BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//MIT Graduate Program in Comparative Media Studies - ECPv5.16.1//NONSGML v1.0//EN CALSCALE:GREGORIAN METHOD:PUBLISH X-WR-CALNAME:MIT Graduate Program in Comparative Media Studies X-ORIGINAL-URL:https://cms.mit.edu X-WR-CALDESC:Events for MIT Graduate Program in Comparative Media Studies REFRESH-INTERVAL;VALUE=DURATION:PT1H X-Robots-Tag:noindex X-PUBLISHED-TTL:PT1H BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:America/New_York BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 TZNAME:EDT DTSTART:20130310T070000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0400 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 TZNAME:EST DTSTART:20131103T060000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 TZNAME:EDT DTSTART:20140309T070000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0400 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 TZNAME:EST DTSTART:20141102T060000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 TZNAME:EDT DTSTART:20150308T070000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0400 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 TZNAME:EST DTSTART:20151101T060000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 TZNAME:EDT DTSTART:20160313T070000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0400 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 TZNAME:EST DTSTART:20161106T060000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 TZNAME:EDT DTSTART:20170312T070000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0400 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 TZNAME:EST DTSTART:20171105T060000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 TZNAME:EDT DTSTART:20180311T070000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0400 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 TZNAME:EST DTSTART:20181104T060000 END:STANDARD END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20180426T180000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20180426T200000 DTSTAMP:20260513T001620 CREATED:20180226T193557Z LAST-MODIFIED:20201014T151348Z UID:31671-1524765600-1524772800@cms.mit.edu SUMMARY:Bunk and the History of Hoaxes with Kevin Young DESCRIPTION:Kevin Young\, poetry editor for The New Yorker and director of the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture at the New York Public Library\nThe author of 11 books and poetry collections\, poetry editor for The New Yorker and director of the New York Public Library’s Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture\, Young has spent the past six years tracing the history of news-worthy fraudulence all the way back to the 18th century. Young’s latest book Bunk: The Rise of Hoaxes\, Humbug\, Plagiarists\, Phonies\, Post-Facts\, and Fake News chronicles the racially prejudiced path that brought fake news to where it is to today. Longlisted for the 2017 National Book Award\, Bunk dives into hoaxes big and small that permeate American history and the cultural attitudes that drive them. Young joins Carole Bell\, an assistant professor of Communication Studies at Northeastern University whose research explores the connections between media and politics\, for a broad-ranging discussion on the current state and political consequences of fake news. A book signing will follow. \nSpeakers: \nKevin Young is poetry editor for The New Yorker\, director of the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture at the New York Public Library\, and the author of 11 books and poetry collections including The Grey Album: On the Blackness of Blackness\, which was a New York Times Notable Book\, and Jelly Roll: A Blues\, which was a finalist for the National Book Award. \nCarole Bell is an assistant professor of Communication Studies and affiliated faculty in Political Science at Northeastern University. Bell’s teaching and research focuses on the intersections of media\, politics\, public opinion and public policy\, with a particular focus on issues of social identity. Her first book\, The Politics of Interracial Romance in American Film\, is forthcoming from Routledge. \nThis event is sponsored by Radius at MIT. All Communications Forum events are free and open to the general public. URL:https://cms.mit.edu/event/fake-news-history-hoaxes-kevin-young/ LOCATION:MIT Building 3\, Room 270\, 33 Massachusetts Ave (Rear)\, Cambridge\, MA\, 02319\, United States CATEGORIES:Communications Forum ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://cms.mit.edu/wp/wp-content/uploads/2018/02/Kevin-Young-2x1.png ORGANIZER;CN="MIT%20Communications%20Forum":MAILTO:couch@mit.edu END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20180412T180000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20180412T200000 DTSTAMP:20260513T001620 CREATED:20180226T192500Z LAST-MODIFIED:20201014T151221Z UID:31668-1523556000-1523563200@cms.mit.edu SUMMARY:Republican Resistance in the Age of Trump DESCRIPTION:Stuart Stevens\, Republican political consultant\nStuart Stevens believes Republicans are in a “GOP apocalypse\,” and he’s mobilizing conservatives to stop it. \nStevens is a Republican political consultant who’s worked on presidential campaigns for Bob Dole and George W. Bush\, served as the lead strategist for Mitt Romney’s 2012 presidential campaign\, and helped elect more governors and US Senators than any other GOP consultant working today. He’s also an outspoken critic of Donald Trump\, starting from the earliest days of Trump’s candidacy. Stevens joins MIT Communications Forum director Seth Mnookin to discuss the future of the GOP\, how Donald Trump has influenced the American political system\, and predictions for the 2018 midterm and the 2020 presidential elections. \nSpeakers: \nStuart Stevens is a political consultant\, author\, and founding partner of the consultancy firm Strategic\, Partners & Media. Stevens has served as a strategist and media consultant to President George W. Bush\, Governor Tom Ridge\, and senators Chuck Grassley\, John McCain\, Thad Cochran\, Roger Wicker\, Dick Lugar\, and many others. Stevens was the lead strategist for Mitt Romney’s 2012 presidential campaign. \nJennifer Nassour is the founder of Conservative Women for a Better Future\, a non-profit organization dedicated to electing more conservative women in the Northeast\, and former chairman of the Massachusetts Republican Party. During her tenure\, Republicans won the U.S. Senate seat held by Scott Brown and doubled their ranks in the Massachusetts House of Representatives. \nDr. Daniel Barkhuff is president of Veterans for Responsible Leadership\, a nonpartisan political action committee that supports veterans who have demonstrated integrity and rational thought as they run for positions in local\, state and federal elections. Barkhuff served for 7 years as a member of Naval Special Warfare and is currently a faculty member and emergency medicine doctor at the University of Vermont. \nModerator: Seth Mnookin is the director of the MIT Communications Forum