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SUMMARY:"Theory" and its Quotation Marks
DESCRIPTION:Full info at http://student.mit.edu/iap/ns82.html: \nLilia Kilburn\, Katie Arthur \nEnrollment: Unlimited: No advance sign-up\nAttendance: Participants welcome at individual sessions \nThe aim of this course is to provide an opportunity to explore (and a community with which to do so) the longstanding dialogue in the humanities commonly known as “theory\,” using inroads offered by certain modifiers (queer theory\, feminist theory\, media theory\, critical race theory\, affect theory and so forth). “Theory” is a word to which some people express an allergic reaction\, but we posit that the transformative potential of many of these theoretical writings\, and the power of the critiques they render\, make them worth the occasional difficulty. \nEveryone is welcome\, with or without any background or experience in theory or literature! We will provide short readings for each session\, and we recommend that you commit to the full program\, however\, you may also attend individual sessions. \nSponsor(s): Comparative Media Studies/Writing\nContact: Lilia Kilburn\, liliak@mit.edu
URL:https://cms.mit.edu/event/theory-and-its-quotation-marks-2/
LOCATION:TBA
CATEGORIES:Independent Activities Period
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SUMMARY:Global Game Jam 2016
DESCRIPTION:Please refer to full information and schedule at http://student.mit.edu/iap/ns82.html \nRegister now at: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/global-game-jam-2016-at-mit-tickets-19781298396 \nThe Global Game Jam (GGJ) is the world’s largest game jam event taking place around the world at physical locations. Think of it as a hackathon focused on game development. It is the growth of an idea that in today’s heavily connected world\, we could come together\, be creative\, share experiences and express ourselves in a multitude of ways using video games – it is very universal. The weekend stirs a global creative buzz in games\, while at the same time exploring the process of development\, be it programming\, iterative design\, narrative exploration or artistic expression. It is all condensed into a 48 hour development cycle. The GGJ encourages people with all kinds of backgrounds to participate and contribute to this global spread of game development and creativity.
URL:https://cms.mit.edu/event/global-game-jam-2016/
LOCATION:MIT Building 32 (Stata Center)\, 32 Vassar Street\, Cambridge\, MA\, 02139\, United States
CATEGORIES:Independent Activities Period
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20160202T170000
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SUMMARY:John Jennings: "The Cipher Back to Here"
DESCRIPTION:John JenningsState University of New York at Buffalo\nJohn Jennings is an Associate Professor of Art and Visual Studies at the University at Buffalo-State University of New York. He is the co-author of the graphic novel The Hole: Consumer Culture\, Vol. 1 and the art collection Black Comix: African American Independent Comics Art and Culture (both with Damian Duffy). Jennings is also the co-editor of The Blacker the Ink: Constructions of Black Identity in Comics and Sequential Art and co-founder/organizer of The Schomburg Center’s Black Comic Book Festival in Harlem\, MLK NorCal’s Black Comix Arts Festival in San Francisco\, and the AstroBlackness colloquium in Los Angeles at Loyola Marymount University. Jennings’ current comics projects include the Hiphop adventure comic Kid Code: Channel Zero\, the supernatural crime noir story Blue Hand Mojo\, and the upcoming graphic novel adaptation of Octavia Butler’s classic dark fantasy novel Kindred.
URL:https://cms.mit.edu/event/john-jennings-cipher-back-to-here/
LOCATION:MIT Media Lab\, Room 633\, 75 Amherst St.\, Cambridge\, MA\, 02139\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20160204T170000
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SUMMARY:Amanda Lotz: "Television Didn't Die: But Broadband Distribution Revolutionized It"
DESCRIPTION:Amanda Lotz University of Michigan\nBeginning in the late 1990s\, the technology and even mainstream press opined extensively on the coming death of television. A decade later—and a time that found television still very much alive—that theme evolved to instead pronounce the coming death of cable. Rather than demise\, the emergence of broadband-distributed television has both reinvented the medium and revealed how extensively our expectations and understandings of television are based not on the medium of television but on logics developed for its broadcast distribution. \nAmanda D. Lotz’s talk presents key arguments of her current book project\, Being Wired: How Cable Transformed Television and the Internet Revolutionized It All with a focus on what transpired when the long anticipated face off between “new media” and television finally took place in 2010. \nLotz is professor in the Departments of Communication Studies and Screen Arts and Cultures at the University of Michigan where she studies contemporary media industries\, television\, and gender and media. She is the author of The Television Will Be Revolutionized (New York University Press\, 2007; Rev. 2nd ed. 2014)\, Cable Guys: Television and American Masculinities in the 21st Century(2014)\, and Redesigning Women: Television After the Network Era (University of Illinois Press\, 2006)\, and editor of Beyond Prime Time: Television Programming in the Post-Network Era (Routledge\, 2009). She is co-author\, with Timothy Havens\, of Understanding Media Industries (Oxford University Press\, 2011; 2nd ed. 2016) and\, with Jonathan Gray\, of Television Studies (Polity\, 2011). Her current work examines how cable changed television and became the dominant supplier of internet access in the early twenty-first century.
