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:20100314T070000
END:DAYLIGHT
BEGIN:STANDARD
TZOFFSETFROM:-0400
TZOFFSETTO:-0500
TZNAME:EST
DTSTART:20101107T060000
END:STANDARD
BEGIN:DAYLIGHT
TZOFFSETFROM:-0500
TZOFFSETTO:-0400
TZNAME:EDT
DTSTART:20110313T070000
END:DAYLIGHT
BEGIN:STANDARD
TZOFFSETFROM:-0400
TZOFFSETTO:-0500
TZNAME:EST
DTSTART:20111106T060000
END:STANDARD
END:VTIMEZONE
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20111121T020000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20111121T160000
DTSTAMP:20260403T151235
CREATED:20150211T200730Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20150211T201106Z
UID:22852-1321840800-1321891200@cms.mit.edu
SUMMARY:Online Information Session
DESCRIPTION:
URL:https://cms.mit.edu/event/online-information-session-112111/
LOCATION:cms.mit.edu
CATEGORIES:Independent Activities Period
ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://cms.mit.edu/wp/wp-content/uploads/2013/09/chat.png
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20111116T173000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20111116T190000
DTSTAMP:20260403T151235
CREATED:20141210T160536Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20141210T160536Z
UID:21496-1321464600-1321470000@cms.mit.edu
SUMMARY:Fandom Unbound: Otaku Culture in a Connected World
DESCRIPTION:Mimi Ito\nIn recent years\, otaku culture has emerged as one of Japan’s major cultural exports and as a genuinely transnational phenomenon. In this talk\, Mimi Ito\, a cultural anthropologist at UC Irvine\, discusses how this once marginalized popular culture has come to play a major role in Japan’s identity at home and abroad. In the American context\, the word otaku is best translated as “geek”—an ardent fan with highly specialized knowledge and interests. But it is associated especially with fans of specific Japan-based cultural genres\, including anime\, manga\, and video games. Most important of all is the way otaku culture represents a newly participatory fan culture in which fans not only organize around niche interests but produce and distribute their own media content.  How did this once stigmatized Japanese youth culture create its own alternative markets and cultural products such as fan fiction\, comics\, costumes\, and remixes\, becoming a major international force that can challenge the dominance of commercial media? By exploring the rich variety of otaku culture from multiple perspectives\, Prof. Ito will provide fascinating insights into the present and future of cultural production and distribution in the digital age. \nHer web site is at itofisher.com/mito. \nCo-hosted with the MIT Cool Japan Research Project.
URL:https://cms.mit.edu/event/mimi-ito-otaku-culture/
LOCATION:MIT Media Lab\, Room 633\, 75 Amherst St.\, Cambridge\, MA\, 02139\, United States
CATEGORIES:Civic Media Session,Colloquium
ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://cms.mit.edu/wp/wp-content/uploads/2011/11/Mimi-Ito-USC.jpg
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20111116T173000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20111116T190000
DTSTAMP:20260403T151235
CREATED:20131114T180451Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20131210T193431Z
UID:6886-1321464600-1321470000@cms.mit.edu
SUMMARY:Mimi Ito\, "Fandom Unbound: Otaku Culture in a Connected World"
DESCRIPTION:Mimi Ito\nIn recent years\, otaku culture has emerged as one of Japan’s major cultural exports and as a genuinely transnational phenomenon. In this talk\, Mimi Ito\, a cultural anthropologist at UC Irvine\, discusses how this once marginalized popular culture has come to play a major role in Japan’s identity at home and abroad. In the American context\, the word otaku is best translated as “geek”—an ardent fan with highly specialized knowledge and interests. But it is associated especially with fans of specific Japan-based cultural genres\, including anime\, manga\, and video games. Most important of all is the way otaku culture represents a newly participatory fan culture in which fans not only organize around niche interests but produce and distribute their own media content.  How did this once stigmatized Japanese youth culture create its own alternative markets and cultural products such as fan fiction\, comics\, costumes\, and remixes\, becoming a major international force that can challenge the dominance of commercial media? By exploring the rich variety of otaku culture from multiple perspectives\, Prof. Ito will provide fascinating insights into the present and future of cultural production and distribution in the digital age. \nHer web site is at itofisher.com/mito. \nCo-hosted with the MIT Cool Japan Research Project.
URL:https://cms.mit.edu/event/mimi-ito-fandom-unbound-otaku-culture-connected-world/
LOCATION:MIT Media Lab\, Room 633\, 75 Amherst St.\, Cambridge\, MA\, 02139\, United States
CATEGORIES:Civic Media Session,Colloquium
ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://cms.mit.edu/wp/wp-content/uploads/2011/11/Mimi-Ito-USC.jpg
ORGANIZER;CN="MIT%20Comparative%20Media%20Studies%2FWriting":MAILTO:cmsw@mit.edu
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20111110T170000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20111110T190000
DTSTAMP:20260403T151235
CREATED:20140929T181816Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20140929T181816Z
UID:21287-1320944400-1320951600@cms.mit.edu
SUMMARY:Cities and the Future of Entertainment
DESCRIPTION:As a prologue to the Futures of Entertainment conference\, this Forum will focus on the emergence of powerful new production cultures in such cities as Mumbai\, Shanghai\, and Rio de Janeiro. What do these developments portend for the international flow of media content? How does the nature of these cities shape the entertainment industries they are fostering? At the same time\, new means of media production and circulation now permit individuals to produce content from suburban or rural areas. How do these apparently opposed trends co-exist?  What is their likely impact on audiences and on the international media landscape? \nSpeakers include Sérgio Sá Leitão\, president of RioFilme; 2005 CMS graduate Parmesh Shahani\, now at the University of Pennsylvania and of Godrej India Culture Club — and who previously worked for Mahindra & Mahindra\, one of India’s largest business conglomerates; and Ernest James Wilson III\, dean of the Annenberg School for Communication & Journalism at the University of Southern California. \nThe Forum will be moderated by Mauricio Mota\, a co-founder and Chief Storytelling Officer of the Alchemists Transmedia Storytelling Co.
URL:https://cms.mit.edu/event/cities-and-the-future-of-entertainment/
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/2014/09/Mumbai.jpg
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20111110T170000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20111110T190000
DTSTAMP:20260403T151235
CREATED:20131114T175602Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20131114T175602Z
UID:6881-1320944400-1320951600@cms.mit.edu
SUMMARY:Cities and the Future of Entertainment
DESCRIPTION:As a prologue to the Futures of Entertainment conference\, this Forum will focus on the emergence of powerful new production cultures in such cities as Mumbai\, Shanghai\, and Rio de Janeiro. What do these developments portend for the international flow of media content? How does the nature of these cities shape the entertainment industries they are fostering? At the same time\, new means of media production and circulation now permit individuals to produce content from suburban or rural areas. How do these apparently opposed trends co-exist?  What is their likely impact on audiences and on the international media landscape? \nSpeakers include Sérgio Sá Leitão\, president of RioFilme; 2005 CMS graduate Parmesh Shahani\, now at the University of Pennsylvania and of Godrej India Culture Club — and who previously worked for Mahindra & Mahindra\, one of India’s largest business conglomerates; and Ernest James Wilson III\, dean of the Annenberg School for Communication & Journalism at the University of Southern California. \nThe Forum will be moderated by Mauricio Mota\, a co-founder and Chief Storytelling Officer of the Alchemists Transmedia Storytelling Co.
URL:https://cms.mit.edu/event/cities-future-entertainment/
LOCATION:MIT Media Lab\, Bartos Theater\, 20 Ames Street\, Cambridge\, MA\, 02139\, United States
CATEGORIES:Colloquium,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:20111110T093000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20111110T190000
DTSTAMP:20260403T151235
CREATED:20150107T194903Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20150107T194903Z
UID:22611-1320917400-1320951600@cms.mit.edu
SUMMARY:Graduate Program Information Session
DESCRIPTION:
URL:https://cms.mit.edu/event/graduate-program-information-session-2/
LOCATION:CMS/W Headquarters (E15-331)\, 20 Ames Street\, Cambridge\, MA\, 02139\, United States
CATEGORIES:Information Session
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20111103T170000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20111103T190000
DTSTAMP:20260403T151235
CREATED:20131114T174706Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20131114T174706Z
UID:6879-1320339600-1320346800@cms.mit.edu
SUMMARY:Marina Bers\, "The Design of Digital Experiences for Positive Youth Development"
DESCRIPTION:Marina Bers\nThis talk will focus on digital spaces to support positive youth development. \nAs the design of our digital landscape is increasingly guided by commercial purposes and not by developmental concerns\, there is a sense of urgency for developing strategies and educational programs that promote positive development by taking into consideration the children’s social\, emotional\, cognitive\, physical\, civic and spiritual needs. But we should also consider the unique design features of each technology and the practices and policies that shape different interactions in the digital landscape. Although this talk will focus on new technologies\, it is inspired by an old question: “How should we live?” This talk will present an approach to help children gain the technological literacies of the 21st century while developing a sense of identity\, values and purpose. Too often youth’s experiences with technology are framed in negative terms. This talk acknowledges problems and risks\, and takes an interventionist perspective. Based on over a decade and a half of research\, this talk provides a theoretical framework for guiding the implementation of experiences that take advantage of new technologies to support learning and personal development\, as well as examples from concrete experiences. These engage children in playful learning by supporting digital content creation\, creativity\, choices of conduct\, communication\, collaboration and community building.  These are the six C’s proposed by the Positive Technological Development framework. They can guide the design and the evaluation of digital experiences from early childhood to adolescence\, and offer a possible path to help children out of the playpens into the playgrounds of this technological era. \nMarina Umaschi Bers\, Ph.D.\, is an associate professor at the Eliot-Pearson Department of Child Development and the Computer Science Department at Tufts University. She heads the interdisciplinary Developmental Technologies research group. Her research involves the design and study of innovative learning technologies to promote positive youth development. Dr. Bers received prestigious awards such as the 2005 Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers (PECASE)\, a five year National Science Foundation Young Investigator’s Career Award and the American Educational Research Association’s Jan Hawkins Award. Over the past decade and a half\, Dr. Bers has conceived\, designed and evaluated diverse technological tools ranging from robotics to virtual worlds in after-school programs\, museums\, hospitals\, and schools both in the U.S. and abroad. Dr. Bers has received several NSF grants and is active in publishing her research in academic journals. Her book Blocks to Robots: Learning with Technology in the Early Childhood Classroom was published in 2008 by Teacher’s College Press. Most recently\, Dr. Bers wrote The Design of Digital Experiences for Positive Youth Development: Out of the playpen into the playground\, to be published by Oxford University in early 2012. Dr. Bers is from Argentina. In 1994 she came to the U.S. and received a Master’s degree in Educational Media from Boston University and a Master of Science and Ph.D. from the MIT Media Laboratory. \nMore on Dr. Bers
URL:https://cms.mit.edu/event/marina-bers-design-digital-experiences-positive-youth-development/
LOCATION:MIT Media Lab\, Room 633\, 75 Amherst St.\, Cambridge\, MA\, 02139\, United States
CATEGORIES:Colloquium
ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/gif:https://cms.mit.edu/wp/wp-content/uploads/2011/11/bers.gif
ORGANIZER;CN="MIT%20Comparative%20Media%20Studies%2FWriting":MAILTO:cmsw@mit.edu
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20111025T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20111025T133000
DTSTAMP:20260403T151235
CREATED:20141215T155550Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20141215T155621Z
UID:21514-1319544000-1319549400@cms.mit.edu
SUMMARY:Sandra Braman: "Frames\, Fractures\, and Skins: Internet Design as Social Policy"
DESCRIPTION:Communications Forum and the Program in Science\, Technology\, and Society present a lunch-time talk with MIT Press author and Information Policy book series editor Sandra Braman (University of Wisconsin\, Milwaukee) \nSandra Braman\nThose responsible for technical design of the Internet have found they must think through a number of social policy issues along the way\, from those we might expect (privacy\, property rights\, and security) to those that may be more surprising (environmental problems\, ensuring access in rural areas\, and the socio-cultural impact of network use). In doing so they make and analyze policy\, develop formal decision-making processes and governance entities\, and discuss political\, social\, and communication theory. Positions on policy issues were framed by conceptualizations of the nature of the network\, goals to be served by the network\, users and uses of the network\, early identification of specific legal and policy problems that needed to be addressed\, and the design criteria that served as policy principles as they were developed during the early years of the design process. Based on a discourse analysis of the technical document series that records the history of Internet design decision-making as it was launched by issuance of the first DARPA contract in 1969\, this presentation examines such policy fundamentals as they developed during the first decade of the network process and traces the consequences of reliance upon those frames as the network continued to develop and change over time. \nBring lunch if you’d like. Coffee and drinks served.
URL:https://cms.mit.edu/event/sandra-braman-internet-design-as-social-policy/
LOCATION:MIT Building E51\, Room 275\, 70 Memorial Drive\, Cambridge\, MA\, 02139\, United States
ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://cms.mit.edu/wp/wp-content/uploads/2011/10/Braman-frame2.jpg
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20111013T170000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20111013T170000
DTSTAMP:20260403T151235
CREATED:20161128T201104Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20161128T201104Z
UID:21285-1318525200-1318525200@cms.mit.edu
SUMMARY:Revision\, Culture\, and the Machine: How Digital Makes Us Human
DESCRIPTION:John BryantHofstra University\nIn revising their own texts\, or other people’s texts\, writers erase the past\, remodel it\, or reinvent it. They create versions of themselves\, and those versions are recorded in the textual identities they create through revision. By studying revision\, we are able to see not only how a single writer evolves but also how a culture insists upon certain evolutions\, with or without the writer’s consent. \nTherefore\, the dynamics of revision can take us to the heart of identity formation both in its expressive and repressive strains. What compels a culture to rewrite its texts? How do we track revision in order to “see” or rather “give witness to” revisionary processes? In addressing these problems\, digital scholarship can offer far more access to the fluid texts that expose the dynamics of revision and help us confront the necessity of revision in our culture. \nJohn Bryant will draw upon examples from revision studies\, adaptation\, and translation in order to highlight the elements of creativity\, appropriation\, and cultural difference that are at stake in dealing with the ethics and editing of revision. Along the way\, he will demonstrate TextLab\, the Melville Electronic Library’s revision editing tool\, and discuss the ethical as well as editorial dimensions of other imagined tools\, such as Melville Remix and How Billy [Budd] Grew. \nBryant is Professor of English at Hofstra University and received his BA. MA\, and PhD from the University of Chicago. He has written on Melville\, related writers of the nineteenth-century\, and textual scholarship. He is also editor of Leviathan: A Journal of Melville Studies. His recent book\, Melville Unfolding: Sexuality\, Politics\, and the Versions of Typee (Michigan 2008)\, is based on his online fluid-text edition Herman Melville’s Typee. He is currently working on a critical biography\, Herman Melville: A Half-Known Life (Wiley) and the NEH-funded Melville Electronic Library (MEL)\, an online critical archive and “We the People” project.
URL:https://cms.mit.edu/event/john-bryant-revision-culture-machine/
LOCATION:MIT Building 4\, Room 231\, Cambridge\, MA\, 02139\, United States
CATEGORIES:Colloquium
ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://cms.mit.edu/wp/wp-content/uploads/2011/10/8588406207_d48127e5f8.jpg
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20111006T170000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20111006T190000
DTSTAMP:20260403T151235
CREATED:20141201T183118Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20201014T125111Z
UID:21284-1317920400-1317927600@cms.mit.edu
SUMMARY:Federico Casalegno: "Designing Connections"
DESCRIPTION:Federico Casalegno\nBy providing a critical description of existing technologies and projects related to the use of information and communication technologies to enhance social connectivity\, this talk will illustrate innovative ways to design creative new media and digital interactions to foster connections between people\, information\, and places. \nFederico Casalegno\, Ph.D.\, is the Director of the MIT Mobile Experience Lab and Associate Director of the MIT Design Laboratory at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Since 2008\, he is the director of the Green Home Alliance between the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and the Fondazione Bruno Kessler in Italy. He is adjunct full professor at IMT Institute for Advanced Studies Lucca\, Italy. \nA social scientist with an interest in the impact of networked digital technologies in human behavior and society\, Casalegno both teaches and leads advanced research at MIT\, and design interactive media to foster connections between people\, information and physical places using cutting-edge information technology.
URL:https://cms.mit.edu/event/designing-connections-federico-casalegno/
LOCATION:MIT Building 4\, Room 231\, Cambridge\, MA\, 02139\, United States
CATEGORIES:Colloquium
ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://cms.mit.edu/wp/wp-content/uploads/2012/11/federico_casalegno1.jpg
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20111006T080000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20111006T100000
DTSTAMP:20260403T151235
CREATED:20150211T200146Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20150211T200207Z
UID:23193-1317888000-1317895200@cms.mit.edu
SUMMARY:Online Information Session
DESCRIPTION:
URL:https://cms.mit.edu/event/online-information-session-100611/
LOCATION:cms.mit.edu
CATEGORIES:Information Session
ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://cms.mit.edu/wp/wp-content/uploads/2013/09/chat.png
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20110929T170000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20110929T170000
DTSTAMP:20260403T151235
CREATED:20150302T201702Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20150302T201750Z
UID:21386-1317315600-1317315600@cms.mit.edu
SUMMARY:Marks of Materiality in Digital Bodies
DESCRIPTION:Hye Jean Chung\nDigital technology is increasingly utilized in film production to achieve the technical and imaginative compositing of live-action and computer-generated imagery. Hye Jean Chung’s talk will explore how digital effects are not only used to mediate the real but to replace or enhance human capabilities via cyborgian hybrids. When bodies become digitized into pixelated formats\, does this effectively incarnate physicality in ways unforeseen? How do nationalist desires and transnational aspirations intersect in computer-generated bodies of imaginary entities? What is lost when a digital aesthetics that accentuates seamlessness\, transcendence and transmutation translates into a naïve political rhetoric that elides the material practices of labor in film production pipelines? Even though computer-generated characters are often described as de-materialized because they are simulated images of digital bodies and virtual camera movements\, they can also be regarded as material incarnations of visual and sonic traces that link them to corporeal bodies and territorial concerns. This talk will examine how layered traces of national bodies become re-animated and re-corporealized along the film production pipeline through the multiple bodies of actors\, voice actors\, stunt actors\, movement coordinators\, body doubles\, and animators. \nHye Jean Chung is currently a Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow in Comparative Media Studies at Massachusetts Institute of Technology\, where she is working on a book project that analyzes the globally dispersed and digitally networked workforce of film production pipelines\, and its relation to the fictional spaces\, computer-generated imagery and digital aesthetics of contemporary cinema. She received her Ph.D. in Film and Media Studies from the University of California\, Santa Barbara. Her primary research interests include transnational cinema\, cross-border mobility\, production studies\, digital visual effects and animation\, and East Asian cinema. Her work has been published in journals such as Spectator and Contemporaneity\, and in the anthology Documentary Testimonies: Global Archives of Suffering (Routledge\, 2009)\, edited by Bhaskar Sarkar and Janet Walker. Other essays will soon appear in forthcoming issues of Cinema Journal and The Velvet Light Trap. She has recently co-edited and contributed to a themed issue of Media Fields Journal on the intersection of media\, labor\, and mobility. In addition to her scholarly endeavors\, Chung has worked as a journalist\, and published translations of literary works from Korean into English and vice versa.
URL:https://cms.mit.edu/event/hye-jean-chung-marks-of-materiality-in-digital-bodies/
LOCATION:MIT Media Lab\, Room 633\, 75 Amherst St.\, Cambridge\, MA\, 02139\, United States
CATEGORIES:Colloquium
ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://cms.mit.edu/wp/wp-content/uploads/2015/03/Hye-Jean-Chung.jpg
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20110928T170000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20110928T170000
DTSTAMP:20260403T151235
CREATED:20141216T141348Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20200924T164842Z
UID:21282-1317229200-1317229200@cms.mit.edu
SUMMARY:From Settlers to Quarriors: Breaking up the Monopoly with Modern Board Game Design
DESCRIPTION:Scott Nicholson\nOver the last 15 years\, there has been an explosion of innovation in board game styles and mechanisms. The Settlers of Catan was the game that crossed the ocean from Germany to the U.S. in the late 1990’s and kicked off this new era in board gaming.  These modern board games\, or Eurogames\, are more engaging experiences and based less on luck than the typical roll-and-move board game design prevalent in the 20th century. \nAttendees will learn about a variety of game mechanisms through discussions of exemplar games and see how these games relate.  Many of these mechanisms are appropriate for digital games as well as tabletop games\, so attendees will improve their toolkit of mechanisms for their own design work. \nDr. Scott Nicholson is a visiting scholar with MIT Comparative Media Studies for the 2011-2012 academic year\, working with the Singapore-MIT GAMBIT Game Lab and The Education Arcade. He is an associate professor at the School of Information Studies at Syracuse University\, where he has focused on games in libraries and game design as a pedagogical tool. He was the host of Board Games with Scott from 2005-2010 and is the designer of Tulipmania 1637\, a board game published in 2009. In addition\, he is the author of Everyone Plays at the Library: Creating Great Gaming Experiences for All Ages\, published in 2010 by Information Today.
URL:https://cms.mit.edu/event/scott-nicholson-modern-board-game-design/
LOCATION:MIT Building 4\, Room 231\, Cambridge\, MA\, 02139\, United States
CATEGORIES:Colloquium
ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://cms.mit.edu/wp/wp-content/uploads/2011/09/scottnicholson.jpg
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20110922T213000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20110922T213000
DTSTAMP:20260403T151235
CREATED:20150107T193157Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20200309T124359Z
UID:21388-1316727000-1316727000@cms.mit.edu
SUMMARY:Graduate Program Information Session
DESCRIPTION:
URL:https://cms.mit.edu/event/graduate-program-information-session/
LOCATION:CMS/W Headquarters (E15-331)\, 20 Ames Street\, Cambridge\, MA\, 02139\, United States
CATEGORIES:Information Session
ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://cms.mit.edu/wp/wp-content/uploads/2010/02/cms_logo.jpg
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20110922T170000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20110922T190000
DTSTAMP:20260403T151235
CREATED:20150213T200000Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20150213T200000Z
UID:21283-1316710800-1316718000@cms.mit.edu
SUMMARY:Local News in the Digital Age
DESCRIPTION:Is local news a casualty of the digital age?  A recent report from the Federal Communications Commission suggests that although the broad media landscape is more vibrant than ever\, many state and local communities face a shortage of professional reporting\, undermining journalism’s watchdog role at the local level.  This Forum will assess the state of local journalism\, paying special attention to the changing environment for news in New England. \nOur speakers\, drawn from traditional as well as online media\, include Callie Crossley\, host of her own talk show on WGBH; David Dahl\, who oversees local news initiatives for the Boston Globe; and Adam Gaffin of the online news site Universal Hub.  Dan Kennedy\, a media analyst who teaches at Northeastern University\, will moderate the discussion.
URL:https://cms.mit.edu/event/local-news-digital-age/
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/2011/09/local11a.jpg
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20110513
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20110516
DTSTAMP:20260403T151235
CREATED:20140807T174634Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20170612T151044Z
UID:21487-1305244800-1305503999@cms.mit.edu
SUMMARY:Media in Transition 7: "Unstable Platforms: The Promise and Peril of Transition"
DESCRIPTION:Call for Papers (PDF) \nHas the digital age confirmed and exponentially increased the cultural instability and creative destruction that are often said to define advanced capitalism? Does living in a digital age mean we may live and die in what the novelist Thomas Pynchon has called “a ceaseless spectacle of transition? The nearly limitless range of design options and communication choices available now and in the future is both exhilarating and challenging\, inciting innovation and creativity but also false starts\, incompatible systems\, planned obsolescence. \nFor this seventh Media in Transition conference we want to focus directly on our core topic – the experience of transition. Our first conference in 1999 considered this subject\, of course. But that was before Facebook\, iPhones\, BitTorrent\, IPTV and many other changes. More…
URL:https://cms.mit.edu/event/media-in-transition-unstable-platforms-promise-peril-transition/
LOCATION:MA
CATEGORIES:Conference
ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://cms.mit.edu/wp/wp-content/uploads/2011/05/mit7_cropped.jpg
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20110511T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20110511T160000
DTSTAMP:20260403T151235
CREATED:20161013T143400Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20161013T143912Z
UID:21369-1305129600-1305129600@cms.mit.edu
SUMMARY:Race and Representation after 9/11
DESCRIPTION:Cynthia Young\nDrawing on recent U.S. television series “The Unit” and “Sleeper Cells\,” Cynthia Young examines recent shifts in media representations of African American men\, arguing that in the context of the “war on terror\,” the image of the criminal and anti-social young black male has mutated into the image of the black patriot\, at war against a new enemy of the nation\, the Muslim terrorist. Exploring the figure of the black soldier\, her work asks the questions: What kind of popular culture is made in the context of war? How do notions of civil rights shift in a post-Civil Rights era? And when and how are such notions mobilized in service to violent and racist conceptions of Iraqis\, Arabs\, and other Muslims? In his commentary\, Visiting Scholar Anamik Saha will draw upon his research on popular cultural representations of South Asians and Muslims in Britain during the same period. \nCynthia Young is an Associate Professor of English and African and African Diaspora Studies at Boston College where she teaches courses on literature and popular culture. She received her B.A. from Columbia University and her Ph.D. in American Studies from Yale University. Her book on U.S. Third World Leftists\, Soul Power\, was published by Duke University Press in 2006. She is currently working on a project that considers race\, specifically blackness\, after the September 11 attacks. Interrogating popular culture and political organizing sites\, this project considers how the Civil Rights legacy has been hijacked by Conservatives supporting an anti-immigrant\, pro-war and often white supremacist agenda.
URL:https://cms.mit.edu/event/race-representation-after-9-11/
LOCATION:MIT Building 2\, Room 105\, 182 Memorial Drive\, Cambridge\, MA\, 02139\, United States
CATEGORIES:Colloquium
ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://cms.mit.edu/wp/wp-content/uploads/2011/05/cahillulrichyoung.jpg
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20110428T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20110428T160000
DTSTAMP:20260403T151235
CREATED:20170530T233059Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20200323T125845Z
UID:30276-1304006400-1304006400@cms.mit.edu
SUMMARY:The End of the Virtual: Digital Methods
DESCRIPTION:Professor Richard Rogers\, University of Amsterdam\nThere is an ontological distinction between the natively digital and the digitized\, that is\, the objects\, content\, devices and environments that are “born” in the new medium\, as opposed to those that have “migrated” to it. Should the current methods of study change\, however slightly or wholesale\, given the focus on objects and content of the medium? The research program put forward here thereby engages with “virtual methods” that import standard methods from the social sciences and the humanities. That is\, the distinction between the natively digital and the digitized also could apply to current research methods. What kind of Internet research may be performed with methods that have been digitized (such as online surveys and directories) vis-á-vis those that are natively digital (such as recommendation systems and folksonomy)? Second\, he will propose propose that Internet research may be put to new uses\, given an emphasis on natively digital methods as opposed to the digitized. Rogers will strive to shift the attention from the opportunities afforded by transforming ink into bits\, and instead inquire into how research with the Internet may move beyond the study of online culture only. How to capture and analyze hyperlinks\, tags\, search engine results\, archived Websites\, and other digital objects? How may one learn from how online devices (e.g.\, engines and recommendation systems) make use of the objects\, and how may such uses be repurposed for social and cultural research? Ultimately\, he proposes a research practice that grounds claims about cultural change and societal conditions in online dynamics\, introducing the term “online groundedness.” The overall aim is to rework method for Internet research\, developing a novel strand of study\, digital methods. \nProf. Dr. Richard Rogers holds the Chair and is full University Professor in New Media & Digital Culture at the University of Amsterdam. He is Director of Govcom.org\, the group responsible for the Issue Crawler and other info-political tools\, and the Digital Methods Initiative\, reworking method for Internet research. Among other works\, Rogers is author of Information Politics on the Web (MIT Press\, 2004)\, awarded the 2005 best book of the year by the American Society of Information Science & Technology (ASIS&T). His forthcoming book\, Digital Methods\, is also with MIT Press.
URL:https://cms.mit.edu/event/end-virtual-digital-methods/
LOCATION:MIT Building 2\, Room 105\, 182 Memorial Drive\, Cambridge\, MA\, 02139\, United States
CATEGORIES:Colloquium
ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://cms.mit.edu/wp/wp-content/uploads/2011/05/Richard-Rogers.jpg
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20110425T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20110425T210000
DTSTAMP:20260403T151235
CREATED:20140731T131158Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20140731T131222Z
UID:21484-1303754400-1303765200@cms.mit.edu
SUMMARY:13th Annual Media Spectacle
DESCRIPTION:(See call for entries) \n \nAn honored tradition returns this Spring when CMS presents the thirteenth annual Media Spectacle. The event\, founded by late CMS program administrator Chris Pomiecko\, celebrates his love for filmmaking by showcasing the finest video projects created by MIT students\, staff and faculty. \nHistorically\, the event has received submissions of every genre from experimental to documentary to narrative works created on every conceivable platform and device. Prizes include the Chris Pomiecko Award for Best Undergraduate Entry\, as well as awards for Best Non-undergraduate Entry\, Animation\, Experimental\, Narrative\, Nonfiction\, and Audience Favorite. The event is judged by esteemed members of the CMS community\, including Cathy Pomiecko\, Chris’s sister.
URL:https://cms.mit.edu/event/13th-annual-media-spectacle/
LOCATION:MIT Building 32 (Stata Center)\, Room 155\, 32 Vassar Street\, Cambridge\, MA\, 02139\, United States
ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://cms.mit.edu/wp/wp-content/uploads/2014/07/Media-Spectacle-2011.jpg
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20110421T170000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20110421T190000
DTSTAMP:20260403T151235
CREATED:20140730T162005Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20150720T124111Z
UID:21367-1303405200-1303412400@cms.mit.edu
SUMMARY:(Face)book of the Dead
DESCRIPTION:Mark Dery\nIn the Age of Always Connect\, are we witnessing a plague of oversharing? If so\, are social networks its vectors of transmission? Does this much-discussed phenomenon mark the Death of Shame\, perhaps even a return to pre-modern notions of public and private? What does it mean to live in a historical moment when the faces in our high-school yearbooks materialize\, without warning\, in our Facebook lives\, Walking Dead eager to rekindle friendships we thought we’d buried long ago? In his illustrated lecture\, “(Face)Book of the Dead\,” cultural critic and media theorist Mark Dery\, author of seminal essays on online subcultures\, culture jamming\, and Afrofuturism\, will address these and other questions\, from the posthuman psychology of disembodied friendship to our growing unwillingness to untether ourselves from our social networks or the media drip\, even for an instant. What does it say about us\, as a society\, if we’re unable to be alone and unplugged without being bored or lonely? Is this\, at root\, a fear of the emptiness in our heads? Should we preserve some small space in our lives for solitude — a Walden of the mind\, away from the Matrix? \nMark Dery is a cultural critic. He is best known for his writings on the politics of popular culture in publications such as The New York Times Magazine\, Cabinet\, Bookforum\, Rolling Stone\, Elle\, and Wired; on websites such as True/Slant and Thought Catalog; and in books such as The Pyrotechnic Insanitarium: American Culture on the Brink and Escape Velocity: Cyberculture at the End of the Century. Dery’s latest book is an anthology of his recent writings\, I Must Not Think Bad Thoughts: Essays on American Empire\, Digital Culture\, Posthuman Porn\, and Lady Gaga’s Lesbian Phallus\, published in Brazil by Editora Sulina. Dery is widely associated with “culture jamming\,” the guerrilla media criticism movement he popularized through his 1993 essay “Culture Jamming: Hacking\, Slashing\, and Sniping in the Empire of the Signs\,” and “Afrofuturism\,” a term he coined in his 1994 essay “Black to the Future” (included in the anthology Flame Wars: The Discourse of Cyberculture\, which he edited). He has been a professor of journalism at New York University\, a Chancellor’s Distinguished Fellow at UC Irvine\, and a Visiting Scholar at the American Academy in Rome. He is at work on a biography of the artist Edward Gorey for Little\, Brown.
URL:https://cms.mit.edu/event/facebook-of-the-dead/
LOCATION:MIT Building 2\, Room 105\, 182 Memorial Drive\, Cambridge\, MA\, 02139\, United States
CATEGORIES:Colloquium
ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://cms.mit.edu/wp/wp-content/uploads/2011/04/Mark-Dery.jpg
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20110412T170000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20110412T190000
DTSTAMP:20260403T151235
CREATED:20140814T171110Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20140814T171110Z
UID:21365-1302627600-1302634800@cms.mit.edu
SUMMARY:A Conversation with Sherry Turkle
DESCRIPTION:Sherry Turkle\nThe eminent MIT professor\, author most recently of Alone\, Together\, discusses her darkening view of our digitizing world\, her sense of the culture of MIT and its students\, and her own career with Communications Forum Director David Thorburn\, a longtime colleague. \nSherry Turkle is Abby Rockefeller Mauzé Professor of the Social Studies of Science and Technology in the Program in Science\, Technology\, and Society at MIT and the founder (2001) and current director of the MIT Initiative on Technology and Self. \nDavid Thorburn is Professor of Literature at MIT and director of the Communications Forum. \nCo-sponsor: Technology and Culture Forum at MIT.
URL:https://cms.mit.edu/event/sherry-turkle-conversation/
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/2011/04/turkle.jpg
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20110317T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20110317T160000
DTSTAMP:20260403T151235
CREATED:20150112T195420Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20150112T195420Z
UID:21364-1300377600-1300377600@cms.mit.edu
SUMMARY:How Documentary Went Digital: the Implications of Informal Filming and Skeptical Audiences
DESCRIPTION:John Ellis\nDigital filming has transformed documentary\, offering new potentials to filmmakers and at the same time transforming audience attitudes. Filmmakers have been able to work more informally with their subjects\, giving rise to the fusion format of reality TV as well as changing the nature of documentaries themselves. From the audience perspective\, affordable digital platforms mean that almost everyone knows what it is like to film and be filmed. The result is a transformation of the documentary genre\, where films are now seen as documents of interactions rather than expositions of fact. Ellis explores this new phase in documentary\, using methods derived from Goffman as well as an intimate understanding of the technologies of filming.   \nJohn Ellis is Professor of Media Arts at Royal Holloway University of London\, and this semester’s visiting scholar at the Annenberg Institute\, University of Pennsylvania. He is the author of Visible Fictions (1982)\, Seeing Things (2000) and TV FAQ (2007) and the co-author of Language and Materialism (1977). His Documentary: Witness and Self-Revelation will appear in 2012\, and is based in part on his 19 years as an independent producer for British TV\, making documentaries about cinema and the arts\, the politics of media\, and the food industry. He served on the editorial board of Screen magazine (1975-1985)\, was the vice-chair of the film producers’ association PACT (1988-1994)\, and now chairs the British Universities Film & Video Council (BUFVC).
URL:https://cms.mit.edu/event/john-ellis-how-documentary-went-digital/
LOCATION:MIT Building 2\, Room 105\, 182 Memorial Drive\, Cambridge\, MA\, 02139\, United States
CATEGORIES:Colloquium
ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://cms.mit.edu/wp/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/john-ellis.jpg
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20110224T170000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20110224T190000
DTSTAMP:20260403T151235
CREATED:20150407T125956Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20161221T201425Z
UID:21363-1298566800-1298574000@cms.mit.edu
SUMMARY:Online News: Public Sphere or Echo Chamber?
DESCRIPTION:The digital age has been heralded but also pilloried for its impact on journalism. As newspapers continue their mutation into digital formats and as news and information are available from a seeming infinity of websites\, what do we actually know about the dynamics of news-consumption online? What does the public do with online news? How influential are traditional news outlets in framing the news we get online? \nPablo Boczkowski\nPablo Boczkowski is a Professor of Communications Studies at Northwestern Univeresity where he leads a research program that studies the transition from print to digital media. He is the author of Digitizing the News: Innovation in Online Newspapers (2004) and News at Work: Imitation in an Age of Information Abundance (2010). \n\nJoshua Benton\nJoshua Benton is the founding director of the Nieman Journalism Lab at Harvard University — an effort to help the news business make the radical changes required by the Internet age. Before that\, he was an investigative reporter\, columnist\, foreign correspondent and rock critic for two newspapers\, The Dallas Morning News and The Toledo Blade. \n \n\nJason Spingarn-Koff\nModerator: Jason Spingarn-Koff\, a 2010-11 Knight Journalism Fellow at MIT\, is a documentary filmmaker specializing in the intersection of science\, technology\, and society. His feature documentary Life 2.0\, about a group of people whose lives are transformed by the virtual world “Second Life\,” premiered at the 2010 Sundance Film Festival and will be featured on Oprah Winfrey’s documentary film club in 2011. He served as producer of NOVA’s The Great Robot Race\, and the development producer for PBS’s Emmy-winning Rx for Survival\, as well as documentaries for Frontline and Time magazine. He is a graduate of Brown University and the UC Berkeley Graduate School of Journalism.
URL:https://cms.mit.edu/event/online-news-public-sphere-or-echo-chamber/
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/2011/02/JoshuaBenton.jpg
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20110217T170000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20110217T170000
DTSTAMP:20260403T151235
CREATED:20141215T203019Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20141215T203223Z
UID:21362-1297962000-1297962000@cms.mit.edu
SUMMARY:From Elsinore to Monkey Island: Theatre and Videogames as Performance Activities
DESCRIPTION:Clara Fernández-Vara\nWhat do Shakespeare and videogames have in common? Clara Fernández-Vara\, a Comparative Media Studies alumna\, explains her journey from researching Shakespeare in performance to studying and developing videogames. Applying concepts from theatre in performance illuminates the relationship between the player and the game\, as well as between game and narrative. \nVideogames are not theatre\, but the comparison gives way to productive questions: What is the dramatic text of the game? How does this text shape the actions of the player? Who are the performers? Who is the audience? These questions will be addressed in the context of adventure games\, a story-driven genre where the player solves puzzles that are integrated in the fictional world of the game. \nClara Fernández-Vara is a post-doctoral researcher at the Singapore-MIT GAMBIT Game Lab\, where she teaches courses on videogame theory and game writing\, as well as develop games with teams of students. Clara is a graduate from the Comparative Media Studies program\, and holds a PhD in Digital Media from the Georgia Institute of Technology. Her research concentrates on adventure games\, game playing as a performance activity\, and the integration of stories in simulated environments. She has released two experimental adventure games\, Rosemary (2009) and Symon (2010).
URL:https://cms.mit.edu/event/clara-fernandez-vara-theatre-and-videogames-as-performance/
LOCATION:MIT Building 2\, Room 105\, 182 Memorial Drive\, Cambridge\, MA\, 02139\, United States
CATEGORIES:Colloquium
ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://cms.mit.edu/wp/wp-content/uploads/2011/02/fernandez-vara.jpg
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20110211T140000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20110211T153000
DTSTAMP:20260403T151235
CREATED:20170530T233059Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20200327T143827Z
UID:30331-1297432800-1297438200@cms.mit.edu
SUMMARY:Yves Citton: "The Humanities' Choice: Knowledge Economy or Culture of Interpretation?"
DESCRIPTION:This presentation delivers a first-person anthropological report on a dive to the seafloor in the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution’s three-person submersible\, Alvin. Meditating on the sounds rather that the sights of the dive\, Helmreich explores multiple meanings of immersion: as a descent into liquid\, an absorption in activity\, and the all-encompassing entry of an anthropologist into a cultural medium. Tuning in to the rhythms of Alvin as a submarine cyborg\, he shows how interior and exterior soundscapes create a sense of immersion\, and he argues that torquing media theory to include water as a medium can make explicit the technical structures and social practices of sounding\, hearing\, and listening that support senses — scientific\, everyday\, and anthropological — of embodied sonic presence. \nStefan Helmreich is an anthropologist who studies life scientists\, from those who engage in the computer modeling of living things (Silicon Second Nature: Culturing Artificial Life in a Digital World\, University of California Press\, 1998) to those who work in deep-sea environments (Alien Ocean: Anthropological Voyages in Microbial Seas\, University of California Press\, 2009). He is particularly interested in the limits of “life” as an analytical category for contemporary biology.
URL:https://cms.mit.edu/event/yves-citton-humanities-choice-knowledge-economy-or-culture-interpretation/
LOCATION:MIT Building E40\, Room 496\, 1 Amherst Street\, Cambridge\, MA\, 02139\, United States
ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://cms.mit.edu/wp/wp-content/uploads/2008/10/artworks-000049274196-2zq2ih-t200x200.jpg
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20110209T163000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20110209T183000
DTSTAMP:20260403T151235
CREATED:20140903T194602Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20140903T194602Z
UID:21360-1297269000-1297276200@cms.mit.edu
SUMMARY:Amsterdam and New York: Transnational Photographic Exchange in the Era of Globalization
DESCRIPTION:This lecture will examine the impact of globalization on the urban imaginary in relation to a recent art exhibition\, commissioned by the Dutch government in 2009\, in which a group of contemporary New York artists were invited to photograph Amsterdam to mark the 400th anniversary of Henry Hudson’s discovery of Manhattan. \nRegistering a long history of transnational exchange between the two cities\, the selected artists sought to produce work capable of defamiliarizing established images of Amsterdam. The claim of the exhibition was that seeing Amsterdam through the lens of New York photographers enabled new and surprising perspectives on four key aspects of the city: the street\, the night\, the water\, and the outskirts. Interrogating this claim\, the lecture will analyze individual artworks\, the marketing and staging strategies of the exhibition\, and — most importantly — the role that transnational exchange can play in both resisting and reinforcing dominant\, globalized images of contemporary city spaces. \nChristoph Lindner is Professor of Literature and Director of the Amsterdam School for Cultural Analysis (ASCA) at the University of Amsterdam in the Netherlands. He is also a Research Affiliate at the University of London Institute in Paris. His recent books include Globalization\, Violence\, and the Visual Culture of Cities (2010)\, Urban Space and Cityscapes (2006)\, and Fictions of Commodity Culture (2003).
