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...Internet] has changed the way people gain access to information and entertainment, and the actual content and form of information and entertainment,” says Jason A. Kaufman ’93. Kaufman, a Research Fellow at the Berkman Center for Internet and Society, recently taught a sociology course called “Media and the American Mind,” which studied American society through advertising, telecommunications, regulation, entertainment, and other forms of media. Kaufman says that as an Internet-based digital culture formed over the past couple decades, the schism between high...
...Media and the American Mind” was one of Harvard’s only courses directly addressing new media topics, but it is no longer offered since Kaufman left the Faculty of Arts and Sciences. At the Berkman Center—Harvard’s main organization for Internet-related studies—Kaufman has been using data from social networks and user-stated cultural preferences on Facebook to study “the nature of affiliation,” which he feels is a central aspect in new media and cultural changes spurred by the Internet...
...what’s so refreshing.”From its opening moments, it may seem that screenwriter Charlie Kaufman’s directorial debut is treading water—the notion of the “author-in-crisis” is a thematic thread that Kaufman explored ad nauseum in his 2002 screenplay for “Adaptation.,” directed by Spike Jonze. For all its novelties, that film was a headache, a neurotic monologue whose paranoid refrains only compounded the pretensions of its obnoxiously self-conscious narrative loop. But to say that...
...Well, au contraire, mes amis. For one thing, this is a comedy about despair, as funny as it is bleak, and a complexly woven study of an unraveling soul. Kaufman didn't live (and die) this story, he made it up; and then he directed it, supervising a community of actors and artisans that must have numbered in the hundreds. More important, though, is the effect it should have on a receptive audience. No film with an ambition this large, and achievement this impressive, can be anything but exhilarating, a vital affirmation of the creative process...
...MOVIE Synecdoche, New York A theater director (Philip Seymour Hoffman) has a Really Big Idea for a play, an obsession that upends his life and leads to madness. Charlie Kaufman's comedy about artistic ambition is challenging, invigorating and, if you go with it, brilliant fun. It's like a suicidal Fellini film--a downer...