and director of MIT’s Graduate Program in Science Writing. His most recent book\, The Panic Virus: The True Story Behind the Vaccine-Autism Controversy\,won the “Science in Society” award from the National Association of Science Writers. URL:https://cms.mit.edu/event/republican-resistance-age-trump/ LOCATION:MIT Building 3\, Room 270\, 33 Massachusetts Ave (Rear)\, Cambridge\, MA\, 02319\, United States CATEGORIES:Communications Forum ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://cms.mit.edu/wp/wp-content/uploads/2018/02/Stuart-Stevens.jpeg ORGANIZER;CN="MIT%20Communications%20Forum":MAILTO:couch@mit.edu END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20180301T180000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20180301T200000 DTSTAMP:20260513T001620 CREATED:20180226T190610Z LAST-MODIFIED:20180226T190610Z UID:31664-1519927200-1519934400@cms.mit.edu SUMMARY:Designing for a Neurodiverse World DESCRIPTION:The world is a neurologically diverse place\, but the resources\, workspaces and technologies we use often don’t reflect that. Sometimes simple changes can significantly expand accessibility to people who have neurological differences like autism\, dyslexia\, ADHD\, or epilepsy\, but designers and policymakers frequently aren’t aware of issues affecting this neurodiverse community. Rosalind Picard\, director of the Affective Computing Research Group at the MIT Media Lab\, joins neuroscientist Ned Sahin\, Empowered Brain Institute CEO Rafiq Abdus-Sabur\, computer scientist Karthik Dinakar\, and disability advocate Finn Gardiner to explore what it means to be non-neurotypical\, barriers to inclusion\, and how creators can make their work more accessible. \nRafiq Abdus-Sabur is president and CEO of The Empowered Brain Institute\, a nonprofit disability advocacy and support organization for individuals with autism and their families. Rafiq is a board member for Brain Power LLC and founder of the education technology firm\, Edgewise Education. \nFinn Gardiner is a disability advocate and policy analyst specializing in intersectional disability justice and accessible technology. He is a research assistant at the Lurie Institute for Disability Policy at Brandeis University where his work focuses on public policies for autistic individuals. \nKarthik Dinakar is a computer scientist and the founder of C3PO\, or the Cambridge Computational Clinical Psychology Org\, a group of interdisciplinary researchers focused on bringing together machine learning\, causal inference and clinical psychology. \nModerator: Rosalind Picard is founder and director of the Affective Computing Research Group at MIT\, co-director of the Media Lab’s Advancing Wellbeing Initiative\, and faculty chair of MIT’s MindHandHeart Initiative. She co-founded the technology companies Empatica\, Inc.\, which creates wearable sensors and analytics to improve health\, and Affectiva\, Inc.\, which delivers technology to help measure and communicate emotion. \nThis event is sponsored by The MindHandHeart Innovation Fund and Radius at MIT. All Communications Forum events are free and open to the general public. URL:https://cms.mit.edu/event/designing-neurodiverse-world/ LOCATION:MIT Building 3\, Room 270\, 33 Massachusetts Ave (Rear)\, Cambridge\, MA\, 02319\, United States CATEGORIES:Communications Forum ORGANIZER;CN="MIT%20Communications%20Forum":MAILTO:couch@mit.edu END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20171130T180000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20171130T200000 DTSTAMP:20260513T001620 CREATED:20170906T141819Z LAST-MODIFIED:20200915T183122Z UID:30939-1512064800-1512072000@cms.mit.edu SUMMARY:Has Silicon Valley Lost Its Humanity? DESCRIPTION:Silicon Valley innovations have given rise to a class of tech titans wielding immense economic and political influence\, and has paved the way for a cultural shift towards individualism with historically little regard for marginalized groups left in the wake. Noam Cohen\, a former New York Timestechnology columnist and author of The Know-It-Alls: The Rise of Silicon Valley as a Political Powerhouse and Social Wrecking Ball\, argues that this type of disruption often flies in the face of empathy\, civility\, and even democracy itself\, leading to problems ranging from the rise of fake news to the growing divide between the “haves” who benefit from these technologies and everyone else. Cohen joins Northeastern University assistant professor of journalism and Wired Magazine contributing editor Jeff Howe for a moderated panel that focuses on the ethical push and pull between the drive for innovation and preserving our own humanity and moral codes. \nSpeakers \nNoam Cohen covered the influence of the Internet on the larger culture for the New York Times\, where he wrote the “Link by Link” column beginning in 2007. His first book\, The Know-It-Alls: The Rise of Silicon Valley as a Political Powerhouse and Social Wrecking Ball\, was published in October\, 2017. \nJeff Howe is an assistant professor of journalism at Northeastern University and a contributing editor at Wired Magazine. He is the author of Crowdsourcing: How the Power of the Crowd is Driving the Future of Businessand co-author of Whiplash\, How to Survive Our Faster Future. \nSara M. Watson is a technology critic who writes and speaks about emerging issues in the intersection of technology\, culture\, and society. Her work has appeared in The Atlantic\, Wired\, The Washington Post\, Slate\, and Motherboard. She is an affiliate with the Berkman Klein Center for Internet and Society at Harvard University\, and author of the Tow Center for Digital Journalism’s report on the current state of technology coverage. \n\n \nThis event is sponsored by Radius at MIT and is free for the MIT community and the general public. URL:https://cms.mit.edu/event/silicon-valley-lost-humanity/ LOCATION:MIT Building 3\, Room 270\, 33 Massachusetts Ave (Rear)\, Cambridge\, MA\, 02319\, United States CATEGORIES:Communications Forum ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://cms.mit.edu/wp/wp-content/uploads/2017/09/The-Know-It-Alls.jpg ORGANIZER;CN="MIT%20Communications%20Forum":MAILTO:couch@mit.edu END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20171005T180000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20171005T200000 DTSTAMP:20260513T001620 CREATED:20170905T180938Z LAST-MODIFIED:20170906T142037Z UID:30917-1507226400-1507233600@cms.mit.edu SUMMARY:An Evening with Sarah Vowell DESCRIPTION:Sarah Vowell is a contributing editor for public radio’s This American Lifeand has written for Time\, Esquire\, GQ\, Spin\, Salon\, McSweeneys\, The Village Voice\, and the Los Angeles Times.