BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//MIT Graduate Program in Comparative Media Studies - ECPv5.16.1//NONSGML v1.0//EN CALSCALE:GREGORIAN METHOD:PUBLISH X-WR-CALNAME:MIT Graduate Program in Comparative Media Studies X-ORIGINAL-URL:https://cms.mit.edu X-WR-CALDESC:Events for MIT Graduate Program in Comparative Media Studies REFRESH-INTERVAL;VALUE=DURATION:PT1H X-Robots-Tag:noindex X-PUBLISHED-TTL:PT1H BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:America/New_York BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 TZNAME:EDT DTSTART:20130310T070000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0400 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 TZNAME:EST DTSTART:20131103T060000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 TZNAME:EDT DTSTART:20140309T070000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0400 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 TZNAME:EST DTSTART:20141102T060000 END:STANDARD END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20140306T170000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20140306T190000 DTSTAMP:20260403T195511 CREATED:20140107T153522Z LAST-MODIFIED:20160817T183033Z UID:7688-1394125200-1394132400@cms.mit.edu SUMMARY:Henry Jenkins Returns DESCRIPTION:Legendary former MIT professor and housemaster Henry Jenkins\, now the Provost’s Professor of Communications\, Journalism\, Cinematic Arts and Education at the University of Southern California\, returns to the Forum for a conversation about his time at the Institute and the founding of CMS as well as his path-breaking scholarship on contemporary media. Forum Director David Thorburn\, Jenkins’ longtime friend and colleague\, will moderate the discussion. \nHenry Jenkins is Provost’s Professor of Communication\, Journalism\, Cinematic Arts and Education at the University of Southern California. He taught at MIT from 1990-2009 and was the founding director of the Comparative Media Studies program at the Institute. He has written many books on film\, popular culture and media\, including Convergence Culture: Where Old and New Media Collide (2008). \nDavid Thorburn is a professor of Literature and Director of the MIT Communications Forum. He is the author of a critical study of the novelist Joseph Conrad and many essays on literature and media. Among his publications: Rethinking Media Change (2007)\, co-edited with Henry Jenkins. URL:https://cms.mit.edu/event/henry-jenkins-returns/ LOCATION:MIT Building 4\, Room 370\, 182 Memorial Drive (Rear)\, Cambridge\, MA\, 02139\, United States CATEGORIES:Communications Forum ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://cms.mit.edu/wp/wp-content/uploads/2013/06/HenryJenkins.jpg ORGANIZER;CN="MIT%20Communications%20Forum":MAILTO:couch@mit.edu END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20140227T170000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20140227T190000 DTSTAMP:20260403T195511 CREATED:20140115T203722Z LAST-MODIFIED:20140228T160401Z UID:7826-1393520400-1393527600@cms.mit.edu SUMMARY:Meredith Schweig and Rebecca Dirksen: "Taiwanese Rap and Haitian Music and Reconstruction" DESCRIPTION:Meredith Schweig\nIn this presentation\, Meredith Schweig explores the gender politics and practices of the Taiwan rap scene. Drawing on long-term fieldwork with the island’s hip-hop community and invoking emergent scholarly discourses on East Asian and global masculinities\, she argues that rap’s identity as men’s music renders it a productive site for exploring\, unsettling\, and transforming prevailing models of Taiwanese manhood. In the context of shifting gender roles driven by dramatic social\, political\, and economic change over the course of the last three decades in Taiwan\, Schweig considers how rap has created new spaces for male sociality\, avenues for male self-empowerment\, and opportunities for the articulation of multiple masculine identities not otherwise audible in the island’s popular music. \nSchweig is a Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow in the Humanities at MIT. Her research explores twentieth- and twenty-first-century music of East Asia\, with a particular emphasis on popular song\, narrativity\, and cultural politics in Taiwan and China. She has received fellowships and grants from the Asian Cultural Council\, Whiting Foundation\, Fulbright-Hays\, and the Fairbank Center for East Asian Research at Harvard University. \n\nRebecca Dirksen\nIn Haiti from the colonial period to the present\, music has been a critical means for public dialogue when other avenues have not been possible. Mizik angaje\, literally\, “engaged music\,” a genre-crossing expressive form featuring pointed lyrical commentary on political and social issues\, has accompanied key moments in Haitian history\, from the Haitian Revolution to the downfall of the Duvalier regime and subsequent rise of Aristide to power. Increasingly in recent years\, mizik angaje has been re-imagined to reflect current realities: any understanding of this musical phenomenon must now go beyondexamining how ordinary Haitian citizens use musical dialogue to critique infrastructural weaknesses and abuses of authority to demonstrating how a growing number of social groups employ music as an explicit and fundamental tool for strengthening their local communities. Independent of state or NGO support\, these groups are tackling non-musical neighborhood concerns by promoting social programs that simultaneously entertain music-making and community service. This leads us to ask\, what happens when Haitian musicians implicate themselves in the processes of development? \nRebecca Dirksen\, a Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology\, completed her PhD in ethnomusicology at UCLA in 2012. Her primary research concerns music and grassroots development in Haiti before and after the 2010 earthquake. Concurrent projects revolve around creative responses to crisis and disaster\, intangible cultural heritage protection\, cultural policy\, and Haitian classical music. \nThis event is co-sponsored with MIT Foreign Languages and Literatures and the Cool Japan Project. URL:https://cms.mit.edu/event/meredith-schweig-rebecca-dirkson/ LOCATION:MIT Media Lab\, Room 633\, 75 Amherst St.\, Cambridge\, MA\, 02139\, United States CATEGORIES:Colloquium ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://cms.mit.edu/wp/wp-content/uploads/2014/01/Meredith-Schweig.