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SUMMARY:George Lakoff\, "The Brain's Politics: How Campaigns Are Framed and Why"
DESCRIPTION:Sponsored by the MIT Imagination\, Computation\, and Expression Laboratory (ICE Lab) \n\nGeorge Lakoff\nEverything we learn\, know and understand is physical — a matter of brain circuitry. This basic fact has deep implications for how politics is understood\, how campaigns are framed\,  why conservatives and progressives talk past each other\, and why progressives have more problems framing messages than conservatives do — and what they can do about it. \nGeorge Lakoff is Richard and Rhoda Goldman Distinguished Professor of Cognitive Science and Linguistics at the University of California at Berkeley\, where he has taught since 1972. He previously taught at Harvard (1965-69) and the University of Michigan (1969-1972). \nHe graduated from MIT in 1962 (in Mathematics and Literature) and received his PhD in Linguistics from Indiana University in 1966. \nRead more at georgelakoff.com.
URL:https://cms.mit.edu/event/george-lakoff-how-campaigns-framed-why/
LOCATION:MIT Media Lab\, Bartos Theater\, 20 Ames Street\, Cambridge\, MA\, 02139\, United States
CATEGORIES:Colloquium
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20120913T170000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20120913T190000
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SUMMARY:Artist-Audience Relations in the Age of Social Media
DESCRIPTION:Nancy Baym\nSocial media have transformed relationships between those who create artistic work and those who enjoy it. Culture industries such as the music recording business have been left reeling as fans have gained the ability to distribute amongst themselves and artists have gained the ability to bypass traditional gatekeepers such as labels. The dominant rhetoric has been of ‘piracy\,’ yet there are other tales to tell. How does direct access to fans change what it means to be an artist? What rewards are there that weren’t before? How are relational lines between fans and friends blurred and with what consequences? What new challenges other than making a living do artists face? \nNancy Baym is a Principal Researcher at Microsoft Research New England. She is the author of Personal Connections in the Digital Age (Polity)\, Internet Inquiry (co-edited with Annette Markham\, Sage) and Tune In\, Log On: Soaps\, Fandom and Online Community (Sage). For the last two years she has been interviewing musicians about their relationships with audiences.
URL:https://cms.mit.edu/event/nancy-baym-artist-audience-relations/
LOCATION:MIT Building 4\, Room 231\, Cambridge\, MA\, 02139\, United States
CATEGORIES:Colloquium
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20120920T170000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20120920T190000
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SUMMARY:Jim Bizzocchi\, "Close-Reading Media Poetics"
DESCRIPTION:Jim Bizzocchi\nClose reading is a classic humanities methodology for the analysis and understanding of texts across a variety of media. It’s a rigorous discipline — in the words of van Looy and Baetans: “The text is never trusted at face value\, but is torn to pieces and reconstituted by a reader who is at the same time a demolisher and a constructor.” This is a difficult task — the practice of close reading requires that the scholar immerse herself in the experience of the text on its own terms\, and at the same time maintain a critical distance in order to observe and understand the construction and the effects of the text. Bizzocchi relies on close reading for his own scholarly work and uses various strategies to reconcile the contradictory states of experience and analysis. \nClose reading can be used to explicate works across a variety of dimensions: thematic\, cultural\, historical\, sociological\, and others.   Bizzocchi’s goal is to understand the poetics — the creative decisions — embedded in media works. Bordwell describes poetics as “inquiry into the fundamental principles by which artifacts in any representational medium are constructed\, and the effects that flow from these principles”. Bizzocchi has always loved the magic of immersion in the experience of the moving image. As a scholar\, he says his role is “to seek within that immersive experience the details of how the magic is created”. He will present his analyses of Norman Jewison’s The Thomas Crown Affair\, Tom Tykwer’s Run\, Lola\, Run\, and Gerrie Villon and Alex Mayhew’s Ceremony of Innocence (an interactive adaptation of The Griffin and Sabine trilogy by Nick Bantock). \nJim Bizzocchi is an Associate Professor in the School of Interactive Arts and Technology at Simon Fraser University in Vancouver\, British Columbia.  His research includes work on narrative\, interactive narrative\, and the evolution of the moving image. He teaches classes in these areas\, and is a recipient of the University Award for Excellence in Teaching.  He is a practicing video artist\, creating award-winning works in a genre he calls “Ambient Video”.  Jim is a graduate of the MIT Comparative Media Studies Program (2001).
