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SUMMARY:Samantha N. Sheppard\, “Changing the Subject: Lynn Nottage’s By the Way\, Meet Vera Stark and the Making of Black Women’s Film History”
DESCRIPTION:This event is virtual and will be streamed live on Zoom (mit.zoom.us/j/96579656038) and recorded. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nLynn Nottage’s 2011 satirical play By the Way\, Meet Vera Stark stages the life and legacy of the fictional Vera Stark\, a Black maid and struggling actress during Hollywood’s golden age. Nottage\, a two-time Pulitzer prize-winning playwright and screenwriter\, was inspired in part by the career of African American actress\, singer\, and dancer Theresa Harris. A play about Black women’s cinematic representation and social erasure\, Nottage’s fabrication of film history extends beyond the staged plot to also include a digital archive documenting Vera’s celebrity and career. In this talk\, Samantha N. Sheppard examines how Nottage’s play and paratexts produce a speculative fiction and archive about Black women’s media histories\, staging what she calls a phantom cinema—an amalgam of real and imagined film histories that haunt\, trouble\, and work with and against cinema histories to creatively illuminate archival gaps in visual culture and the public imagination. \n\n\n\n\nSamantha N. Sheppard is an associate professor of cinema and media studies in the Department of Performing and Media Arts at Cornell University. She is the author of Sporting Blackness: Race\, Embodiment\, and Critical Muscle Memory on Screen (University of California Press\, 2020) and co-editor of From Madea to Media Mogul: Theorizing Tyler Perry (University Press of Mississippi\, 2016) and Sporting Realities: Critical Readings on the Sports Documentary (University of Nebraska Press\, 2020). She has published on film and media in academic and popular venues such as Film Quarterly\, The Atlantic\, Flash Art International\, and Los Angeles Review of Books. She was named a 2021 Academy Film Scholar by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences.
URL:https://cms.mit.edu/event/samantha-n-sheppard-making-black-womens-film-history/
CATEGORIES:Colloquium
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SUMMARY:Eric Freedman\, “Non-Binary Binaries and Unreal MetaHumans”
DESCRIPTION:This event is virtual and will be streamed live on Zoom (mit.zoom.us/j/96579656038) and recorded. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nVideo game engines have promoted a new cultural economy for software production and have provided a common architecture for digital content creation across what were once distinct media verticals—film\, television\, video games and other immersive and interactive media forms that can leverage real-time 3D visualization. Game engines are the building blocks for efficient real-time visualization\, and they signal quite forcefully the colonizing influence of programming. Video game engines are powering our visual futures\, and engine developers that include Unity Technologies and Epic Games are rapidly iterating their products to tackle new markets\, where data and visuality continue to converge. This analysis\, which draws from software studies and studies of visual culture\, examines a tool that is fairly new to the Epic Games arsenal—the in-development MetaHuman Creator that is part of Epic’s proprietary Unreal Engine. The MetaHuman Creator is a cloud-streamed application that draws from a library of real scans of people and allows 3D content developers to quickly create unique photorealistic fully-rigged digital humans. MetaHuman creation is a fluid of process\, and the speedy transformation of character rigs and other non-binary attributes highlights the potential queerness or openness of data. Yet the ongoing push toward (hyper)realism in commercial media has birthed a visual economy which is supported by an industrial apparatus that privileges mastery over the tools of production\, and where bodies and politics are often cleaved in the design process. Epic’s multiethnic\, multiracial\, transgender MetaHuman Creator is a design tool and not a narrative engine. Its transitions are simple and seamless\, and the traces of non-binary and non-white identities are simply part of a larger color palette. These tools represent a way of seeing and knowing the world\, and the representations they produce are part of hermetically-sealed and privately-held encoding processes that include a company’s original data\, its application programming\, its proprietary build environment and its interface. This analysis poses two interrelated questions. Are the MetaHuman Creator and similar simplified building tools democratizing the field of digital content creation? Are they fostering more diverse representations and narratives\, and supporting the free play of identity in playable media? \n\n\n\n\nEric Freedman is Professor and Dean of the School of Media Arts at Columbia College Chicago. He is the author most recently of The Persistence of Code in Game Engine Culture (2020)\, as well as Transient Images: Personal Media in Public Frameworks (2011). He serves on the editorial board of the International Journal of Creative Media Research and the advisory board of the Communication and Media Studies Research Network.
