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.
MIT Graduate Program in Comparative Media Studies
Studying Media and Making Media
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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."
Ryan Cordell: “Melville in the First Age of Viral Media”
MIT Building 4, Room 231 Cambridge, MARyan Cordell, co-director of the Viral Texts project, will speak about his work uncovering pieces that “went viral” in nineteenth-century newspapers and magazines.
Danielle Keats Citron: “Hate Crimes in Cyberspace”
MIT Building 4, Room 231 Cambridge, MADanielle Keats Citron exposes the startling extent of personal cyber-attacks and proposes practical, lawful ways to prevent and punish online harassment.
On the Politics of Punk Media and Peru
MIT Building 4, Room 231 Cambridge, MAL. Shane Greene presents a theoretical overview of various situations – particularly their political, aesthetic, and media dimensions - that arose in the production of a book about the history of anarchism and punk rock during Peru’s war with the Maoist-inspired armed group known as the Shining Path.
Hierarchy and Democracy in Modern Japan’s Mass Media Revolution
MIT Building 4, Room 231 Cambridge, MAHiromu Nagahara explores Japan's first “mass media revolution”, in the 1920s and '30s, when technology expanded the number of media product consumers.
The Adventures of Ms. Meta: Celebrating the Female Superhero Through Digital Gaming
MIT Building 4, Room 231 Cambridge, MASarah Zaidan is a game designer, artist and researcher whose work explores how video games and comic books can engage in a dialogue with identity, gender and civic awareness.
From Firing Line to The O’Reilly Factor
MIT Building 4, Room 231 Cambridge, MAHow did political TV and radio move from honest intellectual combat to become a vast echo chamber? Heather Hendershot will answer this difficult question.
Global Internet Development Viewed Through the Net Vitality Lens
MIT Building 4, Room 231 Cambridge, MAUnlike other comparative studies that rank countries quantitatively based on a simplistic assessment of broadband speeds, Stuart Brotman's Net Vitality Index measures countries qualitatively to determine how well they are performing in a global competitive environment.
CMS Alumni Panel
MIT Building 4, Room 231 Cambridge, MAOn the heels of the day's graduate program information session, join us for our annual colloquium featuring five alumni of CMS, discussing their lives from MIT to their careers today.
The Bengali Harlem/Lost Histories Project: Documenting South Asian America’s Interracial Past
MIT Building 4, Room 231 Cambridge, MAVivek Bald discusses his transmedia project documenting the lives of Bengali Muslim ship workers and silk peddlers who entered the United States at the height of the Asian Exclusion Era and quietly settled and intermarried within African American and Puerto Rican neighborhoods from Harlem to Tremé in New Orleans and Black Bottom, Detroit.
Lisa Parks: “Drone Matters: Vertical Mediation in the Horn of Africa”
MIT Building 56, Room 114 Access via 21 Ames Street, Cambridge, MALisa Parks is interested both in the discourses that have been used to expose covert US drone interventions and in the ways that drone operations themselves function as technologies of mediation.
Caroline Jack: “How Facts Survive in Public Service Media”
MIT Building 56, Room 114 Access via 21 Ames Street, Cambridge, MAWhen the Ad Council bombarded television viewers with messages on economic literacy, was it information or propaganda? One way to answer that question is to look at corporate managers and executives as consequential social actors.
Vincent Brown: “Designing Histories of Slavery for the Database Age”
MIT Building 56, Room 114 Access via 21 Ames Street, Cambridge, MABy wrestling creatively and collectively with the difficult archival problems presented by social history of slavery, Harvard's Vincent Brown hopes to chart new pathways for pondering history’s most painful and vexing subjects.
A Conversation with Guy Maddin
MIT Building 56, Room 114 Access via 21 Ames Street, Cambridge, MAIn a conversation with William Uricchio, Maddin will discuss why we should bother digging up filmic and narrative memories from oblivion.
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