MIT Graduate Program in Comparative Media Studies
Studying Media and Making Media
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.
Part of "Deepfakery", a livestream talk series co-hosted by our Open Documentary Lab.
Justin Reich presents his new book on why technology provides such uneven support to learners.
Part of "Deepfakery", a livestream talk series co-hosted by our Open Documentary Lab.
This 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.
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.
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.
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.
Lana Swartz, '09, is joined by Aswin Punathambekar, '03, to discuss Swartz's new book, framing money as a media technology, one in major transition.
Patricia Saulis will feature clips of Mikmaq Elders speaking and provide some perspective on how their work could be brought forward in discussions of Environmental Justice and Media.
Hear from Adam Charles Hart about what's in the George A. Romero archives, from Dawn of the Dead to Romero's unpublished projects.
BORDERx: A Crisis In Graphic Detail is a comic anthology that examines the border crisis from a variety of points of view and narrative formats.
Presenters include creative director and i-doc pioneer Jeff Soyk and the project directors, anthropologist Chris Walley and filmmaker Chris Boebel.
L’Pree discusses the role of interdisciplinary research and how she has maneuvered a wide variety of methodologies, including quantitative, qualitative, critical, and applied, in order to answer life’s questions.
Burcu Baykurt on how Kansas City officials and civic entrepreneurs ignored the needs of already-vulnerable groups, downplayed their legitimate concerns about automated surveillance, and neglected the “data deserts” that they had created.
