Philip Jones: “Gaming in Color”
MIT Media Lab, Room 633 75 Amherst St., Cambridge, MAGaming in Color is a full length documentary of the story of the queer gaming community, gaymer culture and events, and the rise of LGBTQ themes in video games.
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Sinan Aral, “Social Influence and The Dynamics of Online Reputation”
MIT Media Lab, Room 633 75 Amherst St., Cambridge, MAMIT Sloan's Sinan Aral will argue that a new science of online identity could help guide our business, platform design, and social policy decisions in light of the rising importance of online reputation and social influence.
Philip Napoli, “Media Impact Assessment and Beyond: Thoughts on the Treacherous Task of Quantifying Journalistic Performance”
MIT Media Lab, Room 633 75 Amherst St., Cambridge, MAThis presentation by Rutgers' Philip Napoli will focus on ongoing research that seeks to define and assess the field of media impact assessment.
Caetlin Benson-Allott, “By Design: Or, What Remote Controls Can Teach Us about the Nature of Control”
MIT Media Lab, Room 633 75 Amherst St., Cambridge, MAGeorgetown's Caetlin Benson-Allott on how the technical and design evolution of remote controls reveal how the seemingly most inconsequential of media devices have shaped the way users cohabit with mass media, consumer electronics, and each other.
Helen Nissenbaum, “Resisting Data’s Tyranny with Obfuscation”
MIT Media Lab, Room 633 75 Amherst St., Cambridge, MAHelen Nissenbaum: "Obfuscation is a compelling 'weapon-of-the-weak,' which deserves to be developed and strengthened, its moral challenges countered and mitigated."
Doris Sommer, “Welcome Back, to the Humanities as Civic Engagement”
MIT Media Lab, Room 633 75 Amherst St., Cambridge, MADoris Sommer's new book "The Work of Art in the World: Civic Agency and Public Humanities" revives the collaboration between aesthetic philosophy and democratic development.
CMS Alumni Panel
MIT Building 4, Room 231 Cambridge, MAThree Comparative Media Studies alums -- Sam Ford, Rekha Murthy, and Parmesh Shahani -- return to discuss their post-graduate lives.
Town Meeting
MIT Building 4, Room 231 Cambridge, MAFor the CMS/W family only, this is the annual discussion between the program's community members and directors.
Bobbie Chase and Marjorie Liu on the State of the Comic Book Medium
MIT Building 4, Room 231 Cambridge, MAJoin Bobbie Chase, Editorial Director of DC Comics, and comic book writer Marjorie Liu (Monstress, Astonishing X-Men, Black Widow) as they discuss the current and future state of the comic book medium.
Illuminated Bodies: Kat Von D, LA Ink, and the Borderlands of Tattoo Culture
MIT Building 4, Room 231 Cambridge, MATheresa Rojas examines the prolific, heavily tattooed Kat Von D, who offers an aesthetic that challenges tattoo culture and notions of the “monstrous body”.
Media and Memory at the Vidéothèque de Paris
MIT Building 4, Room 231 Cambridge, MACatherine E. Clark on how "the utopian rhetoric that accompanied the Vidéothèque’s creation helps illuminate and call into question the utopian promises of the much more recent revolution in digital history."
Dangerous Moves: Performance and Politics in Cuba
MIT Building 4, Room 231 Cambridge, MACoco Fusco explores the work of performance artists from the 1980s to the present and examines how the Cuban state has wielded influence over performance.
Cultural Studies and The Expediency of Culture, Rethought in Relation to Internet Platforms and Megadata
MIT Building 4, Room 231 Cambridge, MAThe argument that culture empties out as it becomes ever more pivotal in the creative economy has, George Yúdice thinks, been borne out.
Re-calling the Modem World: The Dial-up History of Social Media
MIT Building 4, Room 231 Cambridge, MAKevin Driscoll presents how the history of bulletin-board systems reveals the popular origins of computer-mediated social life.
The Dancing Body of the State: Queer Social Dance, Political Leadership, and Black Popular Culture
MIT Building 4, Room 231 Cambridge, MAThomas DeFranz "wonders at the intertwining of African American social dances and political leadership, conceived as the bodies of elected officials."
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