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.
MIT Graduate Program in Comparative Media Studies
Studying Media and Making Media
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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.
Lana Swartz, “New Money: How Payment Became Social 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, “Creating Space for Balance: Indigenous Knowledge and Western Science — Two-Eyed Seeing — in Environmental Justice and Media”
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.
Adam Charles Hart, “Beyond the Living Dead: Treasures from the George A. Romero Archive”
Hear from Adam Charles Hart about what's in the George A. Romero archives, from Dawn of the Dead to Romero's unpublished projects.
Mauricio Cordero, “BORDERx: A Crisis In Graphic Detail”
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.
Reworking the Archive: The Southeast Chicago Archive and Storytelling Project
Presenters include creative director and i-doc pioneer Jeff Soyk and the project directors, anthropologist Chris Walley and filmmaker Chris Boebel.
Charisse L’Pree, “What is a Media Psychography? A 20-year Methodological Journey”
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.
Civic Media Insights: Burcu Baykurt, “The City as Data Machine: Local Governance in the Age of Big Data”
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.
Civic Media Insights: Rachel Kuo, “Movement Media: Racial Solidarities Across Platforms”
Looking at processes behind media-making and information sharing, this talk by Rachel Kuo demonstrates ways that racial justice movements create and sustain connections across incommensurable and uneven racial differences.
Beyza Boyacioglu and Jeff Soyk, “Zeki Müren Hotline – Mobile Experience”
A 2015 participatory project around Turkish pop star Zeki Müren became a sensation. Now it's been turned into an interactive experience pairing the project's nostalgic messages with vignettes from Müren's life and legacy.
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