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SUMMARY:Lisa Parks: "Drone Matters: Vertical Mediation in the Horn of Africa"
DESCRIPTION:Lisa ParksUniversity of California\, Santa Barbara\nSince 2002\, the US Joint Special Operations Command (JSOC) and CIA have orchestrated a covert drone war from Camp Lemonier in the African country of Djibouti\, monitoring and striking alleged al-Qaeda and Al-Shabaab suspects in Yemen and Somalia. As a media scholar\, UC Santa Barbara’s Lisa Parks is interested both in the discourses that have been used to expose covert US drone interventions and in the ways that drone operations themselves function as technologies of mediation. Drawing upon media such as training manual diagrams\, infrared images\, Google Earth interfaces\, and drone crash scene photos\, this talk explores the drone’s mediating work through three registers: the infrastructural\, the perceptual\, and the forensic. Focusing on maneuvers between the ground and sky\, Parks suggest that military drone operations are irreducible to the screen’s display and should be understood as practices of vertical mediation–as practices of communication and materialization that occur dynamically through the vertical field\, and\, as such\, have particular kinds of affects. The talk based on a chapter of her forthcoming book\, Coverage: Vertical Mediation and the War on Terror. \nLisa Parks is Professor in the Film and Media Studies Department at UC Santa Barbara. She is the author of Cultures in Orbit: Satellites and the Televisual (Duke UP\, 2005) and Coverage: Vertical Mediation and the War on Terror (Routledge\, forthcoming)\, and is co-editor of Signal Traffic: Critical Studies of Media Infrastructures (U of Illinois\, 2015)\, Down to Earth: Satellite Technologies\, Industries and Cultures (Rutgers UP\, 2012)\, Undead TV (Duke UP\, 2007)\, Planet TV: A Global Television Reader (NYU\, 2003)\, and another in progress entitled Life in the Age of Drones (under contract\, Duke UP). 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 currently a principal investigator on research grants from the National Science Foundation and the US State Department.
URL:https://cms.mit.edu/event/lisa-parks-drone-matters-vertical-mediation-in-the-horn-of-africa/
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:20151203T170000
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SUMMARY:The Bengali Harlem/Lost Histories Project: Documenting South Asian America's Interracial Past
DESCRIPTION:Vivek Bald\, Associate Professor\nVivek Bald\, an Associate Professor in CMS/W and member of the MIT Open Documentary Lab\, will discuss his transmedia project documenting the lives of Bengali Muslim ship workers and silk peddlers who entered the United States at the height of the Asian Exclusion Era\, between the 1890s and 1940s\, and quietly settled and intermarried within African American and Puerto Rican neighborhoods from Harlem to Tremé in New Orleans and Black Bottom\, Detroit. \nThe project consists of a book\, Bengali Harlem and the Lost Histories of South Asian America (2013)\, a linear documentary film\, In Search of Bengali Harlem (currently in production)\, and a community-sourced\, web-based documentary and oral history project\, “The Lost Histories Project” (in development). Bald’s talk and demo will present a new iteration of the online project and newly edited material from the documentary.
URL:https://cms.mit.edu/event/vivek-bald-documenting-south-asian-americas-interracial-past/
LOCATION:MIT Building 4\, Room 231\, Cambridge\, MA\, 02139\, United States
CATEGORIES:Colloquium
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20151119T170000
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SUMMARY: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. \nMargaret Weigel\, ’02\nDan Roy\, ’07\nIlya Vedrashko\, ’06\n\nErik Stayton\, ’15\nChelsea Barabas\, ’15\nHere’s who we’ve lined up so far (subject to change as ever): \n\nMargaret Weigel\, ’02\, who works in digital education: https://www.linkedin.com/in/margaretweigel/\nDan Roy\, ’07\, widely known for his games for learning projects: https://www.linkedin.com/profile/view?id=2512953\nIlya Vedrashko\, ’06\, who does big data-driven consumer research: https://www.linkedin.com/profile/view?id=3838774\nErik Stayton\, ’15\, now a Ph.D. student at MIT’s program in History\, Anthropology\, Science\, Technology and Society: http://web.mit.edu/hasts/graduate/stayton.html\nChelsea Barabas\, ’15\, the newly minted advisor to the Media Lab’s Digital Currency Initiative: https://www.linkedin.com/profile/view?id=75805502
URL:https://cms.mit.edu/event/cms-alumni-panel-nov-19/
LOCATION:MIT Building 4\, Room 231\, Cambridge\, MA\, 02139\, United States
CATEGORIES:Colloquium
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20151029T170000
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SUMMARY:Global Internet Development Viewed Through the Net Vitality Lens
DESCRIPTION:Stuart N. Brotman\nNet Vitality is a new analytic approach to examine ways to sustain long-term Internet vibrancy\, both in the United States and around the world\, and helps inform future government policies that impact the deployment and adoption of broadband technologies.  Unlike other comparative studies that rank countries quantitatively based on a simplistic assessment of broadband speeds\, Stuart N. Brotman’s Net Vitality Index\, released earlier this year\, also measures countries qualitatively to determine how well they are performing in a global competitive environment\, gauging the true vitality of a country’s Internet ecosystem. \nBased on five years of research\, the Net Vitality Index is the first holistic analysis of the global broadband Internet ecosystem\, identifying the United States\, South Korea\, Japan\, the United Kingdom\, and France as the top-tier leaders. Unlike the one-dimensional rankings that serve as the basis of most broadband comparative studies\, Brotman’s composite metric takes into account 52 factors developed independently to evaluate countries on an apples-to-apples basis. Overarching categories assessed encompass applications\, devices\, networks\, and macroeconomic factors. \nBrotman is a faculty member at Harvard Law School and a Nonresident Senior Fellow in the Center for Technology Innovation at The Brookings Institution in Washington\, DC.