\nOverthrown Hawaiian queens\, religious zealots\, swindlers\, cranky cartographers\, presidential assassins\, and the people who visit their memorials on vacation are all fodder for historian and humorist Sarah Vowell. Vowell’s seven nonfiction books\, many of which have topped the New York Times’ best sellers list\, explore America’s not-so-squeaky-clean past and creates a framework for understanding our modern day values. Vowell brings her wit to the MIT Communications Forum for a moderated discussion with MIT Graduate Program in Science Writing director Seth Mnookin on what makes the past so funny\, the connections between historical research and modern journalism\, and much more. \nSarah Vowell is a contributing editor for public radio’s This American Lifeand has written for Time\, Esquire\, GQ\, Spin\, Salon\, McSweeneys\, The Village Voice\, and the Los Angeles Times. She is the author of seven books including Assassination Vacation\, Take the Cannoli\, and The Partly Cloudy Patriot. She lives in New York City. \nModerator: Seth Mnookin is the director of the MIT Communications Forum and director of MIT’s Graduate Program in Science Writing. His most recent book\, The Panic Virus: The True Story Behind the Vaccine-Autism Controversy\, won the “Science in Society” award from the National Association of Science Writers. \n\nThis event is sponsored by the MIT de Florez Fund for Humor and is free for the MIT community and the general public. URL:https://cms.mit.edu/event/evening-sarah-vowell/ LOCATION:MIT Building 26\, Room 100\, Access Via 60 Vassar Street\, Cambridge\, MA\, 02139\, United States CATEGORIES:Communications Forum ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://cms.mit.edu/wp/wp-content/uploads/2017/09/Sarah-Vowell.jpeg ORGANIZER;CN="MIT%20Communications%20Forum":MAILTO:couch@mit.edu END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20170413T170000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20170413T170000 DTSTAMP:20260513T001620 CREATED:20170130T175850Z LAST-MODIFIED:20170627T173923Z UID:29108-1492102800-1492102800@cms.mit.edu SUMMARY:An Evening with Aparna Nancherla DESCRIPTION:Comedian Aparna Nancherla URL:https://cms.mit.edu/event/evening-aparna-nancherla/ LOCATION:MIT Building 3\, Room 270\, 33 Massachusetts Ave (Rear)\, Cambridge\, MA\, 02319\, United States CATEGORIES:Communications Forum ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://cms.mit.edu/wp/wp-content/uploads/2017/01/Aparna-Nancherla.jpeg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20170309T170000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20170309T190000 DTSTAMP:20260513T001620 CREATED:20170106T191327Z LAST-MODIFIED:20201019T134209Z UID:29011-1489078800-1489086000@cms.mit.edu SUMMARY:Sexual Harassment and Gender Equity in Science DESCRIPTION:In October\, 2015\, BuzzFeed News reporter Azeen Ghorayshi broke an investigative story detailing astronomer Geoffrey Marcy’s long history of sexual harassment. Since then\, more female scientists have come forward about their experiences with harassment. Ghorayshi\, MIT astronomer Sarah Ballard\, and Harvard history of science professor Evelynn M. Hammonds join science journalist and MIT Communications Forum coordinator Christina Couch to discuss barriers to gender equality in the sciences and steps to over come them. \nSpeakers\nAzeen Ghorayshi is a science reporter for BuzzFeed News and recipient of the AAAS Kavli Science Journalism Award and the Evert Clark/Seth Payne Award for young science journalists. She frequently covers gender and equality issues in the sciences. \nSarah Ballard is an astronomer and a Torres Fellow for Exoplanetary Research at the MIT Kavli Institute for Astrophysics and Space Research. She frequently writes about the culture of science and equity issues therein. \nEvelynn M. Hammonds is a professor of the history of science and of African and African American Studies at Harvard University. She is the former dean of Harvard College and the first woman and first African-American to hold that position. \nModerator: Christina Couch is a science journalist and coordinator for the MIT Communications Forum. Her work explores the intersections of technology and psychology. \n\nThis event is sponsored by Radius at MIT and is free for the MIT community and the general public. URL:https://cms.mit.edu/event/sexual-harassment-gender-equity-science/ LOCATION:MIT Building 3\, Room 270\, 33 Massachusetts Ave (Rear)\, Cambridge\, MA\, 02319\, United States CATEGORIES:Communications Forum ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://cms.mit.edu/wp/wp-content/uploads/2007/01/mit-comm-forum_logo_square.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20170223T170000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20170223T170000 DTSTAMP:20260513T001620 CREATED:20170104T151455Z LAST-MODIFIED:20170104T151455Z UID:28997-1487869200-1487869200@cms.mit.edu SUMMARY:Race and Racism in the 2016 Presidential Election DESCRIPTION:Jamelle Bouie\nThe 2016 Presidential election brought issues of race and racism to the forefront of American politics and forced journalists to confront how to cover these topics without providing a platform for hate groups. Slate chief political correspondent and CBS News political analyst Jamelle Bouie joins MIT Communications Forum director Seth Mnookin to explore how race and ethnicity framed the election and how journalists and content creators can improve coverage of these issues moving forward. \nSpeakers\nJamelle Bouie’s work has appeared in The New Yorker\, the Washington Post\, and The Nation. He is a former a staff writer at The Daily Beast and currently serves as a political analyst for CBS News and chief political correspondent for Slate. \nModerator: Seth Mnookin is the director of the MIT Communications Forum and director of MIT’s Graduate Program in Science Writing. His most recent book\, The Panic Virus: The True Story Behind the Vaccine-Autism Controversy\, won the “Science in Society” award from the National Association of Science Writers. \nThis event is sponsored by Radius at MIT. URL:https://cms.mit.edu/event/race-racism-2016-presidential-election/ LOCATION:MIT Building 3\, Room 270\, 33 Massachusetts Ave (Rear)\, Cambridge\, MA\, 02319\, United States CATEGORIES:Communications Forum ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://cms.mit.edu/wp/wp-content/uploads/2017/01/Jamelle-Bouie.jpeg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20161110T180000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20161110T180000 DTSTAMP:20260513T001620 CREATED:20160822T133911Z LAST-MODIFIED:20170627T173920Z UID:27708-1478800800-1478800800@cms.mit.edu SUMMARY:An Evening with John Hodgman DESCRIPTION:[Note updated location: Now MIT Building 26\, Room 100.] \nJohn Hodgman\nIn 2005\, a little-known author was invited on The Daily Show with Jon Stewart to promote his book\, an almanac chronicling fake histories ranging from the story behind Theodore Roosevelt’s fictional lobster canal to the disappearing 51st US state Hohoq. Since then\, humorist John Hodgman has parlayed his wit into New York Times best-selling books\, a Daily Show correspondent position\, a Netflix stand-up special\, and his own podcast. Hodgman brings his razor-sharp wit to MIT for a moderated discussion on his career and the state of comedy today. \nSpeakers\nJohn Hodgman is host of the