URL:https://cms.mit.edu/event/eric-freedman-non-binary-binaries-and-unreal-metahumans/
LOCATION:Streamed live on Zoom
CATEGORIES:Colloquium
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SUMMARY:Jorge Caraballo\, “How to Use Audio Storytelling to Cultivate a Community and Keep it Engaged”
DESCRIPTION:This event is virtual and will be streamed live on Zoom (mit.zoom.us/j/96579656038) and recorded. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nPodcasts are in a golden age and are being used to effectively communicate new ideas\, tell compelling stories\, and build highly participative communities. This presentation will explore the power of audio storytelling to connect individuals in engaged networks of collaboration. Jorge Caraballo (’22 Harvard Nieman Fellow) will draw from experience as the former Growth Editor at Radio Ambulante –Latin America’s most popular documentary podcast– and will highlight different ways in which storytelling can be the starting point of new collective identities. \n\n\n\n\nJorge Caraballo is a journalist and a 2022 Harvard Nieman fellow. Before that\, he worked for four years as the Growth Editor at Radio Ambulante –the most popular documentary podcast in Spanish\, and the only one in that language distributed by NPR. There he led online and offline engagement initiatives to grow the community around the podcast. He holds a master’s degree in Media Innovation at Northeastern University. He’s a Fulbright Scholar and a Google News Initiative Fellow.
URL:https://cms.mit.edu/event/jorge-caraballo-audio-storytelling-cultivate-community-keep-it-engaged/
LOCATION:Streamed live on Zoom
CATEGORIES:Colloquium
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SUMMARY:Hillary Chute\, "Maus Now: Spiegelman’s Graphic Novel and the Present Tense"
DESCRIPTION:This event is virtual and will be streamed live on Zoom (mit.zoom.us/j/96579656038) and recorded. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nIn this talk\, Hillary Chute considers the contemporary relevance of Art Spiegelman’s classic graphic novel\, Maus: A Survivor’s Tale\, in an overview linked to her forthcoming book Maus Now: Selected Writing (a collection to be published by Pantheon in 2022). Maus was first published serially beginning in 1980\, and came out in two book volumes in 1986 and 1991; today\, she argues\, it’s timeless for many different reasons\, including stark political ones. She highlights what Spiegelman’s comics narrative\, which is about history\, reveals about the form’s capacity both to register the continuousness of history and also to function in today’s context as a text of resistance to fascism. \n\n\n\n\nHillary Chute is Distinguished Professor of English and Art + Design at Northeastern University. She is the author or editor of six books\, including Why Comics? From Underground to Everywhere (Harper\, 2017)\, Disaster Drawn: Visual Witness\, Comics\, and Documentary Form (Harvard UP\, 2016)\, Outside the Box: Interviews with Contemporary Cartoonists (U of Chicago P)\, and Graphic Women: Life Narrative and Contemporary Comics (Columbia UP\, 2010). She has written for venues including Artforum\, Bookforum\, the Village Voice\, and the New York Review of Books. She is a comics and graphic novels columnist for the New York Times Book Review.