URL:https://cms.mit.edu/event/stuart-brotman-global-internet-development-net-vitality/
LOCATION:MIT Building 4\, Room 231\, Cambridge\, MA\, 02139\, United States
CATEGORIES:Colloquium
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20151022T170000
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SUMMARY:From Firing Line to The O’Reilly Factor
DESCRIPTION:Heather Hendershot\nWilliam F. Buckley’s public affairs program Firing Line (PBS\, 1966–1999) offered a space for no-holds-barred\, honest intellectual combat at its finest. The conservative Buckley hoped to convert viewers\, but there was more to it than that. You could actually learn about other points of view\, and thereby become a better liberal or a better conservative from watching the show. There is simply no equivalent on TV today. Conservatives have Fox News\, liberals have MSNBC\, and in more neutral territory we find C-SPAN. Overall\, politically oriented broadcasting has become a vast echo chamber (especially on talk radio)\, with many tuning in largely to have their views confirmed—and to hear the other side vilified. What happened? How did we get from Firing Line to The O’Reilly Factor? And how can we possibly fix things? Hendershot’s talk will provide the historical\, regulatory\, and political context we need in order to begin to address these very difficult questions.  \nHeather Hendershot is a professor of film and media in CMS/W. Her book on Firing Line is forthcoming in the summer of 2016.
URL:https://cms.mit.edu/event/heather-hendershot-firing-line-to-oreilly-factor/
LOCATION:MIT Building 4\, Room 231\, Cambridge\, MA\, 02139\, United States
CATEGORIES:Colloquium
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SUMMARY:The Adventures of Ms. Meta: Celebrating the Female Superhero Through Digital Gaming
DESCRIPTION:Sarah Zaidan\nThe importance of female superheroes in Western culture cannot be ignored. From Wonder Woman in the 1940s to Captain Marvel in the 2010s\, the inspiration and cultural impact these representations of heroism provide fans regardless of gender are undeniable. While there is a wealth of research examining the representation of the female superhero and how this speaks to perceptions of femininity across the past eighty years\, its focus is often the prevalence of stereotypical over authentic depictions\, and the harmful effects of this on society. \nSarah Zaidan‘s research combines the platforms of video games with the artistic styles and narrative themes of comics and historical fact\, culminating in an original game that celebrates the power of the female superhero\, and her cultural importance. The game tells the story of Ms. Meta\, a contemporary superhero created by the player. As she journeys through time to stop her nemesis’ plans\, she will encounter characters drawn from the stories of women and fans from each era\, opportunities to challenge preconceived notions of female superheroes\, and the ability to change the course of history. The gameplay will be grounded in problem-solving and collaboration\, and will incorporate player choices to create ownership and personal relevance. \nDr. Sarah Zaidan is a game designer\, artist and researcher whose work explores how video games and comic books can engage in a dialogue with identity\, gender and civic awareness. She is Kingston University London’s first recipient of a Ph.D. by practice in superhero art and history with research findings presented in the form of an award winning video game\, The Adventures of MetaMan: The Male Superhero as a Representation of Modern Western Masculinity (1940-2010). She is one of the creators and illustrators of the feminist superhero comic series My So-Called Secret Identity\, in collaboration with Batman scholar Dr. Will Brooker and animation artist Susan Shore. Dr. Zaidan teaches video game design at Emerson College and is a research fellow with the Engagement Lab. Her work is characterized by rapid prototyping\, iterative design processes and by discovering game systems in everyday life.
URL:https://cms.mit.edu/event/sarah-zaidan-female-superhero-through-digital-gaming/
LOCATION:MIT Building 4\, Room 231\, Cambridge\, MA\, 02139\, United States
CATEGORIES:Colloquium
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SUMMARY:Hierarchy and Democracy in Modern Japan’s Mass Media Revolution
DESCRIPTION:Hiromu Nagahara\, Associate Professor of History and Cecil and Ida Green Career Development Professor\nModern Japan experienced what could be described as its first wave of “mass media revolution” in the period stretching from the mid-1920s into the 1930s\, when new forms of media industry as well as technology vastly expanded the number of potential consumers of media products. This talk\, with Hiromu Nagahara\, explores the political implications of this development\, especially as it relates to how the rise of mass media reshaped existing social and cultural hierarchies in Japan (and how\, in some cases\, it didn’t). Based on his current book project\, Japan’s Pop Era: Music in the Making of Middle-Class Society\, this talk will focus on the life and career of Horiuchi Keizō (M.S. 1923)\, an MIT grad who found himself in the center of all of this as a prominent composer\, critic\, radio broadcaster\, and publisher.