Judge John Hodgman podcast and a former resident expert for The Daily Show with Jon Stewart\n \nModerator: Seth Mnookin is associate director of MIT’s Graduate Program in Science Writing and author of The Panic Virus: The True Story Behind the Vaccine-Autism Controversy. \n\n\nThis event is sponsored by the MIT de Florez Fund for Humor and is free for the MIT community and general public. URL:https://cms.mit.edu/event/evening-john-hodgman/ LOCATION:MIT Building 26\, Room 100\, Access Via 60 Vassar Street\, Cambridge\, MA\, 02139\, United States CATEGORIES:Communications Forum ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://cms.mit.edu/wp/wp-content/uploads/2016/08/John-Hodgman.jpg ORGANIZER;CN="MIT%20Communications%20Forum":MAILTO:couch@mit.edu END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20161020T170000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20161020T170000 DTSTAMP:20260513T001620 CREATED:20160822T132458Z LAST-MODIFIED:20211123T131506Z UID:27705-1476982800-1476982800@cms.mit.edu SUMMARY:The Turn to “Tween”: An Age Category and its Cultural Consequences DESCRIPTION:Even though people age nine through twelve have always been with us\, the same cannot be said for the category “tween.” When did this category emerge and why? How are “tweens” represented in popular culture\, including music\, television\, and YA literature? And how does this relatively new age category intersect with–or elide–issues pertaining to race\, class\, and gender identity? \nSpeakers \nTyler Bickford is an assistant professor of English at the University of Pittsburgh and is completing two book projects on music and childhood. \nMeryl Alper worked at Nickelodeon and Disney before becoming an Assistant Professor of Communication at Northeastern University and publishing Digital Youth with Disabilities. \nModerator: Marah Gubar is an Associate Professor of Literature at MIT and author of Artful Dodgers: Reconceiving the Golden Age of Children’s Literature (2009). URL:https://cms.mit.edu/event/turn-tween-age-category-cultural-consequences/ LOCATION:MIT Building 3\, Room 270\, 33 Massachusetts Ave (Rear)\, Cambridge\, MA\, 02319\, United States CATEGORIES:Communications Forum ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://cms.mit.edu/wp/wp-content/uploads/2016/08/microbop.jpg ORGANIZER;CN="MIT%20Communications%20Forum":MAILTO:couch@mit.edu END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20161017T180000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20161017T180000 DTSTAMP:20260513T001620 CREATED:20160822T130807Z LAST-MODIFIED:20161014T141443Z UID:27699-1476727200-1476727200@cms.mit.edu SUMMARY:Time Traveling with James Gleick DESCRIPTION:James Gleick\nInternational best-selling author and science historian James Gleick discusses his career\, the state of science journalism\, and his newest book Time Travel: A History\, which delves into the evolution of time travel in literature and science and the thin line between pulp fiction and modern physics. This Communications Forum event will be moderated by author and physicist Alan Lightman\, the first professor at MIT to receive a joint appointment in the sciences and the humanities. \nSpeakers\nJames Gleick\, author of seven books\, including Chaos\, Genius\, and Isaac Newton\, all of which were finalists for the Pulitzer Prize \nModerator: Alan Lightman\, Professor of the Practice of the Humanities at MIT and author of 15 books URL:https://cms.mit.edu/event/time-traveling-james-gleick/ LOCATION:MIT Building 2\, Room 190\, 182 Memorial Drive\, Cambridge\, MA\, 02139\, United States CATEGORIES:Communications Forum ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://cms.mit.edu/wp/wp-content/uploads/2016/08/James-Gleick.jpg ORGANIZER;CN="MIT%20Communications%20Forum":MAILTO:couch@mit.edu END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20160407T180000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20160407T200000 DTSTAMP:20260513T001620 CREATED:20160328T180019Z LAST-MODIFIED:20201014T152652Z UID:26958-1460052000-1460059200@cms.mit.edu SUMMARY:Being Muslim in America (and MIT) in 2016 DESCRIPTION:Last December\, Republican presidential frontrunner Donald Trump called for a ban on all Muslims entering the United States. In March\, he added that “I think Islam hates us.” Cambridge City Councilman Nadeem Mazen and Wise Systems co-founder Layla Shaikley–both MIT alumni–join engineering masters student Abubakar Abid to explore how this type of hateful\, discriminatory rhetoric influences public opinion\, discuss its impact on the daily lives of Muslim-Americans\, and examine strategies for combating it. \nNadeem Mazen is an MIT graduate\, Cambridge’s first Muslim city councilman and CEO of the Cambridge makerspace danger!awesome. \nLayle Shaikley is an MIT alum\, co-founder of Wise Systems and co-founder of TEDxBaghdad. With her viral video sensation “Muslim Hipsters: #mipsterz\,” she helped launch a national conversation about how Muslim women are represented. \nAbubakar Abid is a engineering masters student at MIT and a member of the Muslim Student Association. \nModerator: Seth Mnookin\, associate director of MIT’s Graduate Program in Science Writing and director of the MIT Communications Forum. URL:https://cms.mit.edu/event/muslim-america-mit-2016/ LOCATION:MIT Building 3\, Room 270\, 33 Massachusetts Ave (Rear)\, Cambridge\, MA\, 02319\, United States CATEGORIES:Communications Forum ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://cms.mit.edu/wp/wp-content/uploads/2016/03/Muslim-in-America-2x1.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20160303T170000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20160303T170000 DTSTAMP:20260513T001620 CREATED:20160219T132921Z LAST-MODIFIED:20160219T133629Z UID:26775-1457024400-1457024400@cms.mit.edu SUMMARY:Excellence in Teaching DESCRIPTION:What separates a good teacher from a great one? How are digital technologies challenging traditional teaching methods? And are there distinctions between top-notch science instructors and their counterparts in humanities or social science? Former poet laureate Robert Pinsky\, Weisskopf Professor of Physics Alan Guth and MIT biology professor Hazel Sive–all honored teachers–will explore these issues with Literature professor and Communications Forum director emeritus David Thorburn. \nDavid Thorburn is an MIT Literature professor\, director emeritus of the Communications Forum\, and a past winner of MIT’s MacVicar award for exemplary contributions to undergraduate teaching. \nRobert Pinsky is a three-term US Poet Laureate. He is a recipient of the William Carlos Williams Award from the Poetry Society of America and a Lifetime Achievement Award from the PEN American Center. \nAlan Guth is MIT’s Victor F. Weisskopf Professor of Physics\, pioneer of the inflationary model of the universe and recipient of the MacVicar award for exemplary contributions to undergraduate teaching. \nHazel Sive is a biology professor at MIT\, a member of the Whitehead Institute for Biomedical Research and a recipient of the MacVicar award for exemplary contributions to undergraduate teaching. \nA reception in room 14E-304 will follow. URL:https://cms.mit.edu/event/excellence-in-teaching/ LOCATION:MIT Building 3\, Room 270\, 33 Massachusetts Ave (Rear)\, Cambridge\, MA\, 02319\, United States CATEGORIES:Communications Forum ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://cms.mit.edu/wp/wp-content/uploads/2015/08/David-Thorburn.