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20140220T170000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20140220T190000 DTSTAMP:20260403T195511 CREATED:20140123T153900Z LAST-MODIFIED:20140123T155455Z UID:7906-1392915600-1392922800@cms.mit.edu SUMMARY:Jonathan Sterne\, "Who Tunes Whom?: Auto-Tune\, the Earth\, and the Politics of Frequency" DESCRIPTION:Jonathan Sterne\, McGill University\nAuto-tune is a ubiquitous vocal effect in popular music and the best-selling software plug-in in the short history of commercial digital audio software. When used with subtlety\, auto-tune fixes slight errors or variances in pitch (usually of singers); when used more drastically\, it produces a very recognizable vocal effect\, “locking” a voice to a scale\, or drastically altering it. \nAuto-tune was developed out of reflection seismology technology\, which uses sound for locating natural resources underground and beneath the ocean floor. In this paper\, Sterne gives a cultural history of auto-tune as a form of signal processing\, drawing on patent documents\, interviews\, operational protocols\, tuning standards and competing acoustemologies. Auto-tune effects a resource management of the voice. The obvious artifice in its most extreme forms points us back to a centuries-long project to technologize human voices through standards and tuning. While journalists and music fans may argue over auto-tune’s relationship to the authenticity of the voice\, Sterne shows that it is embedded in a much broader politics of frequency. \nJonathan Sterne is a Professor in the Department of Art History and Communication Studies at McGill University\, and for January-May 2014 a visiting researcher in social media at Microsoft Research New England. He is author of MP3: The Meaning of a Format (Duke 2012)\, The Audible Past: Cultural Origins of Sound Reproduction (Duke\, 2003); and numerous articles on media\, technologies and the politics of culture. He is also editor of The Sound Studies Reader (Routledge\, 2012). His new projects consider instruments and instrumentalities; histories of signal processing; and the intersections of disability\, technology and perception. Visit his website at sterneworks.org. URL:https://cms.mit.edu/event/jonathan-sterne-auto-tune/ LOCATION:MIT Media Lab\, Room 633\, 75 Amherst St.\, Cambridge\, MA\, 02139\, United States CATEGORIES:Colloquium ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://cms.mit.edu/wp/wp-content/uploads/2014/01/Jonathan-Sterne.jpg ORGANIZER;CN="MIT%20Comparative%20Media%20Studies%2FWriting":MAILTO:cmsw@mit.edu END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20140213T170000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20140213T190000 DTSTAMP:20260403T195511 CREATED:20140117T153300Z LAST-MODIFIED:20201019T132216Z UID:7845-1392310800-1392318000@cms.mit.edu SUMMARY:Miguel Sicart: "Play in the Age of Computing Machinery" DESCRIPTION:Miguel Sicart\nWe live in the era of computation and play. Everywhere we look\, there is a computer\, translating the world around us into patterns for production of labor or consumption of entertainment. And now more than ever\, we play everywhere: our work should be playful\, as it should be our dieting\, our love life\, and even our leisure. We play as much as we can\, in this world of computers. \nIn this talk Sicart will look at the culture\, aesthetics\, and technological implications of play in the age of computers. He will propose a theory of play that includes the materiality of computation in its definition of the activity\, and will suggest that our forms of playing with machines are both forms of surrendering to the pleasures of computation\, and forms of creative resistance to the reduction of our worlds to computable events. \nMiguel Sicart is a games scholar based at the IT University of Copenhagen. For the last decade his research has focused on ethics and computer games\, from a philosophical and design theory perspective. He has two books published: The Ethics of Computer Games; and Beyond Choices: The Design of Ethical Gameplay (MIT Press 2009\, 2013). His current work focuses on playful design\, and will be the subject of a new book called Play Matters (MIT Press\, 2014). Miguel teaches game and play design\, and his research is now focused on toys\, materiality\, and play. URL:https://cms.mit.edu/event/miguel-sicart-play-age-computing-machinery/ LOCATION:MIT Media Lab\, Room 633\, 75 Amherst St.\, Cambridge\, MA\, 02139\, United States CATEGORIES:Colloquium ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://cms.mit.edu/wp/wp-content/uploads/2014/01/Miguel-Sicart.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20140206T170000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20140206T190000 DTSTAMP:20260403T195511 CREATED:20140108T211213Z LAST-MODIFIED:20201206T214336Z UID:7743-1391706000-1391713200@cms.mit.edu SUMMARY:Vicki Mayer: "Where 'Home' Is: Film Production Economies and the Privatization of Space" DESCRIPTION:Vicki Mayer\nVicki Mayer is Professor of Communication at Tulane University. She has published widely on media production and producers. She is Editor of the journal Television & New Media\, and she directs the digital humanities projects MediaNOLA and New Orleans Historical. \nThis talk will give an overview of her current research into the impacts of regional policies for film production on ordinary people’s understandings of time\, space and place. This is a talk less about the economic impacts of the policies than on the social and subjective experiences of people who live in cities driven by media production economies. In particular\, she will highlight the impacts of location-based film production on the ways residents in New Orleans\, Louisiana\, move through public space. Since Hurricane Katrina in 2005\, the state has sponsored aggressive incentives policies that have transformed the region into the third largest film economy in the United States. Using GIS mapping software and personal photography\, Mayer explores the ways this publicly financed economy privatizes public space by making the local into locations\, by commodifying local culture\, and by increasing the stratification of wealth in the post-Katrina landscape. These images provide a textured look at the way political economies can be visualized not only geographically but also as part of the ordinary experience of everyday life in a city still and always posited as “recovering.” At the end of this talk\, she presents an alternative way of mediating spatial experiences and histories through a digital humanities project that she has directed since 2008. URL:https://cms.mit.edu/event/vicki-mayer-film-production-economies/ LOCATION:MIT Media Lab\, Room 633\, 75 Amherst St.