The Cultural Feedback of Noise
MIT Building 4, Room 231 Cambridge, MADavid Novak on the "cultural feedback" of noise music through its recorded forms, technologies of live performance, and creative practices of musicians and listeners.
MIT Graduate Program in Comparative Media Studies
Studying Media and Making Media
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Size Is Only Half the Story:
Valuing the Dimensionality of BIG DATA
MIT Building 4, Room 231
Cambridge, MA
Mary L. Gray Recent provocations (boyd and Crawford, 2011) about the role of "big data" in human communication research and technology studies deserve an outline of the value of anthropology, […]
Film Preservation in the Age of Digitality
MIT Building 4, Room 231 Cambridge, MAMuch of the general public in fact believes that every film and television program ever made has already been digitized and is now available in Netflix’s catalog. That is hardly the case.
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MIT Building 4, Room 231 Cambridge, MACo-authors will discuss the nature of their collaboration facilitated by structured conversations and writing done online and in person.
Hong Qu: “Keepr: Algorithm for Extracting Entities, Eyewitnesses and Amplifiers”
MIT Media Lab, Room 633 75 Amherst St., Cambridge, MASeptember 19th, hear from Hong Qu on Keepr, a tool that makes sense of social media news bursts with natural language processing and network analysis.
Ethan Zuckerman: “Digital Cosmopolitanism and Cognitive Diversity”
MIT Building 4, Room 231 Cambridge, MABy examining perspectives we are exposed to and insulated from, we may be able to design tools and approaches that help readers increase their cognitive diversity and prepare themselves to tackle transnational challenges.
Zeynep Tufekci: “The Boom-Bust Cycle of Social Media-Fueled Protests”
MIT Media Lab, Room 633 75 Amherst St., Cambridge, MAUNC's Zeynep Tufekci discusses social media-fueled protests and their boom and bust cycle, drawing on the Gezi protests, Arab Spring, Occupy, and others.
Coco Fusco: “A Performance Approach to Primate Politics”
MIT Media Lab, Room 633 75 Amherst St., Cambridge, MACoco Fusco New York-based interdisciplinary artist and writer Coco Fusco will consider the critical responses to the original Planet of the Apes films, focusing in particular on the interpretation of […]
Todd Harper: “Fight Like Gentlemen: The Culture of Fighting Games”
MIT Building 4, Room 231 Cambridge, MAA talk on the fighting game community, its spiritual and physical roots in the arcade, common practices, and how issues of ethnicity and gender collide.
Sonia Livingstone: “The Class: Living and Learning in the Digital Age”
MIT Media Lab, Room 633 75 Amherst St., Cambridge, MASonia Livingstone will examine how powerful forces of social reproduction result in missed opportunities for many youth in the risk society.
Visualizing Information: ChartGirl on an Alternate Route to Understanding and Explaining Complicated Information
MIT Building 4, Room 231 Cambridge, MANovember 14, we hear from Hilary Sargent of ChartGirl.com -- one of TIME's 50 Best Websites -- where she makes charts to describe complicated news stories.
Mary Flanagan
MIT Building 4, Room 231 Cambridge, MAPushing the boundaries of medium and genre across writing, visual arts, and design to innovate in these fields with a critical play centered approach.
Miguel Sicart: “Play in the Age of Computing Machinery”
MIT Media Lab, Room 633 75 Amherst St., Cambridge, MAGames scholar Miguel Sicart of the IT University of Copenhagen looks at the culture, aesthetics, and technological implications of play in the age of computers.
Jonathan Sterne, “Who Tunes Whom?: Auto-Tune, the Earth, and the Politics of Frequency”
MIT Media Lab, Room 633 75 Amherst St., Cambridge, MAMcGill's Jonathan Sterne gives a cultural history of auto-tune as a form of signal processing, drawing on patent documents, interviews, operational protocols, tuning standards and competing acoustemologies.
Meredith Schweig and Rebecca Dirksen: “Taiwanese Rap and Haitian Music and Reconstruction”
MIT Media Lab, Room 633 75 Amherst St., Cambridge, MAIn this presentation, Meredith Schweig explores the gender politics and practices of the Taiwan rap scene.
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