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20160211T170000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20160211T170000 DTSTAMP:20260513T001620 CREATED:20160105T195341Z LAST-MODIFIED:20160105T195341Z UID:26590-1455210000-1455210000@cms.mit.edu SUMMARY:Is There a Future for In-Depth Science Journalism? DESCRIPTION:Traditional media outlets have been facing budget cuts and layoffs for years\, with specialized reporters often among the first to go. And yet last year\, Boston Globe Media Partners made a significant investment in launching STAT\, a new publication that focuses on health\, medicine and scientific discovery. STAT‘s leadership and reporting team will discuss the publication’s progress and how the field of science journalism is changing. \nSpeakers \nRick Berke is the executive editor of STAT and former executive editor of POLITICO. Berke joined The New York Times in 1986 and served as a political correspondent and senior editor for nearly three decades. \nCarl Zimmer is a national correspondent for STAT and hosts the site’s “Science Happens” video series. Zimmer also writes the “Matter” column at The New York Times and has written 12 books including Soul Made Flesh\, which was named as a New York Times Notable Book of the Year. \nRebecca Robbins is a reporter for STAT covering money in life sciences. \nModerator: Seth Mnookin\, associate director of MIT’s Graduate Program in Science Writing and author of The Panic Virus: The True Story Behind the Vaccine-Autism Controversy. URL:https://cms.mit.edu/event/is-there-a-future-for-in-depth-science-journalism/ LOCATION:MIT Building 3\, Room 270\, 33 Massachusetts Ave (Rear)\, Cambridge\, MA\, 02319\, United States CATEGORIES:Communications Forum ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://cms.mit.edu/wp/wp-content/uploads/2007/01/mit-comm-forum_logo_square.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20151112T170000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20151112T170000 DTSTAMP:20260513T001620 CREATED:20150901T153754Z LAST-MODIFIED:20151109T161407Z UID:26079-1447347600-1447347600@cms.mit.edu SUMMARY:Women in Politics: Representation and Reality DESCRIPTION:Women are chronically underrepresented in U.S. politics. Yet TV shows\, fictions\, and films have leapt ahead of the electoral curve to give us our first female president(s). What messages about women and power do these fictional representations of female politicians send? What connections (if any) can we draw between representation and reality? What challenges do real-life women politicians face as they represent themselves to voters and to the press? \nMary Anne Marsh is a Boston-based political consultant who has worked on many local and national campaigns. She also serves as a Democratic political analyst on the FOX News Channel and on other national and local media. \nEllen Emerson White is the author of many books for children and teens\, including the critically acclaimed President’s Daughter series\, which chronicles the experiences of a Massachusetts girl whose mother becomes the first female president of the United States. \nModerator: Marah Gubar\, Associate Professor of Literature at MIT\, is the author of Artful Dodgers: Reconceiving the Golden Age of Children’s Literature (2009). URL:https://cms.mit.edu/event/women-in-politics-representation-and-reality/ LOCATION:MIT Building 3\, Room 270\, 33 Massachusetts Ave (Rear)\, Cambridge\, MA\, 02319\, United States CATEGORIES:Communications Forum ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://cms.mit.edu/wp/wp-content/uploads/2007/01/mit-comm-forum_logo_square.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20151008T170000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20151008T170000 DTSTAMP:20260513T001620 CREATED:20150820T142022Z LAST-MODIFIED:20150820T183646Z UID:26039-1444323600-1444323600@cms.mit.edu SUMMARY:From the Neolithic Era to the Apocalypse: How to Prepare for the Future by Studying the Past DESCRIPTION:For thousands of years\, humans have experienced cycles of empire building and retreat\, from the neolithic settlers of Levant and the Indus Valley to the ancient Cahokia and Maya civilizations. What can new discoveries teach us about how to plan our next thousand years as a global civilization? Authors Charles C. Mann and Annalee Newitz will talk about how ancient civilizations shed light on current problems with urbanization\, food security\, and environmental change. \nCharles C. Mann is the author\, most recently\, of 1493\, a New York Times best-seller\, and 1491\, winner of the National Academies of Science’s Keck award for best book of the year. His next project\, The Wizard and the Prophet\, is a book about the future that makes no predictions. An early version of the introductory chapter was a finalist for a National Magazine Award. \nAnnalee Newitz writes science nonfiction and science fiction. She’s editor-in-chief of Gizmodo.com and founding editor of io9.com. She’s the author of Scatter\, Adapt\, and Remember: How Humans Will Survive a Mass Extinction\, which was a finalist for a Los Angeles Times Book Award. Her work has appeared in publications from The New Yorker and Technology Review to 2600 and Lightspeed Magazine. Her next book is a novel about robots\, pirates\, and the future of property laws. URL:https://cms.mit.edu/event/prepare-for-future-by-studying-past/ LOCATION:MIT Building 3\, Room 270\, 33 Massachusetts Ave (Rear)\, Cambridge\, MA\, 02319\, United States CATEGORIES:Communications Forum ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://cms.mit.edu/wp/wp-content/uploads/2007/01/mit-comm-forum_logo_square.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20150924T170000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20150924T170000 DTSTAMP:20260513T001620 CREATED:20150820T141213Z LAST-MODIFIED:20150910T170711Z UID:26036-1443114000-1443114000@cms.mit.edu SUMMARY:Jim Crow and the Legacy of Segregation Outside of the South DESCRIPTION:Police shootings and the Black Lives Matter campaign have shone a spotlight on how different the everyday experiences are of white Americans and Americans of color. While much attention has been paid to these seemingly daily occurrences\, the historical forces that led to our current situation have been less discussed: Is the de facto segregation that exists in many Northern cities a result of the lack of forced integration of the type that took place in the South? And is the mass incarceration of and police brutality inflicted on black Americans a result of these same forces? \nMelissa Nobles is the Kenan Sahin Dean of the School of Humanities\, Arts\, and Social Sciences and Professor of Political Science at MIT. She is also a collaborator and advisory board member of Northeastern Law School’s Civil Rights and Restorative Justice clinic.  Her current research is focused on constructing a database of racial murders in the American South between 1930 and 1954. She is the author of two books: Shades of Citizenship: Race and Census in Modern Politics (2000) and The Politics of Official Apologies (2008)\, and related book chapters and articles. \nTracey Meares is the Walton Hale Hamilton Professor of Law at Yale Law School. Before coming to Yale\, she was the Max Pam Professor of Law and Director of the Center for Studies in Criminal Justice at the University of Chicago; she was the first African-American woman granted tenure at both institutions’ law schools. She’s worked extensively with the federal government\, and since December 2014 she has a been a member of President Obama’s Task Force on 21st Century Policing. \nModerator: Seth Mnookin is the director of the Communications Forum and the associate director of the Graduate Program of Science Writing at MIT. His most recent book is The Panic Virus: The True Story of the Vaccine-Autism Controversy. URL:https://cms.mit.edu/event/jim-crow-legacy-of-segregation-outside-south/ LOCATION:MIT Building 3\, Room 270\, 33 Massachusetts Ave (Rear)\, Cambridge\, MA\, 02319\, United States CATEGORIES:Communications Forum ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://cms.mit.edu/wp/wp-content/uploads/2015/08/Black-Lives-Matter.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20150416T170000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20150416T190000 DTSTAMP:20260513T001620 CREATED:20150128T201340Z LAST-MODIFIED:20200902T220830Z UID:25008-1429203600-1429210800@cms.mit.edu SUMMARY:The Spooky Science of the Southern Reach: An Evening with Jeff VanderMeer DESCRIPTION:(Join our mailing list for an event reminder.) \nJeff VanderMeer\nJeff VanderMeer\, author of the New York Times bestselling Southern Reach Trilogy (Annihilation\, Authority\, and Acceptance)\, will join G. Eric Schaller\, Professor of Biological Sciences at Dartmouth\, for a broad-ranging discussion about the scientific and philosophical ideas that inspired the series. The two friends and occasional collaborators will discuss conservation science\, VanderMeer’s relationship with the natural world\, and the theme of extinction in “slow apocalypse” fiction\, as well as the role of real-world science in science fiction. Moderator: Seth Mnookin. URL:https://cms.mit.edu/event/jeff-vandermeer-spooky-science-of-the-southern-reach/ LOCATION:MIT Building 32 (Stata Center)\, Room 123\, 32 Vassar Street\, Cambridge\, MA\, 02139\, United States CATEGORIES:Communications Forum ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://cms.mit.edu/wp/wp-content/uploads/2015/01/Jeff-VanderMeer.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20150319T170000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20150319T190000 DTSTAMP:20260513T001620 CREATED:20150128T200217Z LAST-MODIFIED:20200902T220830Z UID:25007-1426784400-1426791600@cms.mit.edu SUMMARY:Coming of Age in Dystopia: The Darkness of Young Adult Fiction DESCRIPTION:(Join our mailing list for an event reminder.) \nWhy are brutal dystopias\, devastating apocalyptic visions\, and tales of personal trauma such a staple of young adult literature? Kristin Cashore\, author of the award-winning Graceling Realm trilogy\, and the University of Florida’s Kenneth Kidd will explore the history and current preoccupations of one of the most popular forms of fiction today. Marah Gubar\, an associate professor in MIT’s Literature department\, will moderate. URL:https://cms.mit.edu/event/coming-age-dystopia-darkness-young-adult-fiction/ LOCATION:MIT Building 66\, Room 110\, 25 Ames Street\, Cambridge\, MA\, 02139\, United States CATEGORIES:Communications Forum ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://cms.mit.edu/wp/wp-content/uploads/2015/01/Kristin-Cashore.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20150226T170000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20150226T190000 DTSTAMP:20260513T001620 CREATED:20150128T195653Z LAST-MODIFIED:20200902T220829Z UID:25006-1424970000-1424977200@cms.mit.edu SUMMARY:Women in Science DESCRIPTION:(Join our mailing list for an event reminder.) \nComputational geneticist Pardis Sabeti and energy studies expert Jessika Trancik will discuss their careers and the outlook for women in science in the 21st century. Sabeti\, an associate professor at Harvard and a senior associate member of the Broad Institute\, and Trancik\, an assistant professor in MIT’s Engineering Systems Division\, are both rising stars in the research world. They will be in discussion with Rosalind Williams\, the Bern Dibner Professor of the History of Science and Technology at MIT. URL:https://cms.mit.edu/event/women-in-science-pardis-sabeti-jessika-trancik/ LOCATION:MIT Building 66\, Room 110\, 25 Ames Street\, Cambridge\, MA\, 02139\, United States CATEGORIES:Communications Forum ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://cms.mit.edu/wp/wp-content/uploads/2015/01/Pardis-Sabeti.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20141204T170000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20141204T190000 DTSTAMP:20260513T001620 CREATED:20140820T123101Z LAST-MODIFIED:20200902T221004Z UID:23917-1417712400-1417719600@cms.mit.edu SUMMARY:Making Computing Strange: Cultural Analytics and Phantasmal Media DESCRIPTION:Lev Manovich\, the author of the seminal The Language of New Media\, MIT’s Fox Harrell\, who recently published Phantasmal Media: An Approach to Imagination\, Computation\, and Expression\, and MIT’s Nick Montfort will examine the ways in which computational models can be used in cultural contexts for everything from analyzing media to imagining new ways to represent ourselves. URL:https://cms.mit.edu/event/cultural-analytics-and-phantasmal-media/ LOCATION:MIT Building 66\, Room 110\, 25 Ames Street\, Cambridge\, MA\, 02139\, United States CATEGORIES:Communications Forum ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://cms.mit.edu/wp/wp-content/uploads/2007/01/mit-comm-forum_logo_square.