URL:https://cms.mit.edu/event/hiromu-nagahara-hierarchy-democracy-modern-japan-mass-media-revolution/
LOCATION:MIT Building 4\, Room 231\, Cambridge\, MA\, 02139\, United States
CATEGORIES:Colloquium
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SUMMARY:On the Politics of Punk Media and Peru
DESCRIPTION:L. Shane GreeneIndiana University\nThis talk\, with L. Shane Greene\, presents a theoretical overview of various situations – particularly their political\, aesthetic\, and media dimensions – that arose in the production of a book about the history of anarchism and punk rock during Peru’s war with the Maoist-inspired armed group known as the Shining Path. Specifically\, Greene is interested in how recounting the role of “underground rock” musicians and artists during the war – and from within the aesthetics of punk media – complicates the dominant narratives that describe Peru’s period of political violence and those that drive the story of globalization. The talk will draw from both primary examples from the historical period in question and contemporary ones that emerged from the book project. \nGreene is an Associate Professor of Anthropology at Indiana University\, where he also serves as director of the Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies. \nThis event is co-hosted with MIT Global Studies and Languages.
URL:https://cms.mit.edu/event/l-shane-greene-politics-of-punk-media-peru/
LOCATION:MIT Building 4\, Room 231\, Cambridge\, MA\, 02139\, United States
CATEGORIES:Colloquium
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20150507T170000
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SUMMARY:Danielle Keats Citron: "Hate Crimes in Cyberspace"
DESCRIPTION:Danielle Keats Citron\nMost Internet users are familiar with trolling—aggressive\, foul-mouthed posts designed to elicit angry responses in a site’s comments. Less familiar but far more serious is the way some use networked technologies to target real people\, subjecting them\, by name and address\, to vicious\, often terrifying\, online abuse. In an in-depth investigation of a problem that is too often trivialized by lawmakers and the media\, Danielle Keats Citron exposes the startling extent of personal cyber-attacks and proposes practical\, lawful ways to prevent and punish online harassment. A refutation of those who claim that these attacks are legal\, or at least impossible to stop\, Hate Crimes in Cyberspace reveals the serious emotional\, professional\, and financial harms incurred by victims. \nPersistent online attacks disproportionately target women and frequently include detailed fantasies of rape as well as reputation-ruining lies and sexually explicit photographs. And if dealing with a single attacker’s “revenge porn” were not enough\, harassing posts that make their way onto social media sites often feed on one another\, turning lone instigators into cyber-mobs. \nHate Crimes in Cyberspace rejects the view of the Internet as an anarchic Wild West\, where those who venture online must be thick-skinned enough to endure all manner of verbal assault in the name of free speech protection\, no matter how distasteful or abusive. Cyber-harassment is a matter of civil rights law\, Danielle Keats Citron contends\, and legal precedents as well as social norms of decency and civility must be leveraged to stop it. \nCitron is Lois K. Macht Research Professor of Law at the University of Maryland Francis King Carey School of Law.
URL:https://cms.mit.edu/event/danielle-keats-citron-hate-crimes-cyberspace/
LOCATION:MIT Building 4\, Room 231\, Cambridge\, MA\, 02139\, United States
CATEGORIES:Colloquium
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20150430T170000
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SUMMARY:Ryan Cordell: "Melville in the First Age of Viral Media"
DESCRIPTION:(Join our mailing list for an event reminder.) \nThis event kicks off MELCamp5\, a meeting of researchers from the Melville Electronic Library (MEL) April 30-May 2 to discuss an NEH-funded digital archive of Herman Melville’s work. Do come to a free public event on Friday May 1 in 2-105 on “The Critical Archive and the Future of MEL.” Moderator: Kurt Fendt (MIT)\, and Panelists Peter S. Donaldson (MIT)\, Julia Flanders (Northeastern University)\, John Unsworth (Brandeis University). All welcome. \n\nRyan Cordell\, Assistant Professor of English and Core Founding Faculty Member in the NULab for Texts\, Maps\, and Networks at Northeastern University\nRyan Cordell\, co-director of the Viral Texts project\, will speak about his work uncovering pieces that “went viral” in nineteenth-century newspapers and magazines.  \nThe Viral Texts project seeks to develop theoretical models that will help scholars better understand what qualities—both textual and thematic—helped particular news stories\, short fiction\, and poetry “go viral” in nineteenth-century newspapers and magazines.  What texts were reprinted and why? How did ideas—literary\, political\, scientific\, economic\, religious—circulate in the public sphere and achieve critical force among audiences?  How might computational methods reveal Melville’s popular reception and reputation or expose the shaping influence of the popular press on his writing? And how can these popular (perhaps even ephemeral) texts thicken our understanding of literary authors like Herman Melville? \nCordell is Assistant Professor of English and Core Founding Faculty Member in the NULab for Texts\, Maps\, and Networks at Northeastern University. His scholarship focuses on convergences among literary\, periodical\, and religious culture in antebellum American mass media. Prof. Cordell collaborates with colleagues in English\, History\, and Computer Science on the NEH-funded Viral Texts project\, which uses robust data mining tools to discover reprinted content across large-scale archives of antebellum texts. These “viral texts” help us to trace lines of influence among antebellum writers and editors\, and to construct a model of viral textuality in the period. Cordell is currently a Mellon Fellow of Critical Bibliography at the Rare Book School in Charlottesville\, Virginia. He also serves as vice president of the Digital Americanists scholarly society; is Co-Editor-in-Chief of centerNet’s forthcoming new journal\, DHCommons; and writes about technology in higher education for the group blog ProfHacker at the Chronicle of Higher Education.
