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-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:20150308T070000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0400 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 TZNAME:EST DTSTART:20151101T060000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 TZNAME:EDT DTSTART:20160313T070000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0400 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 TZNAME:EST DTSTART:20161106T060000 END:STANDARD END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20151001T170000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20151001T170000 DTSTAMP:20260403T195502 CREATED:20150820T124416Z LAST-MODIFIED:20150820T124552Z UID:26030-1443718800-1443718800@cms.mit.edu SUMMARY:Hierarchy and Democracy in Modern Japan’s Mass Media Revolution DESCRIPTION:Hiromu Nagahara\, Associate Professor of History and Cecil and Ida Green Career Development Professor\nModern Japan experienced what could be described as its first wave of “mass media revolution” in the period stretching from the mid-1920s into the 1930s\, when new forms of media industry as well as technology vastly expanded the number of potential consumers of media products. This talk\, with Hiromu Nagahara\, explores the political implications of this development\, especially as it relates to how the rise of mass media reshaped existing social and cultural hierarchies in Japan (and how\, in some cases\, it didn’t). Based on his current book project\, Japan’s Pop Era: Music in the Making of Middle-Class Society\, this talk will focus on the life and career of Horiuchi Keizō (M.S. 1923)\, an MIT grad who found himself in the center of all of this as a prominent composer\, critic\, radio broadcaster\, and publisher. URL:https://cms.mit.edu/event/hiromu-nagahara-hierarchy-democracy-modern-japan-mass-media-revolution/ 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/2015/08/Hiromu-Nagahara.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20151008T133000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20151008T163000 DTSTAMP:20260403T195502 CREATED:20150923T194905Z LAST-MODIFIED:20150923T195939Z UID:26194-1444311000-1444321800@cms.mit.edu SUMMARY:Dissolve Unconference: A Summit on Inequality DESCRIPTION:Full info at mitdissolve.com. Overview… \nCome join a wide-ranging discussion of inequality featuring faculty and students from MIT and Harvard. \nThis unconference asks: How can we dissolve the structures of power that produce today’s inequalities? \nThis summit will feature 10-minute ignite sessions (talk/discussion) on central topics of our time:  climate change; civic media; black lives matter; gender inequality; society and economy from anthropological and humanist perspectives; community activism and co-design; affordable DIY health solutions; and more. \nThe final hour will focus on open discussion and networking\, including art and light food.  Cambridge-based Toscanini’s owner Gus Rancatore will also unveil a new ice cream flavor called  “This is what democracy tastes like.” \nThe goal is to identify common themes and to suggest possibilities for driving systemic change.  We will focus on bottom-up approaches that can circumvent or transform today’s political dysfunction and economic inequalities to move us towards a more inclusive social and economic future. \nIn the evening\, the Dissolve participants will join with local art collective Illuminus for an immersive light and sound event\, including DJ Wayne&Wax (Prof. Wayne Marshall\, ethnomusicologist at Berklee College of Music) and MIT’s DJ IanC. \nSpeakers include anthropologists\, media theorists\, activists\, and more\, including: \n\nEthan Zuckerman (MIT\, Center for Civic Media) rejecting politics\, embracing civics\nJose Gomez-Marquez (MIT\, Little Devices)\, affordable\, DIY medical technology\nChelsea Barabas (MIT)\, tech jobs and diversity\nChristine Walley (MIT\, Anthropology)\, Exit Zero filmmaker\, US deindustrialization\nTomiko Yoda (Harvard\, EALC)\, gender inequality in media\nAlex Zahlten (Harvard\, EALC)\, inequality and media theory\nStefan Helmreich (MIT\, Anthropology)\, wave culture\, technology\, inequality\nFossil Free MIT\, climate change activism\nEd Bertschinger (MIT)\, Institute Community Equity Officer\, diversity in higher ed\nSasha Costanza-Chock (MIT\, Center for Civic Media)\, co-design and activism\nBlack Lives Matter\, race and violence in the US\nIan Condry (MIT)\, Billionaire Action Lab Network @ MIT (baln.mit.edu)\n\nThe event is organized by the Creative Communities Initiative (ccimit.mit.edu)\, a lab Ian Condry co-directs with Prof. T.L. Taylor.  The event is produced in collaboration with the MIT Solve Conference (solve.mit.edu) and HUBweek (hubweek.org)\, a celebration of technology\, art\, and innovation in the Cambridge / Boston area. \nWe also acknowledge the generous support of MIT Global Studies and Languages and the department of Comparative Media Studies / Writing. \nThe Dissolve team is seeking groups who would like to have designated tables for sharing information. There is no fee for use of a table\, but please pre-register. \nFor more information\, or to get involved\, please contact:  \nProf. Ian Condry \ncondry@mit.edu URL:https://cms.mit.edu/event/dissolve-unconference-a-summit-on-inequality/ LOCATION:Stata Center Lawn\, Cambridge\, MA\, 02139\, United States ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://cms.mit.edu/wp/wp-content/uploads/2015/09/Dissolve.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20151008T170000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20151008T170000 DTSTAMP:20260403T195502 CREATED:20150820T142022Z LAST-MODIFIED:20150820T183646Z UID:26039-1444323600-1444323600@cms.mit.edu SUMMARY:From the Neolithic Era to the Apocalypse: How to Prepare for the Future by Studying the Past DESCRIPTION:For thousands of years\, humans have experienced cycles of empire building and retreat\, from the neolithic settlers of Levant and the Indus Valley to the ancient Cahokia and Maya civilizations. What can new discoveries teach us about how to plan our next thousand years as a global civilization? Authors Charles C. Mann and Annalee Newitz will talk about how ancient civilizations shed light on current problems with urbanization\, food security\, and environmental change. \nCharles C. Mann is the author\, most recently\, of 1493\, a New York Times best-seller\, and 1491\, winner of the National Academies of