BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//MIT Graduate Program in Comparative Media Studies - ECPv5.16.1//NONSGML v1.0//EN CALSCALE:GREGORIAN METHOD:PUBLISH X-ORIGINAL-URL:https://cms.mit.edu X-WR-CALDESC:Events for MIT Graduate Program in Comparative Media Studies REFRESH-INTERVAL;VALUE=DURATION:PT1H X-Robots-Tag:noindex X-PUBLISHED-TTL:PT1H BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:America/New_York BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 TZNAME:EDT DTSTART:20060402T070000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0400 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 TZNAME:EST DTSTART:20061029T060000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 TZNAME:EDT DTSTART:20070311T070000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0400 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 TZNAME:EST DTSTART:20071104T060000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 TZNAME:EDT DTSTART:20080309T070000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0400 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 TZNAME:EST DTSTART:20081102T060000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 TZNAME:EDT DTSTART:20090308T070000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0400 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 TZNAME:EST DTSTART:20091101T060000 END:STANDARD END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20090430T170000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20090430T170000 DTSTAMP:20260410T224435 CREATED:20170530T233059Z LAST-MODIFIED:20170612T140447Z UID:30273-1241110800-1241110800@cms.mit.edu SUMMARY:The Discipline of Political Messages in an Unruly Era DESCRIPTION:Tucker Eskew\nPresidential elections are considered decisions on politicians’ virtues and reflections of public values. On an ongoing basis\, polling data and snap punditry engorge the body politic between elections. Taken together\, these judgments on leadership and partisanship — on statecraft and stagecraft — lie at the core of democracy today. Tucker Eskew explores the permanent campaign(s) of the last ten years. What is “message discipline” in an era of atomized opinion leadership — a necessity or a fool’s errand? Are the parties inevitably devoted to different styles of communication\, and is this era’s favored approach inextricably the domain of the new Administration? Can unfettered dialogue\, as an expression of freedom\, be a pure benefit to society\, or is “Fire!” being texted in a crowded coffee house? Consistent with his conservatism\, Eskew will have firm answers to some of these and other questions. Reflecting his consulting firm ViaNovo’s “new ways”\, he will welcome dialogue on all. URL:https://cms.mit.edu/event/tucker-eskew-discipline-political-messages-unruly-era/ LOCATION:MIT Building 2\, Room 105\, 182 Memorial Drive\, Cambridge\, MA\, 02139\, United States CATEGORIES:Colloquium ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://cms.mit.edu/wp/wp-content/uploads/2009/05/skew.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20090416T170000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20090416T170000 DTSTAMP:20260410T224435 CREATED:20150407T130519Z LAST-MODIFIED:20161221T201500Z UID:21311-1239901200-1239901200@cms.mit.edu SUMMARY:Chris Claremont: "Opening Doors\, Building Worlds" DESCRIPTION:Chris Claremont is best known for his 17 year unbroken run on the X-Men comic series — a feat in world building that has supported many uses\, from comics to movies to video games and more. Now Chris is returning to that world\, with a new comics series titled X-Men Forever. This time\, the rules are different. Claremont will address thoughts and considerations that go into building a world that can support years of use\, and variations. How has the concept of world-building changed over time? What is the purpose of continuity? Multiplicity? How to take into account growth and risk\, and play outside the rules. Questions and answers to follow. URL:https://cms.mit.edu/event/chris-claremont-opening-doors-building-worlds/ LOCATION:MIT Building 2\, Room 105\, 182 Memorial Drive\, Cambridge\, MA\, 02139\, United States CATEGORIES:Colloquium ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://cms.mit.edu/wp/wp-content/uploads/2009/04/claremont2.