\, Cambridge\, MA\, 02139\, United States CATEGORIES:Comparative Media Insights ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://cms.mit.edu/wp/wp-content/uploads/2014/01/Vicki-Mayer.jpeg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20140204T170000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20140204T190000 DTSTAMP:20260403T195511 CREATED:20140107T210808Z LAST-MODIFIED:20160817T182447Z UID:7702-1391533200-1391540400@cms.mit.edu SUMMARY:Jason Mittell: “Strategies of Storytelling in Transmedia Television” DESCRIPTION:As television series have become more complex in their narrative strategies\, television itself has expanded its storytelling scope across screens and platforms\, complicating notions of medium-specificity at the very same time that television seems to have a more distinct narrative form. This presentation explores how television narratives have expanded and been complicated through transmedia extensions\, including video games\, novelizations\, websites\, online video\, and alternate reality games. Through specific analyses of transmedia strategies for Lost\, Breaking Bad\, and The Simpsons\, the lecture considers how transmedia storytelling grapples with issues of canonicity and audience segmentation\, how transmedia reframes viewer expectations for the core television serial\, and what transmedia possibilities might look like going forward. \nJason Mittell is Professor of American Studies and Film & Media Culture at Middlebury College. His books include Genre and Television: From Cop Shows to Cartoons in American Culture (Routledge\, 2004)\, Television and American Culture (Oxford University Press\, 2009)\, How to Watch Television (co-edited with Ethan Thompson\, NYU Press\, 2013)\, and Complex Television: The Poetics of Contemporary Television Storytelling (forthcoming from New York University Press\, online at MediaCommons Press). He maintains the blog Just TV. URL:https://cms.mit.edu/event/jason-mittell-storytelling-in-transmedia-television/ LOCATION:MIT Media Lab\, Room 633\, 75 Amherst St.\, Cambridge\, MA\, 02139\, United States CATEGORIES:Comparative Media Insights ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://cms.mit.edu/wp/wp-content/uploads/2014/01/Jason-Mittell.jpeg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20140130T170000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20140130T190000 DTSTAMP:20260403T195511 CREATED:20140116T140302Z LAST-MODIFIED:20210615T131342Z UID:7829-1391101200-1391108400@cms.mit.edu SUMMARY:Michael Curtin: “The Burdens of Official Aspiration: National Policy in the Age of Global Media” DESCRIPTION:Michael Curtin\nSince the 1990s\, market liberalization and new technologies have accelerated the transnational flow of media imagery\, much to the delight of Western conglomerates that have expanded their operations and exports around the globe. This has\, of course\, raised anxieties in countries that find themselves ever more vulnerable to a flood of foreign movies and television programming. Yet Hollywood is no longer the only major exporter of audiovisual media\, having been joined by thriving competitors\, such as Mumbai\, Lagos\, and Miami. Animated by the commercial logic of “media capital\,” these cities are now challenging prior geographies of creativity and cultural influence\, fostering tensions about the relative roles that cities and states play in local\, regional\, and global cultural economies. \nAs these transnational media capitals have prospered\, some states have fought back with policies aimed at controlling imports and fostering the creative capacity of national media institutions. This remarkable turn in media policy over the past decade is largely premised on official suppositions that popular media have become elements of political and cultural leadership both at home and abroad. Yet the question remains: Can such policies produce truly popular cultural products or will they forever bear the burdens of official aspiration? This presentation explores the implications of national cultural policy within the broader context of media globalization\, providing a framework for understanding the logics of media capital and the challenges confronting national governments. It furthermore compares media industries around the world\, reflecting more generally on future prospects for creativity and cultural diversity in popular film and television. \nMichael Curtin is the Duncan and Suzanne Mellichamp Professor of Global Studies in the Department of Film and Media Studies at the University of California\, Santa Barbara. He is also Director and co-founder of the Media Industries Project at the Carsey-Wolf Center. His books include Playing to the World’s Biggest Audience: The Globalization of Chinese Film and TV and Reorienting Global Communication: Indian and Chinese Media Beyond Borders. Curtin is currently at work on Media Capital: The Cultural Geography of Globalization and is co-editor of the Chinese Journal of Communication and the International Screen Industries book series of the British Film Institute. URL:https://cms.mit.edu/event/michael-curtin-national-policy-age-of-global-media/ LOCATION:MIT Media Lab\, Room 633\, 75 Amherst St.\, Cambridge\, MA\, 02139\, United States CATEGORIES:Comparative Media Insights ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://cms.mit.edu/wp/wp-content/uploads/2014/01/Michael-Curtin.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20140130T140000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20140130T150000 DTSTAMP:20260403T195511 CREATED:20140113T163641Z LAST-MODIFIED:20190404T194234Z UID:7789-1391090400-1391094000@cms.mit.edu SUMMARY:Gregory Heyworth: "Textual Science and the Future of the Past" DESCRIPTION:Gregory Heyworth\nOver the past decade\, a quiet technological revolution has been occurring in the humanities. Great texts – the Archimedes palimpsest\, the Dead Sea Scrolls among others – once largely illegible and lost to history\, have been returned to us through spectral imaging. We stand now at the threshold of a renaissance of the past\, but only if we can integrate science with the humanities in a new\, hybrid discipline. Textual Science\, as Gregory Heyworth argues\, is poised to change the established order of things: the notion that the humanities is about husbanding the past with scholarship that adds to human insight in ever slenderer increments; that the canon is a coffin\, the past irrevocably the past\, and that scholars and students must behave as humble curators rather