Science’s Keck award for best book of the year. His next project\, The Wizard and the Prophet\, is a book about the future that makes no predictions. An early version of the introductory chapter was a finalist for a National Magazine Award. \nAnnalee Newitz writes science nonfiction and science fiction. She’s editor-in-chief of Gizmodo.com and founding editor of io9.com. She’s the author of Scatter\, Adapt\, and Remember: How Humans Will Survive a Mass Extinction\, which was a finalist for a Los Angeles Times Book Award. Her work has appeared in publications from The New Yorker and Technology Review to 2600 and Lightspeed Magazine. Her next book is a novel about robots\, pirates\, and the future of property laws. URL:https://cms.mit.edu/event/prepare-for-future-by-studying-past/ LOCATION:MIT Building 3\, Room 270\, 33 Massachusetts Ave (Rear)\, Cambridge\, MA\, 02319\, United States CATEGORIES:Communications Forum ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://cms.mit.edu/wp/wp-content/uploads/2007/01/mit-comm-forum_logo_square.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20151015T170000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20151015T170000 DTSTAMP:20260403T195502 CREATED:20150824T124210Z LAST-MODIFIED:20150824T124210Z UID:26054-1444928400-1444928400@cms.mit.edu SUMMARY:The Adventures of Ms. Meta: Celebrating the Female Superhero Through Digital Gaming DESCRIPTION:Sarah Zaidan\nThe importance of female superheroes in Western culture cannot be ignored. From Wonder Woman in the 1940s to Captain Marvel in the 2010s\, the inspiration and cultural impact these representations of heroism provide fans regardless of gender are undeniable. While there is a wealth of research examining the representation of the female superhero and how this speaks to perceptions of femininity across the past eighty years\, its focus is often the prevalence of stereotypical over authentic depictions\, and the harmful effects of this on society. \nSarah Zaidan‘s research combines the platforms of video games with the artistic styles and narrative themes of comics and historical fact\, culminating in an original game that celebrates the power of the female superhero\, and her cultural importance. The game tells the story of Ms. Meta\, a contemporary superhero created by the player. As she journeys through time to stop her nemesis’ plans\, she will encounter characters drawn from the stories of women and fans from each era\, opportunities to challenge preconceived notions of female superheroes\, and the ability to change the course of history. The gameplay will be grounded in problem-solving and collaboration\, and will incorporate player choices to create ownership and personal relevance. \nDr. Sarah Zaidan is a game designer\, artist and researcher whose work explores how video games and comic books can engage in a dialogue with identity\, gender and civic awareness. She is Kingston University London’s first recipient of a Ph.D. by practice in superhero art and history with research findings presented in the form of an award winning video game\, The Adventures of MetaMan: The Male Superhero as a Representation of Modern Western Masculinity (1940-2010). She is one of the creators and illustrators of the feminist superhero comic series My So-Called Secret Identity\, in collaboration with Batman scholar Dr. Will Brooker and animation artist Susan Shore. Dr. Zaidan teaches video game design at Emerson College and is a research fellow with the Engagement Lab. Her work is characterized by rapid prototyping\, iterative design processes and by discovering game systems in everyday life. URL:https://cms.mit.edu/event/sarah-zaidan-female-superhero-through-digital-gaming/ 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/2015/08/Sarah-Zaidan-My-So-Called-Secret-Identity.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20151019T170000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20151019T170000 DTSTAMP:20260403T195502 CREATED:20151008T163358Z LAST-MODIFIED:20151008T163358Z UID:26257-1445274000-1445274000@cms.mit.edu SUMMARY:Syria and the Right to the Image DESCRIPTION: URL:https://cms.mit.edu/event/syria-and-the-right-to-the-image/ LOCATION:MIT Building 32 (Stata Center)\, Room 141\, 32 Vassar Street\, Cambridge\, MA\, 02139\, United States ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://cms.mit.edu/wp/wp-content/uploads/2015/10/charif_slide.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20151022T170000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20151022T170000 DTSTAMP:20260403T195502 CREATED:20150817T144811Z LAST-MODIFIED:20150817T144811Z UID:26005-1445533200-1445533200@cms.mit.edu SUMMARY:From Firing Line to The O’Reilly Factor DESCRIPTION:Heather Hendershot\nWilliam F. Buckley’s public affairs program Firing Line (PBS\, 1966–1999) offered a space for no-holds-barred\, honest intellectual combat at its finest. The conservative Buckley hoped to convert viewers\, but there was more to it than that. You could actually learn about other points of view\, and thereby become a better liberal or a better conservative from watching the show. There is simply no equivalent on TV today. Conservatives have Fox News\, liberals have MSNBC\, and in more neutral territory we find C-SPAN. Overall\, politically oriented broadcasting has become a vast echo chamber (especially on talk radio)\, with many tuning in largely to have their views confirmed—and to hear the other side vilified. What happened? How did we get from Firing Line to The O’Reilly Factor? And how can we possibly fix things? Hendershot’s talk will provide the historical\, regulatory\, and political context we need in order to begin to address these very difficult questions. \nHeather Hendershot is a professor of film and media in CMS/W. Her book on Firing Line is forthcoming in the summer of 2016. URL:https://cms.mit.edu/event/heather-hendershot-firing-line-to-oreilly-factor/ 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/2015/08/Heather-Hendershot.