2014 Media Spectacle
MIT Building 32 (Stata Center), Room 155 32 Vassar Street, Cambridge, MAShowcasing video projects created by MIT students, staff, faculty and affiliates. Entry deadline: April 21.
MIT Graduate Program in Comparative Media Studies
Studying Media and Making Media
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Tarleton Gillespie: “Algorithms, and the Production of Calculated Publics”
MIT Media Lab, Room 633 75 Amherst St., Cambridge, MAIn this talk Tarleton Gillespie will highlight one particular dimension of these algorithms, their production of calculated publics: algorithmically produced snapshots of the “public” around us and what most concerns it.
Screening of “The Internet’s Own Boy: The Story of Aaron Swartz” with director Brian Knappenberger
The new documentary "The Internet's Own Boy" follows the story of programming prodigy and information activist Aaron Swartz.
Philip Jones: “Gaming in Color”
MIT Media Lab, Room 633 75 Amherst St., Cambridge, MAGaming in Color is a full length documentary of the story of the queer gaming community, gaymer culture and events, and the rise of LGBTQ themes in video games.
Scientists, Bottle Tops, and Robot Guinea Pigs: Inside the Creative Industries Prototyping Lab
MIT Building E14, Room 244 75 Amherst Street, Cambridge, MAHear what happened when six Comparative Media Studies graduate students went to Lima in April to work with some of Peru's most promising entrepreneurs in the creative industries.
Alexandre Goncalves ’14: Thesis Presentation
MIT Building E14, Room 244 75 Amherst Street, Cambridge, MAPlease join Alex Gonçalves as he presents his thesis " The Brazilian Networked Public Sphere: the Online Debate on the Civil Rights Framework for the Internet" to the public.
Sinan Aral, “Social Influence and The Dynamics of Online Reputation”
MIT Media Lab, Room 633 75 Amherst St., Cambridge, MAMIT Sloan's Sinan Aral will argue that a new science of online identity could help guide our business, platform design, and social policy decisions in light of the rising importance of online reputation and social influence.
Philip Napoli, “Media Impact Assessment and Beyond: Thoughts on the Treacherous Task of Quantifying Journalistic Performance”
MIT Media Lab, Room 633 75 Amherst St., Cambridge, MAThis presentation by Rutgers' Philip Napoli will focus on ongoing research that seeks to define and assess the field of media impact assessment.
Caetlin Benson-Allott, “By Design: Or, What Remote Controls Can Teach Us about the Nature of Control”
MIT Media Lab, Room 633 75 Amherst St., Cambridge, MAGeorgetown's Caetlin Benson-Allott on how the technical and design evolution of remote controls reveal how the seemingly most inconsequential of media devices have shaped the way users cohabit with mass media, consumer electronics, and each other.
Helen Nissenbaum, “Resisting Data’s Tyranny with Obfuscation”
MIT Media Lab, Room 633 75 Amherst St., Cambridge, MAHelen Nissenbaum: "Obfuscation is a compelling 'weapon-of-the-weak,' which deserves to be developed and strengthened, its moral challenges countered and mitigated."
Documentaries, Journalism, and the Future of Reality-Based Storytelling
MIT Building 66, Room 110 25 Ames Street, Cambridge, MARaney Aronson of FRONTLINE, documentary director Katerina Cizek, Jason Spingarn-Koff of the New York Times' Op-Docs, and the Guardian's multimedia editor Francesca Panetta.
Doris Sommer, “Welcome Back, to the Humanities as Civic Engagement”
MIT Media Lab, Room 633 75 Amherst St., Cambridge, MADoris Sommer's new book "The Work of Art in the World: Civic Agency and Public Humanities" revives the collaboration between aesthetic philosophy and democratic development.
On-campus Information Session, CMS Graduate Program
MIT Building 4, Room 231 Cambridge, MAIf you would like to attend this on-campus information session, please register at Eventbrite (http://mitsha.re/1pU0142).
CMS Alumni Panel
MIT Building 4, Room 231 Cambridge, MAThree Comparative Media Studies alums -- Sam Ford, Rekha Murthy, and Parmesh Shahani -- return to discuss their post-graduate lives.
Online Information Session, CMS Graduate Program
Join us at 9am on October 24th, here at cmsw.mit.edu! RSVP not required, but sign up for a reminder.
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