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SUMMARY:Global Game Jam 2014 at MIT
DESCRIPTION:View full tim and location information at:\nhttp://gamelab.mit.edu/event/global-game-jam-2014-at-mit-in-cambridge-ma/ \n\nEnrollment: advance sign-up via http://mitgamelab-ggj2014.eventbrite.com\nLimited to 50 participants \nAttendance: Must attend entire event (not necessarily all hours) \nFee: $17.00 for non-MIT students\, free for MIT\n\nThe Global Game Jam is the world’s largest game jam event taking place around the world at physical locations\, a 48-hour a hackathon focused on game development. The weekend stirs a global creative buzz in games\, while at the same time exploring the process of development\, be it programming\, iterative design\, narrative exploration or artistic expression. People with all kinds of backgrounds are welcome to participate and contribute to this global spread of game development and creativity. Make games with us!
URL:https://cms.mit.edu/event/global-game-jam-2014-2/
LOCATION:MA
CATEGORIES:Independent Activities Period
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20140111T100000
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CREATED:20131213T181243Z
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SUMMARY:Push Button Game Jam
DESCRIPTION:Enrollment: advance sign-up via mitgamelab-iap2014.eventbrite.com. \nFull info at http://gamelab.mit.edu/event/push-button-game-jam/
URL:https://cms.mit.edu/event/push-button-game-jam/
LOCATION:MIT Building 32 (Stata Center)\, Room 124\, 32 Vassar Street\, Cambridge\, MA\, 02139\, United States
CATEGORIES:Independent Activities Period
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20131205T170000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20131205T190000
DTSTAMP:20260403T171833
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SUMMARY:Long-form Journalism: Inside The Atlantic
DESCRIPTION:September 2013 cover of The Atlantic\nSome have called long-form journalism an endangered species. But ground-breaking articles requiring months of research and writing continue to appear. Why is such work important? How is it created? James Fallows and Corby Kummer of The Atlantic will chart the journey of a major feature story from conception to publication and speculate about the future of long-form writing in the digital age. \nTom Levenson\, Professor of Writing at MIT\, will moderate.
URL:https://cms.mit.edu/event/long-form-journalism-inside-the-atlantic/
LOCATION:MIT Building 66\, Room 110\, 25 Ames Street\, Cambridge\, MA\, 02139\, United States
CATEGORIES:Communications Forum
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ORGANIZER;CN="MIT%20Communications%20Forum":MAILTO:couch@mit.edu
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20131125T170000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20131125T183000
DTSTAMP:20260403T171833
CREATED:20131120T162006Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20150421T165145Z
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SUMMARY:MIT Alumni in the Game Industry
DESCRIPTION:MIT Students: Are you curious about how to get a job in the game industry as an MIT graduate? What kind of jobs can MIT prepare you for? What should you expect from your first job? \nThe MIT Game Lab has invited a number of local MIT alumni in the game industry to talk about their experiences entering the industry. \nThese alumni have experience working at large game studios (Harmonix\, Blizzard\, Bungie Studios)\, educational game studios (Muzzy Lane\, Learning Games Network)\, and independent game studios (Fire Hose Games\, MoonShot Games). Their jobs have included programming\, level design\, game design\, sound design\, music composition\, and writing. \nPanelists include:\nEthan Fenn\nFire Hose Games \n\nEthan graduated in 2004 with a double major in Courses 18 and 21M. Soon after graduating he joined the team at Harmonix\, where he worked as a programmer with an audio focus on several titles\, including Karaoke Revolution Party\, Guitar Hero\, Guitar Hero II\, and Rock Band. After a few years at Harmonix\, he met Eitan Glinert\, who had recently finished his graduate work at GAMBIT and was working on starting up a new game studio\, Fire Hose Games. Ethan jumped right in at the start of the studio and has been with Fire Hose since. At Fire Hose he’s worn many hats\, being responsible for the composition and sound design in Slam Bolt Scrappers and Go Home Dinosaurs\, as well as plenty of programming and game design. \n\nNaomi Hinchen\nFlash Programmer\, Learning Games Network \n\nNaomi Hinchen graduated Course 6-3 in 2011 and finished her MEng in 2012. While at MIT\, she was on the teams for Poikilia and The