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SUMMARY:Michael Taussig: "Mooning Texas"
DESCRIPTION:Michael Taussig\, Professor of Anthropology\, Columbia University\n“Mooning Texas” – an adventure story involving social energy + art + Emile Durkheim’s “take” on Mauss + Hubert’s “take” on mana + the creativity of gossip. \nMichael Taussig\, professor of anthropology at Columbia University\, was dubbed by the New York Times as “Anthropology’s Alternative Radical.” Taussig has been doing fieldwork since 1969. He has written on the commercialization of peasant agriculture; slavery; hunger; the working of commodity fetishism; colonialism on “shamanism” and folk healing; the relevance of modernism and post-modernist aesthetics for the understanding of ritual; the making\, talking\, and writing of terror; and mimesis. He has also written “a study of exciting substance loaded with seduction and evil\, gold and cocaine\, in a montage-ethnography of the Pacific Coast of Colombia.” \nIntroduced by Prof. Ian Condry\, Global Studies and Languages\, MIT.  \nPresented by the Dissolve Inequality series and the Latin American Studies Forum of MIT Global Studies and Languages.\ngsl-events@mit.edu • mitgsl.mit.edu
URL:https://cms.mit.edu/event/michael-taussig-mooning-texas/
LOCATION:MIT Building 32 (Stata Center)\, Room 155\, 32 Vassar Street\, Cambridge\, MA\, 02139\, United States
CATEGORIES:Colloquium
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SUMMARY:Nick Seaver: "What Do People Do All Day?"
DESCRIPTION:Nick Seaver\, CMS ’10\, and Assistant Professor at Tufts University\nThe algorithmic infrastructures of the internet are made by a weird cast of characters: rock stars\, gurus\, ninjas\, wizards\, alchemists\, park rangers\, gardeners\, plumbers\, and janitors can all be found sitting at computers in otherwise unremarkable offices\, typing. These job titles\, sometimes official\, sometimes informal\, are a striking feature of internet industries. They mark jobs as novel or hip\, contrasting starkly with the sedentary screenwork of programming. But is that all they do? In this talk\, drawing on several years of fieldwork with the developers of algorithmic music recommenders\, Seaver describes how these terms help people make sense of new kinds of jobs and their positions within new infrastructures. They draw analogies that fit into existing prestige hierarchies (rockstars and janitors) or relationships to craft and technique (gardeners and alchemists). They aspire to particular imaginations of mastery (gurus and ninjas). Critics of big data have drawn attention to the importance of metaphors in framing public and commercial understandings of data\, its biases and origins. The metaphorical borrowings of role terms serve a similar function\, highlighting some features at the expense of others and shaping emerging professions in their image. If we want to make sense of new algorithmic industries\, we’ll need to understand how they make sense of themselves. \nNick Seaver is assistant professor of anthropology at Tufts University. His current research examines the cultural life of algorithms for understanding and recommending music. He received a masters from CMS in 2010 for research on the history of the player piano.
URL:https://cms.mit.edu/event/nick-seaver-what-do-people-do-all-day/
LOCATION:MIT Building 56\, Room 114\, Access via 21 Ames Street\, Cambridge\, MA\, 02139\, United States
CATEGORIES:Colloquium
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SUMMARY:CMS/W Town Hall
DESCRIPTION:Closed to the public.
URL:https://cms.mit.edu/event/cmsw-town-hall/
CATEGORIES:Colloquium
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SUMMARY:Fox Harrell: "Reflections on Advanced Identity Representation"
DESCRIPTION:Fox HarrellPhoto by Bryce Vickmark\nNearly everyone these days imaginatively uses virtual identities such as social media profiles\, e-commerce accounts\, and/or videogame characters. Yet\, virtual identities can reproduce discrimination and stereotypes with devastating impacts on users ranging from worse performance and engagement for students to bullying and threats of violence. If such forms of oppression persist\, e.g.\, female virtual identity users being threatened online\, surely we must go advance our understanding of the roles these technologies play in society and how to design them to better suit diverse social needs. In this talk\, Harrell presents some of the outcomes from his 5-year National Science Foundation-supported research initiative called the Advanced Identity Representation project. Namely\, applying approaches from artificial intelligence\, cognitive science\, and sociology to technologies such as videogames and social media\, his research both reveals social biases in existing systems and implements systems to respond to those biases with greater nuance and expressive power. \nD. Fox Harrell is an Associate Professor of Digital Media at MIT in the Comparative Media Studies Program and Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory. He founded and directs the MIT Imagination\, Computation\, and Expression Laboratory (ICE Lab). He was a 2014-15 recipient of the Lenore Annenberg and Wallis Annenberg Fellowship in Communication and fellow at the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences at Stanford University.
URL:https://cms.mit.edu/event/fox-harrell-reflections-on-advanced-identity-representation/
LOCATION:MIT Building 56\, Room 114\, Access via 21 Ames Street\, Cambridge\, MA\, 02139\, United States
CATEGORIES:Colloquium
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