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20090319T170000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20090319T190000 DTSTAMP:20260410T224435 CREATED:20140905T161040Z LAST-MODIFIED:20140905T161040Z UID:21310-1237482000-1237489200@cms.mit.edu SUMMARY:Authorship\, Appropriation\, and the Fluid Text: Versions of the Law DESCRIPTION:A fluid text is any work that exists in multiple versions. What are the ethics and legality in the creation\, sharing\, and ownership of textual versions? What are the boundaries of textual appropriation? How does technology abet appropriation; how might it assist in the useful designation of boundaries? Is the law keeping up? \nHofstra University professor John Bryant explores the larger applications of the notion of fluid text to culture\, and in particular identity formation in a multicultural democracy. Wendy Seltzer is a Fellow at Harvard University’s Berkman Center for Internet and Society and is a visiting professor at American University. She founded and leads the Chilling Effects Clearinghouse\, helping Internet users to understand their rights in response to cease-and-desist threats\, and to research the effects of these threats on free expression. URL:https://cms.mit.edu/event/authorship-appropriation-and-the-fluid-text/ LOCATION:MIT Building 2\, Room 105\, 182 Memorial Drive\, Cambridge\, MA\, 02139\, United States CATEGORIES:Colloquium ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://cms.mit.edu/wp/wp-content/uploads/2011/10/8588406207_d48127e5f8.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20090305T170000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20090305T190000 DTSTAMP:20260410T224435 CREATED:20150105T212537Z LAST-MODIFIED:20150105T212537Z UID:21309-1236272400-1236279600@cms.mit.edu SUMMARY:Gendering Robots: Posthuman Sexism in Japan DESCRIPTION:Jennifer Roberston \nIn humans\, gender–femininity\, masculinity–is an array of performed behaviors\, from dressing in certain clothes to walking and talking in certain ways. These behaviors are both socially and historically shaped\, but are also contingent upon many situational influences\, including individual choices. Female and male bodies alike can perform a variety of femininities and masculinities. What can human gender(ed) practices and performances tell us about how humanoid robots are gendered\, and vice versa? Jennifer Roberston explores and interrogates the gendering of humanoid robots manufactured today in Japan for use in the home and workplace. She shows that Japanese roboticists assign gender to their creations based on rigid assumptions about female and male sex and gender roles. Thus\, humanoid robots can productively be understood as the vanguard of a “posthuman sexism\,” and are being developed in a socio-political climate of reactionary conservatism. \nCo-Sponsored by Cool Japan and Foreign Languages and Literature. URL:https://cms.mit.edu/event/gendering-robots-posthuman-sexism-in-japan/ LOCATION:MIT Building 32 (Stata Center)\, Room 155\, 32 Vassar Street\, Cambridge\, MA\, 02139\, United States CATEGORIES:Colloquium END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20090205T170000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20090205T190000 DTSTAMP:20260410T224435 CREATED:20150115T202403Z LAST-MODIFIED:20150115T202403Z UID:21305-1233853200-1233860400@cms.mit.edu SUMMARY:Identity-as-Place: Fictive Ethnicities in Online Games & Virtual Worlds DESCRIPTION:Celia Pearce\nThis talk\, with Celia Pearce\, Asst. Professor of Digital Media at Georgia Tech and Director and the Emergent Game Group and Experimental Game Lab\, explores the connection of identity to virtual place\, referencing in particular anthropology\, humanist and socio-geography and Internet studies to look at the construction and performance of “fictive ethnicity” tied to a specific\, though virtual and fictional\, locality. To illustrate\, Pearce will use the example of the Uru Diaspora\, a game community from the defunct massively multiplayer game Uru: Ages Beyond Myst (based on the Myst series)\, which immigrated into other games and virtual worlds\, adopting the collective fictive ethnicity of “Uru Refugees”\, and referring to Uru as their “homeland”. URL:https://cms.mit.edu/event/celia-pearce-fictive-ethnicities-in-online-games/ LOCATION:MIT Building 2\, Room 105\, 182 Memorial Drive\, Cambridge\, MA\, 02139\, United States CATEGORIES:Colloquium ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://cms.mit.edu/wp/wp-content/uploads/2009/02/artworks-000049340390-qq4n35-t200x200.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20081106T170000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20081106T190000 DTSTAMP:20260410T224435 CREATED:20150204T153418Z LAST-MODIFIED:20150204T153418Z UID:21297-1225990800-1225998000@cms.mit.edu SUMMARY:Lev Manovich DESCRIPTION:Lev Manovich\nLev Manovich is the author of Soft Cinema: Navigating the Database\, Black Box – White Cube\, and The Language of New Media\, which is hailed as “the most suggestive and broad ranging media history since Marshall McLuhan.” He has written 90+ articles which have been reprinted over 300 times in many countries. \nHe is a Professor in Visual Arts Department\, University of California-San Diego\, a Director of the Software Studies Initiative at California Institute for Telecommunications and Information Technology (CALIT2)\, and a Visiting Researcher at Godsmith College (London) and College of Fine Arts\, University of New South Wales (Sydney). He is much in demand to lecture around the world\, having delivered 270+ lectures\, seminars and workshops during the last 10 years. URL:https://cms.mit.edu/event/lev-manovich/ LOCATION:MIT Building 2\, Room 105\, 182 Memorial Drive\, Cambridge\, MA\, 02139\, United States CATEGORIES:Colloquium ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://cms.mit.edu/wp/wp-content/uploads/2014/12/Lev-Manovich.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20081103T170000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20081103T170000 DTSTAMP:20260410T224435 CREATED:20150303T192138Z LAST-MODIFIED:20150303T192138Z UID:21296-1225731600-1225731600@cms.mit.edu SUMMARY:Military Training and Compelling Experience DESCRIPTION:In this lecture\, Sharon Ghamari-Tabrizi will talk about the various meanings of what counts as a “compelling experience” for military simulation — and how this phrase “compelling experience” can be used as a thematic marker for differentiating the present moment from cold war-era immersive simulations. Ms. Ghamari-Tabrizi is an independent scholar currently living in Altamonte Springs\, Florida. She is the author of The Worlds of Herman Kahn: The Intuitive Science of Thermonuclear War (Harvard University Press\, 2005). \nCo-sponsored by the STS Colloquium. URL:https://cms.mit.edu/event/sharon-ghamari-tabrizi-military-training-compelling-experience/ LOCATION:MIT Building E51\, Room 095\, 70 Memorial Drive\, Cambridge\, MA\, 02139\, United States CATEGORIES:Colloquium END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20081023T170000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20081023T190000 DTSTAMP:20260410T224435 CREATED:20141106T203408Z LAST-MODIFIED:20141106T203408Z UID:21294-1224781200-1224788400@cms.mit.edu SUMMARY:Comics and Social Conflict DESCRIPTION:Comics have emerged as a key means of interpreting and disseminating controversial and contested histories: Chester Brown’s Louis Riel\, Keiji Nakazawa’s Barefoot Gen\, Joe Sacco’s Palestine\, and Marjane Satrapi’s Persepolis are just some of the works that take definitive social and political conflict as their topic. Why has historical material become so important for comics art? What unique opportunities does comics allow for critiquing and revising dominant historical narratives? These are the questions our speakers discussed\, in relation to their own work and to the comics world in general. \nDiana Tamblyn is writing a biography of Canadian arms trader and weapons engineer Gerald Bull; Ho Che Anderson authored King\, a 3-volume biography of MLK; and Jeet Heer is a historian and a leading comics scholar. URL:https://cms.mit.edu/event/comics-and-social-conflict/ LOCATION:MIT Building 2\, Room 105\, 182 Memorial Drive\, Cambridge\, MA\, 02139\, United States CATEGORIES:Colloquium ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://cms.mit.edu/wp/wp-content/uploads/2008/10/artworks-000049286921-l8jbkk-t200x200.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20080918T170000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20080918T170000 DTSTAMP:20260410T224435 CREATED:20150506T150322Z LAST-MODIFIED:20150506T150431Z UID:21289-1221757200-1221757200@cms.mit.edu SUMMARY:Playing with Stuff: The Material World in Performance DESCRIPTION:John Bell\nThis presentation / lecture / infomercial examines the nature and implications of object performance both as a global cultural tradition and as a contemporary medium that dominates our culture. While performing objects traditionally include puppets\, masks\, icons\, and other “things”\, the more recent innovations of film\, television\, and the internet can also be seen as aspects of our need to play with stuff. In all cases\, the central dynamic of this form involves a focus on the material world instead of humans. The talk will be accompanied by images from 20th-century avant-garde film and performance work. John Bell began his performance work with Bread and Puppet Theater\, after which he earned a Ph.D. in theater history at Columbia University. He is a founding member of the award-winning Great Small Works theater company of Brooklyn\, a fellow at the Center for Advanced Visual Studies at MIT\, and Director of the Ballard Institute and Museum of Puppetry at the University of Connecticut. This spring he will be directing a “Living Newspaper”-style production about the politics of global healthcare with MIT students. His latest book\, American Puppet Modernism (Palgrave Macmillan\, 2008)\, examines particular moments of puppet\, mask\, and object theater in the United States over the past 150 years. He is a trombonist with the Somerville-based Second Line Social Aid and Pleasure Society Brass Band\, and organizer of the upcoming October 12th HONK! Festival Parade from Davis Square to Harvard Square. URL:https://cms.mit.edu/event/john-bell-playing-with-stuff-material-world-performance/ LOCATION:MIT Building 2\, Room 105\, 182 Memorial Drive\, Cambridge\, MA\, 02139\, United States CATEGORIES:Colloquium ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://cms.mit.edu/wp/wp-content/uploads/2008/10/artworks-000049271767-syxdi4-t200x200.