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SUMMARY:(Face)book of the Dead
DESCRIPTION:Mark Dery\nIn the Age of Always Connect\, are we witnessing a plague of oversharing? If so\, are social networks its vectors of transmission? Does this much-discussed phenomenon mark the Death of Shame\, perhaps even a return to pre-modern notions of public and private? What does it mean to live in a historical moment when the faces in our high-school yearbooks materialize\, without warning\, in our Facebook lives\, Walking Dead eager to rekindle friendships we thought we’d buried long ago? In his illustrated lecture\, “(Face)Book of the Dead\,” cultural critic and media theorist Mark Dery\, author of seminal essays on online subcultures\, culture jamming\, and Afrofuturism\, will address these and other questions\, from the posthuman psychology of disembodied friendship to our growing unwillingness to untether ourselves from our social networks or the media drip\, even for an instant. What does it say about us\, as a society\, if we’re unable to be alone and unplugged without being bored or lonely? Is this\, at root\, a fear of the emptiness in our heads? Should we preserve some small space in our lives for solitude — a Walden of the mind\, away from the Matrix? \nMark Dery is a cultural critic. He is best known for his writings on the politics of popular culture in publications such as The New York Times Magazine\, Cabinet\, Bookforum\, Rolling Stone\, Elle\, and Wired; on websites such as True/Slant and Thought Catalog; and in books such as The Pyrotechnic Insanitarium: American Culture on the Brink and Escape Velocity: Cyberculture at the End of the Century. Dery’s latest book is an anthology of his recent writings\, I Must Not Think Bad Thoughts: Essays on American Empire\, Digital Culture\, Posthuman Porn\, and Lady Gaga’s Lesbian Phallus\, published in Brazil by Editora Sulina. Dery is widely associated with “culture jamming\,” the guerrilla media criticism movement he popularized through his 1993 essay “Culture Jamming: Hacking\, Slashing\, and Sniping in the Empire of the Signs\,” and “Afrofuturism\,” a term he coined in his 1994 essay “Black to the Future” (included in the anthology Flame Wars: The Discourse of Cyberculture\, which he edited). He has been a professor of journalism at New York University\, a Chancellor’s Distinguished Fellow at UC Irvine\, and a Visiting Scholar at the American Academy in Rome. He is at work on a biography of the artist Edward Gorey for Little\, Brown.
URL:https://cms.mit.edu/event/facebook-of-the-dead/
LOCATION:MIT Building 2\, Room 105\, 182 Memorial Drive\, Cambridge\, MA\, 02139\, United States
CATEGORIES:Colloquium
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SUMMARY:The End of the Virtual: Digital Methods
DESCRIPTION:Professor Richard Rogers\, University of Amsterdam\nThere is an ontological distinction between the natively digital and the digitized\, that is\, the objects\, content\, devices and environments that are “born” in the new medium\, as opposed to those that have “migrated” to it. Should the current methods of study change\, however slightly or wholesale\, given the focus on objects and content of the medium? The research program put forward here thereby engages with “virtual methods” that import standard methods from the social sciences and the humanities. That is\, the distinction between the natively digital and the digitized also could apply to current research methods. What kind of Internet research may be performed with methods that have been digitized (such as online surveys and directories) vis-á-vis those that are natively digital (such as recommendation systems and folksonomy)? Second\, he will propose propose that Internet research may be put to new uses\, given an emphasis on natively digital methods as opposed to the digitized. Rogers will strive to shift the attention from the opportunities afforded by transforming ink into bits\, and instead inquire into how research with the Internet may move beyond the study of online culture only. How to capture and analyze hyperlinks\, tags\, search engine results\, archived Websites\, and other digital objects? How may one learn from how online devices (e.g.\, engines and recommendation systems) make use of the objects\, and how may such uses be repurposed for social and cultural research? Ultimately\, he proposes a research practice that grounds claims about cultural change and societal conditions in online dynamics\, introducing the term “online groundedness.” The overall aim is to rework method for Internet research\, developing a novel strand of study\, digital methods. \nProf. Dr. Richard Rogers holds the Chair and is full University Professor in New Media & Digital Culture at the University of Amsterdam. He is Director of Govcom.org\, the group responsible for the Issue Crawler and other info-political tools\, and the Digital Methods Initiative\, reworking method for Internet research. Among other works\, Rogers is author of Information Politics on the Web (MIT Press\, 2004)\, awarded the 2005 best book of the year by the American Society of Information Science & Technology (ASIS&T). His forthcoming book\, Digital Methods\, is also with MIT Press.
URL:https://cms.mit.edu/event/end-virtual-digital-methods/
LOCATION:MIT Building 2\, Room 105\, 182 Memorial Drive\, Cambridge\, MA\, 02139\, United States
CATEGORIES:Colloquium
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