URL:https://cms.mit.edu/event/ryan-cordell-melville-in-the-first-age-of-viral-media/
LOCATION:MIT Building 4\, Room 231\, Cambridge\, MA\, 02139\, United States
CATEGORIES:Colloquium
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20150423T170000
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SUMMARY:The Dancing Body of the State: Queer Social Dance\, Political Leadership\, and Black Popular Culture
DESCRIPTION:(Co-sponsored with both MIT Global Studies and Languages and Women’s and Gender Studies.  And join our mailing list for an event reminder email.) \nThomas DeFrantz\, Duke University\n21st century popular culture\, circulated by media\, enables unusual affiliations of bodies in motion. When black social dances are practiced by American political leaders\, as when First Lady Michelle Obama demonstrates “the Dougie” in her “Let’s Move” anti-obesity campaign\, or when Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton dances alongside others during her 2012 tour of Africa\, black social dance moves toward a center of considerations of embodied knowledge.  This talk wonders at the intertwining of African American social dances and political leadership\, conceived as the bodies of elected officials. In addition we will consider the commercial and socially-inscribed leaders of popular cultural\, including Beyonce and Brittany Spears\, as arbiters of African American social dance. Ultimately\, the talk suggests a haunting presence of queers-of-color aesthetic imperatives within political mobilizations of black social dance\, continually – and ironically – conceived as part and parcel of rhetorics of liberation and freedom of movement. As queer dances emerge in marginalized relationship to mainstream concerns of identity and gesture\, and then migrate toward shifting centers of popular culture\, they shimmer and switch\, bringing to light – perhaps – possibilities of creative aesthetic social dissent. \nThomas F. DeFrantz is Chair of African and African American Studies at Duke University\, and director of SLIPPAGE: Performance\, Culture\, Technology\, a research group that explores emerging technology in live performance applications. His books include the edited volume Dancing Revelations Alvin Ailey’s Embodiment of African American Culture (de la Torre Bueno Prize\, Oxford University Press\, 2004)\, and Black Performance Theory\, co-edited with Anita Gonzalez (Duke University Press\, 2014). In 2013\, working with Takiyah Nur Amin and an outstanding group of artists and researchers\, he founded the Collegium for African Diaspora Dance. A director and writer\, he is the outgoing President of the Society of Dance History Scholars. He taught at MIT for many years\, in Music and Theater Arts and Comparative Media Studies.
URL:https://cms.mit.edu/event/thomas-defrantz-queer-social-dance-political-leadership-black-popular-culture/
LOCATION:MIT Building 4\, Room 231\, Cambridge\, MA\, 02139\, United States
CATEGORIES:Colloquium
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SUMMARY:Re-calling the Modem World: The Dial-up History of Social Media
DESCRIPTION:Kevin Driscoll\, CMS ’09\, and Postdoctoral Researcher at Microsoft Research\n(Join our mailing list for an event reminder.) \nFor fifteen years before the graphical Web\, thousands of personal computer owners encountered the pleasures\, promises\, and challenges of online community through networks of dial-up bulletin-board systems (BBS). While prevailing histories of the early internet tend to focus on state-sponsored experiments such as ARPANET\, the history of bulletin-board systems reveals the popular origins of computer-mediated social life. From chatting and flirting to shopping and multiplayer games\, it was on these locally-run systems that early modem users grappled with questions of trust\, identity\, anonymity\, and sexuality. In this talk\, Kevin Driscoll will map out the generative conditions that gave rise to amateur computer networking at the end of the 1970s and trace the diffusion of BBSing across diverse cultural and geographic terrain during the 1980s. This history provides lived examples of systems operated under vastly different social\, technical\, and political-economic conditions than the centralized platforms we inhabit today. Indeed\, remembering the grassroots past of today’s internet creates new opportunities to imagine a more just\, democratic tomorrow. \nKevin Driscoll (Ph.D.\, University of Southern California) is a postdoctoral researcher at Microsoft Research. His research concerns the popular and political cultures of networked personal computing with special attention to myths about internet history. Previously\, he earned an M.S. in Comparative Media Studies at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and taught mathematics and computer science at Prospect Hill Academy.
URL:https://cms.mit.edu/event/kevin-driscoll-dial-up-history-of-social-media/
LOCATION:MIT Building 4\, Room 231\, Cambridge\, MA\, 02139\, United States
CATEGORIES:Colloquium
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20150402T170000
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SUMMARY:Cultural Studies and The Expediency of Culture\, Rethought in Relation to Internet Platforms and Megadata
DESCRIPTION:(Join our mailing list for an event reminder email.) \nGeorge Yúdice\, University of Miami\nGeorge Yúdice‘s The Expediency of Culture (2003) repositioned culture in connection with governmentality and biopower. The full force of social media\, Internet platforms and megadata was not yet evident at the time. The argument that culture empties out as it becomes ever more pivotal in the creative economy has\, Yúdice thinks\, been borne out. Culture understood as the “terrain of struggle for interpretive power” needs to take into consideration its relocation and reconfiguration in new media and technologies. In that relocation key concepts of Cultural Studies need to be updated. This talk seeks to maps the requisite changes. \nGeorge Yúdice is Professor of Latin American Studies at the University of Miami. \nThis event is co-sponsored with MIT Global Studies and Languages.
