News or Entertainment? The Press in Modern Political Campaigns
MIT Media Lab, Room 633 75 Amherst St., Cambridge, MAMark McKinnon and Ta-Nehisi Coates discuss whether our political journalism is serving democratic and civic ideals.
MIT Graduate Program in Comparative Media Studies
Studying Media and Making Media
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The Future of Print in the Digital Age
MIT Building 6, Room 120 182 Memorial Drive (Rear), Cambridge, MACo-sponsored by Comparative Media Studies/Writing, its Graduate Program in Science Writing, and the MIT Program in Science Technology and Society. David 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 […]
Size Is Only Half the Story:
Valuing the Dimensionality of BIG DATA
MIT Building 4, Room 231
Cambridge, MA
Mary L. Gray Recent 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". Mary L. Gray, Senior Researcher at Microsoft Research New England and Associate Professor of Communication and Culture at […]
Film Preservation in the Age of Digitality
MIT Building 4, Room 231 Cambridge, MAMuch 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.
15th Annual CMS Media Spectacle
MIT Building 32 (Stata Center), Room 141 32 Vassar Street, Cambridge, MAShowcasing the finest video projects created by MIT students, staff and faculty. 7 PRIZE CATEGORIES!
Media in Transition 8: Public Media, Private Media
Submissions accepted on a rolling basis until Friday, March 1, 2013.
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MIT Building 4, Room 231 Cambridge, MACo-authors will discuss the nature of their collaboration facilitated by structured conversations and writing done online and in person.
The Phoenix Burns Out: Remembering a Boston Institution
MIT Media Lab, Room 633 75 Amherst St., Cambridge, MAWhen the Phoenix announced its closing, the city lost a powerful cultural force and a vibrant source of information. We'll discuss the Phoenix's legacy.
On-campus Information Session, CMS Graduate Program
MIT Building E51, Room 095 70 Memorial Drive, Cambridge, MASeptember 19, 2013. If you would like to attend an on-campus information session, please RSVP to cms-admissions@mit.edu.
Hong Qu: “Keepr: Algorithm for Extracting Entities, Eyewitnesses and Amplifiers”
MIT Media Lab, Room 633 75 Amherst St., Cambridge, MASeptember 19th, hear from Hong Qu on Keepr, a tool that makes sense of social media news bursts with natural language processing and network analysis.
Ethan Zuckerman: “Digital Cosmopolitanism and Cognitive Diversity”
MIT Building 4, Room 231 Cambridge, MABy 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.
Online Information Session, CMS Graduate Program
http://irc.lc/freenode/cmsinfoOctober 3, 2013. RSVP not required for online information sessions. To participate, simply come to this page during session hours.
Online Information Session
cms.mit.eduJoin us at 8am on October 3, 2013, here at cms.mit.edu!
Born Digital
MIT Media Lab, Room 633 75 Amherst St., Cambridge, MAOn Oct. 10, John Palfrey and Ethan Zuckerman discuss whether those born digital likely to have different notions of privacy, community, identity itself.
Zeynep Tufekci: “The Boom-Bust Cycle of Social Media-Fueled Protests”
MIT Media Lab, Room 633 75 Amherst St., Cambridge, MAUNC's Zeynep Tufekci discusses social media-fueled protests and their boom and bust cycle, drawing on the Gezi protests, Arab Spring, Occupy, and others.
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