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SUMMARY:POSTPONED UNTIL FALL: Elinor Carmi\, “Media Distortions: Understanding the Power Behind Spam\, Noise\, and Other Deviant Media”
DESCRIPTION:Elinor Carmi\, Postdoc Research Associate in digital culture and society\, at Liverpool University\, UK\nMedia Distortions is about the power behind producing deviant media categories. It shows the politics behind categories we take for granted such as spam and noise\, and what it means to our broader understanding of\, and engagement with media. The book synthesizes media theory\, sound studies\, STS\, feminist technoscience\, and software studies into a new composition to explore media power. Media Distortions argues that using sound as a conceptual framework is more useful due to its ability to cross boundaries and strategically move between multiple spaces – which is essential for multi-layered mediated spaces. The book introduces two main concepts – Processed Listening and Rhythmedia – to analyse multiplicities of mediated spaces\, people and objects. Drawing on repositories of legal\, technical and archival sources\, the book amplifies three stories about the construction and negotiation of the ‘deviant’ in media. The book starts in the early 20th century with Bell Telephone’s production of noise in the training of their telephone operators and their involvement with the Noise Abatement Commission in New York City. The next story jumps several decades to the early 2000s focusing on web metric standardization in the European Union and shows how the digital advertising industry constructed what is legitimate communication while illegitimizing spam. The final story focuses on the recent decade and the way Facebook constructs unwanted behaviors to engineer a sociality that produces more value. These stories show how deviant categories re-draw boundaries between human and non-human\, public and private spaces\, and importantly – social and antisocial. \nElinor Carmi is a digital rights advocate\, feminist\, researcher and journalist who has been working\, writing and teaching on deviant media\, internet standards\, (cyber)feminism\, sound studies and internet governance. Her second monograph will be out by the end of 2019 titled “Digital Distortions: Understanding the Power Behind Spam\, Noise\, and Other Deviant Media”\, published on Digital Formation series at Peter Lang publishing. Currently Elinor is a Postdoc Research Associate in digital culture and society\, at Liverpool University\, UK\, working on several ESRC and AHRC projects and part of the Nuffield Foundation funded project Me and My Big Data: Developing UK Citizens Data Literacies. At the moment she is working on two special issues: for Theory\, Culture & Society together with Brittany Paris about ‘Redesigning Time’\, and for the Internet Policy Review together with Simeon Yates about ‘what digital literacy mean today’. Before academia\, Elinor worked in the electronic dance music industry for various labels\, was a radio broadcaster and a music television editor for almost a decade. In 2013\, she published a book about the Israeli Psytrance culture titled “TranceMission: The Psytrance Culture in Israel 1989-1999” (Resling Publishing). She also tweets @Elinor_Carmi.
URL:https://cms.mit.edu/event/elinor-carmi-media-distortions-understanding-the-power-behind-spam-noise-and-other-deviant-media/
LOCATION:MIT Building E15\, Room 318 (Common Area)\, 20 Ames Street\, Cambridge\, MA\, 02139\, United States
CATEGORIES:Colloquium
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SUMMARY:Catherine D’Ignazio and Lauren F. Klein\, “Data Feminism”
DESCRIPTION:Catherine D’Ignazio ( Assistant Professor of Urban Science and Planning in the Department of Urban Studies and Planning at MIT) and Lauren Klein (Associate Professor in the departments of English and Quantitative Theory & Methods at Emory University)\n[Limited to CMS/W community.] \nAs data are increasingly mobilized in the service of global corporations\, governments\, and elite institutions\, their unequal conditions of production\, their inequitable impacts\, and their asymmetrical silences become increasingly more apparent. It is precisely this power that makes it worth asking: “Data science by whom? For whom? In whose interest? Informed by whose values?” And most importantly\, “How do we begin to imagine alternatives for data’s collection\, analysis\, and communication?” These are some of the questions that emerge from what Lauren Klein and Catherine D’Ignazio call Data Feminism (MIT Press 2020). Data feminism is a way of thinking about data science and its products that is informed by the past several decades of intersectional feminist activism and critical thought\, emerging anti-oppression design frameworks\, and scholarship from the fields of Critical Data Studies\, Science & Technology Studies\, Geography/GIS\, Digital Humanities and Human Computer Interaction. An intersectional feminist lens prompts questions about how\, for instance\, challenges to the male/female binary can also help challenge other binary (and empirically wrong) classification systems. It encourages us to ask how the concept of invisible labor can help to expose the gendered\, racialized\, and colonial forms of labor associated with data work. And it demonstrates why the data never\, ever\, speak for themselves. In this talk\, D’Ignazio will introduce seven principles for data feminist work: examining and challenging power\, rethinking binaries and hierarchies\, considering context\, embracing pluralism\, making labor visible\, and elevating emotion. The goal of this work is to transform scholarship into action – to operationalize feminism in order to imagine more ethical and more equitable data practices. \nCatherine D’Ignazio is an Assistant Professor of Urban Science and Planning in the Department of Urban Studies and Planning at MIT\, and director of the Data + Feminism Lab. More information about Catherine can be found on her website\, kanarinka.com. \nLauren F. Klein is an associate professor in the departments of English and Quantitative Theory & Methods at Emory University\, where she also directs the Digital Humanities Lab. More information about Lauren can be found on her website\, lklein.com.
