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MIT Comparative Media Studies/Writing

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CMS/W’s studio and workshop curriculum combines approaches from the humanities, arts, social sciences, and science communication to teach its graduates how to work and interact with contemporary media.

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MIT Comparative Media Studies/Writing @mit-cmsw.bsky.social · 04/08/2026
Students may know generative AI, but that doesn’t mean they trust it or think it writes better than they do. On Sept. 22, John Gallagher will share findings from a survey of 342 undergraduates on AI and writing. Register: cmsw.mit.edu/event/underg...
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MIT Comparative Media Studies/Writing @mit-cmsw.bsky.social · 01/06/2026
(Re)congratulations to Lyn Nanticha Ocharoenchai and Jessica Chomik-Morales, two members of our grad program in Science Writing class of 2025 who returned to campus last week to take part in this year's advanced degree ceremony!
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MIT Comparative Media Studies/Writing @mit-cmsw.bsky.social · 04/05/2026
On Wednesday, we're hosting "Refusing Generative AI: A Critique of Rhetorical Commonplaces about 'AI' in Education". Join us in Stata, room 155: cmsw.mit.edu/event/refusi...
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MIT Comparative Media Studies/Writing @mit-cmsw.bsky.social · 24/04/2026
“It’s an amazing opportunity to work through the data and write in a really vibrant setting where conversation and cross-disciplinary engagement is at the heart of the experience.” CMS/W Professor T.L. Taylor on her new fellowship: news.mit.edu/2026/tl-tayl...
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MIT Comparative Media Studies/Writing @mit-cmsw.bsky.social · 17/04/2026
This year our grad program in science writing students developed and pitched local climate stories, and then over a four-day intensive weekend, they worked with visual journalists from the AP. Read all about it: cmsw.mit.edu/mit-science-...
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MIT Comparative Media Studies/Writing @mit-cmsw.bsky.social · 31/03/2026
Reminder, we're thrilled to co-host U.S. poet laureate Arthur Sze tomorrow evening (Wednesday, doors at 5:30, Building 14S, room 130) for a reading and book signing. Please join us! Sze -- author of twelve books of poetry -- is also an editor and translator. cmsw.mit.edu/event/poet-l...
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MIT Comparative Media Studies/Writing @mit-cmsw.bsky.social · 13/03/2026
Via MIT Mechanical Engineering and the MLK Visiting Scholars program (and our own Amy Carleton) comes news that Public Enemy's "Media Assassin" Harry Allen is delivering a lecture next week... "BEHOLD! THE WINGS OF HIP-HOP SPACEFLIGHT" happens Thursday the 19th, 1pm, in Building 6's room 120.
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MIT Comparative Media Studies/Writing @mit-cmsw.bsky.social · 19/02/2026
ICYMI: our research scientist Philip Tan had a chance last summer to offer a mini version of his CMS subject "DJ History, Technology, and Technique". Tan traced the job of a DJ and the tech that evolved around it...reading the room, crate digging, scarcity...
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MIT Comparative Media Studies/Writing @mit-cmsw.bsky.social · 30/01/2026
CMS/W Professor Ian Condry and the local spatial sound community are ready for a big February, starting with a social gathering at Berklee College of Music next Saturday...join us for one or all! cmsw.mit.edu/events/categ...
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MIT Comparative Media Studies/Writing @mit-cmsw.bsky.social · 18/11/2025
In the latest from CMS/W professor Nick Montfort: "Today’s large language models are very different from both automated reporters and storytelling systems." cmsw.mit.edu/generating-r...
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MIT Comparative Media Studies/Writing @mit-cmsw.bsky.social · 12/11/2025
Reminder, tonight, with your host Professor Ian Condry! spatialsoundlab.mit.edu/events/
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MIT Comparative Media Studies/Writing @mit-cmsw.bsky.social · 22/08/2025
Just a week left! cmsw.mit.edu/applications... "We seek a candidate to contribute to the Institute’s intellectual life by pursuing an active publishing agenda, teaching courses in creative writing and related subjects at the undergraduate level, advising students, and directing senior theses."
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