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SUMMARY:Mary Flanagan\, "Humanist Inquiry Through Critical Play: Designing and Enacting our Enduring Questions"
DESCRIPTION:Mary Flanagan\nIn this talk\, Dr. Mary Flanagan reveals how games can be sources of deep human inquiry and introspection. Flanagan presents the interesting things scholars might discover by looking at games and why games can be useful tools for inquiry through a variety of methodological lenses. She will also share recent research on creating games that improve biases and stereotypes. \nAs a scholar interested in how human values are in play across technologies and systems\, Flanagan has written more than 20 critical essays and chapters on games\, empathy\, gender and digital representation\, art and technology\, and responsible design. Her three books in English include Critical Play (2009) with MIT Press. Flanagan founded the Tiltfactor game research laboratory in 2003\, where researchers study and make social games\, urban games\, and software in a rigorous theory/practice environment. Flanagan’s work has been supported by grants and commissions including The British Arts Council\, the National Endowment for the Humanities\, the ACLS\, and the National Science Foundation. Flanagan is the Sherman Fairchild Distinguished Professor in Digital Humanities at Dartmouth College.
URL:https://cms.mit.edu/event/mary-flanagan-humanist-inquiry-critical-play-designing-enacting-enduring-questions/
LOCATION:MIT Media Lab\, Room 633\, 75 Amherst St.\, Cambridge\, MA\, 02139\, United States
CATEGORIES:Comparative Media Insights
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SUMMARY:Aswin Punathambekar: “Media\, Sociability\, and Political Potentials in Contemporary India”
DESCRIPTION:To suggest that there is a strong relationship between participatory culture and civic/political engagement would not come as news to anyone in India. In fact\, the past decade has been marked by a number of astonishing instances of participation surrounding entertainment media intersecting with and reshaping a wider political field. Academic discussions of these events have been focused on the question: what constitutes meaningful participation? Not surprisingly\, these discussions have focused on the explicitly political dimensions of these moments of participation. Instead of this narrow emphasis on political effects\, Aswin Punathambekar draws on a range of cases across India\, China\, and the Middle East to ask: what happens when such phases of participation fade away? What are the cultural and political implications of a zone of participation that lasts a few weeks or months at best? Tracing shifts in media industry logics as well as audience participation facilitated by mobile media technologies\, this presentation foregrounds the sociable and everyday dimensions of media use. Punathambekar argues that it is only when we comprehend how participatory culture and everyday life are braided together that we can meaningfully pose questions about how media can be politically productive. \nAswin Punathambekar is an Associate Professor in the Department of Communication Studies at the University of Michigan-Ann Arbor. He is the author of From Bombay to Bollywood: The Making of a Global Media Industry (NYU Press\, 2013)\, and co-editor of Global Bollywood (NYU Press\, 2008) and Television at Large in South Asia (Routledge\, 2012). He has also published articles in various anthologies and journals including Media\, Culture and Society\, International Journal of Cultural Studies\, BioScope: South Asian Screen Studies\, and Popular Communication: International Journal of Media and Culture. He is currently working on two books. The first is a historical account of the development of the Indian television industry. The second\, provisionally titled Mobile Publics: Media\, Participation and Political Culture in Digital South Asia\, examines how convergence between television and mobile media technologies is reconfiguring the meanings and performance of citizenship.
URL:https://cms.mit.edu/event/aswin-punathambekar-media-sociability-politcal-potentials-in-india/
LOCATION:MIT Media Lab\, Room 633\, 75 Amherst St.\, Cambridge\, MA\, 02139\, United States
CATEGORIES:Comparative Media Insights
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SUMMARY:Michael Curtin: “The Burdens of Official Aspiration: National Policy in the Age of Global Media”
DESCRIPTION:Michael Curtin\nSince the 1990s\, market liberalization and new technologies have accelerated the transnational flow of media imagery\, much to the delight of Western conglomerates that have expanded their operations and exports around the globe. This has\, of course\, raised anxieties in countries that find themselves ever more vulnerable to a flood of foreign movies and television programming. Yet Hollywood is no longer the only major exporter of audiovisual media\, having been joined by thriving competitors\, such as Mumbai\, Lagos\, and Miami. Animated by the commercial logic of “media capital\,” these cities are now challenging prior geographies of creativity and cultural influence\, fostering tensions about the relative roles that cities and states play in local\, regional\, and global cultural economies. \nAs these transnational media capitals have prospered\, some states have fought back with policies aimed at controlling imports and fostering the creative capacity of national media institutions. This remarkable turn in media policy over the past decade is largely premised on official suppositions that popular media have become elements of political and cultural leadership both at home and abroad. Yet the question remains: Can such policies produce truly popular cultural products or will they forever bear the burdens of official aspiration? This presentation explores the implications of national cultural policy within the broader context of media globalization\, providing a framework for understanding the logics of media capital and the challenges confronting national governments. It furthermore compares media industries around the world\, reflecting more generally on future prospects for creativity and cultural diversity in popular film and television. \nMichael Curtin is the Duncan and Suzanne Mellichamp Professor of Global Studies in the Department of Film and Media Studies at the University of California\, Santa Barbara. He is also Director and co-founder of the Media Industries Project at the Carsey-Wolf Center. His books include Playing to the World’s Biggest Audience: The Globalization of Chinese Film and TV and Reorienting Global Communication: Indian and Chinese Media Beyond Borders. Curtin is currently at work on Media Capital: The Cultural Geography of Globalization and is co-editor of the Chinese Journal of Communication and the International Screen Industries book series of the British Film Institute.
URL:https://cms.mit.edu/event/michael-curtin-national-policy-age-of-global-media/
LOCATION:MIT Media Lab\, Room 633\, 75 Amherst St.\, Cambridge\, MA\, 02139\, United States
CATEGORIES:Comparative Media Insights
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