MIT Graduate Program in Comparative Media Studies
Studying Media and Making Media
Fox Harrell presents outcomes from his National Science Foundation-supported Advanced Identity Representation project, which helped reveal social biases in existing systems and implements systems to respond to those biases with greater nuance and expressive power.
A panel with some of the leading creators in virtual reality -- Raney Aronson-Rath, Jessica Brillhart, Nonny de la Peña, and Caspar Sonnen -- to better understand VR’s potentials and implications for documentary and journalism.
Sam Ford and Federico Rodriguez Tarditi discuss Fusion Media Group’s experiments with exploring new ways of telling stories, relationships with key publics, and new types of roles/positions in the company.
Sun-ha Hong on how "big" data and surveillance are not just about privacy and security but also redistribution of authority, credibility and responsibility.
Christine Walley, Professor of Anthropology at MIT, will present an overview of the Exit Zero Project, which "seeks to recapture the stories of a region traumatized by de-industrialization."
Douglas O’Reagan will update the audience on his efforts and invite suggestions and ideas concerning the future of digital humanities at MIT.
Baruch College's Allison Hahn on how academics might engage once-distant communities and better understand the complexity of mobile media and nomadic deliberation.
Did computers learn to see by modernity's most highly evolved technologies of vision, or, as Alexander Galloway argues, from sculpture?
Jennifer Stromer-Galley describes the large-scale collection and machine learning techniques used to study how presidential candidates use social media.
Join us for this year's alumni panel, when we hear from four alums of the graduate program in Comparative Media Studies as they discuss their experience at MIT and what their careers have looked like in the fields a CMS degree prepared them for.
André Brock, scholar of Black cyberculture, offers that Twitter's feature set and ubiquity map closely onto Black discursive identity.
Operating under the oppressive structures of masculinity, heterosexuality, and Whiteness that are sustained in digital spaces, marginalized women persevere and resist such hegemonic realities.
MIT's Nathan Matias asks, how will the role of data science in democracy be transformed as software expands the public's ability to conduct our own experiments at scale?
Seeking to unravel the analytical split between the "drawn" and the "digital" in animation and media studies more broadly, Paul Roquet’s project moves back and forth between two desktops: the hard surface of the drawing table and the pixelated surface of the screen.
Charles Musser: "19th century media forms set in motion not only a new way of imagining how to market national campaigns and candidates; they also helped to usher in novel forms of mass spectatorship."