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20141009T170000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20141009T190000 DTSTAMP:20260513T001620 CREATED:20140926T125721Z LAST-MODIFIED:20190426T152416Z UID:24213-1412874000-1412881200@cms.mit.edu SUMMARY:Documentaries\, Journalism\, and the Future of Reality-Based Storytelling DESCRIPTION:Documentary and journalism have a complicated relationship. They share commitments to reality-based storytelling\, yet have distinctive legacies and institutional histories. They share technologies\, vocabularies and modes of address\, yet have different notions of time\, from the ‘now’ of breaking news to the ‘timeless’ status of classic documentaries. At a moment when the Internet has emerged as a platform common to print and broadcast journalism as well as new forms of interactive and participatory documentary\, complication seems more like confusion. One might try to clarify the situation by disambiguating these genres\, solidifying their boundaries. We seek instead to make productive use of the situation by taking advantage of their commonalities\, finding ways to re-invent and re-invigorate both documentary and journalism\, in the process expanding their audiences and enhancing their relevance. Documentaries have demonstrated the advantages of synergistic thinking\, finding a new place and new publics through digital journalism portals. But what can new forms of documentary contribute back to journalism? To answer that question\, we have to think critically and creatively about the affordances of these different traditions in light of their new ecosystem. \n\nRaney Aronson\, deputy executive producer\, FRONTLINE\nKaterina Cizek\, documentary director\, National Film Board of Canada\nJason Spingarn-Koff\, New York Times Op-Docs editor\nFrancesca Panetta\, Guardian multimedia special projects editor\nModerator: William Uricchio\, MIT URL:https://cms.mit.edu/event/documentaries-journalism-future-reality-based-storytelling/ LOCATION:MIT Building 66\, Room 110\, 25 Ames Street\, Cambridge\, MA\, 02139\, United States CATEGORIES:Communications Forum ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://cms.mit.edu/wp/wp-content/uploads/2014/09/A-Short-History-of-the-Highrise-Part-1-Video-NYTimes.com_.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20140403T171500 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20140403T191500 DTSTAMP:20260513T001620 CREATED:20140107T154953Z LAST-MODIFIED:20200902T221040Z UID:7689-1396545300-1396552500@cms.mit.edu SUMMARY:Science in Fiction DESCRIPTION:Hanya Yanagihara’s first book\, the widely celebrated The People In The Trees\, is loosely based on the life and work of Nobel Prize-winner physician and researcher D. Carleton Gajdusek. She’ll join author and physicist Alan Lightman\, who was the first professor at MIT to receive a joint appointment in the sciences and the humanities\, to discuss the unique challenges of respecting the exacting standards of science in fictional texts. Forum Co-Director Seth Mnookin\, author of The Panic Virus\, will moderate. \nHanya Yanagihara is an Editor-At-Large at Conde Nast Traveler and author of The People In The Trees\, a novel the New York Times called "suspenseful" and "exhaustingly inventive." \nAlan Lightman is currently Professor of the Practice of the Humanities at MIT and author of the international bestseller Einstein’s Dreams. His most recent novel\, Mr g\, was published in January 2012. \nSeth Mnookin is Co-Director of the Communications Forum and Associate Director of MIT’s Graduate Program in Science Writing. His most recent book is The Panic Virus: The True Story Behind the Vaccine-Autism Controversy. \nLoading… URL:https://cms.mit.edu/event/science-fiction/ LOCATION:MIT Stata Center\, Room 155\, 32 Vassar Street\, Cambridge\, MA\, 02139\, United States CATEGORIES:Communications Forum ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://cms.mit.edu/wp/wp-content/uploads/2014/01/Hanya-Yanagihara.jpg ORGANIZER;CN="MIT%20Communications%20Forum":MAILTO:couch@mit.edu END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20140306T170000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20140306T190000 DTSTAMP:20260513T001620 CREATED:20140107T153522Z LAST-MODIFIED:20160817T183033Z UID:7688-1394125200-1394132400@cms.mit.edu SUMMARY:Henry Jenkins Returns DESCRIPTION:Legendary former MIT professor and housemaster Henry Jenkins\, now the Provost’s Professor of Communications\, Journalism\, Cinematic Arts and Education at the University of Southern California\, returns to the Forum for a conversation about his time at the Institute and the founding of CMS as well as his path-breaking scholarship on contemporary media. Forum Director David Thorburn\, Jenkins’ longtime friend and colleague\, will moderate the discussion. \nHenry Jenkins is Provost’s Professor of Communication\, Journalism\, Cinematic Arts and Education at the University of Southern California. He taught at MIT from 1990-2009 and was the founding director of the Comparative Media Studies program at the Institute. He has written many books on film\, popular culture and media\, including Convergence Culture: Where Old and New Media Collide (2008). \nDavid Thorburn is a professor of Literature and Director of the MIT Communications Forum. He is the author of a critical study of the novelist Joseph Conrad and many essays on literature and media. Among his publications: Rethinking Media Change (2007)\, co-edited with Henry Jenkins. URL:https://cms.mit.edu/event/henry-jenkins-returns/ LOCATION:MIT Building 4\, Room 370\, 182 Memorial Drive (Rear)\, Cambridge\, MA\, 02139\, United States CATEGORIES:Communications Forum ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://cms.mit.edu/wp/wp-content/uploads/2013/06/HenryJenkins.jpg ORGANIZER;CN="MIT%20Communications%20Forum":MAILTO:couch@mit.edu END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20131205T170000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20131205T190000 DTSTAMP:20260513T001620 CREATED:20130819T133741Z LAST-MODIFIED:20131205T153511Z UID:5610-1386262800-1386270000@cms.mit.edu SUMMARY:Long-form Journalism: Inside The Atlantic DESCRIPTION:September 2013 cover of The Atlantic\nSome have called long-form journalism an endangered species. But ground-breaking articles requiring months of research and writing continue to appear. Why is such work important? How is it created? James Fallows and Corby Kummer of The Atlantic will chart the journey of a major feature story from conception to publication and speculate about the future of long-form writing in the digital age. \nTom Levenson\, Professor of Writing at MIT\, will moderate. URL:https://cms.mit.edu/event/long-form-journalism-inside-the-atlantic/ LOCATION:MIT Building 66\, Room 110\, 25 Ames Street\, Cambridge\, MA\, 02139\, United States CATEGORIES:Communications Forum ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://cms.mit.edu/wp/wp-content/uploads/2013/08/The-Atlantic.jpg ORGANIZER;CN="MIT%20Communications%20Forum":MAILTO:couch@mit.edu END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20131010T170000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20131010T190000 DTSTAMP:20260513T001620 CREATED:20130819T132855Z LAST-MODIFIED:20130819T134430Z UID:5607-1381424400-1381431600@cms.mit.edu SUMMARY:Born Digital DESCRIPTION:How is the generation born in the digital age different from its analog ancestors? Are those born digital likely to have different notions of privacy\, community\, identity itself? How do educators approach this generation to help prepare them for scholarship and for citizenship? \nSpeakers: John Palfrey\, Head of School at Phillips Academy and author of Born Digital: Understanding the First Generation of Digital Natives; and Ethan Zuckerman\, director of the Center for Civic Media\, a collaboration between the MIT Media Lab and Comparative Media Studies/Writing. URL:https://cms.mit.edu/event/born-digital/ LOCATION:MIT Media Lab\, Room 633\, 75 Amherst St.