BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//MIT Graduate Program in Comparative Media Studies - ECPv5.16.1//NONSGML v1.0//EN CALSCALE:GREGORIAN METHOD:PUBLISH X-WR-CALNAME:MIT Graduate Program in Comparative Media Studies X-ORIGINAL-URL:https://cms.mit.edu X-WR-CALDESC:Events for MIT Graduate Program in Comparative Media Studies REFRESH-INTERVAL;VALUE=DURATION:PT1H X-Robots-Tag:noindex X-PUBLISHED-TTL:PT1H BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:America/New_York BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 TZNAME:EDT DTSTART:20130310T070000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0400 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 TZNAME:EST DTSTART:20131103T060000 END:STANDARD END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20130105 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20130118 DTSTAMP:20260412T092155 CREATED:20150327T150208Z LAST-MODIFIED:20150327T150208Z UID:21602-1357344000-1358467199@cms.mit.edu SUMMARY:[For Credit] 21W.794: Graduate Technical Writing Workshop DESCRIPTION:Pre-register on WebSIS and attend first class.\nListeners welcome at individual sessions (series)\nPrereq: Level: G 3 units Standard A – F Grading \nDraft a thesis proposal\, thesis chapter\, journal article\, progress report\, or specification\, and review basics of engineering writing. Sessions cover the processes of organizing and drafting professional papers\, improving writing style\, and revising documents. Students determine own projects; each project increment receives instructor’s editorial suggestions. \nIAP version:This course focuses on improving your ability to communicate technical information. Through a combination of lecture\, assignments\, and in-class writing exercises\, we will cover the basics of working with sources\, including summarizing & paraphrasing\, synthesizing source materials\, citing\, quoting\, and avoiding plagiarism. We will also cover how to write an abstract and a literature review. \nYou must attend all three meetings. No rescheduling is possible. NO LISTENERS.\nContact: Nick Altenbernd\, 14E-303\, x3-7894\, altenb@mit.edu \nSteven Strang\, Pamela Siska\nThis section is for Mechanical Engineering students or others who need this time.\nTue Jan 15\, 22\, Thu Jan 24\, 10am-01:00pm\, 2-147 \nSteven Strang\, Pamela Siska\nThis section is for Aero-Astro students\, and Chemical Engineering students or others who need this time.\nTue Jan 15\, 22\, Thu Jan 24\, 02-05:00pm\, 2-147 \nSteven Strang\, Pamela Siska\nThis section is for Civil-Environ Engr students\, Media Studies students\, and Nuclear Engineering students or others who need this time.\nThu Jan 17\, Wed Jan 23\, Fri Jan 25\, 10am-01:00pm\, 2-147 \nSteven Strang\, Pamela Siska\nThis section is for Supply Chain Management students\, and TPP-ESD students or others who need this time.\n>Thu Jan 17\, Wed Jan 23\, Fri Jan 25\, 02-05:00pm\, 2-147 URL:https://cms.mit.edu/event/21w794-graduate-technical-writing-workshop/ LOCATION:MIT Building 2\, Room 147\, 182 Memorial Drive\, Cambridge\, MA\, 02139\, United States CATEGORIES:Independent Activities Period END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20130107 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20130129 DTSTAMP:20260412T092155 CREATED:20150309T174731Z LAST-MODIFIED:20150309T174731Z UID:21605-1357516800-1359417599@cms.mit.edu SUMMARY:MIT Writers' Group DESCRIPTION:Enrollment: Unlimited: Advance sign-up required\nSign-up by 01/04\nAttendance: Repeating event on the 7th\, 14th\, and 28th\, participants welcome at any session\nPrereq: none \nWant to write something creative but need some motivation or support? Join other writers to get advice about your own writing\, to help other writers\, or to get inspiration to write something to share with the group–any type of creative writing\, including fiction\, poetry\, literary nonfiction\,memoirs\, personal essays\, plays. Open to MIT undergraduate and graduate students\, lecturers\, staff and faculty. \nSponsor(s): Writing and Communication Center\nContact: Steven Strang\, (617) 253-4459\, smstrang@mit.edu URL:https://cms.mit.edu/event/mit-writers-group/ LOCATION:MIT Building 12\, Room 134\, Cambridge\, MA\, 02139\, United States CATEGORIES:Independent Activities Period END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20130107 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20130201 DTSTAMP:20260412T092155 CREATED:20150121T152251Z LAST-MODIFIED:20150121T152251Z UID:21604-1357516800-1359676799@cms.mit.edu SUMMARY:Individual Consultations