Artist-Audience Relations in the Age of Social Media
MIT Building 4, Room 231 Cambridge, MANancy Baym asks, "How does direct access to fans change what it means to be an artist? What rewards are there that weren't before?"
MIT Graduate Program in Comparative Media Studies
Studying Media and Making Media
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On-Campus Information Session
Comparative Media Studies: MIT Building E15, Room 335 20 Ames St., Cambridge, MASeptember 20, 2012. If you would like to attend an on-campus info session, please RSVP to cms-admissions@mit.edu.
Jim Bizzocchi, “Close-Reading Media Poetics”
MIT Media Lab, Room 633 75 Amherst St., Cambridge, MAClose reading requires that the scholar immerse herself in the experience of the text on its own terms, and at the same time maintain a critical distance.
Games in Everyday Life and Why That Matters to You
Tang Center 70 Memorial Drive, Cambridge, MAWhat can finance, health care, philanthropy, and education learn from cutting-edge games and game theory?
Script as Image
MIT Media Lab, Room 633 75 Amherst St., Cambridge, MAJeffrey Hamburger surveys the many aspects of medieval script as a pictorial form, using examples from Late Antiquity to the late Middle Ages and beyond.
Online Information Session
cms.mit.eduJoin us at 10am on October 4, 2012, here at cms.mit.edu!
Gediminas Urbonas
MIT Building 4, Room 231 Cambridge, MAGediminas Urbonas is artist and educator, and co-founder of Urbonas Studio, an interdisciplinary research program that advocates for the reclamation of public culture.
On-Campus Information Session
Comparative Media Studies: MIT Building E15, Room 335 20 Ames St., Cambridge, MAIf you would like to attend an on-campus info session, please RSVP to cms-admissions@mit.edu.
Online Information Session
cms.mit.eduJoin us at 10am on November 1, 2012, here at cms.mit.edu!
Digitizing the Culture of Print: The Digital Public Library of America and Other Urgent Projects
MIT Media Lab, Room 633 75 Amherst St., Cambridge, MAWhat urgent initiatives are underway to assure universal access to our print inheritance and to the digital communication forms of the future?
New Media in West Africa
MIT Building E25, Room 111 45 Carleton Street, Cambridge, MAHow has Nigerian cinema in particular influenced local television and film markets in other countries across West Africa, and across the continent?
Futures of Entertainment 6
MIT Building E51, Wong Auditorium 70 Memorial Drive, Cambridge, MAThis year's event, Nov. 9-10 at MIT, will look at how media producers and audiences are relating to one another in new ways in a spreadable media landscape.
Cultural Production and Social Media as Capture Platforms: How the Matrix Has You
Comparative Media Studies: MIT Building E15, Room 335 20 Ames St., Cambridge, MAHector Postigo's presentation develops a framework for understanding how social media’s technical feature-sets create a system of capture and conversion.
Minding the News
MIT Media Lab, Room 633 75 Amherst St., Cambridge, MAMark Turner's research on the cognitive underpinnings of network news, with an emphasis on blended joint attention, story-telling, counterfactuality, and hypotheticals.
GO ASK A.L.I.C.E: A Panel Discussion
Harvard University Science Center, Room 469 1 Oxford St, Cambridge, MAGO ASK A.L.I.C.E explores the strange afterlife of the Turing Test as it has circulated in popular, scientific, and commercial cultures.
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