than archaeologists of an undiscovered country; that the artistic mind cannot\, in any profound way\, share neurons with the scientific. With images of recovered works\, many previously unseen\, this talk will chart the way ahead in theory and praxis. \nGregory Heyworth is Associate Professor of English at the University of Mississippi\, and the Director of the Lazarus Project\, an initiative to recover damaged manuscripts using spectral imaging. A medievalist and expert in textual studies\, he has authored several books\, the most recent an edition of the second longest poem in French\, the 14th century Eschéz d’Amours\, a unique manuscript damaged in the bombing of Dresden and long deemed illegible. He is currently recovering and editing the oldest translation of the Gospels into Latin and writing a book on Textual Science. URL:https://cms.mit.edu/event/gregory-heyworth-textual-science-future-past/ LOCATION:MIT Building 3\, Room 133\, 33 Massachusetts Ave\, Cambridge\, MA\, 02139\, United States ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://cms.mit.edu/wp/wp-content/uploads/2014/01/Gregory-Heyworth-cropped.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20140128T170000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20140128T170000 DTSTAMP:20260403T195511 CREATED:20140107T152819Z LAST-MODIFIED:20160822T153801Z UID:7687-1390928400-1390928400@cms.mit.edu SUMMARY:Aswin Punathambekar: “Media\, Sociability\, and Political Potentials in Contemporary India” DESCRIPTION:To suggest that there is a strong relationship between participatory culture and civic/political engagement would not come as news to anyone in India. In fact\, the past decade has been marked by a number of astonishing instances of participation surrounding entertainment media intersecting with and reshaping a wider political field. Academic discussions of these events have been focused on the question: what constitutes meaningful participation? Not surprisingly\, these discussions have focused on the explicitly political dimensions of these moments of participation. Instead of this narrow emphasis on political effects\, Aswin Punathambekar draws on a range of cases across India\, China\, and the Middle East to ask: what happens when such phases of participation fade away? What are the cultural and political implications of a zone of participation that lasts a few weeks or months at best? Tracing shifts in media industry logics as well as audience participation facilitated by mobile media technologies\, this presentation foregrounds the sociable and everyday dimensions of media use. Punathambekar argues that it is only when we comprehend how participatory culture and everyday life are braided together that we can meaningfully pose questions about how media can be politically productive. \nAswin Punathambekar is an Associate Professor in the Department of Communication Studies at the University of Michigan-Ann Arbor. He is the author of From Bombay to Bollywood: The Making of a Global Media Industry (NYU Press\, 2013)\, and co-editor of Global Bollywood (NYU Press\, 2008) and Television at Large in South Asia (Routledge\, 2012). He has also published articles in various anthologies and journals including Media\, Culture and Society\, International Journal of Cultural Studies\, BioScope: South Asian Screen Studies\, and Popular Communication: International Journal of Media and Culture. He is currently working on two books. The first is a historical account of the development of the Indian television industry. The second\, provisionally titled Mobile Publics: Media\, Participation and Political Culture in Digital South Asia\, examines how convergence between television and mobile media technologies is reconfiguring the meanings and performance of citizenship. URL:https://cms.mit.edu/event/aswin-punathambekar-media-sociability-politcal-potentials-in-india/ LOCATION:MIT Media Lab\, Room 633\, 75 Amherst St.\, Cambridge\, MA\, 02139\, United States CATEGORIES:Comparative Media Insights ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://cms.mit.edu/wp/wp-content/uploads/2013/06/aswin_punathambekar.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20140127T170000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20140127T190000 DTSTAMP:20260403T195511 CREATED:20140121T192828Z LAST-MODIFIED:20140121T192828Z UID:7876-1390842000-1390849200@cms.mit.edu SUMMARY:Mary Flanagan\, "Humanist Inquiry Through Critical Play: Designing and Enacting our Enduring Questions" DESCRIPTION:Mary Flanagan\nIn this talk\, Dr. Mary Flanagan reveals how games can be sources of deep human inquiry and introspection. Flanagan presents the interesting things scholars might discover by looking at games and why games can be useful tools for inquiry through a variety of methodological lenses. She will also share recent research on creating games that improve biases and stereotypes. \nAs a scholar interested in how human values are in play across technologies and systems\, Flanagan has written more than 20 critical essays and chapters on games\, empathy\, gender and digital representation\, art and technology\, and responsible design. Her three books in English include Critical Play (2009) with MIT Press. Flanagan founded the Tiltfactor game research laboratory in 2003\, where researchers study and make social games\, urban games\, and software in a rigorous theory/practice environment. Flanagan’s work has been supported by grants and commissions including The British Arts Council\, the National Endowment for the Humanities\, the ACLS\, and the National Science Foundation. Flanagan is the Sherman Fairchild Distinguished Professor in Digital Humanities at Dartmouth College. URL:https://cms.mit.edu/event/mary-flanagan-humanist-inquiry-critical-play-designing-enacting-enduring-questions/ LOCATION:MIT Media Lab\, Room 633\, 75 Amherst St.