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SUMMARY:Illuminated Bodies: Kat Von D\, LA Ink\, and the Borderlands of Tattoo Culture
DESCRIPTION:Theresa Rojas\, SHASS Predoctoral Fellow in Comparative Media Studies/Writing\n(Join our mailing list for an event reminder.) \nThe first episode of the series LA Ink in 2007 was the all-time highest rated season premiere for the TLC network’s 18-34 demographic. The second tattoo vehicle in a franchise that began with Miami Ink\, the show continued its predecessor’s main format\, with select artists facilitating the therapeutic tattoo narratives of clients. One significant difference is LA Ink’s central “character\,” Kat Von D: shop owner\, tattoo artist\, and heavily tattooed Latina. Although women’s accumulation of tattoos has become more commonplace in the twenty-first century\, heavily tattooed female bodies are far from the mainstream. Latina bodies in particular are often exoticized and subject to cultural gatekeeping. Theresa Rojas examines the prolific and heavily tattooed Katherine Von Drachenberg\, popularly known as Kat Von D\, who offers a fascinating aesthetic that challenges both tattoo culture and notions of the “monstrous body” in new and intriguing ways. A polemical and sometimes polarizing celebrity\, Von D navigates the worlds of tattooing and popular culture in ways that are at once ground-breaking and problematic. Her formative role as the first heavily tattooed woman to have her own television show situates her as someone who has chosen to lead an exceptionally public life—telling her story in multi-mediated ways. \nRojas is a SHASS Predoctoral Fellow in Comparative Media Studies/Writing and a Ph.D. candidate at The Ohio State University. She received her MLA from Eastern Michigan University in Women’s and Gender Studies and her BA in English from the University of California\, Berkeley. Originally from San Francisco\, Theresa is also a Ronald E. McNair Scholar and an artist who works primarily in acrylics\, wood\, and ink. Her specialties include life narrative\, comics\, and visual culture.
URL:https://cms.mit.edu/event/illuminated-bodies-kat-von-d-la-ink-tattoo-culture/
LOCATION:MIT Building 4\, Room 231\, Cambridge\, MA\, 02139\, United States
CATEGORIES:Colloquium
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SUMMARY:Bobbie Chase and Marjorie Liu on the State of the Comic Book Medium
DESCRIPTION:(Join our mailing list for an event reminder.) \nJoin 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\, including DC and Marvel’s place in the industry\, and how creator owned projects are helping to evolve the face of publishing.
URL:https://cms.mit.edu/event/bobbie-chase-marjorie-liu/
LOCATION:MIT Building 4\, Room 231\, Cambridge\, MA\, 02139\, United States
CATEGORIES:Colloquium
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20141120T170000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20141120T190000
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SUMMARY:Town Meeting
DESCRIPTION:Open to the CMS/W family only\, the annual town meeting is a discussion among the program’s community members and directors.
URL:https://cms.mit.edu/event/town-meeting/
LOCATION:MIT Building 4\, Room 231\, Cambridge\, MA\, 02139\, United States
CATEGORIES:Colloquium
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20141023T170000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20141023T190000
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SUMMARY:CMS Alumni Panel
DESCRIPTION:Three Comparative Media Studies alums return to discuss their post-graduate lives. \nSam Ford\, S.M.\, ’07\nSam Ford is Director of Audience Engagement at strategic communication and marketing firm Peppercomm. He is co-author of the 2013 book Spreadable Media and co-editor of the 2011 book The Survival of Soap Opera. Sam is a contributing author to Harvard Business Review\, Fast Company\, and Inc.; a research affiliate with MIT’s Program in Comparative Media Studies/Writing; and an instructor with Western Kentucky University’s Popular Culture Studies Program. Sam currently serves as Co-Chair of the Word of Mouth Marketing Association’s Ethics Committee. He has recently published work with The Journal of Fandom Studies\, Panorama Social\, Cinema Journal\, The Journal of Digital & Social Media Marketing\, Advertising Age\, PRWeek\, PR News\, O’Dwyer PR\, IABC Communication World\, The Public Relations Strategist\, PropertyCasualty360\, Oxford University Press Bibliographies\, and the NYU Press book\, Making Media Work\, among other outlets. He’s based in Bowling Green\, Kentucky. \n\nRekha Murthy\, S.M.\, ’05\nRekha Murthy is Director of Projects + Partnerships at PRX\, where she finds innovative ways for public media stations and producers to reach audiences and earn revenue. Rekha runs PRX’s digital distribution program\, where she forges new\, non-broadcast pathways for audio works. These range from established channels like iTunes and Amazon\, to aggregators like TuneIn and Stitcher\, to entertainment and education services large and small. \nAs part of PRX’s award-winning Apps team\, Rekha has set new standards for public media’s mobile strategy and adoption with apps including the Public Radio Player\, This American Life\, and for major stations. She launched PRX’s iTunes distribution service\, making independent productions and major national programs available for sale in the iTunes Store.  \nRekha advises various transmedia initiatives for public media and served on the board of the Integrated Media Association (now part of Greater Public).  \nBefore PRX\, Rekha was a producer for NPR’s All Things Considered and an editor of NPR.org. She’s been a project manager and user experience designer for web and mobile clients. \nParmesh Shahani\, S.M.\, ’05\nParmesh Shahani\, listed in 2012 as one of 25 Indians to watch out for by Financial Times\, is the head of the Godrej India Culture Lab — an experimental idea-space that cross-­pollinates the best ideas and people working on India from across the academic\, creative and corporate worlds to explore what it means to be modern and Indian. In addition\, Parmesh also serves as the Editor-at-large for Verve magazine\, India. He is a Yale World Fellow\, currently spending a semester in New Haven. He is also a World Economic Forum Young Global Leader\, TED Fellow\, and a Utrecht University-Impakt Fellow. Parmesh’s masters’ thesis at CMS was released as a book  “Gay Bombay: Globalization\, Love and  (Be)Longing in Contemporary India” by Sage Publications in 2008.  You can follow Parmesh on Twitter at @parmeshs.
