Marina Bers, “The Design of Digital Experiences for Positive Youth Development”
MIT Media Lab, Room 633 75 Amherst St., Cambridge, MAThis talk by Marina Bers will focus on digital spaces to support positive youth development.
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Cities and the Future of Entertainment
MIT Media Lab, Bartos Theater 20 Ames Street, Cambridge, MAAs a prologue to the Futures of Entertainment conference, this Forum will focus on the emergence of powerful new production cultures in such cities as Mumbai, Shanghai, and Rio de Janeiro.
Mimi Ito, “Fandom Unbound: Otaku Culture in a Connected World”
MIT Media Lab, Room 633 75 Amherst St., Cambridge, MAMimi Ito, cultural anthropologist, discusses how this once marginalized popular culture came to play a major role in Japan’s identity at home and abroad.
Fandom Unbound: Otaku Culture in a Connected World
MIT Media Lab, Room 633 75 Amherst St., Cambridge, MABy exploring the rich variety of otaku culture from multiple perspectives, Mimi Ito will provide fascinating insights into the present and future of cultural production and distribution in the digital age.
The Family of Man and the Politics of Attention in Cold War America
MIT Media Lab, Room 633 75 Amherst St., Cambridge, MAThe Family of Man became an influential prototype of the immersive, multi-media environments of the 1960s – and of our own multiply mediated social world today.
Contemporary Network Television News Reporting About Latinos: Successes, Failures, and a Range of Proposals to Correct Its Limitations
MIT Media Lab, Bartos Theater 20 Ames Street, Cambridge, MAOtto Santa Anna presents findings from his book, Juan in a Hundred: Faces and Stories of Latinos on the Network News.
Games and Journalism
MIT Media Lab, Room 633 75 Amherst St., Cambridge, MAHeather Chaplin on "emerging thinking on ideas about game literacies and the acceptance of games as facilitators of transformative experiences."
Media Culture in the Occupy Movement: from the People’s Mic to GlobalRevolution.tv
MIT Building 2, Room 105 182 Memorial Drive, Cambridge, MASasha Costanza-Chock investigates media practices in the Occupy movement and develops an analytical framework of social movement media culture.
The Color of Seawater Through a Picture Window
MIT Media Lab, Room 633 75 Amherst St., Cambridge, MAKelley will show selections of his recent projects and related narrative and ethnographic films, as well as rehearse a lecture/performance about architectural morphology and global tourism.
Mapping the Urban Database Documentary
MIT Media Lab, Room 633 75 Amherst St., Cambridge, MAThe urban database documentary is a mode of media art practice that uses structural systems as generative processes and organizational frameworks to explore the lived experience of place.
Designing Digital Humanities
MIT Building 2, Room 105 182 Memorial Drive, Cambridge, MAJohanna Drucker tells us how designers have a major role to play in the collaborative envisioning of new formats and processes.
How To Wreck A Nice Speech: Hearing Things With The Vocoder, From World War II To Hip-Hop
MIT Media Lab, Room 633 75 Amherst St., Cambridge, MADave Tompkins' How To Wreck A Nice Beach is about hearing things, from a misunderstood technology which in itself often spoke under conditions of anonymity.
The News as a Social Process for Improving Society
MIT Media Lab, Room 633 75 Amherst St., Cambridge, MAYves Citton: "While machines can 'read' data, only human subjectivities can 'interpret' them."
George Lakoff, “The Brain’s Politics: How Campaigns Are Framed and Why”
MIT Media Lab, Bartos Theater 20 Ames Street, Cambridge, MAEverything we learn, know and understand is physical — a matter of brain circuitry. This basic fact has deep implications for how politics is understood, how campaigns are framed, why conservatives and progressives talk past each other, and why progressives have more problems framing messages than conservatives do — and what they can do about it.
Artist-Audience Relations in the Age of Social Media
MIT Building 4, Room 231 Cambridge, MANancy Baym asks, "How does direct access to fans change what it means to be an artist? What rewards are there that weren't before?"
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