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SUMMARY:Cultural Production and Social Media as Capture Platforms: How the Matrix Has You
DESCRIPTION:Hector Postigo\nThis presentation develops a theoretical framework (rooted in Science and Technology Studies) for understanding how\, generally\, social media’s technical feature-sets create a system of capture and conversion.  Capture describes the persistent ways in which social web platforms record and fix online/offline social and technical practices.  Conversion applies to the way in which technical architectures convert what is captured into value (both culturally contingent and economic). The notions of capture and conversion are developed in light of other work in the field that seeks to understand how social web platforms use technology to leverage user generated content (UGC).  The framework bridges a focus on ongoing social practice within/through platforms with analysis of technology as a determinant of probable practice.   Ultimately this work is part of a larger project that seeks to develop a way of critically engaging the political economy of the social web while at the same time not ignoring the subject positions of those whose lives on display make it compelling. \nHector Postigo is Associate Professor in Media Studies and Production at Temple University’s School of Media and Communication. He is the co-founder of the blog culturedigitally.org and most recently the author of The Digital Rights Movement: The Role of Technology in Subverting Digital Copyright from MIT Press and co-editor of Managing Privacy Through Accountability from Palgrave Press. His research is funded by the National Science Foundation and the European Commission.  He teaches and writes about video game culture\, labor in digital networks\, and privacy and copyright on the social web.
URL:https://cms.mit.edu/event/hector-postigo-cultural-production-social-media-as-capture-platforms/
LOCATION:Comparative Media Studies: MIT Building E15\, Room 335\, 20 Ames St.\, Cambridge\, MA\, 02139\, United States
CATEGORIES:Colloquium
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SUMMARY:Minding the News
DESCRIPTION:Sponsored by the MIT Imagination\, Computation\, and Expression Laboratory (ICE Lab) \nSee Part 1 of this series\, from September 6\, featuring Francis Steen. \nMark Turner\nThe Red Hen Lab is a distributed laboratory for the study of network news.  In an earlier talk\, Professor Francis Steen provided a technical overview of the activities of Red Hen and surveyed the study by Francis Steen and Mark Turner of international network news coverage of the Anders Bering Brevik event in Oslo\, Norway\, in July\, 2011\, with an emphasis on the way in which network news is occupied with the assessment of culpability\, blame\, and credit. \nThis talk will discuss research on the cognitive underpinnings of network news\, with an emphasis on blended joint attention\, story-telling\, counterfactuality\, and hypotheticals. \nMark Turner is Institute Professor and Professor of Cognitive Science at Case Western Reserve University. \nHe is the founding director of the Cognitive Science Network. His most recent book publications are Ten Lectures on Mind and Language and two edited volumes\, The Artful Mind: Cognitive Science and the Riddle of Human Creativity\, and Meaning\, Form\, & Body\, edited with Fey Parrill and Vera Tobin. His other publications include Cognitive Dimensions of Social Science: The Way We Think about Politics\, Economics\, Law\, and Society\, The Literary Mind: The Origins of Thought and Language\, and many more. He has been a fellow of the Institute for Advanced Study\, the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation\, the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences\, the National Humanities Center\, the National Endowment for the Humanities\, and the Institute of Advanced Study of Durham University. He is a fellow of the Institute for the Science of Origins\, external research professor at the Krasnow Institute for Advanced Study in Cognitive Neuroscience\, distinguished fellow at the New England Institute for Cognitive Science and Evolutionary Psychology\, and Extraordinary Member of the Humanwissenschaftsliches Zentrum.  In 1996\, the Académie française awarded him the Prix du Rayonnement de la langue et de la littérature françaises. For 2011-2012\, he is a fellow of the Centre for Advanced Study at the Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters.
URL:https://cms.mit.edu/event/minding-the-news/
LOCATION:MIT Media Lab\, Room 633\, 75 Amherst St.\, Cambridge\, MA\, 02139\, United States
CATEGORIES:Colloquium
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