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Mary Gray

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, MA

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.

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15th Annual CMS Media Spectacle

MIT Building 32 (Stata Center), Room 141 32 Vassar Street, Cambridge, MA

Showcasing the finest video projects created by MIT students, staff and faculty. 7 PRIZE CATEGORIES!

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MIT Building 4, Room 231 Cambridge, MA

Co-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, MA

When 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.

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On-campus Information Session, CMS Graduate Program

MIT Building E51, Room 095 70 Memorial Drive, Cambridge, MA

September 19, 2013. If you would like to attend an on-campus information session, please RSVP to cms-admissions@mit.edu.

Ethan Zuckerman: “Digital Cosmopolitanism and Cognitive Diversity”

MIT Building 4, Room 231 Cambridge, MA

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.

Online Information Session, CMS Graduate Program

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October 3, 2013. RSVP not required for online information sessions. To participate, simply come to this page during session hours.

Online Information Session

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Join us at 8am on October 3, 2013, here at cms.mit.edu!

Born Digital

MIT Media Lab, Room 633 75 Amherst St., Cambridge, MA

On Oct. 10, John Palfrey and Ethan Zuckerman discuss whether those born digital likely to have different notions of privacy, community, identity itself.

On-campus Information Session, CMS Graduate Program

MIT Building E51, Room 095 70 Memorial Drive, Cambridge, MA

October 24, 2013. If you would like to attend an on-campus information session, please RSVP to cms-admissions@mit.edu.

Coco Fusco: “A Performance Approach to Primate Politics”

MIT Media Lab, Room 633 75 Amherst St., Cambridge, MA

Coco Fusco New 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. She will also discuss her interest in exploring the strategies used in […]