URL:https://cms.mit.edu/event/jim-bizzocchi-close-reading-media-poetics/
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:20121018T170000
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SUMMARY:Gediminas Urbonas
DESCRIPTION:Gediminas Urbonas\nGediminas Urbonas is artist and educator\, and co-founder (with Nomeda Urbonas) of Urbonas Studio – an interdisciplinary research program that advocates for the reclamation of public culture in the face of overwhelming privatization\, stimulating cultural and political imagination as tools for social change. Often beginning with archival research\, their methodology unfolds complex participatory works investigating the urban environment\, architectural developments\, and cultural and technological heritage. \nThe Urbonases have established their international reputation for socially interactive and interdisciplinary practice exploring the conflicts and contradictions posed by the economic\, social\, and political conditions of countries in transition. Working in collaboration they develop models for social and artistic practice with the interest to design organizational structures that question relativity of freedom. \nThey use art platform to render public spaces for interaction and engagement of the social groups\, evoking local communities and encouraging their cultural and political imagination. Combining the tools of new and traditional media\, their work frequently involves collective activities such as workshops\, lectures\, debates\, TV programs\, Internet chat-rooms and public protests that stand at the intersection of art\, technology and social criticism. \nThey are also co-founders of VILMA (Vilnius Interdisciplinary Lab for Media Art)\, and VOICE\, a net based publication on media culture. They have exhibited internationally including the San Paulo\, Berlin\, Moscow\, Lyon and Gwangju Biennales
URL:https://cms.mit.edu/event/gediminas-urbonas/
LOCATION:MIT Building 4\, Room 231\, Cambridge\, MA\, 02139\, United States
CATEGORIES:Colloquium
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20121115T170000
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SUMMARY:Cultural Production and Social Media as Capture Platforms: How the Matrix Has You
DESCRIPTION:Hector Postigo\nThis presentation develops a theoretical framework (rooted in Science and Technology Studies) for understanding how\, generally\, social media’s technical feature-sets create a system of capture and conversion.  Capture describes the persistent ways in which social web platforms record and fix online/offline social and technical practices.  Conversion applies to the way in which technical architectures convert what is captured into value (both culturally contingent and economic). The notions of capture and conversion are developed in light of other work in the field that seeks to understand how social web platforms use technology to leverage user generated content (UGC).  The framework bridges a focus on ongoing social practice within/through platforms with analysis of technology as a determinant of probable practice.   Ultimately this work is part of a larger project that seeks to develop a way of critically engaging the political economy of the social web while at the same time not ignoring the subject positions of those whose lives on display make it compelling. \nHector Postigo is Associate Professor in Media Studies and Production at Temple University’s School of Media and Communication. He is the co-founder of the blog culturedigitally.org and most recently the author of The Digital Rights Movement: The Role of Technology in Subverting Digital Copyright from MIT Press and co-editor of Managing Privacy Through Accountability from Palgrave Press. His research is funded by the National Science Foundation and the European Commission.  He teaches and writes about video game culture\, labor in digital networks\, and privacy and copyright on the social web.