URL:https://cms.mit.edu/event/cultural-studies-expediency-culture-rethought/
LOCATION:MIT Building 4\, Room 231\, Cambridge\, MA\, 02139\, United States
CATEGORIES:Colloquium
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20150312T170000
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SUMMARY:Dangerous Moves: Performance and Politics in Cuba
DESCRIPTION:(Join our mailing list for an event reminder.) \nCoco Fusco\nCoco Fusco‘s Dangerous Moves: Performance and Politics in Cuba is a study of the role of corporeal expressivity in development of social criticism in Cuban art. Fusco explores the work of performance artists from the 1980s to the present and examines how the Cuban state has wielded influence over performance through a combination of politics and practices that enable cultural production on the one hand and discipline public behavior on the other. \nThe book will be published by Tate Publishing in the fall of 2015. \nCoco Fusco is an interdisciplinary artist and writer and a MLK Visiting Scholar at MIT. She is a recipient of a 2013 Guggenheim Fellowship\, a 2013 Absolut Art Writing Award\, a 2013 Fulbright Fellowship\, a 2012 US Artists Fellowship and a 2003 Herb Alpert Award in the Arts. Fusco’s performances and videos have been presented in numerous international biennials and festivals\, as well as the Tate Liverpool\, The Museum of Modern Art\, The Walker Art Center and the Museum of Contemporary Art in Barcelona. She is represented by Alexander Gray Associates in New York. Fusco is the author of English is Broken Here: Notes on Cultural Fusion in the Americas (1995) and The Bodies that Were Not Ours and Other Writings (2001)\, and A Field Guide for Female Interrogators (2008). She is also the editor of Corpus Delecti: Performance Art of the Americas (1999) and Only Skin Deep: Changing Visions of the American Self (2003).
URL:https://cms.mit.edu/event/coco-fusco-dangerous-moves-performance-and-politics-in-cuba/
LOCATION:MIT Building 4\, Room 231\, Cambridge\, MA\, 02139\, United States
CATEGORIES:Colloquium
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SUMMARY:Media and Memory at the Vidéothèque de Paris
DESCRIPTION:(Join our mailing list for an event reminder.) \nCatherine E. ClarkAssistant Professor\, MIT Global Studies and Languages\nThe Vidéothèque de Paris\, a moving image archive of the French capital\, opened in 1988\, during a period when French technological advances led the world in revolutionizing the circulation of people and information. Accordingly\, the Vidéothèque would be no mere dusty archive but rather a high-tech institution of robots\, computers\, VCRs\, and Minitels. Its organizers deployed the very latest technologies to place nearly a century of fiction films\, documentaries\, television programs\, and advertising with Paris as their subject or setting at visitors’ disposal. Organizers promised that within a year or two the whole archive would be available in Parisian living rooms\, as its collections became the basis of a Parisian on-demand cable channel. \nContemporaries imagined that these cutting-edge technologies would transform users’ very relationship to the past. They hoped to turn institutionalized history into memory\, a flexible\, customizable\, and ultimately personal\, experience of the past. The dream of an archive that replaced all others by providing constant access to cultural and social memory through cutting-edge technologies did not last more than a decade. But the utopian rhetoric that accompanied the Vidéothèque’s creation helps illuminate and call into question the utopian promises of the much more recent revolution in digital history. \nMIT Global Studies and Languages assistant professor Catherine E. Clark is a cultural historian who specializes in nineteenth- and twentieth-century France and visual culture. \nHer current book project\, Paris and the Cliché of History\, explores the intersection of the history of Paris and the history of photography. It tells the story of the various uses of photos as documents of the capital’s past from the establishment of Paris’s municipal historical institutions (the Musée Carnavalet and the Bibliothèque historique de la Ville de Paris) to the amateur photo contest “C’était Paris en 1970\,” which created an archive of 100\,000 pictures of the city. The project combines the history of collecting photographs with a consideration of the theoretical assumptions that underpinned their use\, alongside prints and paintings\, in illustrated books\, historical exhibitions\, and commemorations.
