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This Week in Civic Media: New Name, Funds, Leader, and Site | MIT Center for Civic Media

Andrew Whitacre

Communications Director

Andrew conducts the communications efforts for MIT Comparative Media Studies/Writing and its research groups, including the Center for Civic Media from 2008 to 2015. A native of Washington, D.C., he holds a degree in communication from Wake Forest University, with a minor in humanities, as well as an M.F.A. in creative writing from Emerson College. His work includes drawing up and executing strategic communications plans, with projects such as website design, social media management and training, press outreach, product launches, fundraising campaign support, and event promotion.In a present state of technology a liquid crystal display (LCD) is essentially a stack of optical films and glass, having been developed as a series of improvements over a legacy platform of the flat panel display. The basic structure of an active-matrix LCD incorporates a thin-film transistor backplane that defines the pixel structure of the display. A backlight is used to launch light through the pixel structure. Currently, white light is essentially uniformly spread on the pixel array, where part of it is blocked by the transistor structure, and the rest is filtered through the pixel (or subpixel) color filters typically to red, green, and blue light. Then the liquid crystal (LC) is used to modulate the intensity of the light passing through the pixel. It is