A Conversation with Sherry Turkle
MIT Building 66, Room 110 25 Ames Street, Cambridge, MASherry Turkle, eminent MIT professor and author most recently of Alone, Together, discusses her darkening view of our digitizing world.
MIT Graduate Program in Comparative Media Studies
Studying Media and Making Media
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(Face)book of the Dead
MIT Building 2, Room 105 182 Memorial Drive, Cambridge, MAIn the Age of Always Connect, are we witnessing a plague of oversharing? Are social networks its vectors of transmission? Is this the "Death of Shame"?
13th Annual Media Spectacle
MIT Building 32 (Stata Center), Room 155 32 Vassar Street, Cambridge, MAAn honored tradition returns this Spring when CMS presents the thirteenth annual Media Spectacle.
The End of the Virtual: Digital Methods
MIT Building 2, Room 105 182 Memorial Drive, Cambridge, MARichard Rogers proposes a research practice that grounds claims about cultural change and societal conditions in online dynamics.
Race and Representation after 9/11
MIT Building 2, Room 105 182 Memorial Drive, Cambridge, MAWhat kind of popular culture is made in the context of war? How do notions of civil rights shift in a post-Civil Rights era?
Media in Transition 7: “Unstable Platforms: The Promise and Peril of Transition”
Has the digital age confirmed and exponentially increased the cultural instability and creative destruction that are often said to define advanced capitalism?
Local News in the Digital Age
MIT Media Lab, Bartos Theater 20 Ames Street, Cambridge, MAThis Forum will assess the state of local journalism, paying special attention to the changing environment for news in New England.
Graduate Program Information Session
CMS/W Headquarters (E15-331) 20 Ames Street, Cambridge, MAAn information session for the graduate program in Comparative Media Studies.
From Settlers to Quarriors: Breaking up the Monopoly with Modern Board Game Design
MIT Building 4, Room 231 Cambridge, MAAttendees will learn about a variety of game mechanisms through discussions of exemplar games and see how these games relate.
Marks of Materiality in Digital Bodies
MIT Media Lab, Room 633 75 Amherst St., Cambridge, MAHye Jean Chung’s talk will explore how digital effects are not only used to mediate the real but to replace or enhance human capabilities via cyborgian hybrids.
Online Information Session
cms.mit.eduJoin us at 10am on October 10, 2011, here at cms.mit.edu! RSVP not required, but sign up for a reminder.
Federico Casalegno: “Designing Connections”
MIT Building 4, Room 231 Cambridge, MAMIT Mobile Experience Lab's Federico Casalegno on innovative ways to design creative new media and digital interactions to foster connections between people, information, and places.
Revision, Culture, and the Machine: How Digital Makes Us Human
MIT Building 4, Room 231 Cambridge, MAJohn Bryant will draw upon examples from revision studies, adaptation, and translation in order to highlight the elements of creativity, appropriation, and cultural difference that are at stake in dealing with the ethics and editing of revision.
Sandra Braman: “Frames, Fractures, and Skins: Internet Design as Social Policy”
MIT Building E51, Room 275 70 Memorial Drive, Cambridge, MASandra Braman on how "those responsible for technical design of the Internet have found they must think through a number of social policy issues along the way."
Marina Bers, “The Design of Digital Experiences for Positive Youth Development”
MIT Media Lab, Room 633 75 Amherst St., Cambridge, MAThis talk by Marina Bers will focus on digital spaces to support positive youth development.
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