Snowfield at GAMBIT (now the MIT Game Lab). Until recently\, she worked at Learning Games Network\, primarily on the language learning game Xenos. \n\nDamián Isla\nPresident\, co-founder\, Moonshot Games \n\nDamián has been working on and writing about game technology for over a decade. He is president and co-founder of Moonshot Games\, purveyors of fun and innovative mobile gaming fare. \nBefore Moonshot\, Damián was AI and Gameplay engineering lead at Bungie Studios\, where he was responsible for the AI for the mega-hit first-person shooters Halo 2 and Halo 3. \nA leading expert in the field of Artificial Intelligence for Games\, Damián has spoken on games\, AI and character technology at the International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI)\, at the AI and Interactive Digital Entertainment Conference (AIIDE)\, and at Siggraph\, and is a frequent speaker at the Game Developers Conference (GDC). \nBefore joining the industry\, Damián earned a Masters Degree with the Synthetic Characters group at the M.I.T. Media Lab. He holds a B.S. in Computer Science\, also from M.I.T. \n\nRob Stokes\nSenior Level Designer\, Harmonix Music Systems \n\nRob grew up in Marshfield\, MA\, before heading off to MIT for undergrad. While there\, Rob earned a B.S. in Aerospace Engineering\, which has proven largely useless in his career\, except when doing back-of-the-envelope terminal velocity calculations for space stations falling into the gravity wells of gas giants. \nAfter MIT\, Rob attended the American Film Institute in LA\, while he earned his MFA in writing. He next worked at Bungie for five years\, working as a mission designer on Halo 2 and one of the design leads on Halo 3. He also led up the story development process for Halo 3 and got to do most of the early writing for missions and cinema tics. \nAfter Bungie\, Rob co-founded a small startup called Moonshot Games\, where he served as Creative Director. He currently works at Harmonix Music Systems in Cambridge\, despite not being able to carry a tune\, bust a move\, or play chopsticks. \n\nPatrick Rodriguez\nGame Designer\, Muzzy Lane Software \n\nPatrick Rodriguez graduated from MIT in 2012 with a degree in Comparative Media Studies. He now works for Muzzy Lane Software in Newburyport\, MA\, making educational/serious games. His most recent project is a corporate training game for a retail chain in mexico that trains employees how to talk with customers to recommend the best product for them. \n\nMark Sullivan\nHarmonix Music Systems \n\nMark Sullivan has been working in the games industry for just over two years\, during which time he’s been working as a gameplay programmer at Harmonix Music Systems on the 2014 title Fantasia: Music Evolved.  Prior to that\, he completed his undergrad in course 6 at MIT in 2010\, and then his MEng in 2011.  He worked as a UROP and eventually a research assistant at the Singapore-MIT GAMBIT Game Lab for most of his time at MIT\, from Summer 2007 to Summer 2011. \n\nPresented by the MIT Game Lab and Comparative Media Studies/Writing.
URL:https://cms.mit.edu/event/mit-alumni-game-industry/
LOCATION:MIT Building 32 (Stata Center)\, Room 155\, 32 Vassar Street\, Cambridge\, MA\, 02139\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20131121T170000
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SUMMARY:Mary Flanagan
DESCRIPTION:Mary Flanagan\nMary Flanagan pushes the boundaries of medium and genre across writing\, visual arts\, and design to innovate in these fields with a critical play centered approach. Her groundbreaking explorations across the arts and sciences represent a novel use of methods and tools that bind research with introspective cultural production. As an artist\, her collection of over 20 major works range from game-inspired systems to computer viruses\, embodied interfaces to interactive texts; these works are exhibited internationally. As a scholar interested in how human values are in play across technologies and systems\, Flanagan has written more than 20 critical essays and chapters on games\, empathy\, gender and digital representation\, art and technology\, and responsible design. Her three books in English include Critical Play (2009) with MIT Press. Flanagan founded the Tiltfactor game research laboratory in 2003\, where researchers study and make social games\, urban games\, and software in a rigorous theory/practice environment. Flanagan’s work has been supported by grants and commissions including The British Arts Council\, the National Endowment for the Humanities\, the ACLS\, and the National Science Foundation. Flanagan is the Sherman Fairchild Distinguished Professor in Digital Humanities at Dartmouth College.
