ROFLCon
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MIT Graduate Program in Comparative Media Studies
Studying Media and Making Media
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Graphical Expressions of Humanistic Interpretation in Digital Environments
MIT Media Lab, Bartos Theater 20 Ames Street, Cambridge, MAJohanna Drucker asks, "Are the standard metrics and conventions developed for analysis of empirical inquiries fundamentally at odds with tenets of traditional humanistic interpretation?"
The Imagination, Computation, and Expression Lab: Phantasmal Media
MIT Media Lab, Room 633 75 Amherst St., Cambridge, MAProfessor Fox Harrell's research group -- the Imagination, Computation, and Expression (ICE) Lab -- builds computational systems for expressing imaginative stories and concepts -- "phantasmal media" systems. In particular, his research uses artificial intelligence/cognitive science-based techniques to understanding the human imagination to invent and better understand new forms of computational narrative, identity, games, and related […]
Francisco Ricardo, “The Aesthetics of Projective Spatiality: New Media as Critical Objects”
MIT Building 4, Room 231 Cambridge, MAUsing physical and virtual examples, Ricardo examines the strange tension between unanimous acceptance of new media and materials and the frequent rejection of new forms and structures they have made possible.
Online Migration of Newspapers
MIT Media Lab, Bartos Theater 20 Ames Street, Cambridge, MADavid Carr and Dan Kennedy discuss the best and the worst examples of news on the net, online-only news sites, hyperlocal news and collaborative journalism, business models for online newspapers, and the impact of social media on journalism.
NGO2.0: When Social Action Meets Social Media
MIT Building 4, Room 231 Cambridge, MAProfessor Jing Wang will discuss the genesis and implementation of a civic media project, NGO2.0, that she conceptualized and launched in China in May 2009.
Humanities in the Digital Age
MIT Building 32 (Stata Center), Room 141 32 Vassar Street, Cambridge, MAWith Alison Byerly and Steven Pinker, we ask how digital tools and systems have already begun to transform humanistic education.
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?"
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.
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