URL:https://cms.mit.edu/event/cms-alumni-panel/
LOCATION:MIT Building 4\, Room 231\, Cambridge\, MA\, 02139\, United States
CATEGORIES:Colloquium
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SUMMARY:Doris Sommer\, "Welcome Back\, to the Humanities as Civic Engagement"
DESCRIPTION:Doris Sommer. Staff Photo\, Stephanie Mitchell/Harvard University News Office\nDoris 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. From the top and from below\, creative projects and their interpretation fuel positive change and renew humanists’ opportunities to make civic contributions. \nSommer is Ira and Jewell Williams Professor of Romance languages and Literatures and African and African American Studies at Harvard University and Director of the Cultural Agents Initiative.
URL:https://cms.mit.edu/event/doris-sommer-humanities-as-civic-engagement/
LOCATION:MIT Media Lab\, Room 633\, 75 Amherst St.\, Cambridge\, MA\, 02139\, United States
CATEGORIES:Colloquium
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20141002T170000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20141002T190000
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SUMMARY:Helen Nissenbaum\, "Resisting Data’s Tyranny with Obfuscation"
DESCRIPTION:Helen Nissenbaum\nAgainst inexorable machinations of data surveillance\, analysis\, and profiling\, data obfuscation holds promise of relief. Whether it can withstand countervailing analytics is an intriguing question; whether it is unethical\, illegitimate\, or\, at best\, ungenerous cuts close to the bone. Yet\, as NYU’s Helen Nissenbaum will argue in this talk\, obfuscation is a compelling “weapon-of-the-weak\,” which deserves to be developed and strengthened\, its moral challenges countered and mitigated. \nHelen Nissenbaum is Professor of Media\, Culture and Communication\, and Computer Science\, at New York University\, where she is also Director of the Information Law Institute. Her work spans social\, ethical\, and political dimensions of information technology and digital media. She has written and edited five books\, including Values at Play in Digital Games\, with Mary Flanagan (forthcoming from MIT Press\, 2014) and Privacy in Context: Technology\, Policy\, and the Integrity of Social Life (Stanford University Press\, 2010) and her research publications have appeared in journals of philosophy\, politics\, law\, media studies\, information studies\, and computer science. The National Science Foundation\, Air Force Office of Scientific Research\, Ford Foundation\, U.S. Department of Homeland Security\, and the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Office of the National Coordinator have supported her work on privacy\, trust online\, and security\, as well as several studies of values embodied in computer system design\, search engines\, digital games\, facial recognition technology\, and health information systems. \nNissenbaum holds a Ph.D. in philosophy from Stanford University and a B.A. (Hons) from the University of the Witwatersrand. Before joining the faculty at NYU\, she served as Associate Director of the Center for Human Values at Princeton University.
URL:https://cms.mit.edu/event/helen-nissenbaum-resisting-datas-tyranny-with-obfuscation/
LOCATION:MIT Media Lab\, Room 633\, 75 Amherst St.\, Cambridge\, MA\, 02139\, United States
CATEGORIES:Colloquium
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20140925T170000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20140925T190000
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SUMMARY:Caetlin Benson-Allott\, "By Design: Or\, What Remote Controls Can Teach Us about the Nature of Control"
DESCRIPTION:Caetlin Benson-Allott\nCo-sponsored with MIT Literature. \nHow does an object set the limits for human experiences of will and subjecthood? How does an interface temper our desires for interactivity or intervention? A remote control appears to exert its user’s will over distant objects\, yet the design and function of the device itself instill in its subject a vexed relationship to his or her own agency. Analyzing the technical and design evolution of these devices reveals how the seemingly most inconsequential of media devices have shaped the way users cohabit with mass media\, consumer electronics\, and each other. \nCaetlin Benson-Allott is Associate Professor of English and Film and Media Studies at Georgetown University. She is the author of Killer Tapes and Shattered Screens: Video Spectatorship from VHS to File Sharing (Berkeley: University of California Press\, 2013) and Remote Control (New York: Bloomsbury Press\, forthcoming 2015). Her articles have appeared in Cinema Journal\, Jump Cut\, Film Quarterly\, South Atlantic Quarterly\, Film Criticism\, and The Quarterly Review of Film and Video as well as multiple anthologies. \nLoading…
URL:https://cms.mit.edu/event/caetlin-benson-allott-remote-controls-nature-of-control/
LOCATION:MIT Media Lab\, Room 633\, 75 Amherst St.\, Cambridge\, MA\, 02139\, United States
CATEGORIES:Colloquium
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20140918T170000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20140918T190000
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SUMMARY:Philip Napoli\, "Media Impact Assessment and Beyond: Thoughts on the Treacherous Task of Quantifying Journalistic Performance"
DESCRIPTION:Philip Napoli\, Rutgers University\nIn recent years\, a variety of funders have begun to invest substantially in efforts to assess the impact of media initiatives such as documentary films and journalism ventures. These efforts reflect a fundamental shift in how media performance is assessed (and whose assessments matter) in an environment of extreme audience fragmentation and increased challenges to monetizing media content. This presentation will focus on ongoing research that seeks to define and assess the field of media impact assessment. In addressing these issues\, this analysis seeks to: \n\nidentify important points of distinction between contemporary notions of media impact and more traditional notions of media effects;\nassess the methods and metrics being employed to assess media impact;\nidentify the key challenges and tensions inherent in such efforts.\n\nThis presentation also will illustrate that impact represents only one of a number of aspects of journalistic performance that are being converted to quantitative performance metrics. Related areas of ongoing research include efforts to assess the health of local media ecosystems and the quality of journalistic content. The broader implications of this wide-ranging transformation in how journalistic performance may be assessed will be considered. \nPhilip M. Napoli (Ph.D.\, Northwestern University) is Professor of Journalism & Media Studies in the School of Communication & Information at Rutgers University\, where he leads the Media and the Public Interest Initiative. His current research projects include an analysis of the functioning of the New York City information ecosystem during and after Hurricane Sandy (funded by Internews) and the News Measures Research Project (funded by the Democracy Fund and the Dodge Foundation).
URL:https://cms.mit.edu/event/philip-napoli-media-impact-assessment-quantifying-journalistic-performance/
LOCATION:MIT Media Lab\, Room 633\, 75 Amherst St.\, Cambridge\, MA\, 02139\, United States
CATEGORIES:Colloquium
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20140911T170000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20140911T190000
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SUMMARY:Sinan Aral\, "Social Influence and The Dynamics of Online Reputation"
DESCRIPTION:Sinan Aral\nIdentity and reputation drive some of the most important decisions we make online: Who to follow or link to\, whose information to trust\, whose opinion to rely on when choosing a product or service\, whose content to consume and share. Yet\, we know very little about the dynamics of online reputation and how it affects our decision making. \nThe MIT Sloan School of Management’s Sinan Aral will describe a series of randomized experiments that explore the population level behavioral dynamics catalyzed by identity and reputation online. He will explore some of the implications for bias in online ratings\, the foundations of social advertising and the ability to generate cascades of behavior through peer to peer social influence in networks. The coming decades will likely see an emphasis on verified identities online. 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.
URL:https://cms.mit.edu/event/sinan-aral-social-influence-dynamics-online-reputation/
LOCATION:MIT Media Lab\, Room 633\, 75 Amherst St.\, Cambridge\, MA\, 02139\, United States
CATEGORIES:Colloquium
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20140508T170000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20140508T190000
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SUMMARY:Philip Jones: "Gaming in Color"
DESCRIPTION:Philip Jones\nGaming 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. A lesbian\, gay\, bisexual\, transgender\, or otherwise queer gamer has a higher chance of being mistreated in an online social game. Diverse queer themes in storylines and characters are still mostly an anomaly in the mainstream video game industry. Gaming In Color explores how the community culture is shifting and the industry is diversifying\, helping with queer visibility and acceptance of an LGBTQ presence. \nPhilip Jones is a queer youth and activist\, who began in the games industry with journalism and podcasting. He is now best known for his work in directing the video games documentary Gaming in Color which focuses on queer gamers. He also has a hand in other MidBoss projects\, currently head of the expo hall and vendor relations for the second GaymerX convention\, as well as assistant writer for upcoming adventure game Read Only Memories. When not working on these projects\, he studies and wears too much flannel at his home in Texas.