\, Cambridge\, MA\, 02139\, United States CATEGORIES:Communications Forum ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://cms.mit.edu/wp/wp-content/uploads/2013/08/Born-Digital.jpg ORGANIZER;CN="MIT%20Communications%20Forum":MAILTO:couch@mit.edu END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20130912T170000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20130912T190000 DTSTAMP:20260513T001620 CREATED:20130813T191455Z LAST-MODIFIED:20150414T193512Z UID:5155-1379005200-1379012400@cms.mit.edu SUMMARY:The Phoenix Burns Out: Remembering a Boston Institution DESCRIPTION:Featuring essayist Anita Diamant\, former staff writing Charles Pierce\, music critic Lloyd Schwartz\, and Phoenix editor Carly Carioli.Moderated by Seth Mnookin.\nA generation of great journalists cut their teeth at alt-weeklies\, and The Boston Phoenix produced some of the best of them. When the Phoenix announced it was closing last March\, the city lost a powerful cultural force and a vibrant source of information. \nWe’ll discuss the Phoenix‘s legacy and the ways in which its loss will affect Boston. \nPanelists will be author and essayist Anita Diamant\, who started out answering the editor’s phone in the mid-1970s; Charles Pierce of Esquire and NPR\, and a staff writer with the Phoenix in the 1980s and ’90s; poet and classical music critic Lloyd Schwartz\, who won a Pulitzer Prize with the Phoenix; and Carly Carioli\, who started as an intern and rose to become the paper’s editor. \nSeth Mnookin will moderate. URL:https://cms.mit.edu/event/the-phoenix-burns-out-remembering-a-boston-institution/ LOCATION:MIT Media Lab\, Room 633\, 75 Amherst St.\, Cambridge\, MA\, 02139\, United States CATEGORIES:Communications Forum ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://cms.mit.edu/wp/wp-content/uploads/2013/08/Boston-Phoenix-final-issue.jpg ORGANIZER;CN="MIT%20Communications%20Forum":MAILTO:couch@mit.edu END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20130411T170000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20130411T190000 DTSTAMP:20260513T001620 CREATED:20150326T141159Z LAST-MODIFIED:20161221T201056Z UID:21613-1365699600-1365706800@cms.mit.edu SUMMARY:News or Entertainment? The Press in Modern Political Campaigns DESCRIPTION:In the 2012 presidential campaign\, a handful of media outlets deployed “fact-checking” divisions which reported the lies and distortions of the candidates. Some commentators have argued that these truth-squads exposed the inadequacy of standard print and broadcast coverage\, much of which seems more like entertainment than news. This forum will examine the changing role of the political media in the U.S. Is our political journalism serving democratic and civic ideals? What do emerging technologies and the proliferation of news sources mean for the future? \nTa-Nehisi Coates is a senior editor at The Atlantic where he writes about culture\, politics\, and social issues for TheAtlantic.com and the magazine. He is the author of the memoir The Beautiful Struggle. \nMark McKinnon is a senior advisor of Hill & Knowlton Strategies\, an international communications consultancy\, a weekly columnist for The Daily Beast and The London Telegraph\, and is a co-founder of the bipartisan group No Labels. As a political advisor\, he has worked for many causes\, companies and candidates including former President George W. Bush\, 2008 Republican presidential candidate Senator John McCain\, late former Texas Governor Ann Richards and Congressman Charlie Wilson. URL:https://cms.mit.edu/event/news-or-entertainment-press-modern-political-campaigns/ LOCATION:MIT Media Lab\, Room 633\, 75 Amherst St.\, Cambridge\, MA\, 02139\, United States CATEGORIES:Communications Forum ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://cms.mit.edu/wp/wp-content/uploads/2013/04/coates-mckinnon.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20130321T170000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20130321T190000 DTSTAMP:20260513T001620 CREATED:20150324T154947Z LAST-MODIFIED:20210113T175133Z UID:21611-1363885200-1363892400@cms.mit.edu SUMMARY:MOOCs and the Emerging Digital Classroom DESCRIPTION:MOOCs and other forms of online learning have the potential to disrupt traditional classroom education — or to help us better understand how to exploit the many learning spaces students now inhabit. This forum examines the ongoing migration of our analog practices into digital forms\, looking at the ways in which digital technologies are transforming teaching and learning both on and off campus. What gaps in our curricula\, or in our students’ experience\, can be filled through technology? What elements of teaching practice can be effectively translated into new media\, and what aspects of “teaching” must be redefined? \nAnant Agarwal the president of edX\, a worldwide\, online learning initiative of MIT and Harvard University\, and a professor in MIT’s electrical engineering and computer science department. \nAlison Byerly holds an interdisciplinary appointment as College Professor at Middlebury College and\, during 2012-2013\, she is a visiting scholar in the Literature Section at MIT. \nDaphne Koller is the Rajeev Motwani Professor in the computer science department at Stanford University. Koller will join the conversation live from the west coast. URL:https://cms.mit.edu/event/moocs-emerging-digital-classroom/ LOCATION:MIT Media Lab\, Room 633\, 75 Amherst St.\, Cambridge\, MA\, 02139\, United States CATEGORIES:Communications Forum ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://cms.mit.edu/wp/wp-content/uploads/2015/03/Anant-Argawal.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20130228T170000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20130228T190000 DTSTAMP:20260513T001620 CREATED:20140814T170011Z LAST-MODIFIED:20140814T170011Z UID:21610-1362070800-1362078000@cms.mit.edu SUMMARY:A Conversation with Nate Silver DESCRIPTION:Nate Silver at MIT. Photo by Greg Peverill-Conti\nThe statistician and political polling analyst Nate Silver will discuss his career — from student journalist to baseball prognosticator to the creator of FiveThirtyEight.com\, perhaps the most influential political blog in the world — and the ways in which statistics are changing the face of journalism in a conversation with Seth Mnookin\, a former baseball and political writer who co-directs MIT’s Graduate Program in Science Writing. URL:https://cms.mit.edu/event/nate-silver-conversation/ LOCATION:MIT Media Lab\, Bartos Theater\, 20 Ames Street\, Cambridge\, MA\, 02139\, United States CATEGORIES:Communications Forum ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://cms.mit.edu/wp/wp-content/uploads/2013/03/Nate-Silver-GPC.jpg END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR