Rekha Murthy
 Arlington, MA, USA
rmurthy[at]alum[dot]mit[dot]edu


A Few Things About Me

I began my career as a producer for two web agencies (Organic and Avalanche) 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 a while back. 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), an interest of mine at MIT and since. 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 seek out digital distribution opportunities for public media content and encourage creative ways to embrace the ever-changing media/tech landscape. Rather fitting, isn't it?

I held out for a while, then I gave in and blogged, and now I no longer do. Maybe I will again some day. Meantime, check me out on Delicious and Twitter.


Resume

under reconstruction
LinkedIn profile


Selected Projects
from my MIT days

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


Central Square, Cambridge
One paper is a selective history and another looks at recent streetscape renovations.
in .pdf format with pictures


Dystopia
A winning design for a Sony Pictures Imageworks/MIT video game competition.
a video download of our team in action


Terrascope Radio
I helped teach radio production to MIT freshmen who are part of the Terrascope learning community.
a link to the Terrascope Web site