URL:https://cms.mit.edu/event/philip-jones-gaming-color/
LOCATION:MIT Media Lab\, Room 633\, 75 Amherst St.\, Cambridge\, MA\, 02139\, United States
CATEGORIES:Colloquium
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20140501T170000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20140501T190000
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SUMMARY:Tarleton Gillespie: "Algorithms\, and the Production of Calculated Publics"
DESCRIPTION:Tarleton Gillespie\, Dept. of Communication\, Cornell University; Visiting Researcher\, Microsoft Research New England\nAlgorithms may now be our most important knowledge technologies\, “the scientific instruments of a society at large\,” (Gitelman) and they are increasingly vital to how we organize human social interaction\, produce authoritative knowledge\, and choreograph our participation in public life. Search engines\, recommendation systems\, edge algorithms on social networking sites\, and “trend” identification algorithms: these not only help us find information\, they provide a means to know what there is to know and to participate in social and political discourse. In this talk Tarleton Gillespie will highlight one particular dimension of these algorithms\, their production of calculated publics: algorithmically produced snapshots of the “public” around us and what most concerns it. Understanding the calculations and motivations behind the production of these calculated publics helps highlight how these algorithms are relevant to our collective efforts to know and be known. \nTarleton Gillespie is an associate professor  at Cornell University\, in the Department of Communication and the Department of Information Science. This semester he is a visiting researcher with Microsoft Research\, New England. He is the co-editor of Media Technologies: Essays on Communication\, Materiality\, and Society (2014)\, and the author of Wired Shut: Copyright and the Shape of Digital Culture (2007)\, and the co-founder of the scholarly blog at culturedigitally.org. \nLoading…
URL:https://cms.mit.edu/event/tarleton-gillespie-algorithms-and-the-production-of-calculated-publics/
LOCATION:MIT Media Lab\, Room 633\, 75 Amherst St.\, Cambridge\, MA\, 02139\, United States
CATEGORIES:Colloquium
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20140410T170000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20140410T190000
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SUMMARY:Susan Murray\, "'Natural Vision vs. Tele-Vision’: Defining and Managing Electronic Color in the Post-War Era"
DESCRIPTION:Susan Murray\nThe standardization of color television in the US during the postwar era was\, in large part\, discussed and determined in relation to historical developments in color theory (philosophical\, psychological\, and physical)\, colorimetry\, color design and industry\, psychophysics\, psychology and\, of course\, what had already been established industrially\, culturally\, and technically for monochrome television. In this presentation\, Susan Murray explores how these various threads of scientific\, aesthetic\, philosophical\, and industrial knowledge were built into the standards\, processes\, and procedures for and around the technology and use of color television from the late 1940s and into the early 1950s. This presentation will be less about color programming itself\, and more about the discourses that framed and managed color use and reception not only in the standardization period\, but also during RCA and NBC’s early attempts to sell color to consumers\, sponsors\, and critics. \nSusan Murray is associate professor of Media\, Culture and Communication at NYU. She is the author of Hitch Your Antenna to the Stars! Early Television and Broadcast Stardom (2005) and the coeditor (with Laurie Ouellette) of Reality TV: Remaking Television Culture (2004\, 2009). She has received fellowships from the ACLS and NYU’s Humanities Initiative for 2013-14 and is currently writing a history of color television from 1929-1970\, which is under contract with Duke University Press. \nLoading…
URL:https://cms.mit.edu/event/susan-murray-electronic-color-post-war-era/
LOCATION:MIT Media Lab\, Room 633\, 75 Amherst St.\, Cambridge\, MA\, 02139\, United States
CATEGORIES:Colloquium
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20140320T170000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20140320T190000
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CREATED:20131219T164447Z
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SUMMARY:Barry Werth and The Antidote: Reporting from Inside the World of Big Pharma
DESCRIPTION:Journalist and author Barry Werth has been writing about the business and practice of the pharmaceutical industry for more than two decades. The Billion Dollar Molecule\, his 1995 book on Vertex Pharmaceuticals\, was named one the “75 Smartest Books We Know” by Fortune. His sixth and most recent book\, The Antidote: Inside the World of Big Pharma\, revisits Vertex\, offering unprecedented behind-the-scenes access to a company that that went from cash-starved startup to a triumph of American bio-tech innovation. Werth has also written for The New Yorker\, The New York Times\, and Technology Review\, among many others publications.
URL:https://cms.mit.edu/event/barry-werth-antidote-inside-world-big-pharma/
LOCATION:MIT Media Lab\, Room 633\, 75 Amherst St.\, Cambridge\, MA\, 02139\, United States
CATEGORIES:Colloquium
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20140313T170000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20140313T190000
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CREATED:20140127T183733Z
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SUMMARY:Kate Crawford\, "Squeaky Dolphin to Normcore: Anxiety and Big Data Culture"
DESCRIPTION:Kate Crawford\nKate Crawford is a Principal Researcher at Microsoft Research (Social Media Collective)\, a Visiting Professor at the MIT Center for Civic Media\, a Senior Fellow at the Information Law Institute at NYU\, and an Associate Professor at the University of New South Wales. She researches how people engage with networked technologies\, and analyze the political\, cultural\, legal\, philosophical and policy-making implications. She has done interview-based studies in Australia\, India and the US\, in big cities and in very small towns. Crawford is interested in how networked data becomes part of our understanding of knowledge\, privacy\, democracy\, intimacy and subjectivity. Her first book Adult Themes was through Pan Macmillan\, and she is currently working on a new book.
