How Did the Computer Learn to See?
MIT Building 3, Room 133 33 Massachusetts Ave, Cambridge, MADid computers learn to see by modernity's most highly evolved technologies of vision, or, as Alexander Galloway argues, from sculpture?
MIT Graduate Program in Comparative Media Studies
Studying Media and Making Media
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Illuminating 2016: Using Social Listening Tools to Understand the Presidential Campaign
MIT Building 3, Room 133 33 Massachusetts Ave, Cambridge, MAJennifer Stromer-Galley describes the large-scale collection and machine learning techniques used to study how presidential candidates use social media.
Fall 2016 Alumni Panel: Andres Lombana-Bermudez, Colleen Kaman, Abe Stein, and Lily Bui
MIT Building 3, Room 133 33 Massachusetts Ave, Cambridge, MAJoin us for this year's alumni panel, when we hear from four alums of the graduate program in Comparative Media Studies as they discuss their experience at MIT and what their careers have looked like in the fields a CMS degree prepared them for.
Black + Twitter: A Cultural Informatics Approach
MIT Building 3, Room 133 33 Massachusetts Ave, Cambridge, MAAndré Brock, scholar of Black cyberculture, offers that Twitter's feature set and ubiquity map closely onto Black discursive identity.
#Misogynoir, #SolidarityIsForWhiteWomen, and other forms of Black Digital Feminisms
MIT Building 3, Room 133 33 Massachusetts Ave, Cambridge, MAOperating under the oppressive structures of masculinity, heterosexuality, and Whiteness that are sustained in digital spaces, marginalized women persevere and resist such hegemonic realities.
Authoritarian and Democratic Data Science in an Experimenting Society
MIT Building 56, Room 114 Access via 21 Ames Street, Cambridge, MAMIT's Nathan Matias asks, how will the role of data science in democracy be transformed as software expands the public's ability to conduct our own experiments at scale?
Desktop Reveries: Hand, Software, and the Space of Japanese Artist Animation
MIT Building 56, Room 114 Access via 21 Ames Street, Cambridge, MASeeking to unravel the analytical split between the "drawn" and the "digital" in animation and media studies more broadly, Paul Roquet’s project moves back and forth between two desktops: the hard surface of the drawing table and the pixelated surface of the screen.
From Stereopticon to Telephone: The Selling of the President in the Gilded Age
MIT Building 56, Room 114 Access via 21 Ames Street, Cambridge, MACharles Musser: "19th century media forms set in motion not only a new way of imagining how to market national campaigns and candidates; they also helped to usher in novel forms of mass spectatorship."
The Networked Sensory Landscape Meets the Future of Documentary
MIT Building 56, Room 114 Access via 21 Ames Street, Cambridge, MAGlorianna Davenport presents DoppelMarsh, data from a dense network of diverse environmental sensors mapped to deliver “a sense of being there” in a re-synthesized, ever-changing landscape.
Barbie and Mortal Kombat 20 Years Later
MIT Building 56, Room 114 Access via 21 Ames Street, Cambridge, MAYasmin Kafai and Gabriela Richard expand the discussions on gender, race, and sexuality in gaming.
Michael Lee: “The Conservative Canon Before and After Trump”
MIT Building 56, Room 114 Access via 21 Ames Street, Cambridge, MAMichael J. Lee charts the vital role of canonical post–World War II (1945–1964) books in generating, guiding, and sustaining conservatism as a political force in the United States.
The Contingencies of Comparison: Rethinking Comparative Media
MIT Building 56, Room 114 Access via 21 Ames Street, Cambridge, MABrian Larkin and Stefan Andriopoulos: "It is clear that future media centers will emerge in places far outside their traditional Western centers."
From Taft to Trump: How Conservative Media Activists Won — and Lost — the GOP
MIT Building 56, Room 114 Access via 21 Ames Street, Cambridge, MANicole Hemmer will explain how conservative media activists won the GOP for the right -- and how in the era of Trump, they lost it.
Playful Practice: Designing the Future of Teacher Learning
MIT Building 56, Room 114 Access via 21 Ames Street, Cambridge, MAIn this participatory session, play samples of some of the practice spaces that Justin Reich's team is developing and discuss the theoretical foundations of their vision for the future of teacher learning.
Engineering Virality: BuzzFeed’s Scientific Approach To Creating Content
MIT Building 56, Room 114 Access via 21 Ames Street, Cambridge, MABuzzFeed's Walter Menendez: "This talk will detail how BuzzFeed thinks about and creates content, highlighting our paradigms for the function and role of our content."
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