URL:https://cms.mit.edu/event/hillary-chute-maus-now-spiegelmans-graphic-novel-and-the-present-tense/
CATEGORIES:Colloquium
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SUMMARY:Katherine Jewell in conversation with Ian Condry\, “Party City: WMBR\, Institutional Change\, and Democratic Media”
DESCRIPTION:In-person attendance: limited to  MIT community members enrolled in Covid Pass. \n\n\n\nStreaming: This event will be available live on Zoom (mit.zoom.us/j/96579656038) and recorded. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nCollege radio has long been known as the weird\, wacky signals on the left of the FM dial offering music that would never be mainstream. But this wasn’t always the case—and moreover\, even at stations exemplifying musical adventurousness and the community potential of college signals\, institutional constraints loomed. In this talk\, Katherine Jewell delves into the history of WMBR at MIT from the 1960s to the 1980s to explore how this station\, with a license held by an independent non-profit corporation\, built a meaningful community institution despite transformations within the university\, its student body and organizations\, as well as regulatory changes regarding noncommercial radio and the music industry’s shifting business model. DJs debated and embraced the democratic obligations of their signal\, particularly their commitment to diversity of sound. But achieving these lofty goals often proved complicated given the need to construct a program that appealed to and served many audiences in a fluctuating radio market. Despite these limits\, college radio’s history can offer much to consider in considering how to pursue democratic media and community connection in the twenty-first century. \n\n\n\n\nKatherine Rye Jewell\, Ph.D.\, is a historian writing about the history of college radio\, including her forthcoming book\, tentatively titled Live from the Underground: A History of College Radio from University of North Carolina Press. Her research on college radio is at the center of two additional book projects currently in progress. She is the author of Dollars for Dixie: Business and the Transformation of Conservatism in the Twentieth Century\, published by Cambridge University Press (New York) in 2017. Her work has appeared in The American Historian\, the Washington Post\, among other scholarly publications. A graduate of Vanderbilt University (BA\, 2001) and Boston University (MA\, 2005; Ph.D.\, 2010)\, she studies the business and politics of culture. She is currently Associate Professor of History at Fitchburg State University\, where she received the Fitchburg State University Faculty Research Award in 2018\, and a year-long visiting fellowship from the University of Connecticut Humanities Institute. \n\n\n\n\n\nIan Condry is a cultural anthropologist of Japan and professor at MIT since 2002. He is the author of two books\, Hip-Hop Japan and The Soul of Anime\, both of which explore globalization from below. The books are available for free\, thanks to Creative Commons and Duke University Press: mit.academia.edu/IanCondry. In the fall of 2019\, he launched the MIT Spatial Sound Lab\, a community production studio for immersive\, multiperspective\, sonic experimentation. Among the goals is to provide a space for using sound to disrupt hierarchies\, reduce inequalities\, and cross borders. He is co-organizer of Dissolve Music\, a sound conference and music festival\, in 2018 and 2020 (mitdissolve.com). Since 2018\, he is the radio DJ for Near and Far\, a Japanese hip-hop show\, on WMBR 88.1FM Cambridge\, and online at wmbr.org\, weekly Tuesdays 7-8pm. Archive at mixcloud.com/iancondry. Since 2006\, he has organized the MIT / Harvard Cool Japan research project\, which explores the critical potential of popular culture. He is currently working on a book about musicians on the margins in Tokyo\, Boston\, and Berlin.
URL:https://cms.mit.edu/event/katherine-jewell-party-city-wmbr-institutional-change-and-democratic-media/
LOCATION:Zoom\, and (for MIT only) E15-318 Common Area\, 20 Ames Street\, Cambridge\, Massachusetts\, 02139\, United States
CATEGORIES:Colloquium
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SUMMARY:Racquel Gates\, “Reintroducing Melvin Van Peebles”
DESCRIPTION:This event is virtual and will be streamed live on Zoom (mit.zoom.us/j/96579656038) and recorded. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nIn this talk\, Racquel Gates presents her experience working as consulting producer on the Criterion release of Melvin Van Peebles: Essential Films. \n\n\n\nA legendary filmmaker whose unique personality is just as well-known as his body of work\, Van Peebles made an indelible impact on both Black film and independent cinema. How\, then\, to present new insights on Van Peebles in a way that built on viewers’ existing familiarity with the filmmaker and his work while avoiding cliches and hagiography? In “Reintroducing Melvin Melvin Van Peebles\,” Gates considers the history of her own research on Van Peebles’s films\, and details the pleasures — and challenges — of trying to create a bridge between the worlds of academic film studies and more public facing consumer film culture.  \n\n\n\n\nRacquel Gates is an Associate Professor of Film and Media at Columbia University. Her research focuses on blackness and popular culture\, with special attention to discourses of taste and quality. She is the author of Double Negative: The Black Image and Popular Culture (Duke\, 2018)\, and is currently working on her second book\, titled Hollywood Style and the Invention of Blackness. In 2020\, she was named an Academy Film Scholar by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences.