\, Cambridge\, MA\, 02139\, United States CATEGORIES:Comparative Media Insights ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://cms.mit.edu/wp/wp-content/uploads/2013/11/Mary-Flanagan.jpg ORGANIZER;CN="MIT%20Comparative%20Media%20Studies%2FWriting":MAILTO:cmsw@mit.edu END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20140124 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20140127 DTSTAMP:20260403T195511 CREATED:20131213T174508Z LAST-MODIFIED:20131213T174732Z UID:7398-1390521600-1390780799@cms.mit.edu SUMMARY:Global Game Jam 2014 at MIT DESCRIPTION:View full tim and location information at:\nhttp://gamelab.mit.edu/event/global-game-jam-2014-at-mit-in-cambridge-ma/ \n\nEnrollment: advance sign-up via http://mitgamelab-ggj2014.eventbrite.com\nLimited to 50 participants \nAttendance: Must attend entire event (not necessarily all hours) \nFee: $17.00 for non-MIT students\, free for MIT\n\nThe Global Game Jam is the world’s largest game jam event taking place around the world at physical locations\, a 48-hour a hackathon focused on game development. The weekend stirs a global creative buzz in games\, while at the same time exploring the process of development\, be it programming\, iterative design\, narrative exploration or artistic expression. People with all kinds of backgrounds are welcome to participate and contribute to this global spread of game development and creativity. Make games with us! URL:https://cms.mit.edu/event/global-game-jam-2014-2/ CATEGORIES:Independent Activities Period ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://cms.mit.edu/wp/wp-content/uploads/2013/12/Global-Game-Jam.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20140111T100000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20140112T000000 DTSTAMP:20260403T195511 CREATED:20131213T181243Z LAST-MODIFIED:20131219T193424Z UID:7406-1389434400-1389484800@cms.mit.edu SUMMARY:Push Button Game Jam DESCRIPTION:Enrollment: advance sign-up via mitgamelab-iap2014.eventbrite.com. \nFull info at http://gamelab.mit.edu/event/push-button-game-jam/ URL:https://cms.mit.edu/event/push-button-game-jam/ LOCATION:MIT Building 32 (Stata Center)\, Room 124\, 32 Vassar Street\, Cambridge\, MA\, 02139\, United States CATEGORIES:Independent Activities Period END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20131205T170000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20131205T190000 DTSTAMP:20260403T195511 CREATED:20130819T133741Z LAST-MODIFIED:20131205T153511Z UID:5610-1386262800-1386270000@cms.mit.edu SUMMARY:Long-form Journalism: Inside The Atlantic DESCRIPTION:September 2013 cover of The Atlantic\nSome have called long-form journalism an endangered species. But ground-breaking articles requiring months of research and writing continue to appear. Why is such work important? How is it created? James Fallows and Corby Kummer of The Atlantic will chart the journey of a major feature story from conception to publication and speculate about the future of long-form writing in the digital age. \nTom Levenson\, Professor of Writing at MIT\, will moderate. URL:https://cms.mit.edu/event/long-form-journalism-inside-the-atlantic/ LOCATION:MIT Building 66\, Room 110\, 25 Ames Street\, Cambridge\, MA\, 02139\, United States CATEGORIES:Communications Forum ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://cms.mit.edu/wp/wp-content/uploads/2013/08/The-Atlantic.jpg ORGANIZER;CN="MIT%20Communications%20Forum":MAILTO:couch@mit.edu END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20131125T170000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20131125T183000 DTSTAMP:20260403T195511 CREATED:20131120T162006Z LAST-MODIFIED:20150421T165145Z UID:6942-1385398800-1385404200@cms.mit.edu SUMMARY:MIT Alumni in the Game Industry DESCRIPTION:MIT Students: Are you curious about how to get a job in the game industry as an MIT graduate? What kind of jobs can MIT prepare you for? What should you expect from your first job? \nThe MIT Game Lab has invited a number of local MIT alumni in the game industry to talk about their experiences entering the industry. \nThese alumni have experience working at large game studios (Harmonix\, Blizzard\, Bungie Studios)\, educational game studios (Muzzy Lane\, Learning Games Network)\, and independent game studios (Fire Hose Games\, MoonShot Games). Their jobs have included programming\, level design\, game design\, sound design\, music composition\, and writing. \nPanelists include:\nEthan Fenn\nFire Hose Games \n\nEthan graduated in 2004 with a double major in Courses 18 and 21M. Soon after graduating he joined the team at Harmonix\, where he worked as a programmer with an audio focus on several titles\, including Karaoke Revolution Party\, Guitar Hero\, Guitar Hero II\, and Rock Band. After a few years at Harmonix\, he met Eitan Glinert\, who had recently finished his graduate work at GAMBIT and was working on starting up a new game studio\, Fire Hose Games. Ethan jumped right in at the start of the studio and has been with Fire Hose since. At Fire Hose he’s worn many hats\, being responsible for the composition and sound design in Slam Bolt Scrappers and Go Home Dinosaurs\, as well as plenty of programming and game design. \n\nNaomi Hinchen\nFlash Programmer\, Learning Games Network \n\nNaomi Hinchen graduated Course 6-3 in 2011 and finished her MEng in 2012. While at MIT\, she was on the teams for Poikilia and The Snowfield at GAMBIT (now the MIT Game Lab). Until recently\, she worked at Learning Games Network\, primarily on the language learning game Xenos. \n\nDamián Isla\nPresident\, co-founder\, Moonshot Games \n\nDamián has been working on and writing about game technology for over a decade. He is president and co-founder of Moonshot Games\, purveyors of fun and innovative mobile gaming fare. \nBefore Moonshot\, Damián was AI and Gameplay engineering lead at Bungie Studios\, where he was responsible for the AI for the mega-hit first-person shooters Halo 2 and Halo 3. \nA leading expert in the field of Artificial Intelligence for Games\, Damián has spoken on games\, AI and character technology at the International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI)\, at the AI and Interactive Digital Entertainment Conference (AIIDE)\, and at Siggraph\, and is a frequent speaker at the Game Developers Conference (GDC). \nBefore joining the industry\, Damián earned a Masters Degree with the Synthetic Characters group at the M.I.T. Media Lab. He holds a B.S. in Computer Science\, also from M.I.T. \n\nRob Stokes\nSenior Level Designer\, Harmonix Music Systems \n\nRob grew up in Marshfield\, MA\, before heading off to MIT for undergrad. While there\, Rob earned a B.S. in Aerospace Engineering\, which has proven largely useless in his career\, except when doing back-of-the-envelope terminal velocity calculations for space stations falling into the gravity wells of gas giants. \nAfter MIT\, Rob attended the American Film Institute in LA\, while he earned his MFA in writing. He next worked at Bungie for five years\, working as a mission designer on Halo 2 and one of the design leads on Halo 3. He also led up the story development process for Halo 3 and got to do most of the early writing for missions and cinema tics. \nAfter Bungie\, Rob co-founded a small startup