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20151029T170000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20151029T170000 DTSTAMP:20260403T195502 CREATED:20150901T124301Z LAST-MODIFIED:20150901T124301Z UID:26075-1446138000-1446138000@cms.mit.edu SUMMARY:Global Internet Development Viewed Through the Net Vitality Lens DESCRIPTION:Stuart N. Brotman\nNet Vitality is a new analytic approach to examine ways to sustain long-term Internet vibrancy\, both in the United States and around the world\, and helps inform future government policies that impact the deployment and adoption of broadband technologies. Unlike other comparative studies that rank countries quantitatively based on a simplistic assessment of broadband speeds\, Stuart N. Brotman’s Net Vitality Index\, released earlier this year\, also measures countries qualitatively to determine how well they are performing in a global competitive environment\, gauging the true vitality of a country’s Internet ecosystem. \nBased on five years of research\, the Net Vitality Index is the first holistic analysis of the global broadband Internet ecosystem\, identifying the United States\, South Korea\, Japan\, the United Kingdom\, and France as the top-tier leaders. Unlike the one-dimensional rankings that serve as the basis of most broadband comparative studies\, Brotman’s composite metric takes into account 52 factors developed independently to evaluate countries on an apples-to-apples basis. Overarching categories assessed encompass applications\, devices\, networks\, and macroeconomic factors. \nBrotman is a faculty member at Harvard Law School and a Nonresident Senior Fellow in the Center for Technology Innovation at The Brookings Institution in Washington\, DC. URL:https://cms.mit.edu/event/stuart-brotman-global-internet-development-net-vitality/ 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/2015/09/Stuart-Brotman.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20151112T170000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20151112T170000 DTSTAMP:20260403T195502 CREATED:20150901T153754Z LAST-MODIFIED:20151109T161407Z UID:26079-1447347600-1447347600@cms.mit.edu SUMMARY:Women in Politics: Representation and Reality DESCRIPTION:Women are chronically underrepresented in U.S. politics. Yet TV shows\, fictions\, and films have leapt ahead of the electoral curve to give us our first female president(s). What messages about women and power do these fictional representations of female politicians send? What connections (if any) can we draw between representation and reality? What challenges do real-life women politicians face as they represent themselves to voters and to the press? \nMary Anne Marsh is a Boston-based political consultant who has worked on many local and national campaigns. She also serves as a Democratic political analyst on the FOX News Channel and on other national and local media. \nEllen Emerson White is the author of many books for children and teens\, including the critically acclaimed President’s Daughter series\, which chronicles the experiences of a Massachusetts girl whose mother becomes the first female president of the United States. \nModerator: Marah Gubar\, Associate Professor of Literature at MIT\, is the author of Artful Dodgers: Reconceiving the Golden Age of Children’s Literature (2009). URL:https://cms.mit.edu/event/women-in-politics-representation-and-reality/ LOCATION:MIT Building 3\, Room 270\, 33 Massachusetts Ave (Rear)\, Cambridge\, MA\, 02319\, United States CATEGORIES:Communications Forum ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://cms.mit.edu/wp/wp-content/uploads/2007/01/mit-comm-forum_logo_square.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20151119T140000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20151119T160000 DTSTAMP:20260403T195502 CREATED:20150609T185801Z LAST-MODIFIED:20151109T213502Z UID:25767-1447941600-1447948800@cms.mit.edu SUMMARY:On-Campus Information Session\, CMS Graduate Program DESCRIPTION:Come join us for snacks\, ask questions\, and learn about the CMS Master’s Program. \nSlots are limited. Register now at Eventbrite! \nThis program will be livestreamed\, with a moderated chat room at: http://www.ustream.tv/channel/cEyEXhb4ryX. URL:https://cms.mit.edu/event/on-campus-information-session-cms-graduate-program/ LOCATION:MIT Building E51\, Room 095\, 70 Memorial Drive\, Cambridge\, MA\, 02139\, United States CATEGORIES:Information Session ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://cms.mit.edu/wp/wp-content/uploads/2015/06/IMG_3374-e1433876145987.jpg ORGANIZER;CN="MIT%20Comparative%20Media%20Studies%2FWriting":MAILTO:cmsw@mit.edu END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20151119T170000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20151119T170000 DTSTAMP:20260403T195502 CREATED:20150824T134530Z LAST-MODIFIED:20180605T180157Z UID:26056-1447952400-1447952400@cms.mit.edu SUMMARY:CMS Alumni Panel DESCRIPTION:On the heels of the day’s graduate program information session\, join us for our annual colloquium featuring alumni of CMS\, discussing their lives from MIT to their careers today. \nMargaret Weigel\, ’02\nDan Roy\, ’07\nIlya Vedrashko\, ’06\n\nErik Stayton\, ’15\nChelsea Barabas\, ’15\nHere’s who we’ve lined up so far (subject to change as ever): \n\nMargaret Weigel\, ’02\, who works in digital education: https://www.linkedin.com/in/margaretweigel/\nDan Roy\, ’07\, widely known for his games for learning projects: https://www.linkedin.com/profile/view?id=2512953\nIlya Vedrashko\, ’06\, who does big data-driven consumer research: https://www.linkedin.com/profile/view?id=3838774\nErik Stayton\, ’15\, now a Ph.D. student at MIT’s program in History\, Anthropology\, Science\, Technology and Society: http://web.mit.edu/hasts/graduate/stayton.html\nChelsea Barabas\, ’15\, the newly minted advisor to the Media Lab’s Digital Currency Initiative: https://www.linkedin.com/profile/view?id=75805502 URL:https://cms.mit.edu/event/cms-alumni-panel-nov-19/ 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/2015/08/Margaret-Weigel.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20151203T170000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20151203T170000 DTSTAMP:20260403T195502 CREATED:20150831T175054Z LAST-MODIFIED:20150831T175123Z UID:26071-1449162000-1449162000@cms.mit.edu SUMMARY:The Bengali Harlem/Lost Histories Project: Documenting South Asian America's Interracial Past DESCRIPTION:Vivek Bald\, Associate Professor\nVivek Bald\, an Associate Professor in CMS/W and member of the MIT Open Documentary Lab\, will discuss his transmedia project documenting the lives of Bengali Muslim ship workers and silk peddlers who entered the United States at the height of the Asian Exclusion Era\, between the 1890s and 1940s\, and quietly settled and intermarried within African American and Puerto Rican neighborhoods from Harlem to Tremé in New Orleans and Black Bottom\, Detroit. \nThe project consists of a book\, Bengali Harlem and the Lost Histories of South Asian America (2013)\, a linear documentary film\, In Search of Bengali Harlem (currently in production)\, and a community-sourced\, web-based documentary and oral history project\, “The Lost Histories Project” (in development). Bald’s talk and demo will present a new iteration of the online project and newly edited material from the documentary. URL:https://cms.mit.edu/event/vivek-bald-documenting-south-asian-americas-interracial-past/ 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/2013/01/20130103171744-2.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20160119 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20160122 DTSTAMP:20260403T195502 CREATED:20160108T142106Z LAST-MODIFIED:20160108T142106Z UID:26603-1453161600-1453420799@cms.mit.edu SUMMARY:"Theory" and its Quotation Marks DESCRIPTION:Full info at http://student.mit.edu/iap/ns82.html: \nLilia Kilburn\, Katie Arthur \nEnrollment: Unlimited: No advance sign-up\nAttendance: Participants welcome at individual sessions \nThe aim of this course is to provide an opportunity to explore (and a community with which to do so) the longstanding dialogue in the humanities commonly known as “theory\,” using inroads offered by certain modifiers (queer theory\, feminist theory\, media theory\, critical race theory\, affect theory and so forth). “Theory” is a word to which some people express an allergic reaction\, but we posit that the transformative potential of many of these theoretical writings\, and the power of the critiques they render\, make them worth the occasional difficulty. \nEveryone is welcome\, with or without any background or experience in theory or literature! We will provide short readings for each session\, and we recommend that you commit to the full program\, however\, you may also attend individual sessions. \nSponsor(s): Comparative Media Studies/Writing\nContact: Lilia Kilburn\, liliak@mit.edu URL:https://cms.mit.edu/event/theory-and-its-quotation-marks-2/ LOCATION:TBA CATEGORIES:Independent Activities Period ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://cms.mit.edu/wp/wp-content/uploads/2015/12/Independent-Activities-Period.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20160129 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20160201 DTSTAMP:20260403T195502 CREATED:20151204T153828Z LAST-MODIFIED:20151204T153828Z UID:26530-1454025600-1454284799@cms.mit.edu SUMMARY:Global Game Jam 2016 DESCRIPTION:Please refer to full information and schedule at http://student.mit.edu/iap/ns82.html \nRegister now at: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/global-game-jam-2016-at-mit-tickets-19781298396 \nThe Global Game Jam (GGJ) is the world’s largest game jam event taking place around the world at physical locations. Think of it as a hackathon focused on game development. It is the growth of an idea that in today’s heavily connected world\, we could come together\, be creative\, share experiences and express ourselves in a multitude of ways using video games – it is very universal. 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. It is all condensed into a 48 hour development cycle. The GGJ encourages people with all kinds of backgrounds to participate and contribute to this global spread of game development and creativity. URL:https://cms.mit.edu/event/global-game-jam-2016/ LOCATION:MIT Building 32 (Stata Center)\, 32 Vassar Street\, Cambridge\, MA\, 02139\, United States CATEGORIES:Independent Activities Period ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://cms.mit.edu/wp/wp-content/uploads/2015/12/Global-Game-Jam-2016-logo.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20160202T170000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20160202T170000 DTSTAMP:20260403T195502 CREATED:20160128T141546Z LAST-MODIFIED:20160128T144204Z UID:26649-1454432400-1454432400@cms.mit.edu SUMMARY:John Jennings: "The Cipher Back to Here" DESCRIPTION:John JenningsState University of New York at Buffalo\nJohn Jennings is an Associate Professor of Art and Visual Studies at the University at Buffalo-State University of New York. He is the co-author of the graphic novel The Hole: Consumer Culture\, Vol. 1 and the art collection Black Comix: African American Independent Comics Art and Culture (both with Damian Duffy). Jennings is also the co-editor of The Blacker the Ink: Constructions of Black Identity in Comics and Sequential Art and co-founder/organizer of The Schomburg Center’s Black Comic Book Festival in Harlem\, MLK NorCal’s Black Comix Arts Festival in San Francisco\, and the AstroBlackness colloquium in Los Angeles at Loyola Marymount University. Jennings’ current comics projects include the Hiphop adventure comic Kid Code: Channel Zero\, the supernatural crime noir story Blue Hand Mojo\, and the upcoming graphic novel adaptation of Octavia Butler’s classic dark fantasy novel Kindred. URL:https://cms.mit.edu/event/john-jennings-cipher-back-to-here/ LOCATION:MIT Media Lab\, Room 633\, 75 Amherst St.\, Cambridge\, MA\, 02139\, United States ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://cms.mit.edu/wp/wp-content/uploads/2016/01/John-Jennings.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20160204T170000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20160204T170000 DTSTAMP:20260403T195502 CREATED:20160126T164259Z LAST-MODIFIED:20160208T125222Z UID:26644-1454605200-1454605200@cms.mit.edu SUMMARY:Amanda Lotz: "Television Didn't Die: But Broadband Distribution Revolutionized It" DESCRIPTION:Amanda Lotz University of Michigan\nBeginning in the late 1990s\, the technology and even mainstream press opined extensively on the coming death of television. A decade later—and a time that found television still very much alive—that theme evolved to instead pronounce the coming death of cable. Rather than demise\, the emergence of broadband-distributed television has both reinvented the medium and revealed how extensively our expectations and understandings of television are based not on the medium of television but on logics developed for its broadcast distribution. \nAmanda D. Lotz’s talk presents key arguments of her current book project\, Being Wired: How Cable Transformed Television and the Internet Revolutionized It All with a focus on what transpired when the long anticipated face off between “new media” and television finally took place in 2010. \nLotz is professor in the Departments of Communication Studies and Screen Arts and Cultures at the University of Michigan where she studies contemporary media industries\, television\, and gender and media. She is the author of The Television Will Be Revolutionized (New York University Press\, 2007; Rev. 2nd ed. 2014)\, Cable Guys: Television and American Masculinities in the 21st Century(2014)\, and Redesigning Women: Television After the Network Era (University of Illinois Press\, 2006)\, and editor of Beyond Prime Time: Television Programming in the Post-Network Era (Routledge\, 2009). She is co-author\, with Timothy Havens\, of Understanding Media Industries (Oxford University Press\, 2011; 2nd ed. 2016) and\, with Jonathan Gray\, of Television Studies (Polity\, 2011). Her current work examines how cable changed television and became the dominant supplier of internet access in the early twenty-first century. URL:https://cms.mit.edu/event/amanda-lotz-television-didnt-die-but-broadband-distribution-revolutionized-it/ LOCATION:MIT Building 56\, Room 114\, Access via 21 Ames Street\, Cambridge\, MA\, 02139\, United States ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://cms.mit.edu/wp/wp-content/uploads/2016/01/Amanda-Lotz.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20160211T170000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20160211T170000 DTSTAMP:20260403T195502 CREATED:20160105T195341Z LAST-MODIFIED:20160105T195341Z UID:26590-1455210000-1455210000@cms.mit.edu SUMMARY:Is There a Future for In-Depth Science Journalism? DESCRIPTION:Traditional media outlets have been facing budget cuts and layoffs for years\, with specialized reporters often among the first to go. And yet last year\, Boston Globe Media Partners made a significant investment in launching STAT\, a new publication that focuses on health\, medicine and scientific discovery. STAT‘s leadership and reporting team will discuss the publication’s progress and how the field of science journalism is changing. \nSpeakers \nRick Berke is the executive editor of STAT and former executive editor of POLITICO. Berke joined The New York Times in 1986 and served as a political correspondent and senior editor for nearly three decades. \nCarl Zimmer is a national correspondent for STAT and hosts the site’s “Science Happens” video series. Zimmer also writes the “Matter” column at The New York Times and has written 12 books including Soul Made Flesh\, which was named as a New York Times Notable Book of the Year. \nRebecca Robbins is a reporter for STAT covering money in life sciences. \nModerator: Seth Mnookin\, associate director of MIT’s Graduate Program in Science Writing and author of The Panic Virus: The True Story Behind the Vaccine-Autism Controversy. URL:https://cms.mit.edu/event/is-there-a-future-for-in-depth-science-journalism/ LOCATION:MIT Building 3\, Room 270\, 33 Massachusetts Ave (Rear)\, Cambridge\, MA\, 02319\, United States CATEGORIES:Communications Forum ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://cms.mit.edu/wp/wp-content/uploads/2007/01/mit-comm-forum_logo_square.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20160211T170000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20160211T170000 DTSTAMP:20260403T195502 CREATED:20160128T141545Z LAST-MODIFIED:20160208T162143Z UID:26648-1455210000-1455210000@cms.mit.edu SUMMARY:Lisa Parks: "Drone Matters: Vertical Mediation in the Horn of Africa" DESCRIPTION:Lisa ParksUniversity of California\, Santa Barbara\nSince 2002\, the US Joint Special Operations Command (JSOC) and CIA have orchestrated a covert drone war from Camp Lemonier in the African country of Djibouti\, monitoring and striking alleged al-Qaeda and Al-Shabaab suspects in Yemen and Somalia. As a media scholar\, UC Santa Barbara’s Lisa Parks is interested both in the discourses that have been used to expose covert US drone interventions and in the ways that drone operations themselves function as technologies of mediation. Drawing upon media such as training manual diagrams\, infrared images\, Google Earth interfaces\, and drone crash scene photos\, this talk explores the drone’s mediating work through three registers: the infrastructural\, the perceptual\, and the forensic. Focusing on maneuvers between the ground and sky\, Parks suggest that military drone operations are irreducible to the screen’s display and should be understood as practices of vertical mediation–as practices of communication and materialization that occur dynamically through the vertical field\, and\, as such\, have particular kinds of affects. The talk based on a chapter of her forthcoming book\, Coverage: Vertical Mediation and the War on Terror. \nLisa Parks is Professor in the Film and Media Studies Department at UC Santa Barbara. She is the author of Cultures in Orbit: Satellites and the Televisual (Duke UP\, 2005) and Coverage: Vertical Mediation and the War on Terror (Routledge\, forthcoming)\, and is co-editor of Signal Traffic: Critical Studies of Media Infrastructures (U of Illinois\, 2015)\, Down to Earth: Satellite Technologies\, Industries and Cultures (Rutgers UP\, 2012)\, Undead TV (Duke UP\, 2007)\, Planet TV: A Global Television Reader (NYU\, 2003)\, and another in progress entitled Life in the Age of Drones (under contract\, Duke UP). Parks has held visiting appointments at the Institute for Advanced Study (Wissenschaftskolleg) in Berlin\, McGill University\, University of Southern California\, and the Annenberg School of Communication at the University of Pennsylvania. She is currently a principal investigator on research grants from the National Science Foundation and the US State Department. URL:https://cms.mit.edu/event/lisa-parks-drone-matters-vertical-mediation-in-the-horn-of-africa/ LOCATION:MIT Building 56\, Room 114\, Access via 21 Ames Street\, Cambridge\, MA\, 02139\, United States CATEGORIES:Colloquium ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://cms.mit.edu/wp/wp-content/uploads/2016/01/Lisa-Parks.