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.
MIT Graduate Program in Comparative Media Studies
Studying Media and Making Media
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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.
On-campus Information Session, CMS Graduate Program
MIT Building E51, Room 095 70 Memorial Drive, Cambridge, MAOctober 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, MACoco 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 […]
Online Information Session, CMS Graduate Program
http://irc.lc/freenode/cmsinfoRSVP not required for online sessions. To participate, simply come to this page during session hours.
Online Information Session
cms.mit.eduJoin us at 2pm on October 31, 2013, here at cms.mit.edu!
Todd Harper: “Fight Like Gentlemen: The Culture of Fighting Games”
MIT Building 4, Room 231 Cambridge, MAA talk on the fighting game community, its spiritual and physical roots in the arcade, common practices, and how issues of ethnicity and gender collide.
Sonia Livingstone: “The Class: Living and Learning in the Digital Age”
MIT Media Lab, Room 633 75 Amherst St., Cambridge, MASonia Livingstone will examine how powerful forces of social reproduction result in missed opportunities for many youth in the risk society.
Nelly Rosario: “Noble Strains: Thoughts on a Hybridized Identity”
Boston College, Devlin Hall, Room 101 Boston College Campus, Chestnut Hill, MANelly 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.
Visualizing Information: ChartGirl on an Alternate Route to Understanding and Explaining Complicated Information
MIT Building 4, Room 231 Cambridge, MANovember 14, we hear from Hilary Sargent of ChartGirl.com -- one of TIME's 50 Best Websites -- where she makes charts to describe complicated news stories.
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