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Video Links

Video 1: The Value of Local Independent Bookstores

Description: Professor Ryan Raffaelli teams up with Porter Square Books in Cambridge, MA – one of the hundreds of bookstores he’s studied – to explore industries facing shifts in their business models and how they adapt. Independent bookstores provide a story of hope by focusing on core values that include community, curation, and convening.

Video 2: The Evolution of YA: Young Adult Fiction, Explained

Description: Where did young adult fiction come from, and how did it get so popular? Given recent trends of bestselling YA novels being turned into blockbuster films, this video tracks the history of YA and why it remains resonant to people, young and old, to this day.

Audio Link

Audio 1: The Printing Press and the Information Revolution

Description: Within a few decades of its invention in the 1450s, the printing press transformed the world. It launched an information revolution, leading directly to the Protestant Reformation, the Scientific Revolution, and even the invention of news as we understand it.

Web Resource

Web 1: How Diverse Emojis Encourage More Social Inclusion

Description: As emojis have ushered in an era of picture writing, it is important to see oneself in the images used to represent themselves. Adding clear diversity to the emoji offerings on our phones has been a boon for representation.