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SUMMARY:Michael Lee: "The Conservative Canon Before and After Trump"
DESCRIPTION:Michael LeeAssociate Professor\, Department of Communication at the College of Charleston\nMichael J. Lee charts the vital role of canonical post–World War II (1945–1964) books in generating\, guiding\, and sustaining conservatism as a political force in the United States. Dedicated conservatives have argued for decades that the conservative movement was a product of print\, rather than a march\, a protest\, or a pivotal moment of persecution. The Road to Serfdom\, Ideas Have Consequences\, Witness\, The Conservative Mind\, God and Man at Yale\, The Conscience of a Conservative\, and other mid-century texts became influential not only among conservative office-holders\, office-seekers\, and well-heeled donors but also at dinner tables\, school board meetings\, and neighborhood reading groups. Taking an expansive approach\, he shows the wide influence of the conservative canon on traditionalist\, libertarian\, and other types of conservatives. By exploring the varied uses to which each founding text has been put from the Cold War to the culture wars\, he aims to highlight the struggle over what it means to think and speak conservatively in America. \nLee teaches and researches political communication and rhetoric at the College of Charleston. His book\, Creating Conservatism\, won five national book awards in his field.  He is also the co-founder of With Purpose\, a non-profit organization that raises money and awareness to fight childhood cancer.
URL:https://cms.mit.edu/event/michael-lee-the-conservative-canon-before-and-after-trump/
LOCATION:MIT Building 56\, Room 114\, Access via 21 Ames Street\, Cambridge\, MA\, 02139\, United States
CATEGORIES:Colloquium
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SUMMARY:The Contingencies of Comparison: Rethinking Comparative Media
DESCRIPTION:Brian Larkin\, Professor of Anthropology at Barnard College\, Columbia UniversityStefan Andriopoulos\, Professor in the Department of Germanic Languages and Literatures\, Columbia University\nBrian Larkin and Stefan Andriopoulos draw on the concept of comparison to examine how the same technologies work in radically different ways across the globe\, juxtaposing media practices in Africa\, Latin America\, and Asia as well as in Western centers. There is an assumption that media\, whether print\, cinema\, or digital media\, were developed in the West and later exported to other places which were then in the place of ‘catching up’ with a media history that had already been established. But we know that cinema arrived in Shanghai and Calcutta at the same time as it did in London and evolved in those locations to produce different institutional and aesthetic forms. We also know that currently Seoul is far more ‘wired’ than New York and that Lagos is developing a film industry that is rapidly becoming dominant in all of Africa. It is clear that future media centers will emerge in places far outside their traditional Western centers.  \nMedia emerge from a reciprocal exchange between technical forms and cultural religious\, political\, and economic domains. When these formations shift\, features we have seen as core to media\, sometimes part of their very ontology\, turn out to be contingent rather than necessary. Exploring the concept of comparison opens up new questions for media studies by highlighting the contingencies of media and the specificity of historical and geographical formations. \nBrian Larkin is Professor of Anthropology at Barnard College\, Columbia University. He is the author of Signal and Noise: Media Infrastructure and Urban Culture in Nigeria and writes on issues of media\, religion\, infrastructure and urban studies in Nigeria. \nStefan Andriopoulos is Professor in the Department of Germanic Languages and Literatures. He is the author of Ghostly Apparitions: German Idealism\, the Gothic Novel\, and Optical Media (Zone Books\, 2013)\, which was named “book of the year” in Times Literary Supplement. His previous book Possessed: Hypnotic Crimes\, Corporate Fiction\, and the Invention of Cinema won the SLSA Michelle Kendrick award for best academic book on literature\, science\, and the arts.
URL:https://cms.mit.edu/event/contingencies-comparison-rethinking-comparative-media/
LOCATION:MIT Building 56\, Room 114\, Access via 21 Ames Street\, Cambridge\, MA\, 02139\, United States
CATEGORIES:Colloquium
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20170511T170000
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SUMMARY:From Taft to Trump: How Conservative Media Activists Won -- and Lost -- the GOP
DESCRIPTION:Nicole Hemmer\, assistant professor at the University of Virginia’s Miller Center and author of Messengers of the Right (2016)\nAs Donald Trump built his lead in the Republican primaries\, the editors of National Review came out with an entire “Against Trump” issue\, a full-throated — and ultimately ineffective — denunciation of the GOP nominee. Soon conservative media personalities were taking sides\, culminating in the hiring of Breitbart’s Steve Bannon to run the Trump campaign. \nBut the centrality of conservative media to presidential politics is not a new development. As early as the 1950s\, conservative media activists were organizing third-party tickets\, promoting presidential candidates\, and encouraging their audiences to cast votes based on ideology rather than party. In this talk\, Nicole Hemmer will explain how conservative media activists won the GOP for the right — and how in the era of Trump\, they lost it. \nNicole Hemmer is an assistant professor at the University of Virginia’s Miller Center and a research associate at the US Studies Centre at the University of Sydney. Her book\, Messengers of the Right\, a history of conservative media in the United States\, was published in Penn Press in September 2016. She is a columnist for Vox\, US News & World Report\, and The Age in Melbourne\, Australia. Her writing has also appeared in a number of national and international publications\, including the New York Times\, Atlantic\, New Republic\, Politico\, Washington Post\, and the Los Angeles Times. She co-hosts and produces Past Present\, a history podcast that launched in October 2015.
URL:https://cms.mit.edu/event/nicole-hemmer-conservative-media-activists-won-lost-gop/
LOCATION:MIT Building 56\, Room 114\, Access via 21 Ames Street\, Cambridge\, MA\, 02139\, United States
CATEGORIES:Colloquium
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20170907T170000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20170907T183000
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SUMMARY:Playful Practice: Designing the Future of Teacher Learning
DESCRIPTION:Justin Reich\, director of the MIT Teaching Systems Lab and Assistant Professor in Comparative Media Studies/Writing\nAll across the world\, educational systems are exploring new ways to encourage more ambitious teaching and learning in classrooms: shifting away from recitation and rote learning to more engaging forms of collaborative\, active\, problem-centered learning. For this shift in classrooms to occur\, we need to dramatically increase the quantity and quality of learning opportunities available to educators in these systems\, and new forms of blended and online learning experiences will be central to this growth. One crucial element in teacher learning is practice. For most teachers\, opportunities for low-stakes\, deliberate practice is quite limited–teachers either learn theory in graduate school of education seminar rooms or test ideas in real classrooms\, with real students\, with real and immediate learning needs. At the MIT Teaching Systems Lab\, we are developing new forms of teacher practice spaces\, technology platforms inspired by games and simulations that provide the opportunity for teachers to rehearse for and reflect on important decisions in teaching. In this participatory session\, we’ll play samples of some of the practice spaces that we are developing\, and discuss the theoretical foundations of our vision for the future of teacher learning. \nJustin Reich is the director of the MIT Teaching Systems Lab\, an Assistant Professor in the Comparative Media Studies/Writing department\, and a Faculty Associate of the Berkman-Klein Center for Internet and Society. As a learning scientist\, he investigates the complex\, technology-rich classrooms of the future and the systems we need to prepare educators to thrive in those environments.