URL:https://cms.mit.edu/event/mary-flanagan/
LOCATION:MIT Building 4\, Room 231\, Cambridge\, MA\, 02139\, United States
CATEGORIES:Colloquium
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20131114T170000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20131114T190000
DTSTAMP:20260403T171833
CREATED:20130820T120621Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20160516T174501Z
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SUMMARY:Visualizing Information: ChartGirl on an Alternate Route to Understanding and Explaining Complicated Information
DESCRIPTION:Hilary Sargent\, founder of ChartGirl.com\nHilary Sargent is the founder of ChartGirl.com\, where she makes charts to describe complicated news stories. Her site was recently called one of the 50 Best Websites of 2013 by TIME Magazine and her charts have been featured by Reuters\, AtlanticWire\, BoingBoing\, Business Insider\, and others. Sargent has worked as an investigator for law firms\, corporations\, non-profit organizations and political campaigns. \nView the MIT Campus Map for Building 4’s exact location.
URL:https://cms.mit.edu/event/chartgirl-on-visualizing-information/
LOCATION:MIT Building 4\, Room 231\, Cambridge\, MA\, 02139\, United States
CATEGORIES:Colloquium
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20131113T163000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20131113T173000
DTSTAMP:20260403T171833
CREATED:20131112T172027Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20131113T172219Z
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SUMMARY:Nelly Rosario: "Noble Strains: Thoughts on a Hybridized Identity"
DESCRIPTION:Nelly Rosario’s hybrid talk presents a mash-up of genres to explore the benefits and pitfalls of hybridity as identity in these “post-racial” times. Also read Noble Strains\, Rosario’s recent blog post for the PBS Latino Americans series.
URL:https://cms.mit.edu/event/noble-strains-thoughts-hybridized-identity-nelly-rosario/
LOCATION:Boston College\, Devlin Hall\, Room 101\, Boston College Campus\, Chestnut Hill\, MA\, 02467\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20131107T170000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20131107T190000
DTSTAMP:20260403T171833
CREATED:20130903T172931Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20201014T140523Z
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SUMMARY:Sonia Livingstone: "The Class: Living and Learning in the Digital Age"
DESCRIPTION:Sonia Livingstone\, Department of Media and Communications\, London School of Economics and Political Science\nSonia Livingstone is a full professor in the Department of Media and Communications\, London School of Economics and Political Science. She is seconded to Microsoft Social Research for fall 2013 as well as being a faculty fellow at the Berkman Center for Internet and Society. Her talk will be based on her current book project\, “The Class: Living and Learning in the Digital Age”\, based on her ethnographic research with the MacArthur Foundation-funded Connected Learning Research Network. With a focus on young teenagers\, Sonia will examine how powerful forces of social reproduction result in missed opportunities for many youth in the risk society.
URL:https://cms.mit.edu/event/sonia-livingstone-class-living-learning-in-the-digital-age/
LOCATION:MIT Media Lab\, Room 633\, 75 Amherst St.\, Cambridge\, MA\, 02139\, United States
CATEGORIES:Colloquium
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20131031T170000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20131031T190000
DTSTAMP:20260403T171833
CREATED:20130822T133322Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20131023T153012Z
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SUMMARY:Todd Harper: "Fight Like Gentlemen: The Culture of Fighting Games"
DESCRIPTION:Todd Harper\, Postdoctoral Associate with the MIT Game Lab\nThe culture of fighting games — digital games of competitive martial arts-style combat—is one of the most interesting and contentious of gamer subcultures. This talk examines the influences and norms of that community\, including its spiritual and physical roots in the arcade\, common gameplay practices\, and how issues of ethnicity and gender collide with gamer identity in the ‘FGC’. \nTodd Harper is a researcher at the MIT Game Lab with a background in mass communication and cultural studies. His current research focuses on both competitive communities and their cultural norms\, as well as queer and gender representation and issues in gaming culture.
URL:https://cms.mit.edu/event/todd-harper-culture-of-fighting-games/
LOCATION:MIT Building 4\, Room 231\, Cambridge\, MA\, 02139\, United States
CATEGORIES:Colloquium
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ORGANIZER;CN="MIT%20Comparative%20Media%20Studies%2FWriting":MAILTO:cmsw@mit.edu
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20131031T140000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20131031T160000
DTSTAMP:20260403T171833
CREATED:20150211T203234Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20150211T203234Z
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SUMMARY:Online Information Session
DESCRIPTION:
URL:https://cms.mit.edu/event/online-information-session-103113/
LOCATION:cms.mit.edu
CATEGORIES:Independent Activities Period
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20131031T140000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20131031T160000
DTSTAMP:20260403T171833
CREATED:20130626T143321Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20200902T220904Z
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SUMMARY:Online Information Session\, CMS Graduate Program
DESCRIPTION:Join us at 2pm on the 31st! (What time is that where you live?) \nJOIN NOW!\nRSVP is not required for online information sessions. \nIt may help to prepare some questions ahead of time. It’s as simple as scanning through the basic info about the graduate program: cmsw.mit.edu/education/comparative-media-studies/masters.
