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SUMMARY:Eric Gordon\, "Towards a Meaningfully Inefficient Smart City"
DESCRIPTION:[Streamed live at https://mit.zoom.us/j/94087151099.] \n\n\n\n\nMainstream “smart” city discourse offers a technocentric\, efficiency-driven utopian fantasy that elides or exacerbates many urban problems of the past and present. Significant critical literature has emerged in recent years that highlights the importance of lived experience in smart cities\, wherein values of equity\, quality of life\, and sustainability are prioritized. This literature has focused on models that center people in the design and implementation of smart city plans. Instead of maximizing efficiency\, these models strategically produce what I call meaningful inefficiencies into process and outcomes\, or the intentionally designed productive lag in a system wherein users are able to explore\, connect\, and invent in a non-prescribed fashion. In this talk\, Visiting Professor Eric Gordon will discuss a recent project in Boston\, MA in collaboration with the Boston Mayor’s Office of New Urban Mechanics\, called Beta Blocks\, that uses meaningful inefficiency as a structuring logic for sourcing\, questioning and making decisions about public realm technologies. \n\n\n\n\nEric Gordon is a visiting professor in Comparative Media Studies/Writing at MIT and a professor of Media Art at Emerson College\, where he directs the Engagement Lab. His research focuses on the transformation of public life and governance in digital culture\, and the incorporation of play into collaborative design processes. He is the editor of Civic Media: Technology\, Design\, Practice (MIT Press\, 2016) and the author of Meaningful Inefficiencies: Civic Design in an Age of Digital Expediency (Oxford University Press\, 2020).
URL:https://cms.mit.edu/event/eric-gordon-towards-a-meaningfully-inefficient-smart-city/
CATEGORIES:Colloquium
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SUMMARY:Elinor Carmi\, “Media Distortions: Understanding the Power Behind Spam\, Noise\, and Other Deviant Media”
DESCRIPTION:Media 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 analyze multiplicities of mediated spaces\, people and objects. \n\n\n\nDrawing 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. \n\n\n\n\n \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nAbout Elinor Carmi\n\n\n\nElinor Carmi is a researcher\, journalist and ex-radio broadcaster who has a passion for technology\, digital rights\, and feminism. In the past 8 years she has been examining internet standards\, specifically the development of the digital advertising ecosystem such as advertising networks\, real-time-bidding\, and web-cookies/pixels. Currently Dr. Carmi is a Research Associate at Liverpool University\, UK\, working on several projects: 1) “Me and My Big Data – Developing Citizens’ Data Literacies” Nuffield Foundation funded project; 2) “Being Alone Together: Developing Fake News Immunity” UKRI funded project; 3) Digital inclusion with the UK’s Department for Digital\, Culture\, Media and Sport (DCMS). On February 2020\, Carmi was invited to give evidence on digital literacy for the House of Lords’ Committee on Democracy and Digital Technologies\, at the British Parliament in London\, UK. In addition\, she has been invited by the World Health Organisation (WHO) as a scientific expert to be part of the closed discussions to establish the foundations of Infodemiology. 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-spam-noise-deviant-media/
CATEGORIES:Colloquium
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SUMMARY:Lana Swartz\, "New Money: How Payment Became Social Media"
DESCRIPTION:Lana Swartz\, ’09\, is joined by Aswin Punathambekar\, ’03\, to discuss Swartz’s new book New Money: How Payment Became Social Media (Yale University Press). New Money frames money as a media technology\, one in major transition\, and interrogates the consequences of those changes. \n\n\n\nLana Swartz is an Assistant Professor in Department of Media Studies at the University of Virginia and a 2009 graduate of MIT’s Comparative Media Studies master’s program. Prior to New Money\, she published Paid: Tales of Dongles\, Checks\, and Other Money Stuff (MIT Press). Aswin Punathambekar is Swartz’s colleague at UVa’s Department of Media Studies\, where he is an Associate Professor. He graduated from the Comparative Media Studies program in 2003 and is co-author of the upcoming (provisionally-titled) The Digital Popular: Media\, Culture\, and Politics in Networked India.
URL:https://cms.mit.edu/event/lana-swartz-new-money-aswin-punathambekar/
CATEGORIES:Colloquium
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