URL:https://cms.mit.edu/event/catherine-clark-media-memory-videotheque-de-paris/
LOCATION:MIT Building 4\, Room 231\, Cambridge\, MA\, 02139\, United States
CATEGORIES:Colloquium
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20150219T170000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20150219T190000
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SUMMARY:Illuminated Bodies: Kat Von D\, LA Ink\, and the Borderlands of Tattoo Culture
DESCRIPTION:Theresa Rojas\, SHASS Predoctoral Fellow in Comparative Media Studies/Writing\n(Join our mailing list for an event reminder.) \nThe first episode of the series LA Ink in 2007 was the all-time highest rated season premiere for the TLC network’s 18-34 demographic. The second tattoo vehicle in a franchise that began with Miami Ink\, the show continued its predecessor’s main format\, with select artists facilitating the therapeutic tattoo narratives of clients. One significant difference is LA Ink’s central “character\,” Kat Von D: shop owner\, tattoo artist\, and heavily tattooed Latina. Although women’s accumulation of tattoos has become more commonplace in the twenty-first century\, heavily tattooed female bodies are far from the mainstream. Latina bodies in particular are often exoticized and subject to cultural gatekeeping. Theresa Rojas examines the prolific and heavily tattooed Katherine Von Drachenberg\, popularly known as Kat Von D\, who offers a fascinating aesthetic that challenges both tattoo culture and notions of the “monstrous body” in new and intriguing ways. A polemical and sometimes polarizing celebrity\, Von D navigates the worlds of tattooing and popular culture in ways that are at once ground-breaking and problematic. Her formative role as the first heavily tattooed woman to have her own television show situates her as someone who has chosen to lead an exceptionally public life—telling her story in multi-mediated ways. \nRojas is a SHASS Predoctoral Fellow in Comparative Media Studies/Writing and a Ph.D. candidate at The Ohio State University. She received her MLA from Eastern Michigan University in Women’s and Gender Studies and her BA in English from the University of California\, Berkeley. Originally from San Francisco\, Theresa is also a Ronald E. McNair Scholar and an artist who works primarily in acrylics\, wood\, and ink. Her specialties include life narrative\, comics\, and visual culture.
URL:https://cms.mit.edu/event/illuminated-bodies-kat-von-d-la-ink-tattoo-culture/
LOCATION:MIT Building 4\, Room 231\, Cambridge\, MA\, 02139\, United States
CATEGORIES:Colloquium
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20150212T170000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20150212T190000
DTSTAMP:20260409T071602
CREATED:20150128T203038Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20200902T220831Z
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SUMMARY:Bobbie Chase and Marjorie Liu on the State of the Comic Book Medium
DESCRIPTION:(Join our mailing list for an event reminder.) \nJoin Bobbie Chase\, Editorial Director of DC Comics\, and comic book writer\, Marjorie Liu (Monstress\, Astonishing X-Men\, Black Widow)\, as they discuss the current and future state of the comic book medium\, including DC and Marvel’s place in the industry\, and how creator owned projects are helping to evolve the face of publishing.
URL:https://cms.mit.edu/event/bobbie-chase-marjorie-liu/
LOCATION:MIT Building 4\, Room 231\, Cambridge\, MA\, 02139\, United States
CATEGORIES:Colloquium
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20141120T170000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20141120T190000
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CREATED:20140804T183921Z
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SUMMARY:Town Meeting
DESCRIPTION:Open to the CMS/W family only\, the annual town meeting is a discussion among the program’s community members and directors.
URL:https://cms.mit.edu/event/town-meeting/
LOCATION:MIT Building 4\, Room 231\, Cambridge\, MA\, 02139\, United States
CATEGORIES:Colloquium
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20141023T170000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20141023T190000
DTSTAMP:20260409T071602
CREATED:20140821T130224Z
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SUMMARY:CMS Alumni Panel
DESCRIPTION:Three Comparative Media Studies alums return to discuss their post-graduate lives. \nSam Ford\, S.M.\, ’07\nSam Ford is Director of Audience Engagement at strategic communication and marketing firm Peppercomm. He is co-author of the 2013 book Spreadable Media and co-editor of the 2011 book The Survival of Soap Opera. Sam is a contributing author to Harvard Business Review\, Fast Company\, and Inc.; a research affiliate with MIT’s Program in Comparative Media Studies/Writing; and an instructor with Western Kentucky University’s Popular Culture Studies Program. Sam currently serves as Co-Chair of the Word of Mouth Marketing Association’s Ethics Committee. He has recently published work with The Journal of Fandom Studies\, Panorama Social\, Cinema Journal\, The Journal of Digital & Social Media Marketing\, Advertising Age\, PRWeek\, PR News\, O’Dwyer PR\, IABC Communication World\, The Public Relations Strategist\, PropertyCasualty360\, Oxford University Press Bibliographies\, and the NYU Press book\, Making Media Work\, among other outlets. He’s based in Bowling Green\, Kentucky. \n\nRekha Murthy\, S.M.\, ’05\nRekha Murthy is Director of Projects + Partnerships at PRX\, where she finds innovative ways for public media stations and producers to reach audiences and earn revenue. Rekha runs PRX’s digital distribution program\, where she forges new\, non-broadcast pathways for audio works. These range from established channels like iTunes and Amazon\, to aggregators like TuneIn and Stitcher\, to entertainment and education services large and small. \nAs part of PRX’s award-winning Apps team\, Rekha has set new standards for public media’s mobile strategy and adoption with apps including the Public Radio Player\, This American Life\, and for major stations. She launched PRX’s iTunes distribution service\, making independent productions and major national programs available for sale in the iTunes Store.  \nRekha advises various transmedia initiatives for public media and served on the board of the Integrated Media Association (now part of Greater Public).  \nBefore PRX\, Rekha was a producer for NPR’s All Things Considered and an editor of NPR.org. She’s been a project manager and user experience designer for web and mobile clients. \nParmesh Shahani\, S.M.\, ’05\nParmesh Shahani\, listed in 2012 as one of 25 Indians to watch out for by Financial Times\, is the head of the Godrej India Culture Lab — an experimental idea-space that cross-­pollinates the best ideas and people working on India from across the academic\, creative and corporate worlds to explore what it means to be modern and Indian. In addition\, Parmesh also serves as the Editor-at-large for Verve magazine\, India. He is a Yale World Fellow\, currently spending a semester in New Haven. He is also a World Economic Forum Young Global Leader\, TED Fellow\, and a Utrecht University-Impakt Fellow. Parmesh’s masters’ thesis at CMS was released as a book  “Gay Bombay: Globalization\, Love and  (Be)Longing in Contemporary India” by Sage Publications in 2008.  You can follow Parmesh on Twitter at @parmeshs.