URL:https://cms.mit.edu/event/kate-crawford-anxiety-big-data-culture/
LOCATION:MIT Building 4\, Room 231\, Cambridge\, MA\, 02139\, United States
CATEGORIES:Colloquium
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20140227T170000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20140227T190000
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SUMMARY:Meredith Schweig and Rebecca Dirksen: "Taiwanese Rap and Haitian Music and Reconstruction"
DESCRIPTION:Meredith Schweig\nIn this presentation\, Meredith Schweig explores the gender politics and practices of the Taiwan rap scene. Drawing on long-term fieldwork with the island’s hip-hop community and invoking emergent scholarly discourses on East Asian and global masculinities\, she argues that rap’s identity as men’s music renders it a productive site for exploring\, unsettling\, and transforming prevailing models of Taiwanese manhood. In the context of shifting gender roles driven by dramatic social\, political\, and economic change over the course of the last three decades in Taiwan\, Schweig considers how rap has created new spaces for male sociality\, avenues for male self-empowerment\, and opportunities for the articulation of multiple masculine identities not otherwise audible in the island’s popular music.          \nSchweig is a Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow in the Humanities at MIT.  Her research explores twentieth- and twenty-first-century music of East Asia\, with a particular emphasis on popular song\, narrativity\, and cultural politics in Taiwan and China.  She has received fellowships and grants from the Asian Cultural Council\, Whiting Foundation\, Fulbright-Hays\, and the Fairbank Center for East Asian Research at Harvard University. \n\nRebecca Dirksen\nIn Haiti from the colonial period to the present\, music has been a critical means for public dialogue when other avenues have not been possible. Mizik angaje\, literally\, “engaged music\,” a genre-crossing expressive form featuring pointed lyrical commentary on political and social issues\, has accompanied key moments in Haitian history\, from the Haitian Revolution to the downfall of the Duvalier regime and subsequent rise of Aristide to power. Increasingly in recent years\, mizik angaje has been re-imagined to reflect current realities: any understanding of this musical phenomenon must now go beyondexamining how ordinary Haitian citizens use musical dialogue to critique infrastructural weaknesses and abuses of authority to demonstrating how a growing number of social groups employ music as an explicit and fundamental tool for strengthening their local communities. Independent of state or NGO support\, these groups are tackling non-musical neighborhood concerns by promoting social programs that simultaneously entertain music-making and community service. This leads us to ask\, what happens when Haitian musicians implicate themselves in the processes of development? \nRebecca Dirksen\, a Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology\, completed her PhD in ethnomusicology at UCLA in 2012. Her primary research concerns music and grassroots development in Haiti before and after the 2010 earthquake. Concurrent projects revolve around creative responses to crisis and disaster\, intangible cultural heritage protection\, cultural policy\, and Haitian classical music. \nThis event is co-sponsored with MIT Foreign Languages and Literatures and the Cool Japan Project.
URL:https://cms.mit.edu/event/meredith-schweig-rebecca-dirkson/
LOCATION:MIT Media Lab\, Room 633\, 75 Amherst St.\, Cambridge\, MA\, 02139\, United States
CATEGORIES:Colloquium
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20140220T170000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20140220T190000
DTSTAMP:20260409T114322
CREATED:20140123T153900Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20140123T155455Z
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SUMMARY:Jonathan Sterne\, "Who Tunes Whom?: Auto-Tune\, the Earth\, and the Politics of Frequency"
DESCRIPTION:Jonathan Sterne\, McGill University\nAuto-tune is a ubiquitous vocal effect in popular music and the best-selling software plug-in in the short history of commercial digital audio software. When used with subtlety\, auto-tune fixes slight errors or variances in pitch (usually of singers); when used more drastically\, it produces a very recognizable vocal effect\, “locking” a voice to a scale\, or drastically altering it.  \nAuto-tune was developed out of reflection seismology technology\, which uses sound for locating natural resources underground and beneath the ocean floor. In this paper\, 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. Auto-tune effects a resource management of the voice. The obvious artifice in its most extreme forms points us back to a centuries-long project to technologize human voices through standards and tuning. While journalists and music fans may argue over auto-tune’s relationship to the authenticity of the voice\, Sterne shows that it is embedded in a much broader politics of frequency. \nJonathan Sterne is a Professor in the Department of Art History and Communication Studies at McGill University\, and for January-May 2014 a visiting researcher in social media at Microsoft Research New England.  He is author of MP3: The Meaning of a Format (Duke 2012)\, The Audible Past: Cultural Origins of Sound Reproduction (Duke\, 2003); and numerous articles on media\, technologies and the politics of culture. He is also editor of The Sound Studies Reader (Routledge\, 2012).  His new projects consider instruments and instrumentalities; histories of signal processing; and the intersections of disability\, technology and perception. Visit his website at sterneworks.org.
URL:https://cms.mit.edu/event/jonathan-sterne-auto-tune/
LOCATION:MIT Media Lab\, Room 633\, 75 Amherst St.\, Cambridge\, MA\, 02139\, United States
CATEGORIES:Colloquium
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ORGANIZER;CN="MIT%20Comparative%20Media%20Studies%2FWriting":MAILTO:cmsw@mit.edu
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20140213T170000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20140213T190000
DTSTAMP:20260409T114322
CREATED:20140117T153300Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20201019T132216Z
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SUMMARY:Miguel Sicart: "Play in the Age of Computing Machinery"
DESCRIPTION:Miguel Sicart\nWe live in the era of computation and play. Everywhere we look\, there is a computer\, translating the world around us into patterns for production of labor or consumption of entertainment. And now more than ever\, we play everywhere: our work should be playful\, as it should be our dieting\, our love life\, and even our leisure. We play as much as we can\, in this world of computers. \nIn this talk Sicart will look at the culture\, aesthetics\, and technological implications of play in the age of computers. He will propose a theory of play that includes the materiality of computation in its definition of the activity\, and will suggest that our forms of playing with machines are both forms of surrendering to the pleasures of computation\, and forms of creative resistance to the reduction of our worlds to computable events. \nMiguel Sicart is a games scholar based at the IT University of Copenhagen. For the last decade his research has focused on ethics and computer games\, from a philosophical and design theory perspective. He has two books published: The Ethics of Computer Games; and Beyond Choices: The Design of Ethical Gameplay (MIT Press 2009\, 2013). His current work focuses on playful design\, and will be the subject of a new book called Play Matters (MIT Press\, 2014). Miguel teaches game and play design\, and his research is now focused on toys\, materiality\, and play.