called Moonshot Games\, where he served as Creative Director. He currently works at Harmonix Music Systems in Cambridge\, despite not being able to carry a tune\, bust a move\, or play chopsticks. \n\nPatrick Rodriguez\nGame Designer\, Muzzy Lane Software \n\nPatrick Rodriguez graduated from MIT in 2012 with a degree in Comparative Media Studies. He now works for Muzzy Lane Software in Newburyport\, MA\, making educational/serious games. His most recent project is a corporate training game for a retail chain in mexico that trains employees how to talk with customers to recommend the best product for them. \n\nMark Sullivan\nHarmonix Music Systems \n\nMark Sullivan has been working in the games industry for just over two years\, during which time he’s been working as a gameplay programmer at Harmonix Music Systems on the 2014 title Fantasia: Music Evolved. Prior to that\, he completed his undergrad in course 6 at MIT in 2010\, and then his MEng in 2011. He worked as a UROP and eventually a research assistant at the Singapore-MIT GAMBIT Game Lab for most of his time at MIT\, from Summer 2007 to Summer 2011. \n\nPresented by the MIT Game Lab and Comparative Media Studies/Writing. URL:https://cms.mit.edu/event/mit-alumni-game-industry/ LOCATION:MIT Building 32 (Stata Center)\, Room 155\, 32 Vassar Street\, Cambridge\, MA\, 02139\, United States ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://cms.mit.edu/wp/wp-content/uploads/2013/05/mit-game-lab-logo.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20131121T170000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20131121T190000 DTSTAMP:20260403T195511 CREATED:20130905T200318Z LAST-MODIFIED:20131121T154928Z UID:6007-1385053200-1385060400@cms.mit.edu SUMMARY:Mary Flanagan DESCRIPTION:Mary Flanagan\nMary Flanagan pushes the boundaries of medium and genre across writing\, visual arts\, and design to innovate in these fields with a critical play centered approach. Her groundbreaking explorations across the arts and sciences represent a novel use of methods and tools that bind research with introspective cultural production. As an artist\, her collection of over 20 major works range from game-inspired systems to computer viruses\, embodied interfaces to interactive texts; these works are exhibited internationally. As a scholar interested in how human values are in play across technologies and systems\, Flanagan has written more than 20 critical essays and chapters on games\, empathy\, gender and digital representation\, art and technology\, and responsible design. Her three books in English include Critical Play (2009) with MIT Press. Flanagan founded the Tiltfactor game research laboratory in 2003\, where researchers study and make social games\, urban games\, and software in a rigorous theory/practice environment. Flanagan’s work has been supported by grants and commissions including The British Arts Council\, the National Endowment for the Humanities\, the ACLS\, and the National Science Foundation. Flanagan is the Sherman Fairchild Distinguished Professor in Digital Humanities at Dartmouth College. URL:https://cms.mit.edu/event/mary-flanagan/ LOCATION:MIT Building 4\, Room 231\, Cambridge\, MA\, 02139\, United States CATEGORIES:Colloquium ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://cms.mit.edu/wp/wp-content/uploads/2013/09/Mary-Flanagan.jpg ORGANIZER;CN="MIT%20Comparative%20Media%20Studies%2FWriting":MAILTO:cmsw@mit.edu END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20131114T170000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20131114T190000 DTSTAMP:20260403T195511 CREATED:20130820T120621Z LAST-MODIFIED:20160516T174501Z UID:5648-1384448400-1384455600@cms.mit.edu SUMMARY:Visualizing Information: ChartGirl on an Alternate Route to Understanding and Explaining Complicated Information DESCRIPTION:Hilary Sargent\, founder of ChartGirl.com\nHilary Sargent is the founder of ChartGirl.com\, where she makes charts to describe complicated news stories. Her site was recently called one of the 50 Best Websites of 2013 by TIME Magazine and her charts have been featured by Reuters\, AtlanticWire\, BoingBoing\, Business Insider\, and others. Sargent has worked as an investigator for law firms\, corporations\, non-profit organizations and political campaigns. \nView the MIT Campus Map for Building 4’s exact location. URL:https://cms.mit.edu/event/chartgirl-on-visualizing-information/ LOCATION:MIT Building 4\, Room 231\, Cambridge\, MA\, 02139\, United States CATEGORIES:Colloquium ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://cms.mit.edu/wp/wp-content/uploads/2013/08/IMG_8459.jpg ORGANIZER;CN="MIT%20Comparative%20Media%20Studies%2FWriting":MAILTO:cmsw@mit.edu END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20131113T163000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20131113T173000 DTSTAMP:20260403T195511 CREATED:20131112T172027Z LAST-MODIFIED:20131113T172219Z UID:6811-1384360200-1384363800@cms.mit.edu SUMMARY:Nelly Rosario: "Noble Strains: Thoughts on a Hybridized Identity" DESCRIPTION:Nelly Rosario’s hybrid talk presents a mash-up of genres to explore the benefits and pitfalls of hybridity as identity in these “post-racial” times. Also read Noble Strains\, Rosario’s recent blog post for the PBS Latino Americans series. URL:https://cms.mit.edu/event/noble-strains-thoughts-hybridized-identity-nelly-rosario/ LOCATION:Boston College\, Devlin Hall\, Room 101\, Boston College Campus\, Chestnut Hill\, MA\, 02467\, United States ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://cms.mit.edu/wp/wp-content/uploads/2013/11/Nelly-Rosario-Flyer_Boston-College.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20131107T170000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20131107T190000 DTSTAMP:20260403T195511 CREATED:20130903T172931Z LAST-MODIFIED:20201014T140523Z UID:5991-1383843600-1383850800@cms.mit.edu SUMMARY:Sonia Livingstone: "The Class: Living and Learning in the Digital Age" DESCRIPTION:Sonia Livingstone\, Department of Media and Communications\, London School of Economics and Political Science\nSonia Livingstone is a full professor in the Department of Media and Communications\, London School of Economics and Political Science. She is seconded to Microsoft Social Research for fall 2013 as well as being a faculty fellow at the Berkman Center for Internet and Society. Her talk will be based on her current book project\, “The Class: Living and Learning in the Digital Age”\, based on her ethnographic research with the MacArthur Foundation-funded Connected Learning Research Network. With a focus on young teenagers\, Sonia will examine how powerful forces of social reproduction result in missed opportunities for many youth in the risk society. URL:https://cms.mit.edu/event/sonia-livingstone-class-living-learning-in-the-digital-age/ LOCATION:MIT Media Lab\, Room 633\, 75 Amherst St.