Join us as we host our class of '20 Comparative Media Studies graduate students as they present their master's theses (virtually this year, sigh). View live via Zoom: mit.zoom.us/j/529253710. Presentation order subject to change.

• Sam Mendez, “Health Equity Rituals: A Case for the Ritual View of Communication in an Era of Precision Medicine”
• Annie Wang, “Creators, Classrooms, and Cells: Designing for the Benefits and Limitations of Learning In Immersive Virtual Reality”
• Bueno Bojczuk Camargo, “Connecting Brazilian Rural Schools to the ‘Global Village’: A Critical Assessment of the Geostationary Defense and Strategic Communications Satellite (SGDC-1)”
• Han Su, “Theory and Practice Towards A Decentralized Internet”
• Anna Chung, “Avoiding “The Algorithm”: Examining anti-algorithmic practices on social media and designing for user agency on algorithm-driven platforms”
• Ben Silverman, “Fursonas: Furries, Community, and Identity Online”
• Elizabeth Borneman, “Data Visualizations for Perspective Shifts and Community Cohesion”
• Judy Heflin, “The Poetics of Latent Space: Computer-generated Literature and the Vectorized Word”