Civic Media and the Law
MIT Media Lab, Room 633 75 Amherst St., Cambridge, MAMicah Sifry and Daniel Schuman address the question: "What are the legal dangers for publishing secrets in the crowdsourced era?"
MIT Graduate Program in Comparative Media Studies
Studying Media and Making Media
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Public Communications in Slow-Moving Crises
MIT Building 4, Room 231 Cambridge, MAWhat new media tools and strategies can be used to help everyone better prepare for the unique communications challenges of slow-moving crises?
Amsterdam and New York: Transnational Photographic Exchange in the Era of Globalization
MIT Building 32 (Stata Center), Room 141 32 Vassar Street, Cambridge, MAChristoph Lindner is Professor of Literature and Director of the Amsterdam School for Cultural Analysis (ASCA) at the University of Amsterdam in the Netherlands.
Yves Citton: “The Humanities’ Choice: Knowledge Economy or Culture of Interpretation?”
MIT Building E40, Room 496 1 Amherst Street, Cambridge, MAA first-person anthropological report on a dive to the seafloor in the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution's three-person submersible, Alvin.
From Elsinore to Monkey Island: Theatre and Videogames as Performance Activities
MIT Building 2, Room 105 182 Memorial Drive, Cambridge, MAClara Fernández-Vara, a Comparative Media Studies alumna, explains her journey from researching Shakespeare in performance to studying and developing videogames.
Online News: Public Sphere or Echo Chamber?
MIT Building 3, Room 270 33 Massachusetts Ave (Rear), Cambridge, MAAs newspapers continue their mutation into digital formats and as news and information are available from a seeming infinity of websites, what do we actually know about the dynamics of news-consumption online?
How Documentary Went Digital: the Implications of Informal Filming and Skeptical Audiences
MIT Building 2, Room 105 182 Memorial Drive, Cambridge, MAJohn Ellis will argue that "Films are now seen as documents of interactions rather than expositions of fact."
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.
(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.
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