URL:https://cms.mit.edu/event/amanda-lotz-television-didnt-die-but-broadband-distribution-revolutionized-it/
LOCATION:MIT Building 56\, Room 114\, Access via 21 Ames Street\, Cambridge\, MA\, 02139\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20160211T170000
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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
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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:20160218T170000
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SUMMARY:Caroline Jack: "How Facts Survive in Public Service Media"
DESCRIPTION:Caroline Jack\, CMS/W Exchange Scholar and Ph.D. candidate in the Department of Communication at Cornell University\nEconomic literacy has long been touted as a potential solution to national economic crisis and individual financial precarity. But what does it mean to be economically literate? In a field full of contestation\, how do some perspectives get disqualified or excluded\, and others held up as facts? Between 1976 and 1978\, the nonprofit\, quasi-governmental public service advertising organization The Advertising Council saturated the American media environment with messages about American citizens’ responsibility to become economically knowledgeable\, and distributed over ten million copies of a glossy brochure designed to teach citizens the least they needed to know about the American economic system. Activist groups criticized the Ad Council campaign as propagandistic–but when these groups responded with their own information campaigns\, they found themselves excluded from access to public funds and airwaves. Where was the line between objective information and propaganda? Who had the power to decide? How has this dynamic changed over time\, as new media technologies have emerged and neoliberal policies and philosophies have moved from the margins to the center of American political culture? In this talk\, Jack calls attention to corporate managers and executives as consequential social and ontological actors with distinctive vernacular theories of media and politics. \nCaroline Jack is an Exchange Scholar in CMS/W and a Doctoral Candidate in the Department of Communication at Cornell University. Her article “Fun and Facts about American Business: Economic Education and Business Propaganda in an Early Cold War Cartoon Series” was recently published in Enterprise and Society.
URL:https://cms.mit.edu/event/caroline-jack-how-facts-survive-in-public-service-media/
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:20160225T170000
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SUMMARY:Vincent Brown: "Designing Histories of Slavery for the Database Age"
DESCRIPTION:Vincent BrownCharles Warren Professor of History\, Professor of African and African-American Studies\, and Director of the History Design Studio at Harvard University\nMultimedia scholarship invites reconsideration of how history has been\, could be\, and should be represented. By wrestling creatively and collectively with the difficult archival problems presented by social history of slavery\, Harvard’s Vincent Brown hopes to chart new pathways for pondering history’s most painful and vexing subjects. This presentation considers three graphic histories of slavery — a web-based animation of Voyages: The Transatlantic Slave Trade Database\, a cartographic narrative of the Jamaican slave revolt of 1760-61\, and a web-based archive of enslaved family lineages in Jamaica and Virginia — that illustrate how the archive of slavery is more than the records bequeathed to us by the past; the archive also includes the tools we use to explore it\, the vision that allows us to see its traces\, and the design decisions that communicate our sense of history’s possibilities. \nMulti-media historian Vincent Brown is Charles Warren Professor of History\, Professor of African and African-American Studies\, and Director of the History Design Studio at Harvard University. His research\, writing\, teaching\, and other creative endeavors are focused on the political dimensions of cultural practice.