\, Cambridge\, MA\, 02139\, United States CATEGORIES:Colloquium ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://cms.mit.edu/wp/wp-content/uploads/2013/09/Sonia-Livingstone.jpg ORGANIZER;CN="MIT%20Comparative%20Media%20Studies%2FWriting":MAILTO:cmsw@mit.edu END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20131031T170000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20131031T190000 DTSTAMP:20260403T195511 CREATED:20130822T133322Z LAST-MODIFIED:20131023T153012Z UID:5687-1383238800-1383246000@cms.mit.edu SUMMARY:Todd Harper: "Fight Like Gentlemen: The Culture of Fighting Games" DESCRIPTION:Todd Harper\, Postdoctoral Associate with the MIT Game Lab\nThe culture of fighting games — digital games of competitive martial arts-style combat—is one of the most interesting and contentious of gamer subcultures. This talk examines the influences and norms of that community\, including its spiritual and physical roots in the arcade\, common gameplay practices\, and how issues of ethnicity and gender collide with gamer identity in the ‘FGC’. \nTodd Harper is a researcher at the MIT Game Lab with a background in mass communication and cultural studies. His current research focuses on both competitive communities and their cultural norms\, as well as queer and gender representation and issues in gaming culture. URL:https://cms.mit.edu/event/todd-harper-culture-of-fighting-games/ LOCATION:MIT Building 4\, Room 231\, Cambridge\, MA\, 02139\, United States CATEGORIES:Colloquium ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://cms.mit.edu/wp/wp-content/uploads/2013/08/Fighting-Games.jpg ORGANIZER;CN="MIT%20Comparative%20Media%20Studies%2FWriting":MAILTO:cmsw@mit.edu END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20131031T140000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20131031T160000 DTSTAMP:20260403T195511 CREATED:20150211T203234Z LAST-MODIFIED:20150211T203234Z UID:23667-1383228000-1383235200@cms.mit.edu SUMMARY:Online Information Session DESCRIPTION: URL:https://cms.mit.edu/event/online-information-session-103113/ LOCATION:cms.mit.edu CATEGORIES:Independent Activities Period ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://cms.mit.edu/wp/wp-content/uploads/2013/09/chat.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20131031T140000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20131031T160000 DTSTAMP:20260403T195511 CREATED:20130626T143321Z LAST-MODIFIED:20200902T220904Z UID:4306-1383228000-1383235200@cms.mit.edu SUMMARY:Online Information Session\, CMS Graduate Program DESCRIPTION:Join us at 2pm on the 31st! (What time is that where you live?) \nJOIN NOW!\nRSVP is not required for online information sessions. \nIt may help to prepare some questions ahead of time. It’s as simple as scanning through the basic info about the graduate program: cmsw.mit.edu/education/comparative-media-studies/masters. URL:https://cms.mit.edu/event/online-information-session-cms-graduate-program-oct-31-2013/ LOCATION:http://irc.lc/freenode/cmsinfo CATEGORIES:Information Session ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://cms.mit.edu/wp/wp-content/uploads/2013/09/chat.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20131024T170000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20131024T190000 DTSTAMP:20260403T195511 CREATED:20130725T200939Z LAST-MODIFIED:20131017T144905Z UID:4714-1382634000-1382641200@cms.mit.edu SUMMARY:Coco Fusco: "A Performance Approach to Primate Politics" DESCRIPTION:Coco Fusco\nNew York-based interdisciplinary artist and writer Coco Fusco will consider the critical responses to the original Planet of the Apes films\, focusing in particular on the interpretation of the films as critiques of American race relations during the 1960’s and ’70’s. \nShe will also discuss her interest in exploring the strategies used in early sci-fi cinema\, the ways that films such as Planet of the Apes employed speculative fiction to generate social critique. \nModerated by Professor of Writing Junot Díaz and Associate Professor Ian Condry. URL:https://cms.mit.edu/event/coco-fusco-planet-of-the-apes-primate-politics/ LOCATION:MIT Media Lab\, Room 633\, 75 Amherst St.\, Cambridge\, MA\, 02139\, United States CATEGORIES:Colloquium ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/gif:https://cms.mit.edu/wp/wp-content/uploads/2013/07/coco-fusco.gif ORGANIZER;CN="MIT%20Comparative%20Media%20Studies%2FWriting":MAILTO:cmsw@mit.edu END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20131024T100000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20131024T150000 DTSTAMP:20260403T195511 CREATED:20130626T140413Z LAST-MODIFIED:20150211T204949Z UID:4304-1382608800-1382626800@cms.mit.edu SUMMARY:On-campus Information Session\, CMS Graduate Program DESCRIPTION:If you would like to attend an on-campus information session\, please RSVP to cms-admissions@mit.edu. URL:https://cms.mit.edu/event/on-campus-information-session-oct-2013/ LOCATION:MIT Building E51\, Room 095\, 70 Memorial Drive\, Cambridge\, MA\, 02139\, United States CATEGORIES:Information Session ORGANIZER;CN="MIT%20Comparative%20Media%20Studies%2FWriting":MAILTO:cmsw@mit.edu END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20131017T170000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20131017T190000 DTSTAMP:20260403T195511 CREATED:20130829T124223Z LAST-MODIFIED:20131017T134519Z UID:5834-1382029200-1382036400@cms.mit.edu SUMMARY:Zeynep Tufekci: "The Boom-Bust Cycle of Social Media-Fueled Protests" DESCRIPTION:Zeynep Tufekci\nSocial media-fueled protests in many countries have surprised observers with their seemingly spontaneous\, combustible power. Yet\, many have fizzled out without having a strong impact on policy at the electoral and legislative levels. In this talk\, Tufekci will discuss some features of such protests that may be leading to this boom and bust cycle drawing upon primary research in Gezi protests in Turkey as well as “Arab Spring”\, Occupy and M15 movements. \nZeynep Tufekci is an assistant professor at the University of North Carolina\, Chapel Hill. \nModerated by Professor of Comparative Media Studies and Head of MIT Foreign Languages and Literatures Ian Condry and Ethan Zuckerman\, Director of the MIT Center for Civic Media. URL:https://cms.mit.edu/event/zeynep-tufekci-boom-bust-cycle-social-media-fueled-protests/ LOCATION:MIT Media Lab\, Room 633\, 75 Amherst St.