CMS Thesis Day 2020!
Join us as we host our class of '20 Comparative Media Studies graduate students as they present their master's theses (virtually this year, sigh).
MIT Graduate Program in Comparative Media Studies
Studying Media and Making Media
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Catherine D’Ignazio and Lauren F. Klein, “Data Feminism”
“The goal of this work is to transform scholarship into action – to operationalize feminism in order to imagine more ethical and more equitable data practices.”
Lily Bui, “Centering Peripheries: Warning Systems and Disaster Risk Reduction Planning on the Island City”
CMS alum Lily Bui on the ways in which warning and planning are interrelated, as well as how planning and warning processes take place over time.
Sasha Costanza-Chock presents Design Justice
MIT Press Bookstore 301 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge, MAAssociate Professor Sasha Costanza-Chock presents their new book, Design Justice, at the MIT Press Bookstore on April 28.
Katha Seidman, “Historic Drama-Documentaries and Immersive Installations”
A five-time nominee and three-time Emmy Award winning production designer, Seidman has designed many historic drama-documentaries for PBS, the History Channel and the Discovery Channel.
Faking the Powerful
Part of "Deepfakery", a livestream talk series co-hosted by our Open Documentary Lab.
Not Funny Anymore: Deepfakes, Manipulated Media, and Mis/disinformation
Part of "Deepfakery", a livestream talk series co-hosted by our Open Documentary Lab.
Using AI-generated Face Doubles in Documentary: Welcome to Chechnya
Part of "Deepfakery", a livestream talk series co-hosted by our Open Documentary Lab.
CMS graduate student administrivia session
A roundtable co-hosted by Academic Administrator Shannon Larkin and Ladybird, this first Colloquium of the semester is for CMS graduate students to learn everything they need to know about completing a master's degree but were afraid to ask.
Boundary Lines? Deepfakes Weaponized Against Journalists and Activists
Part of "Deepfakery", a livestream talk series co-hosted by our Open Documentary Lab.
Kishonna Gray, “Intersectional Tech: Exploring the Black Cultural Production of Gamers in Transmediated Culture”
Gaming, as a medium often outside conversations on Blackness and digital praxis, is one that is becoming more visible, viable, and legible in making sense of Black technoculture.
Manipulating Memories: Archives, History and Deepfakes
Part of "Deepfakery", a livestream talk series co-hosted by our Open Documentary Lab.
Justin Reich, “Failure to Disrupt: Why Technology Alone Can’t Transform Education”
Justin Reich presents his new book on why technology provides such uneven support to learners.
Still Funny?: Satire, Deepfakes, and Human Rights Globally
Part of "Deepfakery", a livestream talk series co-hosted by our Open Documentary Lab.
Jing Wang, “Walking Around Obstacles: Nonconfrontational Activists in Gray China”
Fall 2020 Colloquium Livestream CambridgeThis talk challenges some of the binary assumptions we made about activism and China by bringing our attention to the gray zones in China where nonconfrontational activists are building an invisible and quiet coalition.
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