URL:https://cms.mit.edu/event/vincent-brown-designing-histories-of-slavery-for-the-database-age/
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:20160303T170000
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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
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20160310T170000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20160310T190000
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SUMMARY:A Conversation with Guy Maddin
DESCRIPTION:Installation artist\, filmmaker\, and director Guy Maddin\nGuy Maddin and his partners are communing with the spirits of long-lost movies. In a conversation with William Uricchio\, Maddin will discuss why we should bother digging up filmic and narrative memories from oblivion\, how we can take advantage of the Internet to involve new publics\, and how the act of doing so might help to create a new web-based art form. \nMaddin is an installation artist\, writer and filmmaker\, the director of eleven feature-length movies\, including The Forbidden Room (2015) and My Winnipeg (2007). \nIn the winter of 2015/16 he and Evan Johnson will launch their major internet interactive work\, Seances\, which will enable anyone online to “hold séances with” movies fashioned out of fragments of long-lost films. \n\n	\n\n					\n		\n		\n\n			\n				\n											\n										\n						Ariane Labed						From Seances\, Guy Maddin's Internet interactive lost film project					\n				\n\n						\n				\n											\n										\n						Maria de Medeiros						From Seances\, Guy Maddin's Internet interactive lost film project					\n				\n\n						\n				\n											\n										\n						Clara Furey						From Seances\, Guy Maddin's Internet interactive lost film project					\n				\n\n						\n		\n\n		\n\n		\n		\n\n		\n\n		\n\n			\n\n\n\n \n\n 
URL:https://cms.mit.edu/event/conversation-with-guy-maddin/
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:20160317T170000
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SUMMARY:Thomas Elsaesser: "Media Archaeology as Symptom"
DESCRIPTION:Thomas ElsaesserColumbia University\nFor nearly one hundred years\, the moving image has been discussed primarily from the perspective of photography: organizing our questions and theories around cinema as an ocular dispositif\, based on light\, projection and transparency\, or as a recording dispositif\, based on index\, imprint and trace. In the age of digital imaging technologies\, some of which have little to do with optics\, such a history of the moving image seems too narrowly conceived. The broadly based\, if loosely defined research field calling itself “media archaeology” not only locates the cinema within more comprehensive media histories\, it also investigates apparently obsolete\, overlooked\, or poorly understood past media practices. The expectation is that by once more “opening up” these pasts\, one can enable or envisage a different future. The question then arises: is media archaeology a (viable) disciplinary subject or a (valuable) symptom also of changes in our ideas of history\, causality and contingency? \nThomas Elsaesser is Professor Emeritus at the University of Amsterdam and since 2013 has been teaching at Columbia University. Among his most recent books are: The Persistence of Hollywood (New York: Routledge\, 2012) and Film Theory: An Introduction through the Senses (New York: Routledge\, 2nd edition 2015\, with Malte Hagener). Forthcoming is Film History as Media Archaeology – Tracking Digital Cinema (Amsterdam University Press\, 2016).
URL:https://cms.mit.edu/event/thomas-elsaesser-media-archaeology-as-symptom/
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:20160331T170000
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SUMMARY:Lisa Glebatis Perks: "Media Marathoning and Affective Involvement"
DESCRIPTION:Lisa Perks\, Merrimack College\nAlthough the popular press primarily uses the negatively connoted phrase “binge-watching\,” Lisa Glebatis Perks employs the label “media marathoning” to describe viewers’ rapid engagement with a story world. Rather than positioning these media experiences as mindless indulgences\, the phrase media marathoning intimates engrossment\, effort\, and purpose. These media engagement efforts can be rewarded with pleasurable experiences\, but they can also lead to feelings of disappointment. Perks draws from discourse gathered from over 100 marathoners to describe some of marathoners’ most common emotional experiences\, including anger\, empathy\, parasocial mourning\, nostalgia\, and regret. The theme of the talk is that characters become the marathoners’ pseudo-avatars\, gaining shape\, texture\, and life through viewers’ affective investments. \nLisa Glebatis Perks (Ph.D.\, University of Texas at Austin) is Associate Professor of Communication Arts and Sciences at Merrimack College. She recently published Media Marathoning: Immersions in Morality\, which explores the ways readers and viewers become absorbed in a fictive text and dedicate many hours to exploring its narrative contours.
URL:https://cms.mit.edu/event/lisa-perks-media-marathoning-and-affective-involvement/
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:20160407T163000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20160407T163000
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SUMMARY:Michael Taussig: "Mooning Texas"
DESCRIPTION:Michael Taussig\, Professor of Anthropology\, Columbia University\n“Mooning Texas” – an adventure story involving social energy + art + Emile Durkheim’s “take” on Mauss + Hubert’s “take” on mana + the creativity of gossip. \nMichael Taussig\, professor of anthropology at Columbia University\, was dubbed by the New York Times as “Anthropology’s Alternative Radical.” Taussig has been doing fieldwork since 1969. He has written on the commercialization of peasant agriculture; slavery; hunger; the working of commodity fetishism; colonialism on “shamanism” and folk healing; the relevance of modernism and post-modernist aesthetics for the understanding of ritual; the making\, talking\, and writing of terror; and mimesis. He has also written “a study of exciting substance loaded with seduction and evil\, gold and cocaine\, in a montage-ethnography of the Pacific Coast of Colombia.” \nIntroduced by Prof. Ian Condry\, Global Studies and Languages\, MIT.  \nPresented by the Dissolve Inequality series and the Latin American Studies Forum of MIT Global Studies and Languages.\ngsl-events@mit.edu • mitgsl.mit.edu
URL:https://cms.mit.edu/event/michael-taussig-mooning-texas/
LOCATION:MIT Building 32 (Stata Center)\, Room 155\, 32 Vassar Street\, Cambridge\, MA\, 02139\, United States
CATEGORIES:Colloquium
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20160407T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20160407T200000
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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
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20160408T090000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20160408T170000
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SUMMARY:CMS Graduate Thesis Presentations
DESCRIPTION:These students aim to misbehave.\nThesis presentations of the class of 2016. \n \n9:00 am coffee and conversation\n\n9:30 am presentations begin\n\n	Lily Bui\, “Sense and the City: A Critical Look at Representations of Air Quality Data in the ‘Smart City'”\n	Lilia Kilburn\, “The Ghost in the (Answering) Machine: Vocality\, Technology\, Temporality”\n	Anika Gupta\, “Towards A Better Inclusivity: Online Comments and Community at News Organizations”\n	Andrew Stuhl\, “Making Software with Sound: Process and Politics in Interactive Musical Works”\n\nLunch Break\n\n	Kyrie Caldwell\, “That Momentary Glow: Gender and Systems of Warm Interaction in Digital Games”\n	Deniz Tortum\, “Real-time 3D Documentary: Representation Through Reality Capture and Game Engines”\n	Beyza Boyacioglu\, “Zeki Muren: A Prince from Space”\n	Gordon Mangum\, “DeepStream.tv: Designing Informative and Engaging Live Streaming Video Experiences”\n	Lacey Lord\, “Panels from Digits to Digital: The Evolution of Touch in Comics”\n\nIf you can’t make it to the presentation\, follow the livestream here: http://www.ustream.tv/channel/cEyEXhb4ryX
URL:https://cms.mit.edu/event/cms-graduate-thesis-presentations-2/
LOCATION:MIT Building E51\, Room 095\, 70 Memorial Drive\, Cambridge\, MA\, 02139\, United States
CATEGORIES:Thesis Presentations
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20160414T170000
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SUMMARY:Nick Seaver: "What Do People Do All Day?"
DESCRIPTION:Nick Seaver\, CMS ’10\, and Assistant Professor at Tufts University \nThe algorithmic infrastructures of the internet are made by a weird cast of characters: rock stars\, gurus\, ninjas\, wizards\, alchemists\, park rangers\, gardeners\, plumbers\, and janitors can all be found sitting at computers in otherwise unremarkable offices\, typing. These job titles\, sometimes official\, sometimes informal\, are a striking feature of internet industries. They mark jobs as novel or hip\, contrasting starkly with the sedentary screenwork of programming. But is that all they do? In this talk\, drawing on several years of fieldwork with the developers of algorithmic music recommenders\, Seaver describes how these terms help people make sense of new kinds of jobs and their positions within new infrastructures. They draw analogies that fit into existing prestige hierarchies (rockstars and janitors) or relationships to craft and technique (gardeners and alchemists). They aspire to particular imaginations of mastery (gurus and ninjas). Critics of big data have drawn attention to the importance of metaphors in framing public and commercial understandings of data\, its biases and origins. The metaphorical borrowings of role terms serve a similar function\, highlighting some features at the expense of others and shaping emerging professions in their image. If we want to make sense of new algorithmic industries\, we’ll need to understand how they make sense of themselves. \nNick Seaver is assistant professor of anthropology at Tufts University. His current research examines the cultural life of algorithms for understanding and recommending music. He received a masters from CMS in 2010 for research on the history of the player piano.
URL:https://cms.mit.edu/event/nick-seaver-what-do-people-do-all-day/
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:20160421T170000
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SUMMARY:CMS/W Town Hall
DESCRIPTION:Closed to the public.
URL:https://cms.mit.edu/event/cmsw-town-hall/
CATEGORIES:Colloquium
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20160423
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20160424
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SUMMARY:MIT Open House\, with CMS/W Events
DESCRIPTION:This year MIT celebrates 100 years in Cambridge! On April 23\, it hosts a campus-wide open house\, welcoming the public into every department to check out the coolest of the Institute’s work. We’ll have five spots of our own where you can stop. (And check out the full list of Open House activities.) See you there: \n\nOnce More\, With Feelies: Video Game Materials (an exhibition)\n11:00 AM to 3:00 PM\nRotch Library\, Building 7 – Room 238 \nExploring the Potential of Play\n11:00 AM to 2:00 PM\nWiesner Building\, Building E15 – Room 320 \nDesigning Digital Humanities\n12:00 PM to 2:00 PM\nBuilding 16 – Room 635 \nPlayful\, Powerful Learning\n10:00 AM to 3:00 PM\nWiesner Building\, Building E15 – Room 301 \nComputer-Generated Poetry\n10:00 AM to 3:00 PM\nWiesner Building\, Building E15 – Room 318
URL:https://cms.mit.edu/event/mit-open-house-cmsw-events/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20160425T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20160425T180000
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CREATED:20160411T174221Z
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SUMMARY:17th Annual CMS Media Spectacle
DESCRIPTION:(Submissions are now closed.) \nSubmission deadline is April 20. \nThe CMS Media Spectacle showcases video projects of all genres created by MIT students\, staff\, faculty and affiliates. Prizes include the Chris Pomiecko Award for Best Undergraduate Entry\, as well as awards for Best Non-undergraduate Entry\, Animation\, Experimental\, Narrative\, Nonfiction/Documentary\, and Audience Favorite. To submit an entry\, send your video to: \nBecky Shepardson\n14N-336\n77 Mass. Ave.\, Cambridge\, MA 02139\nbshep@mit.edu\n(if the video is online\, please make sure it’s downloadable) \nPlease include with your submission: contact email\, video title\, brief description\, and running time. The maximum running time is 15 minutes. The deadline for submissions is April 20. Contact bshep@mit.edu with any questions.
URL:https://cms.mit.edu/event/2016-media-spectacle/
LOCATION:MIT Building 32 (Stata Center)\, Room 155\, 32 Vassar Street\, Cambridge\, MA\, 02139\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20160428T170000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20160428T170000
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SUMMARY:Fox Harrell: "Reflections on Advanced Identity Representation"
DESCRIPTION:Fox HarrellPhoto by Bryce Vickmark \nNearly everyone these days imaginatively uses virtual identities such as social media profiles\, e-commerce accounts\, and/or videogame characters. Yet\, virtual identities can reproduce discrimination and stereotypes with devastating impacts on users ranging from worse performance and engagement for students to bullying and threats of violence. If such forms of oppression persist\, e.g.\, female virtual identity users being threatened online\, surely we must go advance our understanding of the roles these technologies play in society and how to design them to better suit diverse social needs. In this talk\, Harrell presents some of the outcomes from his 5-year National Science Foundation-supported research initiative called the Advanced Identity Representation project. Namely\, applying approaches from artificial intelligence\, cognitive science\, and sociology to technologies such as videogames and social media\, his research both reveals social biases in existing systems and implements systems to respond to those biases with greater nuance and expressive power. \nD. Fox Harrell is an Associate Professor of Digital Media at MIT in the Comparative Media Studies Program and Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory. He founded and directs the MIT Imagination\, Computation\, and Expression Laboratory (ICE Lab). He was a 2014-15 recipient of the Lenore Annenberg and Wallis Annenberg Fellowship in Communication and fellow at the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences at Stanford University.
URL:https://cms.mit.edu/event/fox-harrell-reflections-on-advanced-identity-representation/
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:20160505T170000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20160505T170000
DTSTAMP:20260403T151433
CREATED:20160201T143226Z
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SUMMARY:Virtual Reality Meets Documentary: A Deeper Look
DESCRIPTION:(Note updated location: Stata Center\, Room 123) \n“In this case [of virtual reality]\, we do have a technology\, but we don’t have any clear idea how to fill it with content.” – Werner Herzog \nWhen Time Magazine graced its cover with Oculus Rift inventor Palmer Luckey’s awkward pose\, it effectively proclaimed that VR was “the next big thing” that didn’t have any place in our lives yet.  Google\, Facebook\, The New York Times\, PBS Frontline\, Sundance Film Institute and many others are investing heavily in virtual reality as a powerful new storytelling medium. It’s capturing the imagination of documentary storytellers all over the world yet for all its enthusiasts\, virtual reality has its skeptics. For all virtual reality is talked about\, it can be deeply misunderstood. \nVirtual reality means many things to many people: an immersive experience\, a new tool for storytelling\, a cluster of quite different technologies and techniques\, and even an epistemological claim.  Little wonder that we lack consensus about “how to fill it with content.” \nThe goal of this panel is to talk with some of the leading creators in the VR space and better understand VR’s potentials and implications for documentary and journalism. This will help us to disambiguate some of the major strands of VR and in so doing consider the inherent tensions in VR between documentation and simulation\, the challenges of spatial storytelling and new narrative structures\, the ethics and cognitive neuroscience of immersion\, interaction\, and affect; and VR’s past and future. \nSpeakers\nRaney Aronson-Rath runs FRONTLINE\, PBS’s flagship investigative journalism series\, and is a leading voice on the future of journalism. She has been internationally recognized for her work to expand FRONTLINE’s reporting capacity and reimagine the documentary form across multiple platforms. From the emergence of ISIS in Syria to the hidden history of the NFL and concussions to the secret reality of rape on the job for immigrant women\, Aronson-Rath oversees FRONTLINE’s acclaimed reporting and directs the series’ evolution and editorial vision. She has developed and managed nearly 30 in-depth\, cross-platform journalism partnerships with outlets including ProPublica\, The New York Times\, and Univision. Under her leadership\, FRONTLINE has won every major award in broadcast journalism and dramatically expanded its digital footprint. Prior to FRONTLINE\, Aronson-Rath worked at ABC News\, The Wall Street Journal\, and MSNBC. She earned her bachelor’s degree from the University of Wisconsin and her master’s from Columbia Journalism School. \nKaty Morrison is co-Founder and producer at Virtual Reality studio VRTOV and makes virtual reality and immersive story experiences for non-fiction stories. Shaped by her experience working as a documentary maker\, Katy’s interest is in subjectivity\, identity and spatiality in an increasingly virtual and interconnected world. Previously Katy worked in documentary television as a researcher\, writer and producer and has made over fifty hours of internationally broadcast documentary television as well as augmented reality apps\, virtual reality experiences and immersive story installations. In addition to producing Virtual Reality\, VRTOV regularly run workshops\, speak at festivals and facilitate hands-on engagement with VR production techniques for broadcasters and media companies.  \nNonny de la Peña was selected by Wired Magazine as a #MakeTechHuman Agent of Change and has been called “The Godmother of Virtual Reality” by Engadget and The Guardian. Additionally\, Fast Company named her “One of the People Who Made the World More Creative.” for her pioneering work in immersive storytelling. As CEO of Emblematic Group\, she uses cutting edge technologies to tell important stories—both fictional and news-based—that create intense\, empathic engagement on the part of viewers. A Yale Poynter Media Fellow and a former correspondent for Newsweek\, de la Peña has more than 20 years of award-winning experience in print\, film and TV. De la Peña is widely credited with helping create the genre of immersive journalism and her virtual reality work has been featured by the BBC\, Mashable\, Vice\, Wired and many others.  Showcases around the globe include the Sundance and Tribeca Film Festivals\, The World Economic Forum in Davos\, The Victoria and Albert Museum\, Moscow Museum of Modern Art\, and Games For Change. \nCaspar Sonnen is a festival organiser and curator specialised in independent cinema and digital media art. As New Media Coordinator of the International Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam\, he has successfully developed digital festival strategies and online initiatives. In 2008\, Sonnen launched IDFA DocLab\, a pioneering platform for digital documentary storytelling and media art. IDFA DocLab is also one of the organising partners of PhotoStories. Besides his work at IDFA\, Sonnen is co-founder and programmer of the Open Air Film Festival Amsterdam.
URL:https://cms.mit.edu/event/virtual-reality-meets-documentary-a-deeper-look/
LOCATION:MIT Building 32 (Stata Center)\, Room 123\, 32 Vassar Street\, Cambridge\, MA\, 02139\, United States
CATEGORIES:Colloquium
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20160908T170000
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SUMMARY:“Innovation” and “Engagement”: Experiments with What Industry Buzzwords Can Mean in Practice
DESCRIPTION:CMS/W alum Sam Ford (S.M.\, CMS\, ’07) has spent most of the last decade exploring points of connection and contention between the media and marketing industries and media studies. Starting last year\, that work has taken him to Univision’s Fusion Media Group (a portfolio of media companies which includes Fusion\, Univision Digital\, Univision Music\, The Root\, Flama\, The Onion\, A.V. Club\, Clickhole\, Starwipe\, and El Rey)\, leading a team that has been building the conglomerate’s approach to experimentation outside of the company’s core day-to-day operations. \nIn this colloquium\, Sam will be joined by his colleague Federico Rodriguez Tarditi to discuss what they have learned thus far from Fusion Media Group’s experiments with exploring new ways of telling stories\, new approaches to building relationships with key publics important to our portfolio\, new ways of working internally\, and new types of roles/positions in the company. They will also talk about what they have learned while working with internal teams\, academic groups\, non-profits\, other companies\, startups\, foundations\, and other groups and the challenges of measuring success for experimentation that often exist outside day-to-day media company operations…and some of which may speak more to the company’s larger mission than direct paths to profitability. \nSam Ford is a Vice President at Fusion and Head of Fusion Media Group’s Center for Innovation and Engagement. Federico Rodriguez Tarditi serves as Project Manager for the Center for Innovation and Engagement.