URL:https://cms.mit.edu/event/online-information-session-cms-graduate-program-oct-31-2013/
LOCATION:http://irc.lc/freenode/cmsinfo
CATEGORIES:Information Session
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20131024T170000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20131024T190000
DTSTAMP:20260403T171833
CREATED:20130725T200939Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20131017T144905Z
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SUMMARY:Coco Fusco: "A Performance Approach to Primate Politics"
DESCRIPTION:Coco Fusco\nNew York-based interdisciplinary artist and writer Coco Fusco will consider the critical responses to the original Planet of the Apes films\, focusing in particular on the interpretation of the films as critiques of American race relations during the 1960’s and ’70’s. \nShe will also discuss her interest in exploring the strategies used in early sci-fi cinema\, the ways that films such as Planet of the Apes employed speculative fiction to generate social critique. \nModerated by Professor of Writing Junot Díaz and Associate Professor Ian Condry.
URL:https://cms.mit.edu/event/coco-fusco-planet-of-the-apes-primate-politics/
LOCATION:MIT Media Lab\, Room 633\, 75 Amherst St.\, Cambridge\, MA\, 02139\, United States
CATEGORIES:Colloquium
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ORGANIZER;CN="MIT%20Comparative%20Media%20Studies%2FWriting":MAILTO:cmsw@mit.edu
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20131024T100000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20131024T150000
DTSTAMP:20260403T171833
CREATED:20130626T140413Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20150211T204949Z
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SUMMARY:On-campus Information Session\, CMS Graduate Program
DESCRIPTION:If you would like to attend an on-campus information session\, please RSVP to cms-admissions@mit.edu.
URL:https://cms.mit.edu/event/on-campus-information-session-oct-2013/
LOCATION:MIT Building E51\, Room 095\, 70 Memorial Drive\, Cambridge\, MA\, 02139\, United States
CATEGORIES:Information Session
ORGANIZER;CN="MIT%20Comparative%20Media%20Studies%2FWriting":MAILTO:cmsw@mit.edu
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20131017T170000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20131017T190000
DTSTAMP:20260403T171833
CREATED:20130829T124223Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20131017T134519Z
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SUMMARY:Zeynep Tufekci: "The Boom-Bust Cycle of Social Media-Fueled Protests"
DESCRIPTION:Zeynep Tufekci\nSocial media-fueled protests in many countries have surprised observers with their seemingly spontaneous\, combustible power. Yet\, many have fizzled out without having a strong impact on policy at the electoral and legislative levels. In this talk\, Tufekci will discuss some features of such protests that may be leading to this boom and bust cycle drawing upon primary research in Gezi protests in Turkey as well as “Arab Spring”\, Occupy and M15 movements. \nZeynep Tufekci is an assistant professor at the University of North Carolina\, Chapel Hill. \nModerated by Professor of Comparative Media Studies and Head of MIT Foreign Languages and Literatures Ian Condry and Ethan Zuckerman\, Director of the MIT Center for Civic Media.
URL:https://cms.mit.edu/event/zeynep-tufekci-boom-bust-cycle-social-media-fueled-protests/
LOCATION:MIT Media Lab\, Room 633\, 75 Amherst St.\, Cambridge\, MA\, 02139\, United States
CATEGORIES:Colloquium
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ORGANIZER;CN="MIT%20Comparative%20Media%20Studies%2FWriting":MAILTO:cmsw@mit.edu
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20131010T170000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20131010T190000
DTSTAMP:20260403T171833
CREATED:20130819T132855Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20130819T134430Z
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SUMMARY:Born Digital
DESCRIPTION:How is the generation born in the digital age different from its analog ancestors? Are those born digital likely to have different notions of privacy\, community\, identity itself? How do educators approach this generation to help prepare them for scholarship and for citizenship? \nSpeakers: John Palfrey\, Head of School at Phillips Academy and author of Born Digital: Understanding the First Generation of Digital Natives; and Ethan Zuckerman\, director of the Center for Civic Media\, a collaboration between the MIT Media Lab and Comparative Media Studies/Writing.