URL:https://cms.mit.edu/event/justin-reich-future-teacher-learning-playful-practice/
LOCATION:MIT Building 56\, Room 114\, Access via 21 Ames Street\, Cambridge\, MA\, 02139\, United States
CATEGORIES:Colloquium
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SUMMARY:Engineering Virality: BuzzFeed's Scientific Approach To Creating Content
DESCRIPTION:Walter Menendez\,  Senior Data Infrastructure Engineer at BuzzFeed\nIf you’ve heard of BuzzFeed\, you probably think about our famous articles and quizzes\, such as The Dress and Which State Are You Actually From?\, as well as our video escapades\, such as The Try Guys Try Sexy Halloween Costumes and our famous Watermelon Explosion experiment on Facebook Live. The success of our content might seem accidental\, but as a result of BuzzFeed’s experimental approach to producing content\, the virality of these posts is actually a very scientific and calculated effort. This talk will detail how BuzzFeed thinks about and creates content\, highlighting our paradigms for the function and role of our content. We’ll also discuss the software stack that supports this experimental loop\, as BuzzFeed also employs a variety of technologies to build an analytics layer. Included in that tech discussion will also be an overview of the metrics and signals BuzzFeed is interested in once content is live. Along the way\, we’ll highlight some of the Comparative Media Studies learnings Walter employs on a daily basis to thrive in the BuzzFeed content ecosystem. \nWalter Menendez is a Senior Data Infrastructure Engineer at BuzzFeed\, based in New York. He is an MIT alum of the class of 2015\, having majored in Computer Science and Engineering (Course 6-3). While at MIT\, he concentrated in Comparative Media Studies\, as well as having done undergraduate research in various Media Lab groups (Fluid Interfaces\, Laboratory for Social Machines). At BuzzFeed\, he is responsible for the development and maintanence of all of BuzzFeed’s data collection\, from on-site impression collection to data warehousing solutions\, empowering the analytical approach that BuzzFeed uses for the content creation cycle.
URL:https://cms.mit.edu/event/walter-menendez-engineering-virality-buzzfeed/
LOCATION:MIT Building 56\, Room 114\, Access via 21 Ames Street\, Cambridge\, MA\, 02139\, United States
CATEGORIES:Colloquium
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20170921T170000
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SUMMARY:Platforms in the Public Interest: Lessons from Minitel
DESCRIPTION:Julien Mailland (Indiana University) and Kevin Driscoll (University of Virginia)\nPlatforms such as Amazon\, Google\, and Facebook dominate the internet today\, providing private infrastructures for public culture. These systems are so massive that it’s easy to forget that the digital world was not always like this. More than two decades before widespread Internet access\, millions of people in France were already online\, chatting\, gaming\, buying\, selling\, searching\, and flirting. This explosion of digital culture came via Minitel\, a simple video terminal provided for free to anyone with a telephone line. After thirty years in service\, Minitel offers a wealth of data for thinking about internet policy and an alternative model for the internet’s future: a public platform for private innovation. \nJulien Mailland studies telecommunications networks design\, law\, and policy through the lens of history.  He is an assistant professor of telecommunications at Indiana University’s Media School\, a research associate with the Computer History Museum Internet History Program\, and a lawyer with the fintech industry. \nKevin Driscoll studies popular culture and computing. His research builds alternative models for platform governance and online community from the internet of the 1980s and 1990s. Recent projects examine dial-up BBSs in the US and Minitel in France. Kevin is an assistant professor of media studies at the University of Virginia.
URL:https://cms.mit.edu/event/minitel-platforms-public-interest-julien-mailland-kevin-driscoll/
LOCATION:MIT Building 56\, Room 114\, Access via 21 Ames Street\, Cambridge\, MA\, 02139\, United States
CATEGORIES:Colloquium
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20170928T170000
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SUMMARY:The Mediated Construction of Reality: from Berger and Luckmann to Norbert Elias
DESCRIPTION:Nick CouldryProfessor of Media Communications and Social Theory at the London School of Economics and Political Science\nIn this talk Nick Couldry outlines the project of his recent book\, The Mediated Construction of Reality (Polity October 2016\, co-written with Andreas Hepp). The book offers a critical reevaluation and rearticulation of the social constructivist ambitions of Berger and Luckmann’s 1966 book The Social Construction of Reality while radically rethinking the implications of this for a world saturated not just with digital media\, but with data processes. Couldry outlines how a materialist phenomenology can draw not just on traditional phenomenology\, but on the social theory of Norbert Elias\, particularly his concept of figurations\, to address the challenges of social analysis in the face of datafication. Elias\, Couldry argues\, is a particularly important theorist on whom to draw in making social constructivism ready to face the deep embedding of the social world with digital technologies\, and more than that\, to outline the challenges for social order of such a world. More broadly\, Couldry will argue for a reengagement of media theory with the broader tradition of social theory in the era of Big Data\, in the face of a radical expansion of what media are and how mediation is embedded in everyday social orders.    \nNick Couldry is a sociologist of media and culture. He is Professor of Media Communications and Social Theory at the London School of Economics and Political Science. He is currently a Visiting Researcher at Microsoft Research Lab\, and during 2017-2018 a Faculty Associate at the Berkman Klein Center for Internet and Society\, Harvard University. He is the author or editor of twelve books including most recently The Mediated Construction of Reality (with Andreas Hepp\, Polity\, 2016)\, Ethics of Media (2013 Palgrave\, coedited with Mirca Madianou and Amit Pinchevski)\, Media\, Society\, World: Social Theory and Digital Media Practice (Polity 2012) and Why Voice Matters: Culture and Politics After Neoliberalism (Sage 2010).
URL:https://cms.mit.edu/event/nick-couldry-mediated-construction-reality-berger-luckmann-norbert-elias/
LOCATION:MIT Building 56\, Room 114\, Access via 21 Ames Street\, Cambridge\, MA\, 02139\, United States
CATEGORIES:Colloquium
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SUMMARY:Ecological Criticism in the Age of the Database
DESCRIPTION:Sean Cubitt\, Professor of Film and Television at Goldsmiths\, University of London\nThe ecological principle that everything connects with everything else should be a perfect match for the network principle of contemporary digital communications. But there is a problem that comes with the arrival very large\, proprietorial databases. This is partly to do with the sheer number of images and videos produced and circulated\, partly to do with the form they are stored in\, and partly because their dynamics share at least as much with contemporary capitalism as with the natural environment. New analytical tools for dealing with big data promise to reform classical humanities methods so we can conform our research to this new kind of object. In this paper Sean Cubitt asserts the value of anecdotal evidence against the rise of statistics\, but at the same time wants to confront the difficulties in bringing about an encounter between readers (human or otherwise) and the mass image constructed by social media and search giants. \nSean Cubitt is Professor of Film and Television at Goldsmiths\, University of London and Honorary Professorial Fellow of the University of Melbourne. His publications includeThe Cinema Effect\, Ecomedia\, The Practice of Light: Genealogies of Visual Media and Finite Media: Environmental Implications of Digital Technology. Series editor for Leonardo Books at MIT Press\, his current research is on political aesthetics\, media technologies\, media art history and ecocriticism.
URL:https://cms.mit.edu/event/ecological-criticism-age-database/
LOCATION:MIT Building 56\, Room 114\, Access via 21 Ames Street\, Cambridge\, MA\, 02139\, United States
CATEGORIES:Colloquium
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20171019T170000
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SUMMARY:Mapping Climate Change: Contested Futures in New York City’s Flood Zone
DESCRIPTION:Liz Koslov\, Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow in the Humanities at MIT\nAs seas rise\, coasts erode\, deserts spread\, and permafrost melts\, climate change is altering everyday life in many places. Even with immediate\, drastic reductions in greenhouse gas emissions\, sufficient warming is already “baked in” to ensure ongoing disruption. What this disruption will look like\, however\, depends not only on the extent of global warming and its effects but also on the way these effects and their attendant risks are measured\, mapped\, and managed. In this talk\, we will explore how certain places come to be seen as “at risk” in anticipation of climate change\, and what this way of seeing means for their inhabitants. Drawing on fieldwork over four years in the aftermath of Hurricane Sandy\, the talk will focus on the fraught development and implementation of new FEMA (Federal Emergency Management Agency) flood maps for New York City\, where hundreds of thousands of people and billions of dollars in property now lie in the high-risk flood zone. \nLiz Koslov is a Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow in the Humanities at MIT and holds a PhD in Media\, Culture\, and Communication from NYU. Her research examines the cultural\, political\, and social dimensions of climate change adaptation. She is currently at work on her first book\, Retreat: Moving to Higher Ground in a Climate-Changed City\, under advance contract with the University of Chicago Press.