URL:https://cms.mit.edu/event/fusion-what-industry-buzzwords-can-mean-in-practice/
LOCATION:MIT Building 3\, Room 133\, 33 Massachusetts Ave\, Cambridge\, MA\, 02139\, United States
CATEGORIES:Colloquium
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20160915T170000
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SUMMARY:Knowledge’s Allure: Surveillance and Uncertainty
DESCRIPTION:Sun-ha HongMellon Postdoctoral Fellow \nThe present age is one of growing faith in machinic knowledge. From state surveillance to self-tracking technologies\, we find lofty promises about the power of “raw” data\, sensing machines and algorithmic decision-making. But new claims to knowledge invariably entail a redistribution of uncertainty\, of those in the know and those left ignorant\, of proofs “good enough” and “negligible” risks. Today\, the U.S. government struggles to “prove” the efficacy of its own surveillance programs. The calculability of terrorist threat becomes profoundly indeterminable\, exemplified by the figure of the “lone wolf”. Meanwhile\, the self-tracking industry promises unerringly objective self-knowledge through machines that know you better than you know yourself. The present struggles with “big” data and surveillance are not just a question of privacy and security\, but how promises of knowledge and its bounty enact a redistribution of authority\, credibility and responsibility. In short\, it is a question of how human individuals become the ingredient for the production of truths and judgments about them by things other than themselves. \nSun-ha Hong is a Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow in the Humanities at CMS/W @ MIT\, and has a Ph.D. from the Annenberg School for Communication\, University of Pennsylvania. His writing examines the collective fantasies invested in technology\, media and communication.
URL:https://cms.mit.edu/event/knowledges-allure-surveillance-uncertainty/
LOCATION:MIT Building 3\, Room 133\, 33 Massachusetts Ave\, Cambridge\, MA\, 02139\, United States
CATEGORIES:Colloquium
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20160922T170000
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SUMMARY:The Exit Zero Project: A Transmedia Exploration of Family and Class in Postindustrial Chicago
DESCRIPTION:Christine Walley Professor of Anthropology andDirector of Graduate Studies\, HASTS \nThe Exit Zero Project (www.exitzeroproject.org) is a transmedia exploration of the traumatic effects of the loss of the steel industry in Southeast Chicago\, the impact that deindustrialization has had on expanding class inequalities in the United States more broadly\, and how Americans talk – and fail to talk – about social class. The project includes an award-winning book\, Exit Zero: Family and Class in Post-Industrial Chicago (University of Chicago Press\, 2013) authored by Christine Walley\, as well as a documentary film\, entitled Exit Zero: An Industrial Family Story (2016) made in conjunction with director and filmmaker Chris Boebel. The book and film use first person narration to trace the stories of multiple generations of writer/producer Walley’s family in this once-thriving steel mill community. From the turn-of-the-century experience of immigrants who worked in Chicago’s mammoth industries to the labor struggles of the 1930s to the seemingly unfathomable closure of the steel mills in the 1980s and 90s\, these family stories convey a history that serves as a microcosm of the broader national experience of deindustrialization and its economic and environmental aftermath. The project also includes an interactive documentary website with both a storytelling and archival component that is being made in collaboration with the Southeast Chicago Historical Museum. In this talk\, Professor Walley will talk about her research into this topic and how it found expression in a book\, website\, and documentary film. \nWalley received a Ph.D. in anthropology from New York University in 1999. Her first book\, Rough Waters: Nature and Development in an East African Marine Park (Princeton University Press\, 2004)\, was based on field research exploring environmental conflict in rural Tanzania. Chris Walley and Chris Boebel are also the co-creators and co-instructors of the documentary film production and theory class DV Lab: Documenting Science Through Video and New Media.
URL:https://cms.mit.edu/event/exit-zero-project-transmedia-exploration-family-class-postindustrial-chicago/
LOCATION:MIT Building 3\, Room 133\, 33 Massachusetts Ave\, Cambridge\, MA\, 02139\, United States
CATEGORIES:Colloquium
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20160929T170000
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SUMMARY:Next Stage Planning for the Digital Humanities at MIT
DESCRIPTION:Douglas O’ReaganDigital Humanities Postdoctoral Fellow \nAs a Postdoctoral Fellow in Digital Humanities at MIT\, Douglas O’Reagan will study how the digital humanities can best aid the specific strengths\, mission\, and broader community around MIT. In this talk\, O’Reagan will update the audience on his efforts and invite suggestions and ideas concerning the future of digital humanities at MIT. \nO’Reagan completed his Ph.D. in History from the University of California\, Berkeley in May 2014. His dissertation was a comparative history of the Allied powers’ attempts to study and copy German science and technology during and after the Second World War. He was a postdoctoral fellow at the Fung Institute of Engineering Leadership in UC Berkeley’s College of Engineering from 2014-2015\, where he worked with an interdisciplinary team on applying data science\, econometric analysis\, and historical research in studying the origins and impacts of specific breakthrough technologies. In 2015 he became a visiting assistant professor at Washington State University’s Tri-Cities campus\, where he taught history and served as Lead Archivist and Director of the Oral History Program for the Hanford History Project\, which manages the US Department of Energy’s collections related to the Hanford site of the Manhattan Project.
URL:https://cms.mit.edu/event/next-stage-planning-digital-humanities-mit/
LOCATION:MIT Building 3\, Room 133\, 33 Massachusetts Ave\, Cambridge\, MA\, 02139\, United States
CATEGORIES:Colloquium
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20161006T170000
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CREATED:20160831T185623Z
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SUMMARY:This Land Is Our Land: Mobile Media\, Protest\, and Debate in Maasai and Mongolian Land Disputes
DESCRIPTION:Allison HahnAssistant Professor of Communication Studies at the City University of New York – Baruch College \nHow has mobile media changed the ways that nomadic communities receive and send information\, engage state actors\, and participate in international deliberations? Allison Hahn examines the ways that two pastoral-nomadic communities\, Maasai of Kenya and Tanzania and Mongolians of Mongolia and China\, are utilizing new media and social media platforms to challenge power hierarchies and deliberative norms. Many governmental policy makers presume that this technological adaptation indicates a determination amongst nomadic communities to integrate and settle. This presentation asks if nomadic communities might instead be incorporating new media technologies as a method to preserve their traditional lifestyles while engaging in national and international deliberations about land policy. Hahn draws from evidence of this engagement found in Maasai and Mongolian use of YouTube\, RenRen\, Twitter and Facebook as well as in-person protests and her decade of fieldwork amongst pastoral-nomadic communities. In this talk\, Hahn focuses on specific examples from Maasai and Mongolian communities\, as well as addresses the broader questions of how academics might engage once-distant communities and better understand the complexity of mobile media and nomadic deliberation.  \nAllison Hahn (Ph.D.\, University of Pittsburgh) is Assistant Professor of Communication Studies at the City University of New York – Baruch College. Her current book project\, Nomads\, New Media\, and the State (in progress) explores the ways pastoral-nomadic communities in Central Asia\, East Africa\, and the Middle East are utilizing new and mobile technologies to participate in conservation policy and negotiate land rights.
URL:https://cms.mit.edu/event/allison-hahn-mobile-media-protest-debate-maasai-mongolian-land-disputes/
LOCATION:MIT Building 3\, Room 133\, 33 Massachusetts Ave\, Cambridge\, MA\, 02139\, United States
CATEGORIES:Colloquium
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20161013T170000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20161013T170000
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SUMMARY:How Did the Computer Learn to See?
DESCRIPTION:Alexander GallowayPhoto by Ivan Brodey \nHow did the computer learn to see? A common response to the question is that the computer learned to see from cinema and photography\, that is\, from modernity’s most highly evolved technologies of vision. In this talk we will explore a different response to the question\, that the computer learned to see not from cinema but from sculpture. With reference to the work of artists Sarah Oppenheimer and Zach Blas\, along with techniques for digital image compression\, we will explore the uniquely computational mode of vision. \nAlexander Galloway is a writer and computer programmer working on issues in philosophy\, technology\, and theories of mediation. He is author of several books\, most recently a monograph on the work of François Laruelle\, and is currently a visiting professor in the Department of Visual and Environmental Studies at Harvard University.
URL:https://cms.mit.edu/event/alexander-galloway-computer-learn-see/
LOCATION:MIT Building 3\, Room 133\, 33 Massachusetts Ave\, Cambridge\, MA\, 02139\, United States
CATEGORIES:Colloquium
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20161017T180000
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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
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20161020T170000
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CREATED:20160822T132458Z
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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
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SUMMARY:Illuminating 2016: Using Social Listening Tools to Understand the Presidential Campaign
DESCRIPTION:Jennifer Stromer-GalleySyracuse University \nThe 2016 presidential election has been historic for the ways that social media has been used to drive the news agenda and rally supporters to the cause. Jennifer Stromer-Galley will describe the large scale collection and machine learning techniques she and her team have used for the Illuminating 2016 project to study the ways the presidential candidates and the public have used social media. She will provide some of the major trends they’ve seen this election cycle\, and talk about why this matters for journalism and for social media practitioners more broadly. \nStromer-Galley is a professor in Syracuse University’s School of Information Studies and Director for the Center for Computational and Data Sciences\, and she is President of the Association of Internet Researchers. She has been studying “social media” since before it was called social media\, studying online interaction and influence in a variety of contexts\, including political forums and online games. Her award-winning book Presidential Campaigning in the Internet Age provides a history of presidential campaigns as they have adopted and adapted to digital communication technologies.
URL:https://cms.mit.edu/event/stromer-galley-illuminating-2016-presidential-campaign/
LOCATION:MIT Building 3\, Room 133\, 33 Massachusetts Ave\, Cambridge\, MA\, 02139\, United States
CATEGORIES:Colloquium
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