URL:https://cms.mit.edu/event/miguel-sicart-play-age-computing-machinery/
LOCATION:MIT Media Lab\, Room 633\, 75 Amherst St.\, Cambridge\, MA\, 02139\, United States
CATEGORIES:Colloquium
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20131121T170000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20131121T190000
DTSTAMP:20260409T114322
CREATED:20130905T200318Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20131121T154928Z
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SUMMARY:Mary Flanagan
DESCRIPTION:Mary Flanagan\nMary Flanagan pushes the boundaries of medium and genre across writing\, visual arts\, and design to innovate in these fields with a critical play centered approach. Her groundbreaking explorations across the arts and sciences represent a novel use of methods and tools that bind research with introspective cultural production. As an artist\, her collection of over 20 major works range from game-inspired systems to computer viruses\, embodied interfaces to interactive texts; these works are exhibited internationally. As a scholar interested in how human values are in play across technologies and systems\, Flanagan has written more than 20 critical essays and chapters on games\, empathy\, gender and digital representation\, art and technology\, and responsible design. Her three books in English include Critical Play (2009) with MIT Press. Flanagan founded the Tiltfactor game research laboratory in 2003\, where researchers study and make social games\, urban games\, and software in a rigorous theory/practice environment. Flanagan’s work has been supported by grants and commissions including The British Arts Council\, the National Endowment for the Humanities\, the ACLS\, and the National Science Foundation. Flanagan is the Sherman Fairchild Distinguished Professor in Digital Humanities at Dartmouth College.
URL:https://cms.mit.edu/event/mary-flanagan/
LOCATION:MIT Building 4\, Room 231\, Cambridge\, MA\, 02139\, United States
CATEGORIES:Colloquium
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ORGANIZER;CN="MIT%20Comparative%20Media%20Studies%2FWriting":MAILTO:cmsw@mit.edu
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20131114T170000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20131114T190000
DTSTAMP:20260409T114322
CREATED:20130820T120621Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20160516T174501Z
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SUMMARY:Visualizing Information: ChartGirl on an Alternate Route to Understanding and Explaining Complicated Information
DESCRIPTION:Hilary Sargent\, founder of ChartGirl.com\nHilary Sargent is the founder of ChartGirl.com\, where she makes charts to describe complicated news stories. Her site was recently called one of the 50 Best Websites of 2013 by TIME Magazine and her charts have been featured by Reuters\, AtlanticWire\, BoingBoing\, Business Insider\, and others. Sargent has worked as an investigator for law firms\, corporations\, non-profit organizations and political campaigns. \nView the MIT Campus Map for Building 4’s exact location.
URL:https://cms.mit.edu/event/chartgirl-on-visualizing-information/
LOCATION:MIT Building 4\, Room 231\, Cambridge\, MA\, 02139\, United States
CATEGORIES:Colloquium
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ORGANIZER;CN="MIT%20Comparative%20Media%20Studies%2FWriting":MAILTO:cmsw@mit.edu
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20131107T170000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20131107T190000
DTSTAMP:20260409T114322
CREATED:20130903T172931Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20201014T140523Z
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SUMMARY:Sonia Livingstone: "The Class: Living and Learning in the Digital Age"
DESCRIPTION:Sonia Livingstone\, Department of Media and Communications\, London School of Economics and Political Science\nSonia Livingstone is a full professor in the Department of Media and Communications\, London School of Economics and Political Science. She is seconded to Microsoft Social Research for fall 2013 as well as being a faculty fellow at the Berkman Center for Internet and Society. Her talk will be based on her current book project\, “The Class: Living and Learning in the Digital Age”\, based on her ethnographic research with the MacArthur Foundation-funded Connected Learning Research Network. With a focus on young teenagers\, Sonia will examine how powerful forces of social reproduction result in missed opportunities for many youth in the risk society.
URL:https://cms.mit.edu/event/sonia-livingstone-class-living-learning-in-the-digital-age/
LOCATION:MIT Media Lab\, Room 633\, 75 Amherst St.\, Cambridge\, MA\, 02139\, United States
CATEGORIES:Colloquium
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ORGANIZER;CN="MIT%20Comparative%20Media%20Studies%2FWriting":MAILTO:cmsw@mit.edu
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20131031T170000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20131031T190000
DTSTAMP:20260409T114322
CREATED:20130822T133322Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20131023T153012Z
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SUMMARY:Todd Harper: "Fight Like Gentlemen: The Culture of Fighting Games"
DESCRIPTION:Todd Harper\, Postdoctoral Associate with the MIT Game Lab\nThe culture of fighting games — digital games of competitive martial arts-style combat—is one of the most interesting and contentious of gamer subcultures. This talk examines the influences and norms of that community\, including its spiritual and physical roots in the arcade\, common gameplay practices\, and how issues of ethnicity and gender collide with gamer identity in the ‘FGC’. \nTodd Harper is a researcher at the MIT Game Lab with a background in mass communication and cultural studies. His current research focuses on both competitive communities and their cultural norms\, as well as queer and gender representation and issues in gaming culture.