URL:https://cms.mit.edu/event/racquel-gates-reintroducing-melvin-van-peebles/
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SUMMARY:Jens Pohlmann\, “Platform Regulation and the Digital Public Sphere: Comparing the Discourse in Germany and the United States”
DESCRIPTION:This event is virtual and will be streamed live on Zoom (mit.zoom.us/j/96579656038) and recorded. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nIn this talk\, Jens Pohlmann compares the discourse about the regulation of social media platforms and its effect on freedom of expression in Germany and the United States. Drawing on computational methods\, he analyzes the discussion about a German anti-hate speech law called the Network Enforcement Act (NetzDG) and the debate about a reform of Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act in the United States in different media environments (IT-blogs\, newspapers\, social media). \n\n\n\nUltimately\, he considers the extent to which cultural\, historical\, and political differences between these two liberal democracies inform the present transatlantic debate about the restriction of content online and the regulation of social media platforms\, as well as potential impacts on the evolving digital public sphere. \n\n\n\n\nJens Pohlmann is a Research Associate at the Centre for Media\, Communication & Information Research (ZeMKI) at the University of Bremen. He received his Ph.D. from Stanford University in 2017 and focuses his research on the internet policy discourse in Germany and the United States. His first book\, The Creation of an Avant-Garde Brand: Heiner Müller’s Self-Presentation in the German Public Sphere is to be published this fall.
URL:https://cms.mit.edu/event/jens-pohlmann-platform-regulation-digital-public-sphere-germany-united-states/
CATEGORIES:Colloquium
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20220407T170000
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SUMMARY:Oscar Winberg\, “Archie Bunker Goes to Washington: How Television in the 1970s Remade Politics into Entertainment”
DESCRIPTION:This event is virtual and will be streamed live on Zoom (mit.zoom.us/j/96579656038) and recorded. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nThis talk reconsiders the role of television entertainment in American political life in the 1970s and beyond. Focusing on the situation comedy All in the Family (CBS\, 1971-1979)\, the talk looks at a turn to politics in entertainment and a turn to entertainment in politics. In the 1970s\, fictive characters\, including Archie Bunker (played by Carroll O’Connor) and Edith Bunker (Jean Stapleton) of All in the Family but also Hawkeye Pierce (played by Alan Alda) of MAS*H and Mary Richards (played by Mary Tyler Moore) of The Mary Tyler Moore Show\, became political icons. Produced by Norman Lear\, All in the Family is recognized as a watershed moment in television history. And yet\, Oscar Winberg argues\, the show did not just change television\, it transformed American politics. Recognizing the popularity of television\, politicians learned how to use (and abuse) television entertainment to win votes\, to fundraise\, to promote their agenda\, and to push for legislation. Television entertainment in the 1970s thereby remade political life in its image\, paving the way for our current moment of mediated showbiz politics. \n\n\n\n\nOscar Winberg holds a Ph.D. in History from Åbo Akademi University. He is working on a political history of television entertainment in the 1970s United States. His work focuses on mass media in modern political history and has appeared in PS: Political Science & Politics\, European Journal of American Studies\, and Finsk Tidskrift. He is a columnist for Hufvudstadsbladet and has written for venues such as Made by History at the Washington Post\, Vasabladet\, and the public broadcasting corporation in Finland.
