Manipulating Memories: Archives, History and Deepfakes
Part of "Deepfakery", a livestream talk series co-hosted by our Open Documentary Lab.
MIT Graduate Program in Comparative Media Studies
Studying Media and Making Media
Justin Reich, “Failure to Disrupt: Why Technology Alone Can’t Transform Education”
Justin Reich presents his new book on why technology provides such uneven support to learners.
Still Funny?: Satire, Deepfakes, and Human Rights Globally
Part of "Deepfakery", a livestream talk series co-hosted by our Open Documentary Lab.
Jing Wang, “Walking Around Obstacles: Nonconfrontational Activists in Gray China”
Fall 2020 Colloquium Livestream CambridgeThis talk challenges some of the binary assumptions we made about activism and China by bringing our attention to the gray zones in China where nonconfrontational activists are building an invisible and quiet coalition.
Eric Gordon, “Towards a Meaningfully Inefficient Smart City”
Visiting Professor Eric Gordon will discuss a recent project in Boston, MA in collaboration with the Boston Mayor’s Office of New Urban Mechanics, called Beta Blocks, that uses meaningful inefficiency as a structuring logic for sourcing, questioning and making decisions about public realm technologies.
Laura Partain, “Race and Representation of Syrian, Palestinian, and Norwegian Refugees in the News”
A talk about nationalism and national belonging, as well as the ways in which social-expectations placed on displaces peoples can limit their access to civic, medical, and everyday resources.
Elinor Carmi, “Media Distortions: Understanding the Power Behind Spam, Noise, and Other Deviant Media”
The politics behind categories we take for granted such as spam and noise, and what it means to our broader understanding of, and engagement with media.
Graduate Program Information Session
Join us for this fall's graduate program information session! (This time, it's hosted virtually and registration is required.)
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