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SUMMARY:Music Fandom and the Shaping of Online Culture
DESCRIPTION:Nancy Baym\, Principal Researcher\, Microsoft; Research Affiliate at MIT Comparative Media Studies/Writing\nFrom the earliest days of networked computing\, music fans were there\, shaping the technologies and cultures that emerged online. By the time musicians and industry figures realized they could use the internet to reach audiences directly\, those audiences had already established their presences and social norms online\, putting them in unprecedented positions of power. Even widely-hailed innovators like David Bowie\, Prince\, and Trent Reznor were late to the game. This talk traces the intertwined histories of music fandom and online culture\, unpacking the fundamental disruption and its broader implications for interacting with audiences. \nNancy Baym is a Principal Researcher at Microsoft in Cambridge\, Massachusetts and a Research Affiliate in CMS/W at MIT. She earned her Ph.D. in Communication at the University of Illinois in 1994 and joined Microsoft in 2012 after 18 years as a Communication professor. She is the author of Personal Connections in the Digital Age (Polity Press)\, now in its second edition\, Tune In\, Log On: Soaps\, Fandom and Online Community (Sage Press)\, and co-editor of Internet Inquiry: Conversations About Method (Sage Press) with Annette Markham. Her bookPlaying to the Crowd: Musicians\, Audiences\, and the Intimate Work of Connection will be published in July by NYU Press.  More information\, most of her articles\, and some of her talks are available at nancybaym.com
URL:https://cms.mit.edu/event/nancy-baym-music-fandom-online-culture/
LOCATION:MIT Building 56\, Room 114\, Access via 21 Ames Street\, Cambridge\, MA\, 02139\, United States
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SUMMARY:The City Talks: Storytelling at the New York Times's Metro Desk
DESCRIPTION:Emily Rueb – Photo by Leslye Davis\nAs attention spans shrink and the representation of factual information is under scrutiny by the public\, news organizations need clear\, engaging storytelling that reaches readers where they are. In this talk\, Emily Rueb\, a reporter for The New York Times\, will share insights gained in bursting boundaries of traditional storytelling for The New York Times’s Metro desk. Weaving video\, audio\, illustrations and text across multiple platforms\, she chronicled aspects of New York’s complex but rarely seen infrastructure\, like the power grid and the water system\, and also its overlooked neighbors\, like red-tailed hawks. Her talk will also look at what’s next for an organization that cherished its customs but has come to realize that its most important legacy values cannot survive without steady\, rapid integration of new techniques. \nMs. Rueb writes and produces New York 101\, a multimedia column explaining infrastructure. At the Times\, she pioneered new approaches to storytelling for the breaking news blog\, City Room\, where she covered Hurricane Sandy and major elections\, and created a niche writing about avian life. She also edited Metropolitan Diary. Her New York 101 series examined the power grid\, road construction\, organics recycling and the water system. Winner of an Emmy and a Knight-Batten Award for Innovation in Journalism\, Rueb also has contributed to The Financial Times\, BBC Scotland\, Time Out Paris and Cleveland Magazine.
URL:https://cms.mit.edu/event/storytelling-new-york-times-metro-desk/
LOCATION:MIT Building 56\, Room 114\, Access via 21 Ames Street\, Cambridge\, MA\, 02139\, United States
CATEGORIES:Colloquium
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SUMMARY:Between Participation and Control: A Long History of CCTV
DESCRIPTION:Anne-Katrin Weber\nClosed-circuit television (CCTV) has become synonymous with surveillance society and the widespread use of media technologies for contemporary regimes of power and control. Considered from the perspective of television’s long history\, however\, closed-circuit systems are multifaceted\, and include\, but are not limited to sorting and surveillance. During the media’s experimental phase in the 1920s and 1930s\, closed-circuit systems were an essential feature of its public display\, shaping its identity as a new technology for instantaneous communication. With the emergence of activist video practices in the 1970s\, closed-circuit TV became a core feature for alternative experiments such as the Videofreex’ Lanesville TV\, where it offered access to community-based media making. This use of CCTV as a tool for participatory media took place simultaneously with the rise of CCTV as a surveillance technology\, which had been promoted under the label of “industrial television” already from the early 1950s on. Based on war-driven technological developments\, industrial TV implemented televisual monitoring in industrial\, educational\, and military spheres decades before the global spread of surveillance cameras in public space. \nThis talk by Anne-Katrin Weber explores the politics of CCTV as they unfold in different institutional and ideological settings. Examining television’s history beyond broadcasting and programs\, it focuses on television’s multiple applications and meanings in public space – from the early presentation of television at World’s Fairs to community-based initiatives – and thus highlights the adaptability of closed-circuit technologies\, which accommodate to\, and underpin variable contexts of media participation as well as of surveillance and control. \nAnne-Katrin Weber is a postdoctoral fellow supported by the Swiss National Science Foundation and is a visiting scholar at MIT Comparative Media Studies/Writing. Her research examines the history of television outside broadcasting institutions. Currently preparing her first monograph titled Television on Display: Visual Culture and Technopolitics in Europe and the USA\, 1928-1939\, she is the editor of La télévision du téléphonoscope à Youtube: pour une archéologie de l’audiovision (with Mireille Berton\, Antipodes\, 2009) and an issue of View: Journal of European Television History and Culture (“Archaeologies of Tele-Visions and –Realities\,” with Andreas Fickers\, 2015).
URL:https://cms.mit.edu/event/anne-katrin-weber-history-cctv/
LOCATION:MIT Building 56\, Room 114\, Access via 21 Ames Street\, Cambridge\, MA\, 02139\, United States
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