How Did the Computer Learn to See?
MIT Building 3, Room 133 33 Massachusetts Ave, Cambridge, MADid computers learn to see by modernity's most highly evolved technologies of vision, or, as Alexander Galloway argues, from sculpture?
MIT Graduate Program in Comparative Media Studies
Studying Media and Making Media
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Time Traveling with James Gleick
MIT Building 2, Room 190 182 Memorial Drive, Cambridge, MAInternational 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.
The Turn to “Tween”: An Age Category and its Cultural Consequences
MIT Building 3, Room 270 33 Massachusetts Ave (Rear), Cambridge, MAHow 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?
Illuminating 2016: Using Social Listening Tools to Understand the Presidential Campaign
MIT Building 3, Room 133 33 Massachusetts Ave, Cambridge, MAJennifer Stromer-Galley describes the large-scale collection and machine learning techniques used to study how presidential candidates use social media.
An Evening with John Hodgman
MIT Building 26, Room 100 Access Via 60 Vassar Street, Cambridge, MAJohn Hodgman brings his razor-sharp wit to MIT for a moderated discussion on his career and the state of comedy today.
Fall 2016 CMS Graduate Program Information Session
MIT Building E51, Room 095 70 Memorial Drive, Cambridge, MAA great way to get to know the program, its people, and its research. This year’s is on November 17 from 10am to 12pm and will be streamed online on our Youtube channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCmO0SU2gV3ZTl-EeKLcyAlQ
Fall 2016 Alumni Panel: Andres Lombana-Bermudez, Colleen Kaman, Abe Stein, and Lily Bui
MIT Building 3, Room 133 33 Massachusetts Ave, Cambridge, MAJoin us for this year's alumni panel, when we hear from four alums of the graduate program in Comparative Media Studies as they discuss their experience at MIT and what their careers have looked like in the fields a CMS degree prepared them for.
Black + Twitter: A Cultural Informatics Approach
MIT Building 3, Room 133 33 Massachusetts Ave, Cambridge, MAAndré Brock, scholar of Black cyberculture, offers that Twitter's feature set and ubiquity map closely onto Black discursive identity.
#Misogynoir, #SolidarityIsForWhiteWomen, and other forms of Black Digital Feminisms
MIT Building 3, Room 133 33 Massachusetts Ave, Cambridge, MAOperating under the oppressive structures of masculinity, heterosexuality, and Whiteness that are sustained in digital spaces, marginalized women persevere and resist such hegemonic realities.
What Playfulness Can Change
Location To Be DeterminedExploring playfulness and its business applications. Three workshops on January 12, 19, and 26.
IAP 2017: “Wikipedia 101: How to be a media literate citizen”
MIT Building 4, Room 251 182 Memorial Drive (Rear), Cambridge, MACultivate a greater understanding of how to evaluate a range of sources, from the popular news media, to institutional archives, to peer reviewed journals.
IAP 2017: Women in Politics Wikipedia Edit-a-thon
MIT Building 4, Room 251 182 Memorial Drive (Rear), Cambridge, MACo-sponsored by MIT Libraries and CMS/W.
IAP 2017: Global Game Jam
MIT Building 32 (Stata Center), Room 123 32 Vassar Street, Cambridge, MA"Come together, be creative, share experiences and express ourselves in a multitude of ways using video games."
“Hands On” Workshop and Demo
MIT Building 4, Room 145 182 Memorial Drive (Rear), Cambridge, MALearn how to draw the hand and why you couldn’t do it before.
Authoritarian and Democratic Data Science in an Experimenting Society
MIT Building 56, Room 114 Access via 21 Ames Street, Cambridge, MAMIT's Nathan Matias asks, how will the role of data science in democracy be transformed as software expands the public's ability to conduct our own experiments at scale?
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