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20080911T170000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20080911T170000 DTSTAMP:20260410T224435 CREATED:20170530T233059Z LAST-MODIFIED:20170607T141451Z UID:30293-1221152400-1221152400@cms.mit.edu SUMMARY:The Myths and Politics of Media Violence Research DESCRIPTION:Lawrence Kutner and Cheryl Olson\nLawrence Kutner and Cheryl Olson present findings from their book\, Grand Theft Childhood: The Surprising Truth About Violent Video Games and What Parents Can Do (Simon & Schuster\, 2008)\, including the complex ways in which video games may benefit or disadvantage children. They will also talk about myths and politics in media violence research\, and how they influence the views of academics and mass media. Lawrence Kutner\, Ph.D. and Cheryl K. Olson\, Sc.D. are cofounders and co-directors (with Eugene Beresin\, M.D.) of the Center for Mental Health and Media at Massachusetts General Hospital. They are both on the psychiatry faculty of Harvard Medical School. Kutner received his Ph.D. from the University of Minnesota and trained at the Mayo Clinic. He’s a licensed psychologist and a Fellow of the American Psychological Association. He wrote the “Parent & Child” column for the New York Times as well as five books on child development. Olson was principal investigator for a $1.5 million study funded by the U.S. Department of Justice on the effects of video games on young teenagers\, which formed the basis for Grand Theft Childhood. She has a Doctor of Science degree in health and social behavior from the Harvard School of Public Health\, and a postdoctoral certificate in pharmaceutical medicine from the University of Basel. URL:https://cms.mit.edu/event/myths-politics-media-violence-research/ LOCATION:MIT Building 2\, Room 105\, 182 Memorial Drive\, Cambridge\, MA\, 02139\, United States CATEGORIES:Colloquium ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://cms.mit.edu/wp/wp-content/uploads/2008/09/artworks-000049264864-m8kbpb-t200x200.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20080905T170000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20080905T190000 DTSTAMP:20260410T224435 CREATED:20140814T162347Z LAST-MODIFIED:20140814T163209Z UID:21280-1220634000-1220641200@cms.mit.edu SUMMARY:A Conversation with Junot Díaz DESCRIPTION:Junot Díaz\nA conversation with Junot Díaz\, regarding questions of genre and secondary world construction in The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao and the Caribbean\, and the failure of realism as a narrative strategy to describe the deep history of the New World. Díaz is the Rudge (1948) and Nancy Allen Professor of Writing at MIT. He is the author of Drown and The Brief and Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao\, which won the John Sargent First Novel Prize\, the National Book Critics Circle Award and the Pulitzer Prize. URL:https://cms.mit.edu/event/conversation-with-junot-diaz/ LOCATION:MIT Building 2\, Room 105\, 182 Memorial Drive\, Cambridge\, MA\, 02139\, United States CATEGORIES:Colloquium ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://cms.mit.edu/wp/wp-content/uploads/2013/01/junot-diaz1-d1e24cbf9840b82822da6cea0c887cd4b24f2e63-s6-c10.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20070502T170000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20070502T170000 DTSTAMP:20260410T224435 CREATED:20150213T200457Z LAST-MODIFIED:20150213T200457Z UID:21275-1178125200-1178125200@cms.mit.edu SUMMARY:Love May Not Be in the Afternoon Anymore: A Q&A with Soap Opera Writer Kay Alden About How the Genre Is (and/or Should Be) Changing with the Times DESCRIPTION:Kay Alden\nLongtime soap opera writer Kay Alden will talk with about her decades in the industry with CMS graduate student Sam Ford ’07 who is writing his thesis about soap operas. Alden worked for more than 30 years on The Young and the Restless\, the top-rated daytime drama that she served as head writer for from 1998 to 2006. Recently\, she took on a consulting position with ABC Daytime and continues working with the genre during what is seen as a period of substantial change for the daytime television industry. Ford’s thesis\, “As the World Turns in a Convergence Environment\,” focuses on the shifting technologies and cultural patterns that are affecting daytime television. URL:https://cms.mit.edu/event/kay-alden/ LOCATION:MIT Building 2\, Room 146\, 182 Memorial Drive\, Cambridge\, MA\, 02139\, United States CATEGORIES:Colloquium ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://cms.mit.edu/wp/wp-content/uploads/2007/05/Kay-Alden.