\, Cambridge\, MA\, 02139\, United States CATEGORIES:Colloquium ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://cms.mit.edu/wp/wp-content/uploads/2013/08/Zeynep-Tufekci.jpg ORGANIZER;CN="MIT%20Comparative%20Media%20Studies%2FWriting":MAILTO:cmsw@mit.edu END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20131010T170000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20131010T190000 DTSTAMP:20260403T195511 CREATED:20130819T132855Z LAST-MODIFIED:20130819T134430Z UID:5607-1381424400-1381431600@cms.mit.edu SUMMARY:Born Digital DESCRIPTION:How is the generation born in the digital age different from its analog ancestors? Are those born digital likely to have different notions of privacy\, community\, identity itself? How do educators approach this generation to help prepare them for scholarship and for citizenship? \nSpeakers: John Palfrey\, Head of School at Phillips Academy and author of Born Digital: Understanding the First Generation of Digital Natives; and Ethan Zuckerman\, director of the Center for Civic Media\, a collaboration between the MIT Media Lab and Comparative Media Studies/Writing. URL:https://cms.mit.edu/event/born-digital/ LOCATION:MIT Media Lab\, Room 633\, 75 Amherst St.\, Cambridge\, MA\, 02139\, United States CATEGORIES:Communications Forum ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://cms.mit.edu/wp/wp-content/uploads/2013/08/Born-Digital.jpg ORGANIZER;CN="MIT%20Communications%20Forum":MAILTO:couch@mit.edu END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20131003T080000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20131003T100000 DTSTAMP:20260403T195511 CREATED:20150211T202840Z LAST-MODIFIED:20150211T203019Z UID:23550-1380787200-1380794400@cms.mit.edu SUMMARY:Online Information Session DESCRIPTION: URL:https://cms.mit.edu/event/online-information-session-100313/ LOCATION:cms.mit.edu CATEGORIES:Independent Activities Period ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://cms.mit.edu/wp/wp-content/uploads/2013/09/chat.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20131003T080000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20131003T100000 DTSTAMP:20260403T195511 CREATED:20130626T143235Z LAST-MODIFIED:20150211T204804Z UID:4305-1380787200-1380794400@cms.mit.edu SUMMARY:Online Information Session\, CMS Graduate Program DESCRIPTION:RSVP not required for online information sessions. URL:https://cms.mit.edu/event/online-information-session-cms-graduate-program-oct-03-2013/ LOCATION:http://irc.lc/freenode/cmsinfo CATEGORIES:Information Session ORGANIZER;CN="MIT%20Comparative%20Media%20Studies%2FWriting":MAILTO:cmsw@mit.edu END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20130926T170000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20130926T190000 DTSTAMP:20260403T195511 CREATED:20130830T122641Z LAST-MODIFIED:20130924T203246Z UID:5848-1380214800-1380222000@cms.mit.edu SUMMARY:Ethan Zuckerman: "Digital Cosmopolitanism and Cognitive Diversity" DESCRIPTION:Ethan Zuckerman\, Director of the MIT Center for Civic Media and author of Rewire: Digital Cosmopolitans in the Age of Connection\nNew media technologies have sharply increased the number of people who are able to create and disseminate content. But they may not be leading to a more diverse media environment\, as tools that allow us to tailor what content we see and what we ignore are becoming more powerful and more personal. The framework of cosmopolitanism suggests a way through this challenge – by examining perspectives we are exposed to and insulated from\, we may be able to design tools and approaches that help readers increase their cognitive diversity and prepare themselves to tackle transnational challenges. \nEthan Zuckerman is the Director of the MIT Center for Civic Media. \nModerated by Associate Professor Ian Condry. URL:https://cms.mit.edu/event/ethan-zuckerman-digital-cosmopolitanism-cognitive-diversity/ LOCATION:MIT Building 4\, Room 231\, Cambridge\, MA\, 02139\, United States CATEGORIES:Colloquium ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://cms.mit.edu/wp/wp-content/uploads/2010/04/ezheadshothersman.jpg ORGANIZER;CN="MIT%20Comparative%20Media%20Studies%2FWriting":MAILTO:cmsw@mit.edu END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20130919T170000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20130919T190000 DTSTAMP:20260403T195511 CREATED:20130823T171408Z LAST-MODIFIED:20130916T195619Z UID:5761-1379610000-1379617200@cms.mit.edu SUMMARY:Hong Qu: "Keepr: Algorithm for Extracting Entities\, Eyewitnesses and Amplifiers" DESCRIPTION:Hong Qu\nWhen a big news story breaks\, Twitter goes crazy. Keepr tries to make sense of these periodic bursts by implementing natural language processing and social network analysis algorithms to surface topics\, eyewitnesses\, and amplifiers. A live demo will be followed by a discussion of the capabilities and limitations of computational newsgathering\, along with reports of how it is being used in newsrooms. \nHong Qu is a digital toolmaker. He has led teams at YouTube and Upworthy. He enjoys building social media tools that help us better understand ourselves and the world around us. URL:https://cms.mit.edu/event/hong-qu-keepr-algorithm-extracting-entities-eyewitnesses-amplifiers/ LOCATION:MIT Media Lab\, Room 633\, 75 Amherst St.\, Cambridge\, MA\, 02139\, United States CATEGORIES:Colloquium ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://cms.mit.edu/wp/wp-content/uploads/2013/08/Keepr-Navy-Yard.jpg ORGANIZER;CN="MIT%20Comparative%20Media%20Studies%2FWriting":MAILTO:cmsw@mit.edu END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20130919T100000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20130919T150000 DTSTAMP:20260403T195511 CREATED:20130626T140224Z LAST-MODIFIED:20150211T205002Z UID:4302-1379584800-1379602800@cms.mit.edu SUMMARY:On-campus Information Session\, CMS Graduate Program DESCRIPTION:If you would like to attend an on-campus information session\, please RSVP to cms-admissions@mit.edu. URL:https://cms.mit.edu/event/on-campus-information-session-sept-2013/ LOCATION:MIT Building E51\, Room 095\, 70 Memorial Drive\, Cambridge\, MA\, 02139\, United States CATEGORIES:Information Session ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://cms.mit.edu/wp/wp-content/uploads/2013/04/graduate-program-collage.png ORGANIZER;CN="MIT%20Comparative%20Media%20Studies%2FWriting":MAILTO:cmsw@mit.edu END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR