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.
MIT Graduate Program in Comparative Media Studies
Studying Media and Making Media
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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.
Eric Gordon, “Towards a Meaningfully Inefficient Smart City”
Visiting Professor Eric Gordon will discuss a recent project in Boston, MA in collaboration with the Boston Mayor’s Office of New Urban Mechanics, called Beta Blocks, that uses meaningful inefficiency as a structuring logic for sourcing, questioning and making decisions about public realm technologies.
Laura Partain, “Race and Representation of Syrian, Palestinian, and Norwegian Refugees in the News”
A talk about nationalism and national belonging, as well as the ways in which social-expectations placed on displaces peoples can limit their access to civic, medical, and everyday resources.
Elinor Carmi, “Media Distortions: Understanding the Power Behind Spam, Noise, and Other Deviant Media”
The politics behind categories we take for granted such as spam and noise, and what it means to our broader understanding of, and engagement with media.
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