@ITU - UN Agency for ICTs), and Han Su has accepted a job with Futurewei Technologies. ​The GMTaC lab will miss them very much and wishes them both all the best in their future endeavors! 4/4

Our lab group had a virtual gathering via zoom on May 14, 2020 to honor their achievements and contributions to the lab over the past two years. 3/4

The #GMTaC Lab celebrates graduate student research assistants, Iago Bojczuk and Han Su, who completed their master’s degrees in Comparative Media Studies in 2020. #classof2020 #MIT #CMS #gradschool 1/4 @mit_cmsw @MIT_SHASS @MIT_alumni @MITBrazil