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20070419T170000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20070419T190000 DTSTAMP:20260410T224435 CREATED:20140828T184830Z LAST-MODIFIED:20140828T184851Z UID:21273-1177002000-1177009200@cms.mit.edu SUMMARY:Michael Cuthbert: "Ambiguity\, Process\, and Information Content in Minimal Music" DESCRIPTION:Michael Cuthbert\nRecent trends in music composition push bounds by creating pieces which are either more complex or simpler than works of the past. And yet\, our ability to understand and be interested in the compositions at these extremes has kept pace. In this talk\, Michael Cuthbert will show how simple minimalist processes give rise to highly ambiguous structures\, while many of the most complex moments are reducible to easier to comprehend processes. The effect of potentially endless works–including sections of Beethoven symphonies–will generalize the talk to other musical styles and other media. Cuthbert\, visiting assistant professor of music at MIT\, has worked extensively on fourteenth-century music and on music of the past 40 years. A recipient of the Rome Prize of the American Academy\, Cuthbert earned his Ph.D. from Harvard in 2006. URL:https://cms.mit.edu/event/michael-cuthbert-ambiguity-process-information-content-minimal-music/ LOCATION:MIT Building 2\, Room 105\, 182 Memorial Drive\, Cambridge\, MA\, 02139\, United States CATEGORIES:Colloquium ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://cms.mit.edu/wp/wp-content/uploads/2014/08/Michael-Cuthbert.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20070322T170000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20070322T190000 DTSTAMP:20260410T224435 CREATED:20140730T144517Z LAST-MODIFIED:20200928T175002Z UID:21270-1174582800-1174590000@cms.mit.edu SUMMARY:"This One's Gonna Be a Slobberknocker": A Q&A with WWE's "Good Ol' J.R." Jim Ross DESCRIPTION:“Good Ol’ J.R.” Jim Ross\nJim Ross\, the longtime voice of World Wrestling Entertainment\, joins CMS graduate student Sam Ford to discuss the unique blend of reality and fiction in the world of American professional wrestling. Ross will talk about how WWE’s distribution across multiple media platforms creates an interesting storytelling atmosphere\, and he will share experiences from his many years in the television industry as wrestling has moved from broadcast to cable and pay-per-view and now to DVD distribution\, on-demand\, and the Web. See Ross’s Web site at www.jrsbarbq.com. \nNOTE: This is the first of two colloquia about American professional wrestling being organized this term by Sam Ford ’07. Ford is teaching a spring class on the pro wrestling industry and is a researcher for the Convergence Culture Consortium. He is a weekly columnist for the Ohio County Times-News in Hartford\, Ky.\, and performs in pro wrestling events on occasion. A third colloquium on April 26 with Sharon Mazer will also examine aspects of wrestling. URL:https://cms.mit.edu/event/jim-ross-wwe-q-and-a/ LOCATION:MIT Building 4\, Room 370\, 182 Memorial Drive (Rear)\, Cambridge\, MA\, 02139\, United States CATEGORIES:Colloquium ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://cms.mit.edu/wp/wp-content/uploads/2007/06/Jim+Ross.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20070315T170000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20070315T170000 DTSTAMP:20260410T224435 CREATED:20150327T135222Z LAST-MODIFIED:20170224T181805Z UID:21269-1173978000-1173978000@cms.mit.edu SUMMARY:Old World\, New World: How Communities\, Culture\, Connectivity\, and Commerce are Changing How We Create Culture\, Media\, Education and Politics DESCRIPTION:Alan Moore\nAlan Moore\, CEO of engagement marketing company SMLXL and co-author of Communities Dominate Brands\, believes that community-based engagement initiatives and the enabling of peer-to-peer flows of communication within organizations\, and those that engage with them\, will replace the traditional media orthodoxies of government\, management\, business\, media distribution and marketing. URL:https://cms.mit.edu/event/alan-moore-changing-how-we-create-culture-media-education-politics/ LOCATION:MIT Building 2\, Room 105\, 182 Memorial Drive\, Cambridge\, MA\, 02139\, United States CATEGORIES:Colloquium ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://cms.mit.edu/wp/wp-content/uploads/2015/03/Alan-Moore.