at the Writing and Communication Center DESCRIPTION:Enrollment: Limited: Advance sign-up required\nAttendance: Repeating event\, participants welcome at any session\nPrereq: none \nThe Writing Center will continue to offer free consultation and advice on oral presentations and on any writing problem\, including finding a topic\, generating ideas\, overcoming writer’s block\, improving grammar\, crafting effective sentences and paragraphs\, organizing ideas\, using of evidence\, analyzing audiences\, and writing strategically. We can help with technical writing; theses in all departments; job\, graduate and med school application essays; research and teaching statements; resumes; conference talks; articles for publication; book proposals and chapters; and papers for any course. We also offer help on pronunciation. \nSponsor(s): Writing and Communication Center\nContact: Steven Strang\, 12-132\, 617-253-4459\, smstrang@mit.edu URL:https://cms.mit.edu/event/writing-communications-center-individual-consultations/ LOCATION:MIT Building 12\, Room 132\, 60 Vassar Street\, Cambridge\, MA\, 02139\, United States CATEGORIES:Independent Activities Period END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20130109 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20130117 DTSTAMP:20260412T092155 CREATED:20150327T145806Z LAST-MODIFIED:20150327T145845Z UID:21601-1357689600-1358380799@cms.mit.edu SUMMARY:[For Credit] CMS.S98: Special Subject: Comparative Media Studies Qualitative Data Analysis DESCRIPTION:Jan 9: 4-5pm\nJan 10\, 14\, 16: 2-5pm\nPre-register on WebSIS and attend first class.\nLimited to 12 participants.\nNo listeners \nPrereq: Permission of instructor limited to graduate students only \nLevel: G 3 units Standard A – F Grading Can be repeated for credit \nSeminar or lecture on a topic that is not covered in the regular curriculum. \nThe goal of this class is to provide frameworks and hands on experience in analyzing data collected through interviews\, observations and other qualitative methods. We will cover standards for analysis\, strategies (such as thematic analysis\, discourse analysis\, critical analysis and narrative analysis)\, and analytic processes such as iterative coding\, building matrices\, and pulling out logics. The instructor will provide a data set of selections from interviews with musicians in which they discuss their understanding of the music business\, but if people already have data sets they are eager to work with\, they can do that too. \n \nContact: Becky Shepardson\, bshep@mit.edu URL:https://cms.mit.edu/event/cmss98-comparative-media-studies-qualitative-data-analysis/ LOCATION:Comparative Media Studies: MIT Building E15\, Room 335\, 20 Ames St.\, Cambridge\, MA\, 02139\, United States CATEGORIES:Independent Activities Period END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20130109T160000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20130109T170000 DTSTAMP:20260412T092155 CREATED:20161027T190623Z LAST-MODIFIED:20161027T190623Z UID:21586-1357747200-1357750800@cms.mit.edu SUMMARY:Reading Programming Code as a Cultural Object DESCRIPTION:Enrollment: Limited: First come\, first served (no advance sign-up)\nPrereq: None \nSo much around us is driven by programs and written in code\, in one or several computer languages. We use algorithms to visualize data\, interpret behaviors\, read trends\, and drive decisions. Programs and algorithms are culturally determined objects\, often observable as aesthetic works or philosophical gestures. It’s time to think more about the cultural aspects of code and what goes on “under the hood” of digital manifestations. How is code written and by whom? Under what conditions? How does code circulate? Where do the creative aspects of programming lie? What do porting code and natural language translation have in common? How do we understand the obsolescence of computer languages? Let’s talk about what it means to start reading code differently\, as cultural objects and statements. Let’s raise the questions that need to be raised. \nSponsor(s): Libraries\, Comparative Media Studies\nContact: Patsy Baudoin\, 14S-230\, 617 253-4979\, patsy@mit.edu URL:https://cms.mit.edu/event/reading-code-cultural-object/ LOCATION:MIT Building 14E\, Room 311\, 160 Memorial Drive\, Cambridge\, MA\, 02139\, United States CATEGORIES:Independent Activities Period ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://cms.mit.edu/wp/wp-content/uploads/2015/12/Independent-Activities-Period.jpg END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR