Re-calling the Modem World: The Dial-up History of Social Media
MIT Building 4, Room 231 Cambridge, MAKevin Driscoll presents how the history of bulletin-board systems reveals the popular origins of computer-mediated social life.
MIT Graduate Program in Comparative Media Studies
Studying Media and Making Media
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The Spooky Science of the Southern Reach: An Evening with Jeff VanderMeer
MIT Building 32 (Stata Center), Room 123 32 Vassar Street, Cambridge, MAJeff VanderMeer will discuss his role as one of the leading practitioners of “weird fiction,” the environmental and ecological concerns that inform his work, and his massive crossover success.
The Dancing Body of the State: Queer Social Dance, Political Leadership, and Black Popular Culture
MIT Building 4, Room 231 Cambridge, MAThomas DeFranz "wonders at the intertwining of African American social dances and political leadership, conceived as the bodies of elected officials."
Ryan Cordell: “Melville in the First Age of Viral Media”
MIT Building 4, Room 231 Cambridge, MARyan Cordell, co-director of the Viral Texts project, will speak about his work uncovering pieces that “went viral” in nineteenth-century newspapers and magazines.
Danielle Keats Citron: “Hate Crimes in Cyberspace”
MIT Building 4, Room 231 Cambridge, MADanielle Keats Citron exposes the startling extent of personal cyber-attacks and proposes practical, lawful ways to prevent and punish online harassment.
On the Politics of Punk Media and Peru
MIT Building 4, Room 231 Cambridge, MAL. Shane Greene presents a theoretical overview of various situations – particularly their political, aesthetic, and media dimensions - that arose in the production of a book about the history of anarchism and punk rock during Peru’s war with the Maoist-inspired armed group known as the Shining Path.
Jane McGonigal discusses her new book “SuperBetter” with Scot Osterweil
MIT Media Lab, Bartos Theater 20 Ames Street, Cambridge, MAJoin us and Harvard Book Store as it hosts Jane McGonigal to discuss "SuperBetter" with our own Scot Osterweil of The Education Arcade.
Jim Crow and the Legacy of Segregation Outside of the South
MIT Building 3, Room 270 33 Massachusetts Ave (Rear), Cambridge, MAIs the de facto segregation that exists in many Northern cities a result of the lack of forced integration of the type that took place in the South?
Hierarchy and Democracy in Modern Japan’s Mass Media Revolution
MIT Building 4, Room 231 Cambridge, MAHiromu Nagahara explores Japan's first “mass media revolution”, in the 1920s and '30s, when technology expanded the number of media product consumers.
Dissolve Unconference: A Summit on Inequality
Stata Center Lawn Cambridge, MAFeaturing social scientists, media theorists, writers, artists, activists, this unconference asks: "How can we dissolve the structures of power that produce today’s inequalities?"
From the Neolithic Era to the Apocalypse: How to Prepare for the Future by Studying the Past
MIT Building 3, Room 270 33 Massachusetts Ave (Rear), Cambridge, MAAuthors Charles C. Mann and Annalee Newitz will talk about how ancient civilizations shed light on current problems with urbanization, food security, and environmental change.
The Adventures of Ms. Meta: Celebrating the Female Superhero Through Digital Gaming
MIT Building 4, Room 231 Cambridge, MASarah Zaidan is a game designer, artist and researcher whose work explores how video games and comic books can engage in a dialogue with identity, gender and civic awareness.
Syria and the Right to the Image
MIT Building 32 (Stata Center), Room 141 32 Vassar Street, Cambridge, MAFilm screening and discussion with Charif Kiwan, Spokesperson, Abounaddara, Syrian Film Collective. Hosted by MIT Global Studies and Languages.
From Firing Line to The O’Reilly Factor
MIT Building 4, Room 231 Cambridge, MAHow did political TV and radio move from honest intellectual combat to become a vast echo chamber? Heather Hendershot will answer this difficult question.
Global Internet Development Viewed Through the Net Vitality Lens
MIT Building 4, Room 231 Cambridge, MAUnlike other comparative studies that rank countries quantitatively based on a simplistic assessment of broadband speeds, Stuart Brotman's Net Vitality Index measures countries qualitatively to determine how well they are performing in a global competitive environment.
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