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20070308T170000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20070308T190000 DTSTAMP:20260410T224435 CREATED:20140819T173348Z LAST-MODIFIED:20140819T173348Z UID:21268-1173373200-1173380400@cms.mit.edu SUMMARY:Many Eyes: A Site for Social Data Analysis DESCRIPTION:While visualization is traditionally viewed as an efficient way of transferring a large amount of information from a database into an individual’s head\, we believe that visualizations become far more powerful when multiple people access them for collaborative sense-making. To test this hypothesis\, IBM’s Visual Communication Lab recently launched Many Eyes\, a website devoted to a new social style of data analysis and visualization. Fernanda Viegas and Martin Wattenberg will discuss the design goals behind the site and provide a preliminary report on the usage patterns we have seen. Viegas is a research scientist in IBM's Visual Communication Lab where her work focuses on social and collaborative aspects of data visualization. Previous projects explored e-mail archives\, newsgroup conversations\, chat-room interactions\, and the editing history of wiki pages. Her visualization-based artwork has been exhibited in galleries in New York\, Los Angeles\, and Boston. Wattenberg\, also a research scientist in IBM's Visual Communication Lab\, focuses on information visualization and its application to collaborative computing\, journalism\, and art. Wattenberg’s visualization artwork has been exhibited in venues ranging from Ars Electronica to the Whitney Museum of American Art. URL:https://cms.mit.edu/event/many-eyes-site-for-social-data-analysis/ LOCATION:MIT Building 2\, Room 105\, 182 Memorial Drive\, Cambridge\, MA\, 02139\, United States CATEGORIES:Colloquium ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://cms.mit.edu/wp/wp-content/uploads/2014/08/Many-Eyes.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20070222T170000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20070222T170000 DTSTAMP:20260410T224435 CREATED:20141121T153128Z LAST-MODIFIED:20141121T153205Z UID:21264-1172163600-1172163600@cms.mit.edu SUMMARY:Converging Media: Games\, Literacy and Culture Research Fair DESCRIPTION:What do Yahoo!\, Shakespeare\, GPS\, Bullet time\, Spacewar and MIT have in common? \nCMS! \nYahoo! … along with MTV\, GSDM\, Turner Broadcasting and Fidelity with the Convergence Culture Consortium respond to the demands of a new media landscape and an empowered client base; \nShakespeare … early comics\, modern dance and the citizens of Berlin are among the many topics explored in the rich multi-media data bases of MetaMedia and Repertory \nGPS … is one of many technologies that we us in handheld gaming applications\, all part of our exploration of computer games for education in the Education Arcade \nBullet time… and other special film effects\, comic book production\, dj-ing\, graffiti\, and other media expressions come into focus in Project New Media Literacies. \nSpacewar … is where computer gaming all began at MIT\, and now it moves into a new generation with the Singapore-MIT GAMBIT Game Lab \nJoin us to explore the many facets of research on cutting-edge digital games\, media literacy\, innovative humanities databases\, and redefined corporate/consumer relations now underway in MIT’s Comparative Media Studies program. Faculty\, staff and students will be on hand to showcase their work and answer questions about their latest findings. Refreshments will be served. URL:https://cms.mit.edu/event/games-literary-culture-research-fair/ LOCATION:Stata Center\, 1st Floor\, 32 Vassar Street\, Cambridge\, MA\, 02319\, United States CATEGORIES:Colloquium,Information Session ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://cms.mit.edu/wp/wp-content/uploads/2014/11/poster-2007-02-22-convergingmedia-high.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20061129T170000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20061129T170000 DTSTAMP:20260410T224435 CREATED:20150303T191723Z LAST-MODIFIED:20150303T191723Z UID:21253-1164819600-1164819600@cms.mit.edu SUMMARY:Men Imagining a Girl Revolution DESCRIPTION:Men Imagining a Girl Revolution with Sharon Kinsella. At various points in the twentieth century\, male novelists\, journalists\, intellectuals\, artists\, editors and cultured men have become fascinated by the lives and characters of single women and their potential for prostitution and revolution. In this presentation\, Foreign Languages and Literatures visiting professor Sharon Kinsella examines the media constructions of a teenage female revolt in contemporary Japan drawing from her current book project Girls as Energy: Fantasies of Social Rejuvenation. URL:https://cms.mit.edu/event/sharon-kinsella-men-imagining-girl-revolution/ LOCATION:MIT Building 3\, Room 270\, 33 Massachusetts Ave (Rear)\, Cambridge\, MA\, 02319\, United States CATEGORIES:Colloquium ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://cms.mit.edu/wp/wp-content/uploads/2006/12/sharon10.