URL:https://cms.mit.edu/event/cms-alumni-panel/
LOCATION:MIT Building 4\, Room 231\, Cambridge\, MA\, 02139\, United States
CATEGORIES:Colloquium
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20141016T170000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20141016T170000
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SUMMARY:Doris Sommer\, "Welcome Back\, to the Humanities as Civic Engagement"
DESCRIPTION:Doris Sommer. Staff Photo\, Stephanie Mitchell/Harvard University News Office\nDoris Sommer’s new book\, The Work of Art in the World: Civic Agency and Public Humanities\, revives the collaboration between aesthetic philosophy and democratic development. From the top and from below\, creative projects and their interpretation fuel positive change and renew humanists’ opportunities to make civic contributions. \nSommer is Ira and Jewell Williams Professor of Romance languages and Literatures and African and African American Studies at Harvard University and Director of the Cultural Agents Initiative.
URL:https://cms.mit.edu/event/doris-sommer-humanities-as-civic-engagement/
LOCATION:MIT Media Lab\, Room 633\, 75 Amherst St.\, Cambridge\, MA\, 02139\, United States
CATEGORIES:Colloquium
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20141002T170000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20141002T190000
DTSTAMP:20260409T071602
CREATED:20140820T183651Z
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SUMMARY:Helen Nissenbaum\, "Resisting Data’s Tyranny with Obfuscation"
DESCRIPTION:Helen Nissenbaum\nAgainst inexorable machinations of data surveillance\, analysis\, and profiling\, data obfuscation holds promise of relief. Whether it can withstand countervailing analytics is an intriguing question; whether it is unethical\, illegitimate\, or\, at best\, ungenerous cuts close to the bone. Yet\, as NYU’s Helen Nissenbaum will argue in this talk\, obfuscation is a compelling “weapon-of-the-weak\,” which deserves to be developed and strengthened\, its moral challenges countered and mitigated. \nHelen Nissenbaum is Professor of Media\, Culture and Communication\, and Computer Science\, at New York University\, where she is also Director of the Information Law Institute. Her work spans social\, ethical\, and political dimensions of information technology and digital media. She has written and edited five books\, including Values at Play in Digital Games\, with Mary Flanagan (forthcoming from MIT Press\, 2014) and Privacy in Context: Technology\, Policy\, and the Integrity of Social Life (Stanford University Press\, 2010) and her research publications have appeared in journals of philosophy\, politics\, law\, media studies\, information studies\, and computer science. The National Science Foundation\, Air Force Office of Scientific Research\, Ford Foundation\, U.S. Department of Homeland Security\, and the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Office of the National Coordinator have supported her work on privacy\, trust online\, and security\, as well as several studies of values embodied in computer system design\, search engines\, digital games\, facial recognition technology\, and health information systems. \nNissenbaum holds a Ph.D. in philosophy from Stanford University and a B.A. (Hons) from the University of the Witwatersrand. Before joining the faculty at NYU\, she served as Associate Director of the Center for Human Values at Princeton University.
URL:https://cms.mit.edu/event/helen-nissenbaum-resisting-datas-tyranny-with-obfuscation/
LOCATION:MIT Media Lab\, Room 633\, 75 Amherst St.\, Cambridge\, MA\, 02139\, United States
CATEGORIES:Colloquium
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20140925T170000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20140925T190000
DTSTAMP:20260409T071602
CREATED:20140818T145935Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20140918T131623Z
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SUMMARY:Caetlin Benson-Allott\, "By Design: Or\, What Remote Controls Can Teach Us about the Nature of Control"
DESCRIPTION:Caetlin Benson-Allott\nCo-sponsored with MIT Literature. \nHow does an object set the limits for human experiences of will and subjecthood? How does an interface temper our desires for interactivity or intervention? A remote control appears to exert its user’s will over distant objects\, yet the design and function of the device itself instill in its subject a vexed relationship to his or her own agency. Analyzing the technical and design evolution of these devices reveals how the seemingly most inconsequential of media devices have shaped the way users cohabit with mass media\, consumer electronics\, and each other. \nCaetlin Benson-Allott is Associate Professor of English and Film and Media Studies at Georgetown University. She is the author of Killer Tapes and Shattered Screens: Video Spectatorship from VHS to File Sharing (Berkeley: University of California Press\, 2013) and Remote Control (New York: Bloomsbury Press\, forthcoming 2015). Her articles have appeared in Cinema Journal\, Jump Cut\, Film Quarterly\, South Atlantic Quarterly\, Film Criticism\, and The Quarterly Review of Film and Video as well as multiple anthologies. \nLoading…
URL:https://cms.mit.edu/event/caetlin-benson-allott-remote-controls-nature-of-control/
LOCATION:MIT Media Lab\, Room 633\, 75 Amherst St.\, Cambridge\, MA\, 02139\, United States
CATEGORIES:Colloquium
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20140918T170000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20140918T190000
DTSTAMP:20260409T071602
CREATED:20140811T184619Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20211123T131323Z
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SUMMARY:Philip Napoli\, "Media Impact Assessment and Beyond: Thoughts on the Treacherous Task of Quantifying Journalistic Performance"