URL:https://cms.mit.edu/event/todd-harper-culture-of-fighting-games/
LOCATION:MIT Building 4\, Room 231\, Cambridge\, MA\, 02139\, United States
CATEGORIES:Colloquium
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ORGANIZER;CN="MIT%20Comparative%20Media%20Studies%2FWriting":MAILTO:cmsw@mit.edu
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20131024T170000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20131024T190000
DTSTAMP:20260409T114322
CREATED:20130725T200939Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20131017T144905Z
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SUMMARY:Coco Fusco: "A Performance Approach to Primate Politics"
DESCRIPTION:Coco Fusco\nNew 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 the films as critiques of American race relations during the 1960’s and ’70’s. \nShe will also discuss her interest in exploring the strategies used in early sci-fi cinema\, the ways that films such as Planet of the Apes employed speculative fiction to generate social critique. \nModerated by Professor of Writing Junot Díaz and Associate Professor Ian Condry.
URL:https://cms.mit.edu/event/coco-fusco-planet-of-the-apes-primate-politics/
LOCATION:MIT Media Lab\, Room 633\, 75 Amherst St.\, Cambridge\, MA\, 02139\, United States
CATEGORIES:Colloquium
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ORGANIZER;CN="MIT%20Comparative%20Media%20Studies%2FWriting":MAILTO:cmsw@mit.edu
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20131017T170000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20131017T190000
DTSTAMP:20260409T114322
CREATED:20130829T124223Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20131017T134519Z
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SUMMARY:Zeynep Tufekci: "The Boom-Bust Cycle of Social Media-Fueled Protests"
DESCRIPTION:Zeynep Tufekci\nSocial media-fueled protests in many countries have surprised observers with their seemingly spontaneous\, combustible power. Yet\, many have fizzled out without having a strong impact on policy at the electoral and legislative levels. In this talk\, Tufekci will discuss some features of such protests that may be leading to this boom and bust cycle drawing upon primary research in Gezi protests in Turkey as well as “Arab Spring”\, Occupy and M15 movements. \nZeynep Tufekci is an assistant professor at the University of North Carolina\, Chapel Hill. \nModerated by Professor of Comparative Media Studies and Head of MIT Foreign Languages and Literatures Ian Condry and Ethan Zuckerman\, Director of the MIT Center for Civic Media.
URL:https://cms.mit.edu/event/zeynep-tufekci-boom-bust-cycle-social-media-fueled-protests/
LOCATION:MIT Media Lab\, Room 633\, 75 Amherst St.\, Cambridge\, MA\, 02139\, United States
CATEGORIES:Colloquium
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ORGANIZER;CN="MIT%20Comparative%20Media%20Studies%2FWriting":MAILTO:cmsw@mit.edu
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20130926T170000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20130926T190000
DTSTAMP:20260409T114322
CREATED:20130830T122641Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20130924T203246Z
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SUMMARY:Ethan Zuckerman: "Digital Cosmopolitanism and Cognitive Diversity"
DESCRIPTION:Ethan Zuckerman\, Director of the MIT Center for Civic Media and author of Rewire: Digital Cosmopolitans in the Age of Connection\nNew media technologies have sharply increased the number of people who are able to create and disseminate content. But they may not be leading to a more diverse media environment\, as tools that allow us to tailor what content we see and what we ignore are becoming more powerful and more personal. The framework of cosmopolitanism suggests a way through this challenge – by 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. \nEthan Zuckerman is the Director of the MIT Center for Civic Media. \nModerated by Associate Professor Ian Condry.
URL:https://cms.mit.edu/event/ethan-zuckerman-digital-cosmopolitanism-cognitive-diversity/
LOCATION:MIT Building 4\, Room 231\, Cambridge\, MA\, 02139\, United States
CATEGORIES:Colloquium
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ORGANIZER;CN="MIT%20Comparative%20Media%20Studies%2FWriting":MAILTO:cmsw@mit.edu
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20130919T170000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20130919T190000
DTSTAMP:20260409T114322
CREATED:20130823T171408Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20130916T195619Z
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SUMMARY:Hong Qu: "Keepr: Algorithm for Extracting Entities\, Eyewitnesses and Amplifiers"
DESCRIPTION:Hong Qu\nWhen a big news story breaks\, Twitter goes crazy. Keepr tries to make sense of these periodic bursts by implementing natural language processing and social network analysis algorithms to surface topics\, eyewitnesses\, and amplifiers. A live demo will be followed by a discussion of the capabilities and limitations of computational newsgathering\, along with reports of how it is being used in newsrooms. \nHong Qu is a digital toolmaker. He has led teams at YouTube and Upworthy.  He enjoys building social media tools that help us better understand ourselves and the world around us.