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20061109T180000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20061109T180000 DTSTAMP:20260410T224435 CREATED:20150304T203720Z LAST-MODIFIED:20150306T143657Z UID:21249-1163095200-1163095200@cms.mit.edu SUMMARY:Mimesis\, Sacrifice\, and Victimhood DESCRIPTION:Mimesis\, Sacrifice\, and Victimhood with Rey Chow. Chow is Andrew W. Mellon Professor of the Humanities at Brown University where she teaches in the departments of Comparative Literature\, English\, and Modern Culture and Media. Chow’s talk will be based on her latest book\, The Age of the World Target: Self-Referentiality in War\, Theory\, and Comparative Work (2006\, Duke UP). Co-sponsor: History\, Theory\, and Criticism of Architecture and Art. URL:https://cms.mit.edu/event/mimesis-sacrifice-victimhood-rey-chow/ LOCATION:MIT Building 3\, Room 133\, 33 Massachusetts Ave\, Cambridge\, MA\, 02139\, United States CATEGORIES:Colloquium ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://cms.mit.edu/wp/wp-content/uploads/2015/03/Rey-Chow.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20061102T170000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20061102T170000 DTSTAMP:20260410T224435 CREATED:20150303T191416Z LAST-MODIFIED:20150303T191416Z UID:21250-1162486800-1162486800@cms.mit.edu SUMMARY:Media Evangelism in the Global South DESCRIPTION:The phenomenal rise of evangelical Christianity in the global South during the past thirty years has been accompanied by the expanded use of new media\, including radio and television. This presentation outlines an ongoing research project into the historical origins\, systemic achievements\, and interpretive implications of the American missionary radio broadcasting enterprise in Africa\, Asia\, and Latin America during its formative era\, 1945 to 1970. Timothy Stoneman is a National Science Foundation Postdoctoral Fellow in the Science\, Technology\, and Society Program at MIT. URL:https://cms.mit.edu/event/media-evangelism-in-the-global-south/ LOCATION:MIT Building 2\, Room 105\, 182 Memorial Drive\, Cambridge\, MA\, 02139\, United States CATEGORIES:Colloquium END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20061012T170000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20061012T170000 DTSTAMP:20260410T224435 CREATED:20150302T201229Z LAST-MODIFIED:20190426T152902Z UID:21239-1160672400-1160672400@cms.mit.edu SUMMARY:Marketing in the Age of Consumer Empowerment DESCRIPTION:Scott Donaton\nLost Control: Marketing in the Age of Consumer Empowerment with Scott Donaton. Digital technologies have empowered end users\, and that transfer of control — from content creators and distributors to consumers — impacts all forms of communications\, including marketing. Scott Donaton\, associate publisher and editorial director of the Ad Age Group and author of Madison & Vine will talk about why user-empowerment is the key trend in business\, and the ways marketers are adapting to it\, including the rise of branded entertainment. URL:https://cms.mit.edu/event/marketing-age-consumer-empowerment/ LOCATION:MIT Building 2\, Room 105\, 182 Memorial Drive\, Cambridge\, MA\, 02139\, United States CATEGORIES:Colloquium ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://cms.mit.edu/wp/wp-content/uploads/2006/10/Donaton-Scott-headshot.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20060928T170000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20060928T170000 DTSTAMP:20260410T224435 CREATED:20161027T190147Z LAST-MODIFIED:20161027T190147Z UID:21245-1159462800-1159462800@cms.mit.edu SUMMARY:Re-Inventing Television: Podcasting and the Future of Media DESCRIPTION:Chris Boebel and David Tamés will discuss the production of ZigZag\, MIT’s video podcast and reflect on the evolution of broadcast media and the rise of video on the web. Chris Boebel is manager of multimedia development at MIT’s Academic Media Production Services (AMPS). His films include Red Betsy (2003) and Containment (2004). David Tamés is a producer and editor for AMPS. His work includes The East Village\, a web-based soap opera. URL:https://cms.mit.edu/event/reinventing-television-chris-boebel-david-tames/ LOCATION:MIT Building 2\, Room 105\, 182 Memorial Drive\, Cambridge\, MA\, 02139\, United States CATEGORIES:Colloquium ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/gif:https://cms.mit.edu/wp/wp-content/uploads/2006/10/zigzag_logo.gif