DESCRIPTION:Philip Napoli\, Rutgers University\nIn recent years\, a variety of funders have begun to invest substantially in efforts to assess the impact of media initiatives such as documentary films and journalism ventures. These efforts reflect a fundamental shift in how media performance is assessed (and whose assessments matter) in an environment of extreme audience fragmentation and increased challenges to monetizing media content. This presentation will focus on ongoing research that seeks to define and assess the field of media impact assessment. In addressing these issues\, this analysis seeks to: \n\nidentify important points of distinction between contemporary notions of media impact and more traditional notions of media effects;\nassess the methods and metrics being employed to assess media impact;\nidentify the key challenges and tensions inherent in such efforts.\n\nThis presentation also will illustrate that impact represents only one of a number of aspects of journalistic performance that are being converted to quantitative performance metrics. Related areas of ongoing research include efforts to assess the health of local media ecosystems and the quality of journalistic content. The broader implications of this wide-ranging transformation in how journalistic performance may be assessed will be considered. \nPhilip M. Napoli (Ph.D.\, Northwestern University) is Professor of Journalism & Media Studies in the School of Communication & Information at Rutgers University\, where he leads the Media and the Public Interest Initiative. His current research projects include an analysis of the functioning of the New York City information ecosystem during and after Hurricane Sandy (funded by Internews) and the News Measures Research Project (funded by the Democracy Fund and the Dodge Foundation).
URL:https://cms.mit.edu/event/philip-napoli-media-impact-assessment-quantifying-journalistic-performance/
LOCATION:MIT Media Lab\, Room 633\, 75 Amherst St.\, Cambridge\, MA\, 02139\, United States
CATEGORIES:Colloquium
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20140911T170000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20140911T190000
DTSTAMP:20260409T071602
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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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20140508T170000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20140508T190000
DTSTAMP:20260409T071602
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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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20140501T170000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20140501T190000
DTSTAMP:20260409T071602
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SUMMARY:Tarleton Gillespie: "Algorithms\, and the Production of Calculated Publics"
DESCRIPTION:Tarleton Gillespie\, Dept. of Communication\, Cornell University; Visiting Researcher\, Microsoft Research New England\nAlgorithms may now be our most important knowledge technologies\, “the scientific instruments of a society at large\,” (Gitelman) and they are increasingly vital to how we organize human social interaction\, produce authoritative knowledge\, and choreograph our participation in public life. Search engines\, recommendation systems\, edge algorithms on social networking sites\, and “trend” identification algorithms: these not only help us find information\, they provide a means to know what there is to know and to participate in social and political discourse. In this talk Tarleton Gillespie will highlight one particular dimension of these algorithms\, their production of calculated publics: algorithmically produced snapshots of the “public” around us and what most concerns it. Understanding the calculations and motivations behind the production of these calculated publics helps highlight how these algorithms are relevant to our collective efforts to know and be known. \nTarleton Gillespie is an associate professor  at Cornell University\, in the Department of Communication and the Department of Information Science. This semester he is a visiting researcher with Microsoft Research\, New England. He is the co-editor of Media Technologies: Essays on Communication\, Materiality\, and Society (2014)\, and the author of Wired Shut: Copyright and the Shape of Digital Culture (2007)\, and the co-founder of the scholarly blog at culturedigitally.org. \nLoading…
URL:https://cms.mit.edu/event/tarleton-gillespie-algorithms-and-the-production-of-calculated-publics/
LOCATION:MIT Media Lab\, Room 633\, 75 Amherst St.\, Cambridge\, MA\, 02139\, United States
CATEGORIES:Colloquium
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20140410T170000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20140410T190000
DTSTAMP:20260409T071602
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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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20140320T170000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20140320T190000
DTSTAMP:20260409T071602
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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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20140313T170000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20140313T190000
DTSTAMP:20260409T071602
CREATED:20140127T183733Z
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SUMMARY:Kate Crawford\, "Squeaky Dolphin to Normcore: Anxiety and Big Data Culture"
DESCRIPTION:Kate Crawford\nKate Crawford is a Principal Researcher at Microsoft Research (Social Media Collective)\, a Visiting Professor at the MIT Center for Civic Media\, a Senior Fellow at the Information Law Institute at NYU\, and an Associate Professor at the University of New South Wales. She researches how people engage with networked technologies\, and analyze the political\, cultural\, legal\, philosophical and policy-making implications. She has done interview-based studies in Australia\, India and the US\, in big cities and in very small towns. Crawford is interested in how networked data becomes part of our understanding of knowledge\, privacy\, democracy\, intimacy and subjectivity. Her first book Adult Themes was through Pan Macmillan\, and she is currently working on a new book.
URL:https://cms.mit.edu/event/kate-crawford-anxiety-big-data-culture/
LOCATION:MIT Building 4\, Room 231\, Cambridge\, MA\, 02139\, United States
CATEGORIES:Colloquium
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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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