URL:https://cms.mit.edu/event/christoph-lindner-amsterdam-new-york-transnational-photographic-exchange/
LOCATION:MIT Building 32 (Stata Center)\, Room 141\, 32 Vassar Street\, Cambridge\, MA\, 02139\, United States
CATEGORIES:Colloquium
ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://cms.mit.edu/wp/wp-content/uploads/2014/09/Christoph-Lindner.jpg
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20101118T170000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20101118T170000
DTSTAMP:20260403T151235
CREATED:20160822T173709Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20160822T173813Z
UID:21359-1290099600-1290099600@cms.mit.edu
SUMMARY:Public Communications in Slow-Moving Crises
DESCRIPTION:Governments\, corporations\, and communities plan for sudden crises: the White House drafts strong responsive rhetoric for the next terrorist attack; Toyota runs reassuring national TV spots within hours of a product recall; and 32 Massachusetts towns successfully publicize water distribution sites following a water main rupture. \nHowever\, like the housing collapse or the recent Gulf oil spill\, some crises are complex\, difficult to warn of\, and don’t cleanly fit traditional media frames. They are slow moving\, and the media still struggles to rhetorically or technologically cover these simmering\, rather than boiling\, dramas. \nWith government regulators weak\, corporations still focused on the bottom line\, and communities adapting to structural change\, this Communications Forum asks: What new media tools and strategies can be used to help everyone better prepare for the unique communications challenges of slow-moving crises? \nAndrea Pitzer is editor of Nieman Storyboard\, a project of the Nieman Foundation for Journalism at Harvard University that looks at how storytelling works in every medium. Storyboard’s mission is to feature the best examples of visual\, audio and multimedia narrative reporting. \nAn investigative reporter for ProPublica\, Abrahm Lustgarten’s recent work has focused on oil and gas industry practices. He is a former staff writer and contributor for Fortune\, and has written for Salon\, Esquire\, the Washington Post and the New York Times since receiving his master’s in journalism from Columbia University in 2003. He is the author of the book China’s Great Train: Beijing’s Drive West and the Campaign to Remake Tibet\, a project that was funded in part by a grant from the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation. \nRosalind Williams is a historian who uses imaginative literature as a source of evidence and insight into the history of technology. She has taught at MIT since 1982 and currently serves as the Dibner Professor for the History of Science and Technology in the Program in Science\, Technology\, and Society. She has also served as head of the STS Program and Dean for Undergraduate Education and Student Affairs at the Institute\, as well as president of the Society for the History of Technology. She has written three books as well as essays and articles about the emergence of a predominantly human-built world and its implications for human life. Her forthcoming book extends this theme to examine consciousness of the condition of “human empire” as expressed in the writings of Jules Verne\, William Morris\, and Robert Louis Stevenson in the late l9th century. \nModerated by Tom Levenson\, who is Head and of the MIT Program in Writing and Humanistic Studies as well as Director of its graduate program. Professor Levenson is the winner of Walter P. Kistler Science Documentary Film Award\, Peabody Award (shared)\, New York Chapter Emmy\, and the AAAS/Westinghouse award. His articles and reviews have appeared in The Atlantic Monthly\, The Boston Globe\, Discover\, The Sciences\, and he is winner of the 2005 National Academies Communications Award for Origins. \nCo-sponsor: The MIT Center for Future Civic Media.
URL:https://cms.mit.edu/event/public-communications-slow-moving-crises/
LOCATION:MIT Building 4\, Room 231\, Cambridge\, MA\, 02139\, United States
CATEGORIES:Communications Forum
ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://cms.mit.edu/wp/wp-content/uploads/2010/12/deepwater-horizon.jpg
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20101104T170000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20101104T190000
DTSTAMP:20260403T151235
CREATED:20141006T175825Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20141006T175825Z
UID:21358-1288890000-1288897200@cms.mit.edu
SUMMARY:Civic Media and the Law
DESCRIPTION:What do citizens need to know when they publicly address legally challenging or dangerous topics? Journalists have always had the privilege\, protected by statute\, of not having to reveal their sources.  But as more investigative journalism is conducted by so-called amateurs and posted on blogs or websites such as Wikileaks\, what are the legal dangers for publishing secrets in the crowdsourced era?  We convene an engaging group law scholars to help outline the legal challenges ahead\, suggest policies that might help to protect citizens\, and describe what steps every civic media practitioner should take to protect themselves and their users. \nMicah Sifry is a co-founder and editor of the Personal Democracy Forum. \nDaniel Schuman is the policy counsel at the Sunlight Foundation\, where he helps develop policies that further Sunlight’s mission of catalyzing greater government openness and transparency. \nCo-sponsor: The MIT Center for Future Civic Media
URL:https://cms.mit.edu/event/civic-media-and-the-law/
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/2014/10/Micah-Sifry.jpg
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20101020T170000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20101020T190000
DTSTAMP:20260403T151235
CREATED:20150115T201444Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20150115T201926Z
UID:21355-1287594000-1287601200@cms.mit.edu
SUMMARY:Humanities in the Digital Age
DESCRIPTION:Alison Byerly\nSteven Pinker\nWhat is happening to the intellectual field called the humanities? Powerful political and corporate forces are encouraging\, even demanding science and math-based curricula to prepare for a globalized and technological world;  the astronomical rise in the cost of higher education has resulted in a drumbeat of complaints\, some which question the value of the traditional liberal arts and humanities. And of course\, and far more complexly\, the emerging storage and communications systems of the digital age are transforming all fields of knowledge and all knowledge industries. \nHow has and how will the humanities cope with these challenges?  How have digital tools and systems already begun to transform humanistic education?  How may they do so in the future? More broadly\, is there a significant role for the humanities in our digital future? Our panelists will explore these and related questions in what is expected to be the first in a continuing series on this subject. \nAlison Byerly is provost and executive vice president and professor of English at Middlebury College. \nSteven Pinker is the Johnstone Family Professor of Psychology at Harvard University and previously taught at MIT. He is the author of many essays and books including The Blank Slate: The Modern Denial of Human Nature and How the Mind Works.
URL:https://cms.mit.edu/event/humanities-in-the-digital-age/
LOCATION:MIT Building 32 (Stata Center)\, Room 141\, 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/Alison-Byerly.jpg
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20101014T170000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20101014T190000
DTSTAMP:20260403T151235
CREATED:20150326T145008Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20161221T201127Z
UID:21354-1287075600-1287082800@cms.mit.edu
SUMMARY:NGO2.0: When Social Action Meets Social Media
DESCRIPTION:Jing Wang\nProfessor Wang will discuss the genesis and implementation of a civic media project that she conceptualized and launched in China in May 2009.  The project\, titled NGO2.0\, is a social experiment that introduces Web 2.0 thinking and social media tools to the grassroots NGOs in the underdeveloped regions of China.  How has new media complicated social action and civic engagement?  What are the evolving stakes for social change proponents?  How are change agents coping with governmental intervention in a country where social media is held suspect?  Professor Wang will speculate on the emergence of a new field of inquiry — social media action research — while sharing insights and findings about her involvement in shaping an NGO 2.0 culture in China.
URL:https://cms.mit.edu/event/ngo20-when-social-action-meets-social-media/
LOCATION:MIT Building 4\, Room 231\, Cambridge\, MA\, 02139\, United States
CATEGORIES:Colloquium
ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://cms.mit.edu/wp/wp-content/uploads/2013/10/jingwang.jpg
END:VEVENT
END:VCALENDAR