URL:https://cms.mit.edu/event/hong-qu-keepr-algorithm-extracting-entities-eyewitnesses-amplifiers/
LOCATION:MIT Media Lab\, Room 633\, 75 Amherst St.\, Cambridge\, MA\, 02139\, United States
CATEGORIES:Colloquium
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ORGANIZER;CN="MIT%20Comparative%20Media%20Studies%2FWriting":MAILTO:cmsw@mit.edu
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20130509T170000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20130509T180000
DTSTAMP:20260409T114322
CREATED:20140730T180348Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20150706T170706Z
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SUMMARY:10 PRINT CHR$(205.5+RND(1)); : GOTO 10
DESCRIPTION:The MIT Press book we affectionately call 10 PRINT — actually 10 PRINT CHR$(205.5+RND(1)); : GOTO 10 — was an unusual project in several respects. The book focuses on a single line of now-unfamiliar code\, code of the sort that millions typed in and modified in the 1970s and 1980s. The book contributes to several threads of contemporary digital media scholarship\, including critical code studies\, software studies\, and platform studies. Also somewhat oddly\, the book was written in a single voice by ten people: Nick Montfort\, Patsy Baudoin\, John Bell\, Ian Bogost\, Jeremy Douglass\, Mark C. Marino\, Michael Mateas\, Casey Reas\, Mark Sample\, and Noah Vawter. \nAt this CMS colloquium\, co-authors will discuss the nature of their collaboration\, which was organized by Montfort\, designed as a book by Reas\, and facilitated by structured conversations and writing done online (using a mailing list and a wiki) as well as (in a few cases) in person. The writing of 10 PRINT is offered as a new mode of scholarship\, very suitable in digital media but capable of being applied throughout the humanities. It brings some of the benefits of laboratory work and collaborative design practice to the traditionally individual mode of scholarly research and argument.
URL:https://cms.mit.edu/event/10-print/
LOCATION:MIT Building 4\, Room 231\, Cambridge\, MA\, 02139\, United States
CATEGORIES:Colloquium
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20130425T170000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20130425T190000
DTSTAMP:20260409T114322
CREATED:20141215T153201Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20141215T153201Z
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SUMMARY:Film Preservation in the Age of Digitality
DESCRIPTION:Chris Horak\nWe now live in a digital age\, seemingly guaranteeing instant accessibility. Much 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\, because digitization is still massively expensive\, there is no such thing as a digital preservation medium\, and even the migration of digital films is fraught with technical difficulties. \nChris Horak is Director of the UCLA Film and Television Archive.
URL:https://cms.mit.edu/event/chris-horak-film-preservation-in-the-age-of-digitality/
LOCATION:MIT Building 4\, Room 231\, Cambridge\, MA\, 02139\, United States
CATEGORIES:Colloquium
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20130418T170000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20130418T190000
DTSTAMP:20260409T114322
CREATED:20170530T233059Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20200521T124612Z
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SUMMARY:Size Is Only Half the Story:Valuing the Dimensionality of BIG DATA
DESCRIPTION:Mary L. Gray\nRecent 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\, as a particular kind of “big data”. \nMary L. Gray\, Senior Researcher at Microsoft Research New England and Associate Professor of Communication and Culture at Indiana University\, will walk through the different dimensions of social inquiry that fall under the rubric of “big data”. She argues for attending to different dimensions rather than scales of data\, more collaborative approaches to how we arrive at what we (think we) know\, and critical analysis of the cultural assumptions embedded in the data we collect. By moving from the “snapshot” of quantitative work to the
URL:https://cms.mit.edu/event/size-is-only-half-story-valuing-dimensionality-big-data/
LOCATION:MIT Building 4\, Room 231\, Cambridge\, MA\, 02139\, United States
CATEGORIES:Colloquium
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20130404T170000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20130404T190000
DTSTAMP:20260409T114322
CREATED:20170530T233059Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20211209T132503Z
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SUMMARY:The Cultural Feedback of Noise
DESCRIPTION:Noise\, an underground music made through an amalgam of feedback\, distortion\, and electronic effects\, first emerged in the 1980s\, circulating on cassette tapes traded between fans in Japan\, Europe and North America. With its cultivated obscurity\, ear-shattering sound\, and over-the-top performances\, Noise captured the imagination of a small but passionate transnational audience\, despite remaining deeply underground. How did the submergent circulations of Noise become such a compelling metaphor for the complexities of globalization\, intercultural exchange and participatory media at the turn of the millennium? In this talk\, I trace the “cultural feedback” of noise through the productive distortions of its mediated networks: its recorded forms\, technologies of live performance\, and into the lives and creative practices of musicians and listeners. \nDavid Novak teaches in the Music Department at the University of California\, Santa Barbara. His work deals with the globalization of popular music\, media technologies\, experimental culture\, and social practices of listening. He is the author of recent essays in Public Culture\, Cultural Anthropology\, and Popular Music\, as well as the book Japanoise: Music at the Edge of Circulation (Duke University Press).
URL:https://cms.mit.edu/event/cultural-feedback-noise/
LOCATION:MIT Building 4\, Room 231\, Cambridge\, MA\, 02139\, United States
CATEGORIES:Colloquium
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20130307T170000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20130307T190000
DTSTAMP:20260409T114322
CREATED:20140904T173849Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20140904T173849Z
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SUMMARY:Angels of Death: David Foster Wallace and the Battle against Irony\, Letterman and Leyner?
DESCRIPTION:D. T. Max\nD.T. Max\, staff writer at the New Yorker\, will look at David Foster Wallace and irony\, with an eye especially on his 1990’s attacks on David Letterman and the novelist Mark Leyner\, both in publications and in private correspondence. When did David Foster Wallace become obsessed with irony and why? What made him so sure it was corrosive to civil culture or initiative? Or was the unease he felt in its presence really more the product of his own personal history? \nCo-hosted with Literature at MIT.
URL:https://cms.mit.edu/event/david-foster-wallace-battle-against-irony-letterman-and-leyner/
LOCATION:MIT Media Lab\, Room 633\, 75 Amherst St.\, Cambridge\, MA\, 02139\, United States
CATEGORIES:Colloquium
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