URL:https://cms.mit.edu/event/hector-postigo-cultural-production-social-media-as-capture-platforms/
LOCATION:Comparative Media Studies: MIT Building E15\, Room 335\, 20 Ames St.\, Cambridge\, MA\, 02139\, United States
CATEGORIES:Colloquium
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SUMMARY:Minding the News
DESCRIPTION:Sponsored by the MIT Imagination\, Computation\, and Expression Laboratory (ICE Lab) \nSee Part 1 of this series\, from September 6\, featuring Francis Steen. \nMark Turner\nThe Red Hen Lab is a distributed laboratory for the study of network news.  In an earlier talk\, Professor Francis Steen provided a technical overview of the activities of Red Hen and surveyed the study by Francis Steen and Mark Turner of international network news coverage of the Anders Bering Brevik event in Oslo\, Norway\, in July\, 2011\, with an emphasis on the way in which network news is occupied with the assessment of culpability\, blame\, and credit. \nThis talk will discuss research on the cognitive underpinnings of network news\, with an emphasis on blended joint attention\, story-telling\, counterfactuality\, and hypotheticals. \nMark Turner is Institute Professor and Professor of Cognitive Science at Case Western Reserve University. \nHe is the founding director of the Cognitive Science Network. His most recent book publications are Ten Lectures on Mind and Language and two edited volumes\, The Artful Mind: Cognitive Science and the Riddle of Human Creativity\, and Meaning\, Form\, & Body\, edited with Fey Parrill and Vera Tobin. His other publications include Cognitive Dimensions of Social Science: The Way We Think about Politics\, Economics\, Law\, and Society\, The Literary Mind: The Origins of Thought and Language\, and many more. He has been a fellow of the Institute for Advanced Study\, the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation\, the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences\, the National Humanities Center\, the National Endowment for the Humanities\, and the Institute of Advanced Study of Durham University. He is a fellow of the Institute for the Science of Origins\, external research professor at the Krasnow Institute for Advanced Study in Cognitive Neuroscience\, distinguished fellow at the New England Institute for Cognitive Science and Evolutionary Psychology\, and Extraordinary Member of the Humanwissenschaftsliches Zentrum.  In 1996\, the Académie française awarded him the Prix du Rayonnement de la langue et de la littérature françaises. For 2011-2012\, he is a fellow of the Centre for Advanced Study at the Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters.
URL:https://cms.mit.edu/event/minding-the-news/
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:20121206T170000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20121206T190000
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SUMMARY:New Forms\, New Markets for Independent Film
DESCRIPTION:Independent film-maker Andrew Silver will discuss emerging forms of hybrid media\, some promising new pathways for distributing films and his career as  a director and producer in this colloquium\, which will include clips from his most recent film\, Second Wind. Debra Wise of MIT’s Central Square Theater will join the discussion. Andrew and Debra played husband and wife in Radio Cape Cod\, a Silver production shot in Woods Hole. Andrew Silver is a graduate of MIT and the Harvard Business School\, co-author of a chapter in the HBS anthology Breakthrough Thinking\, and a long-time member of the Council for the Arts at MIT. His films are distributed by Tesco\, the second largest global retail chain: \n\nSecond Wind\, 13 min\nOverboard\, 16 min\nDownward Facing\, 6 min
URL:https://cms.mit.edu/event/andrew-silver-new-forms-new-markets-independent-film/
LOCATION:MIT Building 4\, Room 231\, Cambridge\, MA\, 02139\, United States
CATEGORIES:Colloquium
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20130207T170000
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SUMMARY:Nostalgia for a Not-So-Distant Youth: Digital Games and Affect in Urban China
DESCRIPTION:Marcella Szablewicz\nYoung people born in 1980’s and 1990’s China are the focus of a great deal of scholarly attention as they are the country’s first generation of only children. They are also the first generation to come of age with the Internet\, and\, for many\, playing Internet games forms an integral part of the youth experience. This presentation will explore the affective dimensions of digital games from the perspective of urban Chinese youth. What is the significance of an e-sports event that attracts tens of thousands of twenty-somethings\, many of whom experience it as a teary-eyed “farewell to their youth”? Or a viral video created by World of Warcraft gamers that urges millions of viewers to “raise their fists in solidarity” to show support for their “spiritual homeland”? What should we make of these phenomena that demonstrate\, ever more clearly\, the ways in which games are intertwined with people’s spiritual and emotional lives? Are games the imagined utopia they are made out to be in these nostalgic accounts or might these affective attachments prove to be a form of what Lauren Berlant (2011) has called “cruel optimism\,” a relationship in which the very thing that is desired becomes an obstacle to flourishing? \nMarcella Szablewicz is a Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow in Comparative Media Studies at MIT. She received her Ph.D. from the Department of Communication and Media at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute and an M.A. in East Asian Studies from Duke University. Her research focuses on youth and digital media in urban China. She is currently working on a book based on her dissertation\, provisionally entitled From Addicts to Athletes: Youth Mobilities and the Politics of Digital Gaming in Urban China. Based on ethnographic fieldwork supported by the Fulbright and National Science Foundations\, the book will examine the precarious socio-economic futures of urban Chinese youth through the lens of digital gaming culture\, while also considering how dominant discourse about digital leisure practice is shaped by larger cultural debates about patriotism and productivity\, class and the crafting of the “ideal citizen”. Her work can also be found in the Routledge volume Online Society in China and in the Chinese Journal of Communication. \nCo-sponsored by the Cool Japan Project.
URL:https://cms.mit.edu/event/digital-games-and-affect-in-urban-china/
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:20130307T170000