URL:https://cms.mit.edu/event/oscar-winberg-archie-bunker-goes-to-washington-how-television-in-the-1970s-remade-politics-into-entertainment/
CATEGORIES:Colloquium
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SUMMARY:“Saving the News: Why the Constitution Calls for Government Action to Preserve Freedom of Speech\,” a Conversation with Martha Minow and Heather  Hendershot
DESCRIPTION:This event is virtual and will be streamed live on Zoom (mit.zoom.us/j/96579656038) and recorded. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nIn her 2021 book Saving the News: Why the Constitution Calls for Government Action to Preserve Freedom of Speech\, our guest Martha Minow “outlines an array of reforms\, including a new fairness doctrine\, regulating digital platforms as public utilities\, using antitrust authority to regulate the media\, policing fraud\, and more robust funding of public media. As she stresses\, such reforms are not merely plausible ideas; they are the kinds of initiatives needed if the First Amendment guarantee of freedom of the press continues to hold meaning in the twenty-first century.” \n\n\n\n\nMartha Minow has taught at Harvard Law School\, where she also served as Dean\, since 1981. In addition to Saving the News\, she is author of When Should Law Forgive? (2019)\, In Brown’s Wake: Legacies of America’s Constitutional Landmark (2010)\, among many other books and articles. She is an expert in human rights and advocacy for members of racial and religious minorities and for women\, children\, and persons with disabilities\, she also writes and teaches about digital communications\, democracy\, privatization\, military justice\, and ethnic and religious conflict. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nHeather Hendershot is Professor of Comparative Media Studies at MIT and studies TV news\, conservative media\, political movements\, and American film and television history. She is author of the forthcoming book When the News Broke: Chicago 1968 and the Polarizing of America\, which follows her 2016 title Open to Debate: How William F. Buckley Put Liberal America on the Firing Line. She has held fellowships at Vassar College\, New York University\, Princeton\, Harvard\, Radcliffe\, and Stanford\, and she has also been a Guggenheim fellow. Her courses emphasize the interplay between creative\, political\, and regulatory concerns and how those concerns affect what we see on the screen.
URL:https://cms.mit.edu/event/saving-the-news-martha-minow-heather-hendershot/
CATEGORIES:Colloquium
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SUMMARY:Mary Beth Meehan and Fred Turner\, “Seeing Silicon Valley”
DESCRIPTION:In-person attendance: limited to MIT community members enrolled in Covid Pass. \n\n\n\nStreaming: This event will be available live on Zoom (mit.zoom.us/j/96579656038) and recorded. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nAcclaimed photographer Mary Beth Meehan and Silicon Valley historian and media scholar Fred Turner discuss their recently published and award-winning book Seeing Silicon Valley: Life inside a Fraying America\, a collaborative exploration of the culture of Silicon Valley — not the culture of Elon Musk and Mark Zuckerberg that we see in the press\, but the lives of the men and women who inhabit the Valley and make it work. If Silicon Valley is building the world’s future\, Meehan and Turner argue\, then we must learn to see through the tech industry’s marketing campaigns. We need to see the kind of society the tech industry is actually creating\, in its own back yard. \n\n\n\n\nFred Turner is the Harry and Norman Chandler Professor of Communication at Stanford University. Before coming to Stanford\, he taught Communication at Harvard’s John F. Kennedy School of Government and MIT’s Sloan School of Management. He also worked for ten years as a journalist. He has written for newspapers and magazines ranging from the Boston Globe Sunday Magazine to Harper’s. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nMary Beth Meehan is an independent photographer\, writer\, and educator\, who has spent more than twenty years embedding herself in communities across the United States. Beginning in her native New England\, and continuing in the Midwest\, the American South and in Silicon Valley\, her work\, which combines image\, text\, and large-scale public installation\, stems from her belief in a collaborative process that should function in and for the communities it reflects. Co-opting the scale of celebrity and advertising\, Meehan’s portrait banners activate public spaces and spark conversations among and about the people who inhabit them.
URL:https://cms.mit.edu/event/seeing-silicon-valley-mary-beth-meehan-fred-turner/
LOCATION:Zoom\, and (for MIT only) E15-318 Common Area\, 20 Ames Street\, Cambridge\, Massachusetts\, 02139\, United States
CATEGORIES:Colloquium
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SUMMARY:Bearing Witness\, Seeking Justice
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