URL:https://cms.mit.edu/event/mapping-climate-change-contested-futures-new-york-citys-flood-zone/
LOCATION:MIT Building 56\, Room 114\, Access via 21 Ames Street\, Cambridge\, MA\, 02139\, United States
CATEGORIES:Colloquium
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20171026T170000
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SUMMARY:Cloud Policy: Anatomy of a Regulatory Crisis
DESCRIPTION:Jennifer Holt\, Associate Professor of Film and Media Studies\, University of California\, Santa Barbara\nJennifer Holt examines the legal and cultural crises surrounding the regulation of data in “the cloud.” The complex landscape of laws and policies governing digital data are currently rife with unresolvable conflicts. The challenges of distributing and protecting digital data in a policy landscape that is simultaneously local\, national\, and global have created problems that often defy legal paradigms\, national boundaries\, and traditional geographies of control. She examines these challenges with an eye towards their shared histories with obscene phone calls\, wiretapping organized crime figures\, the PATRIOT Act\, Facebook\, and the battles over net neutrality. Ultimately\, these intertwined histories of policies related to privacy\, data security\, and digital freedoms become most instructive when they are brought to bear on the current regulatory crisis\, revealing the growing stakes for the digital futures of culture\, information\, and citizenship.  \nJennifer Holt is Associate Professor of Film and Media Studies at the University of California\, Santa Barbara. She is the author of Empires of Entertainment and co-editor of Distribution Revolution; Connected Viewing; and Media Industries: History\, Theory\, Method. She is currently writing a monograph about the history of US digital media policies. She is also a co-founder of the Media Industries journal.
URL:https://cms.mit.edu/event/jennifer-holt-cloud-regulatory-crisis/
LOCATION:MIT Building 56\, Room 114\, Access via 21 Ames Street\, Cambridge\, MA\, 02139\, United States
CATEGORIES:Colloquium
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20171116T170000
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SUMMARY:Fall 2017 Alumni Panel: Matthew Weise\, Karen Schrier Shaenfield\, Ainsley Sutherland\, and Beyza Boyacioglu
DESCRIPTION:Join us for this year’s alumni panel\, when we hear from four alums of the graduate program in Comparative Media Studies as they discuss their experience at MIT and what their careers have looked like in the fields a CMS degree prepared them for. As in past years\, we’ve scheduled the panel for the same day as the graduate program information session. \nPanelists this time around include: \nMatthew Weise\, CMS ’04\nMatthew Weise\, ’04\, a game designer and educator whose work spans industry and academia. He is the CEO of Empathy Box\, a company that specializes in narrative design for games and across media. He was the Narrative Designer at Harmonix Music Systems on Fantasia: Music Evolved\, the Game Design Director of the GAMBIT Game Lab at MIT\, and a consultant for Warner Bros.\, Microsoft\, PBS\, The National Ballet of Spain\, and others on storytelling and game design. His work\, both creatively and critically\, focuses on transmedia adaptation with an emphasis on the challenges of adapting cinema into video games. Matt has given lectures and workshops on film-to-game adaptation all over the world\, and has published work on how franchises like Alien\, James Bond\, and horror cinema in general are adapted into games. Links to his writing and game design work\, including his IGF nominated The Snowfield\, can be found at www.matthewweise.com. \n  \nKaren Schrier\, CMS ’05\nKaren Schrier\, ’05\, an educator\, innovator\, and creative researcher who is always looking for collaborators and new connections. She is an Associate Professor at Marist College and Director of the Games and Emerging Media program. She also runs the Play Innovation Lab\, where she researches and creates games that support learning\, ethical reflection\, and compassion. Her recent book\, Knowledge Games\, was published last year (Johns Hopkins University Press)\, and was covered by Forbes\, New Scientist\, Times Higher Education\, and SiriusXM. Dr. Schrier also edits the book series\, Learning\, Education & Games\, which is published by ETC Press (Carnegie Mellon)\, and she is the president of the Learning\, Education & Games group of the IGDA (International Game Developers Association). She holds a doctorate from Columbia University\, master’s from MIT\, and a bachelor’s from Amherst College. In addition\, Karen and her family (husband\, cats\, 5 year old and 2 year old) currently live in the Hudson Valley but are hoping to move to Pound Ridge\, NY in the winter. \n  \nAinsley Sutherland\, CMS ’15\nAinsley Sutherland\, ’15\, a media technologist and researcher working in immersive computing and human-computer interaction design. Her project Voxhop\, a tool for voice collaboration in virtual reality\, is a 2017 j360 Challenge winner funded by the Knight Foundation and Google News Lab. She was a 2016 fellow at the BuzzFeed Open Lab\, as well as a researcher in the Imagination\, Computation\, and Expression Lab at MIT. She has cofounded Mediate\, an MIT DesignX-backed company that enables collaboration in and analysis of 3D environments. She has an M.S. from MIT in Comparative Media Studies\, and a B.A. from the University of Chicago\, in Economics. \n  \nBeyza Boyacioglu\, CMS ’17\nBeyza Boyacioglu\, ’17\, is an award-winning documentary filmmaker and artist. Her work has been presented at MoMA Doc Fortnight\, IDFA DocLab\, Morelia International Film Festival\, RIDM\, Anthology Film Archives amongst other venues and festivals. She has received grants and fellowships from LEF Foundation\, MIT Council for the Arts\, Flaherty Seminar\, SALT Research and Greenhouse Seminar. She was an artist in residence at UnionDocs in 2012 where she co-directed “Toñita’s” — a documentary portrait of the last Puerto Rican social club in Williamsburg. She is currently producing a cross-platform documentary about Turkey’s gender-bending pop legend Zeki Müren. The project is comprised of a feature film “A Prince from Outer Space: Zeki Müren”\, a hotline and a web experience. Currently\, Boyacioglu works as a Producer at the MIT Open Documentary Lab.
URL:https://cms.mit.edu/event/fall-2017-alumni-panel/
LOCATION:MIT Building 56\, Room 114\, Access via 21 Ames Street\, Cambridge\, MA\, 02139\, United States
CATEGORIES:Colloquium
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20171207T170000
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SUMMARY:The Emotional Politics of Piracy\, Or Why We Feel Intellectual Property Infringement as National Trauma
DESCRIPTION:Anjali Vats\, Assistant Professor of Communication and African and African Diaspora Studies at Boston College and Assistant Professor of Law\, Boston College Law School\nEmbracing the recent turns toward the study of public feelings\, this talk examines the emotional politics of intellectual property “piracy.” Situating the figure of the pirate within larger narratives of Americanness\, meritocracy\, hard work\, and postrace advanced in political speeches and media representations\, it reads public feelings about the exceptional inventiveness and industriousness of US workers as context for intellectual property policy. Specifically\, couching piracy as the unjust theft of the work of industrious and uniquely creative Americans fosters sentiments of pride\, entitlement\, resentment\, and anxiety. When taken together\, these public feelings transform intellectual property infringement into racialized piratical trauma\, which threatens the very fabric of the nation. The everdayness and banality of piratical trauma fuels desires for intellectual property maximalism and intellectual property criminalization\, which reproduce the very conditions which gave rise to the trauma. \nAnjali Vats is Assistant Professor of Communication and African and African Diaspora Studies at Boston College and Assistant Professor of Law\, by courtesy\, at Boston College Law School. She is currently working on a monograph entitled Created Differences: Intellectual Properties and Racial Formation in the Making of Americans which considers how intellectual property discourses shape our understandings of race\, citizenship\, and the capacity to engage in valuable intellectual labor. She has published articles in the Quarterly Journal of Speech\, Communication\, Culture & Critique\, Communication and Critical/Cultural Studies\, and Southern Communication Journal. She has also co-authored law review articles in the Duquesne Law Review and Wayne Law Review. In 2016\, Professor Vats was awarded an AAUW Postdoctoral Fellowship and an Exemplary Diversity Scholar Citation from the National Center for Institutional Diversity at the University of Michigan. Prior to teaching\, she clerked for the Honorable A. William Maupin of the Supreme Court of Nevada.
URL:https://cms.mit.edu/event/anjali-vats-emotional-politics-piracy-intellectual-property/
LOCATION:MIT Building 56\, Room 114\, Access via 21 Ames Street\, Cambridge\, MA\, 02139\, United States
CATEGORIES:Colloquium
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20180208T170000
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SUMMARY:From Augmented to Virtual Learning: Affordances of Different Mixes of Reality for Learning
DESCRIPTION:Professor Eric Klopfer\, Director of the Scheller Teacher Education Program and The Education Arcade\nMixed realities that combine digital and real experiences are now becoming a true reality.  These experiences are being delivered over smartphones as well as increasingly accessible and practical head mounted displays. This ubiquity of devices is in turn making mixed reality the next digital frontier in entertainment\, education and the workplace. But what do we know about where these technologies have value? Where do they add to the learning experience? And what theories and evidence can we generate and build upon to provide a foundation for using these technologies productively for learning? \nWe have been working on mixed realities in education for over a decade and have started to learn about where\, when and for whom they can add value. Part of this understanding stems from differentiating the wide variety of mixed realities and focusing on affordances. Landscape based augmented realities\, popularized by Pokemon Go\, have fundamentally different affordances than smartphone based virtual realities like Google Cardboard\, which in turn are different than immersive experiences delivered by headsets like the Oculus Rift and HTC Vive.  The core of our work has been doing research and development to identify these affordances that match with key learning challenges\, particular in Science\, Technology\, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM). In this talk\, Eric Klopfer will draw upon our work in location-based augmented reality games\, as well as work in virtual reality. In the realm of augmented reality\, he will discuss a long series of design experiments through which we have learned about where these technologies play an important role in learning\, primarily around socio-scientific issues. In the space of virtual reality our newest designs and experiments focus on the concept of scale\, and how we can use virtual realities to teach about STEM systems at radically different scales. This talk will provide a history and overview of these experiences\, including iterations of design research experiments. \nEric Klopfer is Professor and Director of the Scheller Teacher Education Program and The Education Arcade at MIT. Klopfer’s research focuses on the development and use of computer games and simulations for building understanding of science\, technology\, engineering and mathematics.
URL:https://cms.mit.edu/event/eric-klopfer-augmented-virtual-learning/
LOCATION:MIT Building 56\, Room 114\, Access via 21 Ames Street\, Cambridge\, MA\, 02139\, United States
CATEGORIES:Colloquium
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20180222T170000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20180222T183000
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SUMMARY:ICTs for Refugees and Displaced Persons
DESCRIPTION:Carleen Maitland\, co-Director of the Institute for Information Policy and Associate Professor in the College of Information Sciences and Technology at Penn State University\nExpanding use of information and communication technology (ICT) together with the humanitarian reform agenda are changing both the experience of being a refugee as well as humanitarian response. These forces are giving rise to the digital refugee and a new form of humanitarian operations\, digital humanitarian brokerage. In this talk\, Carleen Maitland presents these two concepts\, evidence of their emergence and differences in the role information plays in each. The concepts emerge from a synthesis of scholarship from international law\, information and organization science\, GIS\, computer and data science as presented in her upcoming edited volume Digital Lifeline? ICTs for Refugees and Displaced Persons. The talk culminates in an analysis of the implications of these trends for information policy as well as the research necessary to insure both technologies and policies evolve to mitigate potential harms and amplify potential benefits for refugees. \nCarleen Maitland is co-Director of the Institute for Information Policy and Associate Professor in the College of Information Sciences and Technology at Penn State University. Her expertise includes analyses of ICT use in international organizations\, particularly those involved in fostering economic and social development as well as humanitarian relief. Her work\, reported in over 100 refereed journal articles\, conference proceedings\, and presentations\, has influenced scholarship in the fields of Information and Communication Technologies for Development (ICTD)\, communications\, information systems and human computer interaction fields. Her work is supported by the National Science Foundation\, USAID\, the U.S. Department of Commerce\, and IBM\, among others. She has held several leadership positions in both the ICTD and policy communities\, currently serves as Associate Editor of the open access journal Information Technology & International Development (USC Annenberg Press). Also\, from 2010-2012 she served as a Program Manager in the U.S. National Science Foundation\, both in the Office of International Science and Engineering and the Office of Cyberinfrastructure.
URL:https://cms.mit.edu/event/icts-refugees-displaced-persons/
LOCATION:MIT Building 56\, Room 114\, Access via 21 Ames Street\, Cambridge\, MA\, 02139\, United States
CATEGORIES:Colloquium
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20180301T170000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20180301T183000
DTSTAMP:20260403T235318
CREATED:20180116T170101Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20180116T170152Z
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SUMMARY:The (Non)Americans: Tracking and Analyzing Russian Influence Operations on Twitter
DESCRIPTION:Deen Freelon\, Associate Professor\, School of Media and Journalism\, University of North Carolina\nIn late 2017\, Twitter and Facebook revealed that agents backed by the Russian government had infiltrated American political conversations for years. Posing as concerned citizens from across the ideological spectrum\, these agents surreptitiously spread propaganda disguised as home-grown political chatter. Two challenges\, one theoretical and the other methodological\, confront researchers interested in studying this campaign of information warfare. First\, the fields of communication and political science offer little theoretical guidance about how to study such tactics\, which are known as influence operations in military studies and dezinformatsiya in Russian and Slavic studies. Second\, Twitter and Facebook removed all such propagandistic content from public view upon confirming their existence\, which makes obtaining the data difficult (but not impossible). In this talk\, the University of North Carolina’s Deen Freelon will explain how he and his collaborators are addressing these challenges and present key preliminary findings from their ongoing project focused on this campaign. \nDeen Freelon is an associate professor in the School of Media and Journalism. His research covers two major areas of scholarship: 1) political expression through digital media and 2) data science and computational methods for analyzing large digital datasets. He has authored or co-authored more than 30 journal articles\, book chapters and public reports\, in addition to co-editing one scholarly book. He has served as principal investigator on grants from the Knight Foundation\, the Spencer Foundation and the U.S. Institute of Peace. He has written research-grade software to calculate intercoder reliability for content analysis (ReCal)\, analyze large-scale network data from social media (TSM)\, and collect data from Facebook (fb_scrape_public). He formerly taught at American University in Washington\, D.C.
URL:https://cms.mit.edu/event/deen-freelon-nonamericans-tracking-analyzing-russian-influence-operations-twitter/
LOCATION:MIT Building 56\, Room 114\, Access via 21 Ames Street\, Cambridge\, MA\, 02139\, United States
CATEGORIES:Colloquium
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20180308T170000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20180308T183000
DTSTAMP:20260403T235318
CREATED:20180208T200741Z
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SUMMARY:The Tip of the Iceberg: Sound Studies and the Future of Afrofuturism
DESCRIPTION:andré carrington\, Assistant Professor of African American Literature\, Drexel University\nIconic developments in the artistic and intellectual ethos known as Afrofuturism are closely linked to music: Sun Ra’s experimental jazz\, Parliament Funkadelic’s Mothership\, John Akomfrah’s film Last Angel of History. What else is on the soundtrack to a livable future? How do we pursue further innovation in the human sensorium without reproducing an “audiovisual litany” that conflates rationality with the colonial gaze and isolates Black creativity to moments of sonic disruption? andré carrington’s present research on the cultural politics of race in science fiction radio drama aims to expand the repertoire of literary adaptation studies by reintegrating critical perspectives from marginal and popular sectors of the media landscape into the advancing agendas of Afrofuturism and decolonization. \nandré carrington is a scholar of race\, gender\, and genre in Black and American cultural production. He is currently Assistant Professor of African American literature at Drexel University. His first book\, Speculative Blackness: The Future of Race in Science Fiction (Minnesota\, 2016) interrogates the cultural politics of race in the fantastic genres through studies of science fiction fanzines\, comics\, film and television\, and other speculative fiction texts.
URL:https://cms.mit.edu/event/andre-carrington-sound-studies-afrofuturism/
LOCATION:MIT Building 56\, Room 114\, Access via 21 Ames Street\, Cambridge\, MA\, 02139\, United States
CATEGORIES:Colloquium
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20180315T170000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20180315T183000
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SUMMARY:Visual Representations of Race and Gender: Analyzing “Me” in #IfTheyGunnedMeDown on Tumblr
DESCRIPTION:Jenny Korn\, Fellow at the Berkman Klein Center for Internet and Society\nOn August\, 9\, 2014\, unarmed Black 18-year-old teenager Michael Brown was shot and killed by 28-year-old White police officer Darren Wilson in Ferguson\, Missouri. As media outlets began to cover the story\, some news accounts chose an image of Brown that featured him as a high school graduate\, in the traditional cap and gown\, holding a diploma cover. Other news sources picked a different photo of Brown in a basketball jersey\, holding his fingers up in what some termed as a “gang sign.” As a response to the media bias\, Mississippi attorney C.J. Lawrence used Tumblr for online social media activism\, starting the blog #IfTheyGunnedMeDown with the subtitle “Which picture would they use?” In this talk\, Jenny Korn examines the answers of the Tumblr’s participants to the question: If “they” gunned “me” down\, which picture would “they” use to represent “me?” \nJenny Korn is a feminist activist of color for social justice and scholar of race and gender in mass media and online communication. Korn is a Fellow at the Berkman Klein Center for Internet and Society at Harvard University. Korn has been published in Feminist Media Studies; Hashtag Publics; The International Journal of Interactive Communication Systems and Technologies; The Intersectional Internet; The Journal of Communication Inquiry; Multicultural America; Popular Communication; Harvard University’s Transition; and more. Her publications have won the Outstanding Book Chapter Award from the African American Communication and Culture Division of the National Communication Association and the Carl J. Couch Internet Research Award. Drawing on critical race theories and intersectional feminist theories\, Korn explores how the Internet environment resonates user assemblages of race and gender and how online producers-consumers have constructed inventive digital representations and computer-mediated communications of identity.
URL:https://cms.mit.edu/event/jenny-korn-visual-representations-race-gender-iftheygunnedmedown-tumblr/
LOCATION:MIT Building 56\, Room 114\, Access via 21 Ames Street\, Cambridge\, MA\, 02139\, United States
CATEGORIES:Colloquium
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20180322T170000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20180322T183000
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CREATED:20180129T131728Z
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SUMMARY:Moving Broadband from Sea to Land: Internet Infrastructure and Digital Labor in Tanzania
DESCRIPTION:Lisa Parks\, Professor in MIT Comparative Media Studies/Writing\nAs digital networks are extended across the world\, new forms of labor are required to enable and sustain mediated communication. This talk addresses the need for further critical conceptualizations of the labor and resource challenges inherent in extending the global internet from urban areas to rural\, low-income communities in various parts of the world. The East African country of Tanzania hosts four major undersea cable landings\, suggesting that the country’s 51 million people would be well integrated within global broadband fibre optic networks. Despite Tanzanians’ close proximity to major internet gateways and the country’s innovative regulatory climate (van Gorp & Maitland\, 2009)\, limited electrical and terrestrial telecommunication infrastructure prevents most citizens from benefitting from these cable landings. By 2014 only 15% of the population used the internet in Tanzania (Internet World Stats\, 2016). This study uses ethnographic fieldwork\, including site visits and interviews with workers at network facilities and data centers in Dar es Salaam and the Mara region\, to investigate the material conditions undergirding these paradoxical dynamics. Building on her past research on rural connectivity in neighboring Zambia\, CMS/W professor Lisa Parks‘ study will also explore how labor and resource conditions have effected an initiative called the Serengeti Broadband Network (SBN)\, which began in 2007 to establish broadband connectivity across 15 villages in one of Tanzania’s remote interior regions. Ultimately\, the talk will draw upon this empirical research to contribute to theorizations of labor\, infrastructure\, and (dis)connectivity in the digital era. \nLisa Parks is a global media scholar whose research focuses on three areas: satellite technologies and media cultures; critical studies of media infrastructures; and media\, militarization and surveillance. She is Principal Investigator for MIT’s Global Media Technologies and Cultures Lab.
URL:https://cms.mit.edu/event/lisa-parks-internet-infrastructure-digital-labor-tanzania/
LOCATION:MIT Building 56\, Room 114\, Access via 21 Ames Street\, Cambridge\, MA\, 02139\, United States
CATEGORIES:Colloquium
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20180405T170000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20180405T183000
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CREATED:20180220T172208Z
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SUMMARY:Music Fandom and the Shaping of Online Culture
DESCRIPTION:Nancy Baym\, Principal Researcher\, Microsoft; Research Affiliate at MIT Comparative Media Studies/Writing\nFrom the earliest days of networked computing\, music fans were there\, shaping the technologies and cultures that emerged online. By the time musicians and industry figures realized they could use the internet to reach audiences directly\, those audiences had already established their presences and social norms online\, putting them in unprecedented positions of power. Even widely-hailed innovators like David Bowie\, Prince\, and Trent Reznor were late to the game. This talk traces the intertwined histories of music fandom and online culture\, unpacking the fundamental disruption and its broader implications for interacting with audiences. \nNancy Baym is a Principal Researcher at Microsoft in Cambridge\, Massachusetts and a Research Affiliate in CMS/W at MIT. She earned her Ph.D. in Communication at the University of Illinois in 1994 and joined Microsoft in 2012 after 18 years as a Communication professor. She is the author of Personal Connections in the Digital Age (Polity Press)\, now in its second edition\, Tune In\, Log On: Soaps\, Fandom and Online Community (Sage Press)\, and co-editor of Internet Inquiry: Conversations About Method (Sage Press) with Annette Markham. Her bookPlaying to the Crowd: Musicians\, Audiences\, and the Intimate Work of Connection will be published in July by NYU Press.  More information\, most of her articles\, and some of her talks are available at nancybaym.com
URL:https://cms.mit.edu/event/nancy-baym-music-fandom-online-culture/
LOCATION:MIT Building 56\, Room 114\, Access via 21 Ames Street\, Cambridge\, MA\, 02139\, United States
CATEGORIES:Colloquium
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20180412T170000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20180412T183000
DTSTAMP:20260403T235318
CREATED:20180327T181535Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20180605T180105Z
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SUMMARY:The City Talks: Storytelling at the New York Times's Metro Desk
DESCRIPTION:Emily Rueb – Photo by Leslye Davis\nAs attention spans shrink and the representation of factual information is under scrutiny by the public\, news organizations need clear\, engaging storytelling that reaches readers where they are. In this talk\, Emily Rueb\, a reporter for The New York Times\, will share insights gained in bursting boundaries of traditional storytelling for The New York Times’s Metro desk. Weaving video\, audio\, illustrations and text across multiple platforms\, she chronicled aspects of New York’s complex but rarely seen infrastructure\, like the power grid and the water system\, and also its overlooked neighbors\, like red-tailed hawks. Her talk will also look at what’s next for an organization that cherished its customs but has come to realize that its most important legacy values cannot survive without steady\, rapid integration of new techniques. \nMs. Rueb writes and produces New York 101\, a multimedia column explaining infrastructure. At the Times\, she pioneered new approaches to storytelling for the breaking news blog\, City Room\, where she covered Hurricane Sandy and major elections\, and created a niche writing about avian life. She also edited Metropolitan Diary. Her New York 101 series examined the power grid\, road construction\, organics recycling and the water system. Winner of an Emmy and a Knight-Batten Award for Innovation in Journalism\, Rueb also has contributed to The Financial Times\, BBC Scotland\, Time Out Paris and Cleveland Magazine.
URL:https://cms.mit.edu/event/storytelling-new-york-times-metro-desk/
LOCATION:MIT Building 56\, Room 114\, Access via 21 Ames Street\, Cambridge\, MA\, 02139\, United States
CATEGORIES:Colloquium
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20180426T170000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20180426T183000
DTSTAMP:20260403T235318
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SUMMARY:Between Participation and Control: A Long History of CCTV
DESCRIPTION:Anne-Katrin Weber\nClosed-circuit television (CCTV) has become synonymous with surveillance society and the widespread use of media technologies for contemporary regimes of power and control. Considered from the perspective of television’s long history\, however\, closed-circuit systems are multifaceted\, and include\, but are not limited to sorting and surveillance. During the media’s experimental phase in the 1920s and 1930s\, closed-circuit systems were an essential feature of its public display\, shaping its identity as a new technology for instantaneous communication. With the emergence of activist video practices in the 1970s\, closed-circuit TV became a core feature for alternative experiments such as the Videofreex’ Lanesville TV\, where it offered access to community-based media making. This use of CCTV as a tool for participatory media took place simultaneously with the rise of CCTV as a surveillance technology\, which had been promoted under the label of “industrial television” already from the early 1950s on. Based on war-driven technological developments\, industrial TV implemented televisual monitoring in industrial\, educational\, and military spheres decades before the global spread of surveillance cameras in public space. \nThis talk by Anne-Katrin Weber explores the politics of CCTV as they unfold in different institutional and ideological settings. Examining television’s history beyond broadcasting and programs\, it focuses on television’s multiple applications and meanings in public space – from the early presentation of television at World’s Fairs to community-based initiatives – and thus highlights the adaptability of closed-circuit technologies\, which accommodate to\, and underpin variable contexts of media participation as well as of surveillance and control. \nAnne-Katrin Weber is a postdoctoral fellow supported by the Swiss National Science Foundation and is a visiting scholar at MIT Comparative Media Studies/Writing. Her research examines the history of television outside broadcasting institutions. Currently preparing her first monograph titled Television on Display: Visual Culture and Technopolitics in Europe and the USA\, 1928-1939\, she is the editor of La télévision du téléphonoscope à Youtube: pour une archéologie de l’audiovision (with Mireille Berton\, Antipodes\, 2009) and an issue of View: Journal of European Television History and Culture (“Archaeologies of Tele-Visions and –Realities\,” with Andreas Fickers\, 2015).
URL:https://cms.mit.edu/event/anne-katrin-weber-history-cctv/
LOCATION:MIT Building 56\, Room 114\, Access via 21 Ames Street\, Cambridge\, MA\, 02139\, United States
CATEGORIES:Colloquium
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20180503T170000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20180503T183000
DTSTAMP:20260403T235318
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SUMMARY:Ordinary Violence and Network Form: On #blacklivesmatter
DESCRIPTION:Scott C. Richmond\, assistant professor of cinema and digital media\, University of Toronto\nThis talk addresses the hashtag #blacklivesmatter as a network form: a network (counter)infrastructure for the circulation and visualization of the ordinary state and quasistate violence visited upon Black bodies and populations in the United States. The University of Toronto’s Scott C. Richmond argues that #blacklivesmatter as a hashtag–but specifically neither the videos of violence and death that have circulated under it\, nor the penumbra of political movements grouped under the moniker Black Lives Matter–can be productively theorized as a Black\, feminist\, and queer infrastructure of mourning and care on the network. In Christina Sharpe’s terms\, #blacklivesmatter is a form of wake work–a digital and networked form of Black annotation that makes visible Black lives and the violence to which they are subject. It does so outside of the logics of melodrama and white identification that have organized so much of the history of figurations of Black suffering in American life. Reading with Sharpe\, Saidiya Hartman\, Nicole Fleetwood\, Shaka McGlotten\, Eyal Weizman\, and others\, Richmond argues that what is at stake in #blacklivesmatter is a Black political form that is also an emphatically network form\, operating below\, beyond\, and to the side of what can be practiced\, grasped at the level of the individual\, of intention\, and of representation. \nScott C. Richmond is assistant professor of cinema and digital media at the University of Toronto\, where his teaching and research focus on avant-garde cinema and experimental media\, film theory and media theory\, and phenomenology and critical theory. His work has appeared\, among other places in World Picture\, Discourse\, and the Journal of Visual Culture. He is coeditor\, with Elizabeth Reich\, of a special issue of Film Criticism entitled “New Approaches to Cinematic Identification.” His first book\, Cinema’s Bodily Illusions: Flying\, Floating\, and Hallucinating\, is published by the University of Minnesota Press. He is currently completing a second book entitled Find Each Other: On Encountering Others in Media.
URL:https://cms.mit.edu/event/ordinary-violence-network-form-blacklivesmatter/
LOCATION:MIT Building 56\, Room 114\, Access via 21 Ames Street\, Cambridge\, MA\, 02139\, United States
CATEGORIES:Colloquium
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20180510T170000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20180510T183000
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SUMMARY:Imperial Arrangements: South African Apartheid and the Force of Photography
DESCRIPTION:Kimberly Juanita Brown\, MLK Visiting Assistant Professor at MIT\, Assistant Professor of English and Africana Studies at Mount Holyoke College\nThis talk by Kimberly Juanita Brown will consider the prominence of graphic photographic images during the decades of apartheid in South Africa. Specifically\, she is interested in an archive of indifference that permeates the era and orchestrates the viewer’s relationship to black subjectivity. For the talk she will focus on US news media coverage of apartheid in the last year of its existence\, and the images that anchored viewers’ interpretation of the event. \nKimberly Juanita Brown is Martin Luther King Jr. Visiting Assistant Professor for 2017-2018\, hosted by MIT Literature and MIT Women’s & Gender Studies. She is an Assistant Professor of English and Africana Studies at Mount Holyoke College and author of The Repeating Body: Slavery’s Visual Resonance in the Contemporary.
URL:https://cms.mit.edu/event/kimberley-juanita-brown-south-african-apartheid-photography/
LOCATION:MIT Building 56\, Room 114\, Access via 21 Ames Street\, Cambridge\, MA\, 02139\, United States
CATEGORIES:Colloquium
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20180913T170000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20180913T183000
DTSTAMP:20260403T235318
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SUMMARY:Civic Arts Series: Erik Loyer
DESCRIPTION:Erik Loyer – Illustration by Mauricio Cordero\nErik Loyer‘s award-winning work explores new blends of game dynamics\, poetic expression and interactive visual storytelling. From his best-selling Strange Rain story-playing iPad/iPhone app\, to his visually stunning digital fiction The Lair of the Marrow Monkey (powered by Shockwave software animation)\, and his interactive explorations of post-Katrina racial politics in Blue Velvet\, Loyer’s interactive artistic hybridizations of music\, new narratives and algorithmic play have won numerous awards\, been exhibited widely\, and found their way into permanent museum collections. \n\nThe Civic Arts Series\, which is part of the CMS graduate program Colloquium\, features talks by four artists and activists who are making innovative uses of media to reshape the possibilities of art as a source of civic imagination\, experience and advocacy. Using a variety of contemporary media technologies–film\, web platforms\, game engines\, drones–the series presenters have opened up new pathways to artistic expression that broaden public awareness around compelling civic issues and aspirations of our time.
URL:https://cms.mit.edu/event/civic-arts-series-erik-loyer/
LOCATION:MIT Building E15\, Room 001 (“The Cube”)\, 20 Ames Street\, Cambridge\, MA\, 02139\, United States
CATEGORIES:Civic Arts
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20180920T170000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20180920T185000
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SUMMARY:Thomas Allen Harris: "Collective Wisdom" Keynote
DESCRIPTION:Video livestream starting at 5pm. \n\nThomas Allen Harris\nThomas Allen Harris is a critically acclaimed\, interdisciplinary artist who explores conceptions of family\, identity\, environmentalism\, and spirituality in a participatory practice. Graduate of Harvard College with a degree in Biology and the Whitney Independent Study Program\, member of the Academy of Motion Pictures Arts and Sciences\, and published writer/curator\, Harris lectures widely on the use of media as a tool for social change with a keen recognition for its potential to organize social movements and impact the biological body. He currently holds a position at Yale University as a Senior Lecturer in African American and Film & Media Studies\, where he is teaching courses titled “Family Narratives/Cultural Shifts” and “Archive Aesthetics and Community Storytelling”. He is also working on a new television show\, Family Pictures USA\, which takes a radical look at neighborhoods and cities of the United States through the lens of family photographs\, collaborative performances\, and personal testimony sourced from their communities. \nFamily Pictures USA uses methodologies Harris and his team developed with Digital Diaspora Family Reunion\, LLC (DDFR)\, a socially engaged transmedia project that has incorporated community organizing\, performance\, virtual gathering spaces\, and storytelling into over 60 unique audio-visual events in over 50 cities. Harris will talk about his trajectory as a media artist that led to DDFR and his documentary film work\, including Through A Lens Darkly: Black Photographers and the Emergence of a People\, his 2015 film that was developed in tandem with DDFR. Through A Lens Darkly features leading Black cultural figures\, scholars\, and photographers sharing their archives with Harris in an exploration of the ways photography has been used as a tool of representation and self-representation in history\, garnering an NAACP Image Award for Outstanding Documentary film\, the Fund for Santa Barbara Social Justice Award\, and an Africa Movie Academy Award\, among others. \nIn conversation with MIT Professor Vivek Bald\, Harris will reveal his process\, experiences\, and unexpected outcomes working with communities in online and offline shared spaces and places. Immediately following a Q&A\, participants will be invited to share images that represent their conceptions of family and engage in a collaborative workshop highlighting the impact of new technologies in community archiving practices.
URL:https://cms.mit.edu/event/thomas-allen-harris-collective-wisdom/
LOCATION:MIT Media Lab\, Bartos Theater\, 20 Ames Street\, Cambridge\, MA\, 02139\, United States
CATEGORIES:Colloquium
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DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20181004T183000
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SUMMARY:Civic Arts Series: Daniel Bacchieri
DESCRIPTION:Daniel Bacchieri – Illustration by Mauricio Cordero\nDaniel Bacchieri is an award-winning Brazilian journalist\, documentary film maker and collaborative web developer/curator\, whose visually inspiring StreetMusicMap platform has been widely praised for its curation of street performers from across the globe. Combining a documentarian vision with a trans-cultural appreciation of the public art of vernacular musicians\, the StreetMusicMap collaborators are exploring the creative possibilities of collective story-telling through performance. The StreetMusicMap Instagram channel has more than 41\,000 followers and 1\,300 artists documented on videos in 97 countries\, all filmed by more than 700 collaborators. \n\nThe Civic Arts Series\, which is part of the CMS graduate program Colloquium\, features talks by four artists and activists who are making innovative uses of media to reshape the possibilities of art as a source of civic imagination\, experience and advocacy. Using a variety of contemporary media technologies–film\, web platforms\, game engines\, drones–the series presenters have opened up new pathways to artistic expression that broaden public awareness around compelling civic issues and aspirations of our time.
URL:https://cms.mit.edu/event/civic-arts-series-daniel-bacchieri/
LOCATION:MIT Building E15\, Room 001 (“The Cube”)\, 20 Ames Street\, Cambridge\, MA\, 02139\, United States
CATEGORIES:Civic Arts
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20181018T170000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20181018T183000
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SUMMARY:Civic Arts Series: Marisa Morán Jahn
DESCRIPTION:Marisa Morán Jahn – Illustration by Mauricio Cordero\nMarisa Morán Jahn is a multi-media artist\, writer\, educator and activist\, whose colorful\, often humorous uses of personae and media create imaginative pathways to civic awareness of urgent public issues. Working collaboratively\, her projects include a classic American road trip\, CareForce One\, in a 50-year-old station wagon\, advocating issues concerning care workers that became a PBS film series; and Bibliobandido\, a story-telling initiative for Honduran children featuring a masked bandit who devours stories. Jahn\, winner of numerous awards\, is co-founder of Studio REV-\, a non-profit organization of artists\, technologists\, media makers\, low-wage workers\, immigrants and teens who producing creative media and public art about the issues they face. \nShe will be sharing Snatch-ural History of Copper (working title)\, an art project\, book\, and feature-length film initiated by artist Marisa Morán Jahn that investigates copper\, an element found in electrical wires\, computers\, lightning rods\, and the IUD (intrauterine device) implanted in Jahn’s own ‘snatch’ (womb). Jahn interviews a range of experts in search of otherworldly answers that trammel the boundaries of myth\, literary studies\, science\, alchemy and political controversy. Interviewing scientists in Saint Petersburg Florida who use rockets outfitted with a copper nose to trigger (and capture) lightning\, Jahn asks\, “Do you think that when the lightning goes off I’ll feel it in my cooch?” She visits a shrine on the island of Cyprus\, home of the earliest copper mines dating to 8700 BCE as well as the pre-Christian god\, Venus of Aphrodite who share the same symbol (♀) most familiar to us today as the symbol for women\, females\, and a movement for women’s liberation. Throughout these real-world investigations\, Jahn seeks access to the top of a building and solder her copper IUD on top of a copper lightning rod\, raising its height by an imperceptible inch. “I can’t wait for the moment when a bolt of lightning hits this thing — just imagine my little IUD radiating. It might even be sizzled into a thousand little parts distributed and distended into the atmosphere.” Poetically and playfully weaving the issues into a new cosmology\, the film touches upon timely issues such as planetary sustainability\, labor\, and reproductive self-determination during a moment when both sides of the spectrum mount all-offensive campaigns. \nAlso featuring… \nSasha Costanza-Chock (pronouns: they/them or she/her) is a scholar\, activist\, and media-maker\, and currently Associate Professor of Civic Media at MIT. They are a Faculty Associate at the Berkman-Klein Center for Internet & Society at Harvard University\, Faculty Affiliate with the MIT Open Documentary Lab and the MIT Center for Civic Media\, and creator of the MIT Codesign Studio (codesign.mit.edu). Their work focuses on social movements\, transformative media organizing\, and design justice. Sasha’s first book\, Out of the Shadows\, Into the Streets: Transmedia Organizing and the Immigrant Rights Movement was published by the MIT Press in 2014. They are a board member of Allied Media Projects (AMP); AMP convenes the annual Allied Media Conference and cultivates media strategies for a more just\, creative and collaborative world (alliedmedia.org). \nJane M. Saks is a creative collaborator\, arts producer\, writer\, and educator who has worked to challenge and champion issues of gender\, sexuality\, human rights\, race and power within the worlds of arts and culture\, politics and civil rights\, academia and philanthropy. She is Founding President and Artistic Director of Project& (projectand.org)\, an organization that creates new models of cultural participation and experience with social impact. Previously\, she was the founding Executive Director at the Institute for the Study of Women and Gender in the Arts and Media where she created the award-winning Fellowship program\, developing and launching works that went on to win Pulitzer Prizes\, MacArthur Genius Awards\, Obie Awards and Guggenheims. She is an invited lecturer at civic\, cultural and educational institutions internationally\, a visiting critic at Yale University\, Regional Judge for the White House Fellows\, and will be a visiting Professor at Harvard University. A published poet\, Saks has been the Creator\, Author\, Producer\, Co-Producer\, Creative Advisor and Series Producer on many original creative works in various media and art forms. \nSteve Seidel holds the Patricia Bauman and John Landrum Bryant Chair in Arts in Education at the Harvard Graduate School of Education. He is Faculty Director of the Arts in Education program and a former director of Project Zero (2000-2008). His current research includes Talking with Artists who Teach\, a study of working artists’ ideas and insights into the nature of artistic development and learning. Before becoming a researcher\, Seidel taught high-school theater and language arts in the Boston area for 17 years. He has also worked as a professional actor and stage director. \n\nThe Civic Arts Series\, which is part of the CMS graduate program Colloquium\, features talks by four artists and activists who are making innovative uses of media to reshape the possibilities of art as a source of civic imagination\, experience and advocacy. Using a variety of contemporary media technologies–film\, web platforms\, game engines\, drones–the series presenters have opened up new pathways to artistic expression that broaden public awareness around compelling civic issues and aspirations of our time.
URL:https://cms.mit.edu/event/civic-arts-series-marisa-moran-jahn/
LOCATION:MIT Building E15\, Room 001 (“The Cube”)\, 20 Ames Street\, Cambridge\, MA\, 02139\, United States
CATEGORIES:Civic Arts
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20181025T170000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20181025T170000
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SUMMARY:#MoreThanCode: Practitioner-led Research to Reimagine Technology for Social Justice
DESCRIPTION:Our society is in the midst of an extremely urgent conversation about the benefits and harms of digital technology\, across all spheres of life. Unfortunately\, this conversation too often fails to include the voices of technology practitioners whose work is already focused on social justice\, the common good\, and/or the public interest. This talk by Sasha Costanza-Chock explores key findings and recommendations from #MoreThanCode (morethancode.cc)\, a recently-released field scan based on more than 100 practitioner interviews. \n* The report was produced by the Tech for Social Justice Project (t4sj.co)\, co-led by Research Action Design (RAD) and the Open Technology Institute at New America (OTI)\, together with research partners Upturn\, Media Mobilizing Project\, Coworker.org\, Hack the Hood\, May First/People Link\, Palante Technology Cooperative\, Vulpine Blue\, and The Engine Room. NetGain\, the Ford Foundation\, Mozilla\, Code For America\, and OTI funded and advised the project. \nSasha Costanza-Chock (pronouns: they/them or she/her) is a scholar\, activist\, and media-maker\, and currently Associate Professor of Civic Media at MIT. Their work focuses on social movements\, transformative media organizing\, and design justice. Sasha’s first book\, Out of the Shadows\, Into the Streets: Transmedia Organizing and the Immigrant Rights Movement was published by the MIT Press in 2014. More info: schock.cc.
URL:https://cms.mit.edu/event/sasha-costanza-chock-morethancode-technology-social-justice/
LOCATION:MIT Building 56\, Room 114\, Access via 21 Ames Street\, Cambridge\, MA\, 02139\, United States
CATEGORIES:Colloquium
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20181101T170000
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SUMMARY:2018 CMS Alumni Panel
DESCRIPTION:On the heels of the day’s graduate program information session\, join us for our annual colloquium featuring alumni of CMS\, discussing their lives from MIT to their careers today. \nNick Seaver\, Assistant Professor of Anthropology at Tufts University and a 2010 graduate of Comparative Media Studies\, is an anthropologist of technology\, whose research focuses on the circulation\, reproduction\, and interpretation of sound. He holds a Ph.D. from the University of California\, Irvine. His dissertation research examined the development of algorithmic music recommendation\, and at CMS\, he wrote a thesis on the history of the player piano.  \nColleen Kaman is a user experience strategist at IBM Interactive Experience\, skilled in storytelling\, user research\, learning design\, and persuasive technologies. Her expertise is in developing products\, services\, and campaigns that help users make better decisions and accomplish tasks more effectively and efficiently. \nSean Flynn is the Program Director for the Points North Institute\, a Maine-based organization supporting nonfiction storytellers through artist development initiatives and\, most prominently\, the Camden International Film Festival and Points North Forum. He received his master’s degree in Comparative Media Studies in 2015 and worked as a researcher at the MIT Open Documentary Lab. Sean began his filmmaking career as a producer and cinematographer working on two feature-length documentaries\, both of which had their premiere at the Tribeca Film Festival and aired on national television.
URL:https://cms.mit.edu/event/2018-cms-alumni-panel/
LOCATION:MIT Building 56\, Room 114\, Access via 21 Ames Street\, Cambridge\, MA\, 02139\, United States
CATEGORIES:Colloquium
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20181115T170000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20181115T183000
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SUMMARY:Civic Arts Series: Myron Dewey
DESCRIPTION:“Protecting the Water in Solidarity and Unity”\nMyron Dewey – Illustration by Mauricio Cordero\nMyron Dewey is an indigenous journalist\, educator\, documentary filmmaker and the developer of Digital Smoke Signals\, a social networking and filmmaking initiative\, emerging out of the Standing Rock Sioux Reservation protests against the Dakota Access Pipeline project of 2016-17. Using a full range of contemporary media\, including drone technologies\, Dewey has pioneered the blending of citizen monitoring\, documentary filmmaking\, and social networking in the cause of environment\, social justice and indigenous people’s rights; he co-directed the 2017 award-winning documentary\, Awake: A Dream from Standing Rock. \nIntroduction by Lisa Parks\, Professor\, Comparative Media Studies; Director\, Global Media Technologies & Cultures Lab and recently awarded MacArthur Fellow. \nRespondents\nNicholas A. Brown\, Artist\, Cultural Geographer\, Assoc. Teaching Prof\, Northeastern University \nMarisa Morán Jahn\, Visiting Artist\, MIT Art\, Culture\, Technology  \nRecent MacArthur Fellow (2018) Lisa Parks is a media scholar whose research focuses on satellite technologies and media cultures; critical studies of media infrastructures; and media\, militarization and surveillance. Parks has held visiting appointments at the Institute for Advanced Study (Wissenschaftskolleg) in Berlin\, McGill University\, University of Southern California\, and the Annenberg School of Communication at the University of Pennsylvania. She is committed to exploring how greater understanding of media systems can inform and assist citizens\, scholars and policymakers in the US and abroad to advance campaigns for technological literacy\, creative expression\, social justice\, and human rights.  \nNicholas A. Brown is a scholar and artist based in Boston\, MA and La Farge\, WI. He teaches in the School of Architecture and Department of History at Northeastern University. His work examines the production of cultural landscapes and the politics of connectivity in settler colonial contexts. Recent and ongoing projects include: Kickapoo Conversations\, A People’s Guide to Firsting and Lasting in Boston\, Re-Collecting Black Hawk: Landscape\, Memory\, and Power in the American Midwest\, The Vanishing Indian Repeat Photography Project\, and Ni-aazhawa’am-minis Spur.  \nAn artist\, filmmaker\, and creative technologist of Ecuadorian and Chinese descent\, Marisa Morán Jahn’s artworks redistribute power\, “exemplifying the possibilities of art as social practice” (ArtForum). Her work has been presented in a range of venues including Obama’s White House\, Museum of Modern Art\, ITVS/PBS\, and worker centers. An awardee of Creative Capital\, Sundance\, and Tribeca Institute\, Jahn is the founder of Studio REV\, an art and social justice non-profit organization\, an Assistant Professor at The New School\, and a Visiting Artist at MIT Art\, Culture\, Technology. \n\nThe Civic Arts Series\, which is part of the CMS graduate program Colloquium\, features talks by four artists and activists who are making innovative uses of media to reshape the possibilities of art as a source of civic imagination\, experience and advocacy. Using a variety of contemporary media technologies–film\, web platforms\, game engines\, drones–the series presenters have opened up new pathways to artistic expression that broaden public awareness around compelling civic issues and aspirations of our time.
URL:https://cms.mit.edu/event/civic-arts-series-myron-dewey/
LOCATION:MIT Building E15\, Room 001 (“The Cube”)\, 20 Ames Street\, Cambridge\, MA\, 02139\, United States
CATEGORIES:Civic Arts
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