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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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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20130404T170000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20130404T190000
DTSTAMP:20260422T180543
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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:20130418T170000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20130418T190000
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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:20130425T170000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20130425T190000
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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:20130509T170000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20130509T180000
DTSTAMP:20260422T180543
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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:20130919T170000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20130919T190000
DTSTAMP:20260422T180543
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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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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20130926T170000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20130926T190000
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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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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20131017T170000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20131017T190000
DTSTAMP:20260422T180543
CREATED:20130829T124223Z
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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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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20131024T170000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20131024T190000
DTSTAMP:20260422T180543
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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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20131031T170000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20131031T190000
DTSTAMP:20260422T180543
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:20131107T170000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20131107T190000
DTSTAMP:20260422T180543
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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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20131114T170000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20131114T190000
DTSTAMP:20260422T180543
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:20131121T170000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20131121T190000
DTSTAMP:20260422T180543
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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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20140213T170000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20140213T190000
DTSTAMP:20260422T180543
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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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20140220T170000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20140220T190000
DTSTAMP:20260422T180543
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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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20140227T170000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20140227T190000
DTSTAMP:20260422T180543
CREATED:20140115T203722Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20140228T160401Z
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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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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20140313T170000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20140313T190000
DTSTAMP:20260422T180543
CREATED:20140127T183733Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20160129T135927Z
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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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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20140320T170000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20140320T190000
DTSTAMP:20260422T180543
CREATED:20131219T164447Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20140320T115850Z
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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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ORGANIZER;CN="MIT%20Comparative%20Media%20Studies%2FWriting":MAILTO:cmsw@mit.edu
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20140410T170000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20140410T190000
DTSTAMP:20260422T180543
CREATED:20140117T160156Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20190926T141437Z
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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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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20140501T170000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20140501T190000
DTSTAMP:20260422T180543
CREATED:20140121T200910Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20140313T130411Z
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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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ORGANIZER;CN="MIT%20Comparative%20Media%20Studies%2FWriting":MAILTO:cmsw@mit.edu
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20140508T170000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20140508T190000
DTSTAMP:20260422T180543
CREATED:20140422T155646Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20140422T155958Z
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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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ORGANIZER;CN="MIT%20Comparative%20Media%20Studies%2FWriting":MAILTO:cmsw@mit.edu
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20140911T170000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20140911T190000
DTSTAMP:20260422T180543
CREATED:20140820T185027Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20140820T185930Z
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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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