MIT Graduate Program in Comparative Media Studies
Studying Media and Making Media
MIT 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.
This presentation by Rutgers' Philip Napoli will focus on ongoing research that seeks to define and assess the field of media impact assessment.
Georgetown'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: "Obfuscation is a compelling 'weapon-of-the-weak,' which deserves to be developed and strengthened, its moral challenges countered and mitigated."
Raney 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's new book "The Work of Art in the World: Civic Agency and Public Humanities" revives the collaboration between aesthetic philosophy and democratic development.
If you would like to attend this on-campus information session, please register at Eventbrite (http://mitsha.re/1pU0142).
Three Comparative Media Studies alums -- Sam Ford, Rekha Murthy, and Parmesh Shahani -- return to discuss their post-graduate lives.
Join us at 9am on October 24th, here at cmsw.mit.edu! RSVP not required, but sign up for a reminder.
If you would like to attend this on-campus information session, please register at Eventbrite (http://mitsha.re/1pU0Eup).
For the CMS/W family only, this is the annual discussion between the program's community members and directors.
Join us at 3pm on November 21, here at cmsw.mit.edu! RSVP not required, but sign up for a reminder.
With Lev Manovich, author of the seminal The Language of New Media, and MIT's Fox Harrell and Nick Montfort.
With Raney Aronson of FRONTLINE, the Guardian's multimedia special projects editor Francesca Panetta, documentary filmmaker Katerina Cizek, and Jason Spingarn-Kopf of the New York Times' Op-Docs.
The mostly-female cast is generally portrayed as being extremely competent and working collectively to solve problems, even as the films fall back on formulaic personality conflicts.
