May 22, 2014

A new kind of media theory



MIT professor Fox Harrell works to enrich the subjective and ethical dimensions of the digital media experience.

Unlike most people, MIT’s Fox Harrell knew what he wanted to do in life from a young age. According to Harrell, an associate professor of digital media who studies self-expression in online media and creates tools to help developers add depth to their work, the impetus for his career came from an epiphany he had one day while doing computer programming as a kid in San Diego.