END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20060914T170000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20060914T190000 DTSTAMP:20260410T224435 CREATED:20141106T204220Z LAST-MODIFIED:20141106T204220Z UID:21237-1158253200-1158260400@cms.mit.edu SUMMARY:Comics: An Art Form in Transition DESCRIPTION:Comics: An Art Form in Transition with comics artist Scott McCloud. In the last 20 years\, print comics have struggled toward maturity through the literate graphic novel movement. Now\, that same art form is experiencing a vastly different set of growing pains on the web\, raising fundamental questions about the reading experience\, the functions of storytelling in society\, how art forms adapt to dominant technologies and the role of space in information design. Cartoonist\, teacher and author Scott McCloud explores these and other questions in a fast-moving visual presentation. Co-sponsors: MIT Media Lab and MIT Lecture Series Committee. URL:https://cms.mit.edu/event/comics-art-form-in-transition/ LOCATION:MIT Building 2\, Room 105\, 182 Memorial Drive\, Cambridge\, MA\, 02139\, United States CATEGORIES:Colloquium ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://cms.mit.edu/wp/wp-content/uploads/2014/11/Scott-McCloud1.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20060504T170000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20060504T190000 DTSTAMP:20260410T224435 CREATED:20150303T190654Z LAST-MODIFIED:20150303T190654Z UID:21234-1146762000-1146769200@cms.mit.edu SUMMARY:May Irwin's Kiss DESCRIPTION:May Irwin’s Kiss: The Beginnings of Cinema and the Transformation of American Culture with Charles Musser\, co-chair of the Film Studies Program and professor of American Studies\, Film Studies and Theater Studies at Yale. URL:https://cms.mit.edu/event/may-irwins-kiss-charles-musser/ LOCATION:MIT Building 2\, Room 105\, 182 Memorial Drive\, Cambridge\, MA\, 02139\, United States CATEGORIES:Colloquium ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://cms.mit.edu/wp/wp-content/uploads/2015/03/Charles-Musser.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20060427T170000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20060427T170000 DTSTAMP:20260410T224435 CREATED:20150213T201100Z LAST-MODIFIED:20150213T201100Z UID:21233-1146157200-1146157200@cms.mit.edu SUMMARY:Loyalty in Brand and Fan Cultures DESCRIPTION:Notions of Loyalty within Brand and Fan Cultures with Convergence Culture Consortium faculty advisors Ian Condry\, assistant professor of Japanese cultural studies at MIT; and Robert Kozinets\, associate professor of marketing at the Schulich School of Business\, York University\, Toronto. URL:https://cms.mit.edu/event/loyalty-in-brand-and-fan-cultures/ LOCATION:MIT Media Lab\, Bartos Theater\, 20 Ames Street\, Cambridge\, MA\, 02139\, United States CATEGORIES:Colloquium ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://cms.mit.edu/wp/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/Robert-Kozinets.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20060412T170000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20060412T170000 DTSTAMP:20260410T224435 CREATED:20161026T192857Z LAST-MODIFIED:20161026T192857Z UID:21228-1144861200-1144861200@cms.mit.edu SUMMARY:Radhika Gajjala DESCRIPTION:Radhika Gajjala\nTonight’s CMS Colloquium tackles the topic of Consuming/ Producing/ Inhabiting South Asian Digital Diasporas with Radhika Gajjala\, associate professor in the School of Communication Studies at Bowling Green State University and author of Cyberselves: Feminist Ethnographies of South Asian Women. Co-sponsored with the Center for Bilingual/ Bicultural Studies. URL:https://cms.mit.edu/event/radhika-gajjala/ LOCATION:MIT Building 32 (Stata Center)\, Room 144\, 32 Vassar Street\, Cambridge\, MA\, 02139\, United States CATEGORIES:Colloquium ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://cms.mit.edu/wp/wp-content/uploads/2016/10/Radhika-Gajjala.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20060322T170000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20060322T170000 DTSTAMP:20260410T224435 CREATED:20060322T200605Z LAST-MODIFIED:20170424T191812Z UID:21227-1143046800-1143046800@cms.mit.edu SUMMARY:Road Trip! DESCRIPTION:Colloquium goes on the road! For the last colloquium before spring break\, join CMS for a road trip to 5W!TS with Matt DuPlessie\, founder of 5W!TS\, a provider of immersive\, interactive experiences. URL:https://cms.mit.edu/event/road-trip-5wts/ LOCATION:5 Wits\, 186 Brookline Avenue\, Boston\, MA\, 02215\, United States CATEGORIES:Colloquium ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://cms.mit.edu/wp/wp-content/uploads/2017/04/WIT-enter.notice.jpg END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR