Rekha Murthy
Cambridge, MA, USA
rmurthy[at]alum[dot]mit[dot]edu
One Self-Description of
the Many Possible
I
began my career as a Web site producer for private clients and later for NPR
Online during the mid- to late-1990s. In 2000, I joined NPR's daily newsmagazine,
"All Things Considered," as a
.
I graduated from MIT's Comparative Media Studies Masters program in 2005. My research focused on street media in urban spaces, urban annotation practices, and the supporting telecommunications and social networking technologies. But that's just the half of it. Please see selected projects below.
Upon graduation, I freelanced as a radio producer at NPR's "Day to Day," "The World" by BBC/WGBH/PRI, and NPR's "On Point." At "On Point," I produced a one-hour conversation about the Geospatial Web (link or big download). Then, I spent a few years as an information architect and interaction designer for Web and mobile applications.
Now, I'm Director of Projects + Partnerships for Public Radio Exchange (PRX), where I explore new ways to distribute public radio content. Rather fitting, isn't it?
Street Media: The Thesis
A fun and fulfilling project for which I spent a lot of time on city streets with a camera.
Read the abstract or download the entire thing in two parts: text | images (I remained rather faithful to the proposal.) abstract and proposal are HTML; thesis is in .pdfs (allow extra download time)
Street Media: Me on Google Video
A couple of MIT students sit me down and make me talk
about graffiti as part of the Comparative Media Studies New
Media Literacies project. an online video with some of my very own photographic stills
Flâneurs Savants
What a walking tour of a Parisian neighborhood might look like. a page of history and concept
Story Space
An attempt to use 20th-century French theory to show that location-aware communications technologies could enhance social and political engagement. a First Monday special issue article
Rethinking Communications in Cambridge, MA
A paradigm shift you didn't know you needed. in basic HTML with a subdued palette
Making Life Easier
In observance of World Usability Day (yes, such a thing exists), I review the Boston-area's new system for collecting public transport fares. a detailed blog post with photographs