URL:https://cms.mit.edu/event/born-digital/
LOCATION:MIT Media Lab\, Room 633\, 75 Amherst St.\, Cambridge\, MA\, 02139\, United States
CATEGORIES:Communications Forum
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ORGANIZER;CN="MIT%20Communications%20Forum":MAILTO:couch@mit.edu
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20131003T080000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20131003T100000
DTSTAMP:20260403T171833
CREATED:20150211T202840Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20150211T203019Z
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SUMMARY:Online Information Session
DESCRIPTION:
URL:https://cms.mit.edu/event/online-information-session-100313/
LOCATION:cms.mit.edu
CATEGORIES:Independent Activities Period
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20131003T080000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20131003T100000
DTSTAMP:20260403T171833
CREATED:20130626T143235Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20150211T204804Z
UID:4305-1380787200-1380794400@cms.mit.edu
SUMMARY:Online Information Session\, CMS Graduate Program
DESCRIPTION:RSVP not required for online information sessions.
URL:https://cms.mit.edu/event/online-information-session-cms-graduate-program-oct-03-2013/
LOCATION:http://irc.lc/freenode/cmsinfo
CATEGORIES:Information Session
ORGANIZER;CN="MIT%20Comparative%20Media%20Studies%2FWriting":MAILTO:cmsw@mit.edu
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20130926T170000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20130926T190000
DTSTAMP:20260403T171833
CREATED:20130830T122641Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20130924T203246Z
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SUMMARY:Ethan Zuckerman: "Digital Cosmopolitanism and Cognitive Diversity"
DESCRIPTION:Ethan Zuckerman\, Director of the MIT Center for Civic Media and author of Rewire: Digital Cosmopolitans in the Age of Connection\nNew media technologies have sharply increased the number of people who are able to create and disseminate content. But they may not be leading to a more diverse media environment\, as tools that allow us to tailor what content we see and what we ignore are becoming more powerful and more personal. The framework of cosmopolitanism suggests a way through this challenge – by examining perspectives we are exposed to and insulated from\, we may be able to design tools and approaches that help readers increase their cognitive diversity and prepare themselves to tackle transnational challenges. \nEthan Zuckerman is the Director of the MIT Center for Civic Media. \nModerated by Associate Professor Ian Condry.
URL:https://cms.mit.edu/event/ethan-zuckerman-digital-cosmopolitanism-cognitive-diversity/
LOCATION:MIT Building 4\, Room 231\, Cambridge\, MA\, 02139\, United States
CATEGORIES:Colloquium
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20130919T170000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20130919T190000
DTSTAMP:20260403T171833
CREATED:20130823T171408Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20130916T195619Z
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SUMMARY:Hong Qu: "Keepr: Algorithm for Extracting Entities\, Eyewitnesses and Amplifiers"
DESCRIPTION:Hong Qu\nWhen a big news story breaks\, Twitter goes crazy. Keepr tries to make sense of these periodic bursts by implementing natural language processing and social network analysis algorithms to surface topics\, eyewitnesses\, and amplifiers. A live demo will be followed by a discussion of the capabilities and limitations of computational newsgathering\, along with reports of how it is being used in newsrooms. \nHong Qu is a digital toolmaker. He has led teams at YouTube and Upworthy.  He enjoys building social media tools that help us better understand ourselves and the world around us.
URL:https://cms.mit.edu/event/hong-qu-keepr-algorithm-extracting-entities-eyewitnesses-amplifiers/
LOCATION:MIT Media Lab\, Room 633\, 75 Amherst St.\, Cambridge\, MA\, 02139\, United States
CATEGORIES:Colloquium
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ORGANIZER;CN="MIT%20Comparative%20Media%20Studies%2FWriting":MAILTO:cmsw@mit.edu
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20130919T100000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20130919T150000
DTSTAMP:20260403T171833
CREATED:20130626T140224Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20150211T205002Z
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SUMMARY:On-campus Information Session\, CMS Graduate Program
DESCRIPTION:If you would like to attend an on-campus information session\, please RSVP to cms-admissions@mit.edu.
URL:https://cms.mit.edu/event/on-campus-information-session-sept-2013/
LOCATION:MIT Building E51\, Room 095\, 70 Memorial Drive\, Cambridge\, MA\, 02139\, United States
CATEGORIES:Information Session
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ORGANIZER;CN="MIT%20Comparative%20Media%20Studies%2FWriting":MAILTO:cmsw@mit.edu
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20130912T170000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20130912T190000
DTSTAMP:20260403T171833
CREATED:20130813T191455Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20150414T193512Z
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SUMMARY:The Phoenix Burns Out: Remembering a Boston Institution
DESCRIPTION:Featuring essayist Anita Diamant\, former staff writing Charles Pierce\, music critic Lloyd Schwartz\, and Phoenix editor Carly Carioli.Moderated by Seth Mnookin.\nA generation of great journalists cut their teeth at alt-weeklies\, and The Boston Phoenix produced some of the best of them. When the Phoenix announced it was closing last March\, the city lost a powerful cultural force and a vibrant source of information. \nWe’ll discuss the Phoenix‘s legacy and the ways in which its loss will affect Boston. \nPanelists will be author and essayist Anita Diamant\, who started out answering the editor’s phone in the mid-1970s; Charles Pierce of Esquire and NPR\, and a staff writer with the Phoenix in the 1980s and ’90s; poet and classical music critic Lloyd Schwartz\, who won a Pulitzer Prize with the Phoenix; and Carly Carioli\, who started as an intern and rose to become the paper’s editor. \nSeth Mnookin will moderate.
URL:https://cms.mit.edu/event/the-phoenix-burns-out-remembering-a-boston-institution/
LOCATION:MIT Media Lab\, Room 633\, 75 Amherst St.\, Cambridge\, MA\, 02139\, United States
CATEGORIES:Communications Forum
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ORGANIZER;CN="MIT%20Communications%20Forum":MAILTO:couch@mit.edu
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20130509T170000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20130509T180000
DTSTAMP:20260403T171833
CREATED:20140730T180348Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20150706T170706Z
UID:21612-1368118800-1368122400@cms.mit.edu
SUMMARY:10 PRINT CHR$(205.5+RND(1)); : GOTO 10
DESCRIPTION:The MIT Press book we affectionately call 10 PRINT — actually 10 PRINT CHR$(205.5+RND(1)); : GOTO 10 — was an unusual project in several respects. The book focuses on a single line of now-unfamiliar code\, code of the sort that millions typed in and modified in the 1970s and 1980s. The book contributes to several threads of contemporary digital media scholarship\, including critical code studies\, software studies\, and platform studies. Also somewhat oddly\, the book was written in a single voice by ten people: Nick Montfort\, Patsy Baudoin\, John Bell\, Ian Bogost\, Jeremy Douglass\, Mark C. Marino\, Michael Mateas\, Casey Reas\, Mark Sample\, and Noah Vawter. \nAt this CMS colloquium\, co-authors will discuss the nature of their collaboration\, which was organized by Montfort\, designed as a book by Reas\, and facilitated by structured conversations and writing done online (using a mailing list and a wiki) as well as (in a few cases) in person. The writing of 10 PRINT is offered as a new mode of scholarship\, very suitable in digital media but capable of being applied throughout the humanities. It brings some of the benefits of laboratory work and collaborative design practice to the traditionally individual mode of scholarly research and argument.
URL:https://cms.mit.edu/event/10-print/
LOCATION:MIT Building 4\, Room 231\, Cambridge\, MA\, 02139\, United States
CATEGORIES:Colloquium
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20130503
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20130506
DTSTAMP:20260403T171833
CREATED:20150303T192836Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20170316T192813Z
UID:21574-1367539200-1367798399@cms.mit.edu
SUMMARY:Media in Transition 8: Public Media\, Private Media
DESCRIPTION:Submissions accepted on a rolling basis until Friday\, March 1\, 2013 (evaluations begin in November). Please see the end of this call for papers for submission instructions. \nThe distinction between public and private — where the line is drawn and how it is sometimes inverted\, the ways that it is embraced or contested — says much about a culture. Media have been used to enable\, define and police the shifting line between the two\, so it is not surprising that the history of media change to some extent maps the history of these domains. Media in Transition 8 takes up the question of the shifting nature of the public and private at a moment of unparalleled connectivity\, enabling new notions of the socially mediated public and unequalled levels of data extraction thanks to the quiet demands of our Kindles\, iPhones\, televisions and computers. While this forces us to think in new ways about these long established categories\, in fact the underlying concerns are rooted in deep historical practice. MiT8 considers the ways in which specific media challenge or reinforce certain notions of the public or the private and especially the ways in which specific “texts” dramatize or imagine the public\, the private and the boundary between them. It takes as its foci three broad domains: personal identity\, the civic (the public sphere) and intellectual property. \nRead the full call for papers…
URL:https://cms.mit.edu/event/media-in-transition-8-public-media-private-media/
LOCATION:MA
CATEGORIES:Conference
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20130429T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20130429T210000
DTSTAMP:20260403T171833
CREATED:20140731T172836Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20140731T172836Z
UID:21623-1367258400-1367269200@cms.mit.edu
SUMMARY:15th Annual CMS Media Spectacle
DESCRIPTION:The CMS Media Spectacle\, 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/15th-annual-cms-media-spectacle/
LOCATION:MIT Building 32 (Stata Center)\, Room 141\, 32 Vassar Street\, Cambridge\, MA\, 02139\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20130425T170000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20130425T190000
DTSTAMP:20260403T171833
CREATED:20141215T153201Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20141215T153201Z
UID:21616-1366909200-1366916400@cms.mit.edu
SUMMARY:Film Preservation in the Age of Digitality
DESCRIPTION:Chris Horak\nWe now live in a digital age\, seemingly guaranteeing instant accessibility. Much of the general public in fact believes that every film and television program ever made has already been digitized and is now available in Netflix’s catalog. That is hardly the case\, because digitization is still massively expensive\, there is no such thing as a digital preservation medium\, and even the migration of digital films is fraught with technical difficulties. \nChris Horak is Director of the UCLA Film and Television Archive.
URL:https://cms.mit.edu/event/chris-horak-film-preservation-in-the-age-of-digitality/
LOCATION:MIT Building 4\, Room 231\, Cambridge\, MA\, 02139\, United States
CATEGORIES:Colloquium
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20130418T170000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20130418T190000
DTSTAMP:20260403T171833
CREATED:20170530T233059Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20200521T124612Z
UID:30230-1366304400-1366311600@cms.mit.edu
SUMMARY:Size Is Only Half the Story:Valuing the Dimensionality of BIG DATA
DESCRIPTION:Mary L. Gray\nRecent provocations (boyd and Crawford\, 2011) about the role of “big data” in human communication research and technology studies deserve an outline of the value of anthropology\, as a particular kind of “big data”. \nMary L. Gray\, Senior Researcher at Microsoft Research New England and Associate Professor of Communication and Culture at Indiana University\, will walk through the different dimensions of social inquiry that fall under the rubric of “big data”. She argues for attending to different dimensions rather than scales of data\, more collaborative approaches to how we arrive at what we (think we) know\, and critical analysis of the cultural assumptions embedded in the data we collect. By moving from the “snapshot” of quantitative work to the
URL:https://cms.mit.edu/event/size-is-only-half-story-valuing-dimensionality-big-data/
LOCATION:MIT Building 4\, Room 231\, Cambridge\, MA\, 02139\, United States
CATEGORIES:Colloquium
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20130417T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20130417T203000
DTSTAMP:20260403T171833
CREATED:20170530T233059Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20200311T180111Z
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SUMMARY:The Future of Print in the Digital Age
DESCRIPTION:Co-sponsored by Comparative Media Studies/Writing\, its Graduate Program in Science Writing\, and the MIT Program in Science Technology and Society. \nDavid Carr writes the Media Equation column for the Monday Business section of the New York Times that focuses on media issues including print\, digital\, film\, radio and television. He also works as a general assignment reporter in the Culture section of The Times covering all aspects of popular culture. Carr blogs regularly at Media Decoder. \nFor the past 25 years\, Carr has been writing about media as it intersects with business\, culture and government. \nSeth Mnookin is a former baseball and political writer who now co-directs MIT’s Graduate Program in Science Writing. \nTa-Nehisi Coates is a 2012-2013 Dr. Martin Luther King\, Jr. Visiting Scholar at MIT and a senior editor at The Atlantic where he writes about culture\, politics\, and social issues for TheAtlantic.com and the magazine. He is the author of the memoir The Beautiful Struggle.
URL:https://cms.mit.edu/event/future-print-digital-age/
LOCATION:MIT Building 6\, Room 120\, 182 Memorial Drive (Rear)\, Cambridge\, MA\, 02139\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20130411T170000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20130411T190000
DTSTAMP:20260403T171833
CREATED:20150326T141159Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20161221T201056Z
UID:21613-1365699600-1365706800@cms.mit.edu
SUMMARY:News or Entertainment? The Press in Modern Political Campaigns
DESCRIPTION:In the 2012 presidential campaign\, a handful of media outlets deployed “fact-checking” divisions which reported the lies and distortions of the candidates. Some commentators have argued that these truth-squads exposed the inadequacy of standard print and broadcast coverage\, much of which seems more like entertainment than news. This forum will examine the changing role of the political media in the U.S. Is our political journalism serving democratic and civic ideals? What do emerging technologies and the proliferation of news sources mean for the future? \nTa-Nehisi Coates is a senior editor at The Atlantic where he writes about culture\, politics\, and social issues for TheAtlantic.com and the magazine. He is the author of the memoir The Beautiful Struggle. \nMark McKinnon is a senior advisor of Hill & Knowlton Strategies\, an international communications consultancy\, a weekly columnist for The Daily Beast and The London Telegraph\, and is a co-founder of the bipartisan group No Labels. As a political advisor\, he has worked for many causes\, companies and candidates including former President George W. Bush\, 2008 Republican presidential candidate Senator John McCain\, late former Texas Governor Ann Richards and Congressman Charlie Wilson.
URL:https://cms.mit.edu/event/news-or-entertainment-press-modern-political-campaigns/
LOCATION:MIT Media Lab\, Room 633\, 75 Amherst St.\, Cambridge\, MA\, 02139\, United States
CATEGORIES:Communications Forum
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20130404T170000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20130404T190000
DTSTAMP:20260403T171833
CREATED:20170530T233059Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20211209T132503Z
UID:30268-1365094800-1365102000@cms.mit.edu
SUMMARY:The Cultural Feedback of Noise
DESCRIPTION:Noise\, an underground music made through an amalgam of feedback\, distortion\, and electronic effects\, first emerged in the 1980s\, circulating on cassette tapes traded between fans in Japan\, Europe and North America. With its cultivated obscurity\, ear-shattering sound\, and over-the-top performances\, Noise captured the imagination of a small but passionate transnational audience\, despite remaining deeply underground. How did the submergent circulations of Noise become such a compelling metaphor for the complexities of globalization\, intercultural exchange and participatory media at the turn of the millennium? In this talk\, I trace the “cultural feedback” of noise through the productive distortions of its mediated networks: its recorded forms\, technologies of live performance\, and into the lives and creative practices of musicians and listeners. \nDavid Novak teaches in the Music Department at the University of California\, Santa Barbara. His work deals with the globalization of popular music\, media technologies\, experimental culture\, and social practices of listening. He is the author of recent essays in Public Culture\, Cultural Anthropology\, and Popular Music\, as well as the book Japanoise: Music at the Edge of Circulation (Duke University Press).
URL:https://cms.mit.edu/event/cultural-feedback-noise/
LOCATION:MIT Building 4\, Room 231\, Cambridge\, MA\, 02139\, United States
CATEGORIES:Colloquium
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20130321T170000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20130321T190000
DTSTAMP:20260403T171833
CREATED:20150324T154947Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20210113T175133Z
UID:21611-1363885200-1363892400@cms.mit.edu
SUMMARY:MOOCs and the Emerging Digital Classroom
DESCRIPTION:MOOCs and other forms of online learning have the potential to disrupt traditional classroom education — or to help us better understand how to exploit the many learning spaces students now inhabit.  This forum examines the ongoing migration of our analog practices into digital forms\, looking at the ways in which digital technologies are transforming teaching and learning both on and off campus. What gaps in our curricula\, or in our students’ experience\, can be filled through technology?  What elements of teaching practice can be effectively translated into new media\, and what aspects of “teaching” must be redefined? \nAnant Agarwal the president of edX\, a worldwide\, online learning initiative of MIT and Harvard University\, and a professor in MIT’s electrical engineering and computer science department. \nAlison Byerly holds an interdisciplinary appointment as College Professor at Middlebury College and\, during 2012-2013\, she is a visiting scholar in the Literature Section at MIT. \nDaphne Koller is the Rajeev Motwani Professor in the               computer science department at Stanford University. Koller will join the conversation live from the west coast.
URL:https://cms.mit.edu/event/moocs-emerging-digital-classroom/
LOCATION:MIT Media Lab\, Room 633\, 75 Amherst St.\, Cambridge\, MA\, 02139\, United States
CATEGORIES:Communications Forum
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