Barbie and Mortal Kombat 20 Years Later
MIT Building 56, Room 114 Access via 21 Ames Street, Cambridge, MAYasmin Kafai and Gabriela Richard expand the discussions on gender, race, and sexuality in gaming.
MIT Graduate Program in Comparative Media Studies
Studying Media and Making Media
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Michael Lee: “The Conservative Canon Before and After Trump”
MIT Building 56, Room 114 Access via 21 Ames Street, Cambridge, MAMichael J. Lee charts the vital role of canonical post–World War II (1945–1964) books in generating, guiding, and sustaining conservatism as a political force in the United States.
The Contingencies of Comparison: Rethinking Comparative Media
MIT Building 56, Room 114 Access via 21 Ames Street, Cambridge, MABrian Larkin and Stefan Andriopoulos: "It is clear that future media centers will emerge in places far outside their traditional Western centers."
From Taft to Trump: How Conservative Media Activists Won — and Lost — the GOP
MIT Building 56, Room 114 Access via 21 Ames Street, Cambridge, MANicole Hemmer will explain how conservative media activists won the GOP for the right -- and how in the era of Trump, they lost it.
Playful Practice: Designing the Future of Teacher Learning
MIT Building 56, Room 114 Access via 21 Ames Street, Cambridge, MAIn this participatory session, play samples of some of the practice spaces that Justin Reich's team is developing and discuss the theoretical foundations of their vision for the future of teacher learning.
Engineering Virality: BuzzFeed’s Scientific Approach To Creating Content
MIT Building 56, Room 114 Access via 21 Ames Street, Cambridge, MABuzzFeed's Walter Menendez: "This talk will detail how BuzzFeed thinks about and creates content, highlighting our paradigms for the function and role of our content."
Platforms in the Public Interest: Lessons from Minitel
MIT Building 56, Room 114 Access via 21 Ames Street, Cambridge, MAAfter thirty years in service, Minitel offers a wealth of data for thinking about internet policy and an alternative model for the internet's future: a public platform for private innovation.
The Mediated Construction of Reality: from Berger and Luckmann to Norbert Elias
MIT Building 56, Room 114 Access via 21 Ames Street, Cambridge, MASociologist Nick Couldry radically rethinks the implications of social constructivism for a work saturated not just with digital media, but with data processes
Ecological Criticism in the Age of the Database
MIT Building 56, Room 114 Access via 21 Ames Street, Cambridge, MASean Cubitt asserts the value of anecdotal evidence against the rise of statistics, but at the same time wants to confront the difficulties in bringing about an encounter between readers (human or otherwise) and the mass image constructed by social media and search giants.
Mapping Climate Change: Contested Futures in New York City’s Flood Zone
MIT Building 56, Room 114 Access via 21 Ames Street, Cambridge, MAExplore how certain places come to be seen as “at risk” in anticipation of climate change, and what this way of seeing means for their inhabitants. Drawing on fieldwork over four years in the aftermath of Hurricane Sandy, the talk will focus on the fraught development and implementation of new FEMA (Federal Emergency Management Agency) flood maps for New York City, where hundreds of thousands of people and billions of dollars in property now lie in the high-risk flood zone.
Cloud Policy: Anatomy of a Regulatory Crisis
MIT Building 56, Room 114 Access via 21 Ames Street, Cambridge, MAJennifer Holt examines the legal and cultural crises surrounding the regulation of data in “the cloud.” The complex landscape of laws and policies governing digital data are currently rife with unresolvable conflicts. The challenges of distributing and protecting digital data in a policy landscape that is simultaneously local, national, and global have created problems that often defy legal paradigms, national boundaries, and traditional geographies of control.
Fall 2017 Alumni Panel: Matthew Weise, Karen Schrier Shaenfield, Ainsley Sutherland, and Beyza Boyacioglu
MIT Building 56, Room 114 Access via 21 Ames Street, Cambridge, MAJoin 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.
The Emotional Politics of Piracy, Or Why We Feel Intellectual Property Infringement as National Trauma
MIT Building 56, Room 114 Access via 21 Ames Street, Cambridge, MAAnjali Vats: "The everdayness and banality of piratical trauma fuels desires for intellectual property maximalism and intellectual property criminalization, which reproduce the very conditions which gave rise to the trauma."
From Augmented to Virtual Learning: Affordances of Different Mixes of Reality for Learning
MIT Building 56, Room 114 Access via 21 Ames Street, Cambridge, MAEric Klopfer asks, what theories and evidence can we generate and build upon to provide a foundation for using augmented and virtual reality technologies productively for learning?
ICTs for Refugees and Displaced Persons
MIT Building 56, Room 114 Access via 21 Ames Street, Cambridge, MACarleen Maitland introduces the terms "digital refugee" and "digital humanitarian brokerage" as she previews her new edited volume Digital Lifeline? ICTs for Refugees and Displaced Persons.
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