Convergence Journalism? Emerging Documentary and Multimedia Forms of News
MIT Media Lab, Room 633 75 Amherst St., Cambridge, MAHow is new access to the power of the visual changing our journalism? What current projects are particularly significant?
MIT Graduate Program in Comparative Media Studies
Studying Media and Making Media
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Gregory Crane: “Automated Methods, Human Understanding, and Digital Libraries of Babel”
MIT Media Lab, Room 633 75 Amherst St., Cambridge, MAThe challenges and opportunities of a hyperlingual dialogue among civilizations, where humans work with machines and with each other to communicate and where books do talk to each other.
A Conversation with Nate Silver
MIT Media Lab, Bartos Theater 20 Ames Street, Cambridge, MAStatistician and political polling analyst Nate Silver will discuss his career -- from student journalist to baseball prognosticator to the creator of FiveThirtyEight.com.
Angels of Death: David Foster Wallace and the Battle against Irony, Letterman and Leyner?
MIT Media Lab, Room 633 75 Amherst St., Cambridge, MAD.T. Max, staff writer at the New Yorker, looks at David Foster Wallace and irony, with an eye especially on his 1990's attacks on David Letterman and the novelist Mark Leyner.
MOOCs and the Emerging Digital Classroom
MIT Media Lab, Room 633 75 Amherst St., Cambridge, MAIn this Communications Forum, Anant Argawal, Alison Byerly, and Daphne Koller look at how digital technologies are transforming teaching and learning both on and off campus.
The Cultural Feedback of Noise
MIT Building 4, Room 231 Cambridge, MADavid Novak on the "cultural feedback" of noise music through its recorded forms, technologies of live performance, and creative practices of musicians and listeners.
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.
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.
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