URL:https://cms.mit.edu/event/data-feminism-catherine-dignazio-lauren-klein/
CATEGORIES:Colloquium
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SUMMARY:Lily Bui\, “Centering Peripheries: Warning Systems and Disaster Risk Reduction Planning on the Island City”
DESCRIPTION:Lily Bui\, Ph.D.\, MIT Department of Urban Studies and Planning\n[Limited to CMS/W community.] \nWarning systems play a crucial role in disaster events on islands\, some of the most vulnerable places in the world. They enable timely communication of risk\, bolstering capacity and counterbalancing the negative force exerted by hazards\, exposures\, and vulnerabilities that threaten island communities. Disasters frequently result in the breakdown of communication due to both structural (i.e.\, power outages\, failed telecommunications equipment\, aging infrastructure) and nonstructural issues (i.e.\, governance\, socioeconomic inequity\, language barriers). Through semi-structured interviews\, participant observation\, document review and spatial data visualization\, this dissertation compares the hurricane warning systems of two U.S. island cities: San Juan\, Puerto Rico\, and Honolulu\, O’ahu\, Hawaii\, during Hurricane Maria (2017) and Hurricane Lane (2018)\, respectively. This talk will share research that proposes a conceptual framework for evaluating warning systems that takes into consideration the temporal aspects of warning. The framework illustrates the ways in which warning and planning are interrelated\, as well as how planning and warning processes take place over time. \nLily Bui received her Ph.D. from MIT’s Department of Urban Studies and Planning\, whose work focuses on disaster early warning systems on urban islands. She holds an S.M. from MIT’s Comparative Media Studies and a dual bachelor’s in International Studies and Spanish from her alma mater\, University of California\, Irvine. She serves as an advisory board member for UC Irvine’s Emergency Management and Disaster Recovery Certificate Program.
URL:https://cms.mit.edu/event/lily-bui-warning-systems-disaster-risk-reduction-island-city/
CATEGORIES:Colloquium
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SUMMARY:Katha Seidman\, “Historic Drama-Documentaries and Immersive Installations”
DESCRIPTION:Emmy Award-winning production designer Katha Seidman\nKatha Seidman has designed many historic drama-documentaries and built a number of immersive installations. Although these two design challenges often seem to cross-reference\, she believes they should be treated quite differently. This talk will compare the development of one specific set\, a depiction of Lavoisier’s laboratory in 1778 when he discovers oxygen\, with an immersive shadow-play I’m developing that conjures a clandestine meeting of the Vigilant Committee of New York Cityabolitionists in 1851. \nA five-time nominee and three-time Emmy Award winning production designer\, Seidman has designed many historic drama-documentaries for PBS\, the History Channel and the Discovery Channel. In addition\, she creates immersive installations\, some in collaboration with other artists and others as solo shows. She is currently working on two installations\, a collaborative 3-D graphic novel and an immersive shadow-play about an imagined meeting of Abolitionists after the passing of the 1850 Fugitive Slave Act.
URL:https://cms.mit.edu/event/katha-seidman-historic-drama-documentaries-and-immersive-installations/
CATEGORIES:Colloquium
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