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20160218T170000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20160218T170000 DTSTAMP:20260403T195502 CREATED:20160115T162252Z LAST-MODIFIED:20160120T174615Z UID:26614-1455814800-1455814800@cms.mit.edu SUMMARY:Caroline Jack: "How Facts Survive in Public Service Media" DESCRIPTION:Caroline Jack\, CMS/W Exchange Scholar and Ph.D. candidate in the Department of Communication at Cornell University\nEconomic literacy has long been touted as a potential solution to national economic crisis and individual financial precarity. But what does it mean to be economically literate? In a field full of contestation\, how do some perspectives get disqualified or excluded\, and others held up as facts? Between 1976 and 1978\, the nonprofit\, quasi-governmental public service advertising organization The Advertising Council saturated the American media environment with messages about American citizens’ responsibility to become economically knowledgeable\, and distributed over ten million copies of a glossy brochure designed to teach citizens the least they needed to know about the American economic system. Activist groups criticized the Ad Council campaign as propagandistic–but when these groups responded with their own information campaigns\, they found themselves excluded from access to public funds and airwaves. Where was the line between objective information and propaganda? Who had the power to decide? How has this dynamic changed over time\, as new media technologies have emerged and neoliberal policies and philosophies have moved from the margins to the center of American political culture? In this talk\, Jack calls attention to corporate managers and executives as consequential social and ontological actors with distinctive vernacular theories of media and politics. \nCaroline Jack is an Exchange Scholar in CMS/W and a Doctoral Candidate in the Department of Communication at Cornell University. Her article “Fun and Facts about American Business: Economic Education and Business Propaganda in an Early Cold War Cartoon Series” was recently published in Enterprise and Society. URL:https://cms.mit.edu/event/caroline-jack-how-facts-survive-in-public-service-media/ LOCATION:MIT Building 56\, Room 114\, Access via 21 Ames Street\, Cambridge\, MA\, 02139\, United States CATEGORIES:Colloquium ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://cms.mit.edu/wp/wp-content/uploads/2016/01/Vintage-CRT-television.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20160225T170000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20160225T170000 DTSTAMP:20260403T195502 CREATED:20160115T150419Z LAST-MODIFIED:20160115T150503Z UID:26611-1456419600-1456419600@cms.mit.edu SUMMARY:Vincent Brown: "Designing Histories of Slavery for the Database Age" DESCRIPTION:Vincent BrownCharles Warren Professor of History\, Professor of African and African-American Studies\, and Director of the History Design Studio at Harvard University\nMultimedia scholarship invites reconsideration of how history has been\, could be\, and should be represented. By wrestling creatively and collectively with the difficult archival problems presented by social history of slavery\, Harvard’s Vincent Brown hopes to chart new pathways for pondering history’s most painful and vexing subjects. This presentation considers three graphic histories of slavery — a web-based animation of Voyages: The Transatlantic Slave Trade Database\, a cartographic narrative of the Jamaican slave revolt of 1760-61\, and a web-based archive of enslaved family lineages in Jamaica and Virginia — that illustrate how the archive of slavery is more than the records bequeathed to us by the past; the archive also includes the tools we use to explore it\, the vision that allows us to see its traces\, and the design decisions that communicate our sense of history’s possibilities. \nMulti-media historian Vincent Brown is Charles Warren Professor of History\, Professor of African and African-American Studies\, and Director of the History Design Studio at Harvard University. His research\, writing\, teaching\, and other creative endeavors are focused on the political dimensions of cultural practice. URL:https://cms.mit.edu/event/vincent-brown-designing-histories-of-slavery-for-the-database-age/ LOCATION:MIT Building 56\, Room 114\, Access via 21 Ames Street\, Cambridge\, MA\, 02139\, United States CATEGORIES:Colloquium ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://cms.mit.edu/wp/wp-content/uploads/2016/01/Vincent-Brown.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20160303T170000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20160303T170000 DTSTAMP:20260403T195502 CREATED:20160219T132921Z LAST-MODIFIED:20160219T133629Z UID:26775-1457024400-1457024400@cms.mit.edu SUMMARY:Excellence in Teaching DESCRIPTION:What separates a good teacher from a great one? How are digital technologies challenging traditional teaching methods? And are there distinctions between top-notch science instructors and their counterparts in humanities or social science? Former poet laureate Robert Pinsky\, Weisskopf Professor of Physics Alan Guth and MIT biology professor Hazel Sive–all honored teachers–will explore these issues with Literature professor and Communications Forum director emeritus David Thorburn. \nDavid Thorburn is an MIT Literature professor\, director emeritus of the Communications Forum\, and a past winner of MIT’s MacVicar award for exemplary contributions to undergraduate teaching. \nRobert Pinsky is a three-term US Poet Laureate. He is a recipient of the William Carlos Williams Award from the Poetry Society of America and a Lifetime Achievement Award from the PEN American Center. \nAlan Guth is MIT’s Victor F. Weisskopf Professor of Physics\, pioneer of the inflationary model of the universe and recipient of the MacVicar award for exemplary contributions to undergraduate teaching. \nHazel Sive is a biology professor at MIT\, a member of the Whitehead Institute for Biomedical Research and a recipient of the MacVicar award for exemplary contributions to undergraduate teaching. \nA reception in room 14E-304 will follow. URL:https://cms.mit.edu/event/excellence-in-teaching/ LOCATION:MIT Building 3\, Room 270\, 33 Massachusetts Ave (Rear)\, Cambridge\, MA\, 02319\, United States CATEGORIES:Communications Forum ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://cms.mit.edu/wp/wp-content/uploads/2015/08/David-Thorburn.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20160310T170000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20160310T190000 DTSTAMP:20260403T195502 CREATED:20160201T181400Z LAST-MODIFIED:20160201T183414Z UID:26701-1457629200-1457636400@cms.mit.edu SUMMARY:A Conversation with Guy Maddin DESCRIPTION:Installation artist\, filmmaker\, and director Guy Maddin\nGuy Maddin and his partners are communing with the spirits of long-lost movies. In a conversation with William Uricchio\, Maddin will discuss why we should bother digging up filmic and narrative memories from oblivion\, how we can take advantage of the Internet to involve new publics\, and how the act of doing so might help to create a new web-based art form. \nMaddin is an installation artist\, writer and filmmaker\, the director of eleven feature-length movies\, including The Forbidden Room (2015) and My Winnipeg (2007). \nIn the winter of 2015/16 he and Evan Johnson will launch their major internet interactive work\, Seances\, which will enable anyone online to “hold séances with” movies fashioned out of fragments of long-lost films. \n\n \n\n \n \n \n\n \n \n \n \n Ariane Labed From Seances\, Guy Maddin's Internet interactive lost film project \n \n\n \n \n \n \n Maria de Medeiros From Seances\, Guy Maddin's Internet interactive lost film project \n \n\n \n \n \n \n Clara Furey From Seances\, Guy Maddin's Internet interactive lost film project \n \n\n \n \n\n \n\n \n \n\n \n\n \n\n \n\n\n\n \n\n  URL:https://cms.mit.edu/event/conversation-with-guy-maddin/ LOCATION:MIT Building 56\, Room 114\, Access via 21 Ames Street\, Cambridge\, MA\, 02139\, United States CATEGORIES:Colloquium ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://cms.mit.edu/wp/wp-content/uploads/2016/02/Guy-Maddin.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20160317T170000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20160317T170000 DTSTAMP:20260403T195502 CREATED:20160129T150240Z LAST-MODIFIED:20160129T150705Z UID:26691-1458234000-1458234000@cms.mit.edu SUMMARY:Thomas Elsaesser: "Media Archaeology as Symptom" DESCRIPTION:Thomas ElsaesserColumbia University\nFor nearly one hundred years\, the moving image has been discussed primarily from the perspective of photography: organizing our questions and theories around cinema as an ocular dispositif\, based on light\, projection and transparency\, or as a recording dispositif\, based on index\, imprint and trace. In the age of digital imaging technologies\, some of which have little to do with optics\, such a history of the moving image seems too narrowly conceived. The broadly based\, if loosely defined research field calling itself “media archaeology” not only locates the cinema within more comprehensive media histories\, it also investigates apparently obsolete\, overlooked\, or poorly understood past media practices. The expectation is that by once more “opening up” these pasts\, one can enable or envisage a different future. The question then arises: is media archaeology a (viable) disciplinary subject or a (valuable) symptom also of changes in our ideas of history\, causality and contingency? \nThomas Elsaesser is Professor Emeritus at the University of Amsterdam and since 2013 has been teaching at Columbia University. Among his most recent books are: The Persistence of Hollywood (New York: Routledge\, 2012) and Film Theory: An Introduction through the Senses (New York: Routledge\, 2nd edition 2015\, with Malte Hagener). Forthcoming is Film History as Media Archaeology – Tracking Digital Cinema (Amsterdam University Press\, 2016). URL:https://cms.mit.edu/event/thomas-elsaesser-media-archaeology-as-symptom/ LOCATION:MIT Building 56\, Room 114\, Access via 21 Ames Street\, Cambridge\, MA\, 02139\, United States CATEGORIES:Colloquium ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://cms.mit.edu/wp/wp-content/uploads/2016/01/Thomas-Elsaesser.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20160331T170000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20160331T170000 DTSTAMP:20260403T195502 CREATED:20160113T145202Z LAST-MODIFIED:20160115T152205Z UID:26609-1459443600-1459443600@cms.mit.edu SUMMARY:Lisa Glebatis Perks: "Media Marathoning and Affective Involvement" DESCRIPTION:Lisa Perks\, Merrimack College\nAlthough the popular press primarily uses the negatively connoted phrase “binge-watching\,” Lisa Glebatis Perks employs the label “media marathoning” to describe viewers’ rapid engagement with a story world. Rather than positioning these media experiences as mindless indulgences\, the phrase media marathoning intimates engrossment\, effort\, and purpose. These media engagement efforts can be rewarded with pleasurable experiences\, but they can also lead to feelings of disappointment. Perks draws from discourse gathered from over 100 marathoners to describe some of marathoners’ most common emotional experiences\, including anger\, empathy\, parasocial mourning\, nostalgia\, and regret. The theme of the talk is that characters become the marathoners’ pseudo-avatars\, gaining shape\, texture\, and life through viewers’ affective investments. \nLisa Glebatis Perks (Ph.D.\, University of Texas at Austin) is Associate Professor of Communication Arts and Sciences at Merrimack College. She recently published Media Marathoning: Immersions in Morality\, which explores the ways readers and viewers become absorbed in a fictive text and dedicate many hours to exploring its narrative contours. URL:https://cms.mit.edu/event/lisa-perks-media-marathoning-and-affective-involvement/ LOCATION:MIT Building 56\, Room 114\, Access via 21 Ames Street\, Cambridge\, MA\, 02139\, United States CATEGORIES:Colloquium ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://cms.mit.edu/wp/wp-content/uploads/2016/01/Lisa-Perks.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20160407T163000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20160407T163000 DTSTAMP:20260403T195502 CREATED:20160405T135129Z LAST-MODIFIED:20160414T180244Z UID:26988-1460046600-1460046600@cms.mit.edu SUMMARY:Michael Taussig: "Mooning Texas" DESCRIPTION:Michael Taussig\, Professor of Anthropology\, Columbia University\n“Mooning Texas” – an adventure story involving social energy + art + Emile Durkheim’s “take” on Mauss + Hubert’s “take” on mana + the creativity of gossip. \nMichael Taussig\, professor of anthropology at Columbia University\, was dubbed by the New York Times as “Anthropology’s Alternative Radical.” Taussig has been doing fieldwork since 1969. He has written on the commercialization of peasant agriculture; slavery; hunger; the working of commodity fetishism; colonialism on “shamanism” and folk healing; the relevance of modernism and post-modernist aesthetics for the understanding of ritual; the making\, talking\, and writing of terror; and mimesis. He has also written “a study of exciting substance loaded with seduction and evil\, gold and cocaine\, in a montage-ethnography of the Pacific Coast of Colombia.” \nIntroduced by Prof. Ian Condry\, Global Studies and Languages\, MIT. \nPresented by the Dissolve Inequality series and the Latin American Studies Forum of MIT Global Studies and Languages.\ngsl-events@mit.edu • mitgsl.mit.edu URL:https://cms.mit.edu/event/michael-taussig-mooning-texas/ LOCATION:MIT Building 32 (Stata Center)\, Room 155\, 32 Vassar Street\, Cambridge\, MA\, 02139\, United States CATEGORIES:Colloquium ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://cms.mit.edu/wp/wp-content/uploads/2016/04/Michael-Taussig.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20160407T180000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20160407T200000 DTSTAMP:20260403T195502 CREATED:20160328T180019Z LAST-MODIFIED:20201014T152652Z UID:26958-1460052000-1460059200@cms.mit.edu SUMMARY:Being Muslim in America (and MIT) in 2016 DESCRIPTION:Last December\, Republican presidential frontrunner Donald Trump called for a ban on all Muslims entering the United States. In March\, he added that “I think Islam hates us.” Cambridge City Councilman Nadeem Mazen and Wise Systems co-founder Layla Shaikley–both MIT alumni–join engineering masters student Abubakar Abid to explore how this type of hateful\, discriminatory rhetoric influences public opinion\, discuss its impact on the daily lives of Muslim-Americans\, and examine strategies for combating it. \nNadeem Mazen is an MIT graduate\, Cambridge’s first Muslim city councilman and CEO of the Cambridge makerspace danger!awesome. \nLayle Shaikley is an MIT alum\, co-founder of Wise Systems and co-founder of TEDxBaghdad. With her viral video sensation “Muslim Hipsters: #mipsterz\,” she helped launch a national conversation about how Muslim women are represented. \nAbubakar Abid is a engineering masters student at MIT and a member of the Muslim Student Association. \nModerator: Seth Mnookin\, associate director of MIT’s Graduate Program in Science Writing and director of the MIT Communications Forum. URL:https://cms.mit.edu/event/muslim-america-mit-2016/ LOCATION:MIT Building 3\, Room 270\, 33 Massachusetts Ave (Rear)\, Cambridge\, MA\, 02319\, United States CATEGORIES:Communications Forum ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://cms.mit.edu/wp/wp-content/uploads/2016/03/Muslim-in-America-2x1.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20160408T090000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20160408T170000 DTSTAMP:20260403T195502 CREATED:20160201T152222Z LAST-MODIFIED:20201102T133654Z UID:26700-1460106000-1460134800@cms.mit.edu SUMMARY:CMS Graduate Thesis Presentations DESCRIPTION:These students aim to misbehave.\nThesis presentations of the class of 2016. \n \n9:00 am coffee and conversation\n\n9:30 am presentations begin\n\n Lily Bui\, “Sense and the City: A Critical Look at Representations of Air Quality Data in the ‘Smart City'”\n Lilia Kilburn\, “The Ghost in the (Answering) Machine: Vocality\, Technology\, Temporality”\n Anika Gupta\, “Towards A Better Inclusivity: Online Comments and Community at News Organizations”\n Andrew Stuhl\, “Making Software with Sound: Process and Politics in Interactive Musical Works”\n\nLunch Break\n\n Kyrie Caldwell\, “That Momentary Glow: Gender and Systems of Warm Interaction in Digital Games”\n Deniz Tortum\, “Real-time 3D Documentary: Representation Through Reality Capture and Game Engines”\n Beyza Boyacioglu\, “Zeki Muren: A Prince from Space”\n Gordon Mangum\, “DeepStream.tv: Designing Informative and Engaging Live Streaming Video Experiences”\n Lacey Lord\, “Panels from Digits to Digital: The Evolution of Touch in Comics”\n\nIf you can’t make it to the presentation\, follow the livestream here: http://www.ustream.tv/channel/cEyEXhb4ryX URL:https://cms.mit.edu/event/cms-graduate-thesis-presentations-2/ LOCATION:MIT Building E51\, Room 095\, 70 Memorial Drive\, Cambridge\, MA\, 02139\, United States CATEGORIES:Thesis Presentations ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://cms.mit.edu/wp/wp-content/uploads/2016/02/wall54.jpg ORGANIZER;CN="MIT%20Comparative%20Media%20Studies%2FWriting":MAILTO:cmsw@mit.edu END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20160414T170000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20160414T170000 DTSTAMP:20260403T195502 CREATED:20160216T142344Z LAST-MODIFIED:20160216T142344Z UID:26766-1460653200-1460653200@cms.mit.edu SUMMARY:Nick Seaver: "What Do People Do All Day?" DESCRIPTION:Nick Seaver\, CMS ’10\, and Assistant Professor at Tufts University \nThe algorithmic infrastructures of the internet are made by a weird cast of characters: rock stars\, gurus\, ninjas\, wizards\, alchemists\, park rangers\, gardeners\, plumbers\, and janitors can all be found sitting at computers in otherwise unremarkable offices\, typing. These job titles\, sometimes official\, sometimes informal\, are a striking feature of internet industries. They mark jobs as novel or hip\, contrasting starkly with the sedentary screenwork of programming. But is that all they do? In this talk\, drawing on several years of fieldwork with the developers of algorithmic music recommenders\, Seaver describes how these terms help people make sense of new kinds of jobs and their positions within new infrastructures. They draw analogies that fit into existing prestige hierarchies (rockstars and janitors) or relationships to craft and technique (gardeners and alchemists). They aspire to particular imaginations of mastery (gurus and ninjas). Critics of big data have drawn attention to the importance of metaphors in framing public and commercial understandings of data\, its biases and origins. The metaphorical borrowings of role terms serve a similar function\, highlighting some features at the expense of others and shaping emerging professions in their image. If we want to make sense of new algorithmic industries\, we’ll need to understand how they make sense of themselves. \nNick Seaver is assistant professor of anthropology at Tufts University. His current research examines the cultural life of algorithms for understanding and recommending music. He received a masters from CMS in 2010 for research on the history of the player piano. URL:https://cms.mit.edu/event/nick-seaver-what-do-people-do-all-day/ LOCATION:MIT Building 56\, Room 114\, Access via 21 Ames Street\, Cambridge\, MA\, 02139\, United States CATEGORIES:Colloquium ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://cms.mit.edu/wp/wp-content/uploads/2016/02/Nick-Seaver.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20160421T170000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20160421T170000 DTSTAMP:20260403T195502 CREATED:20160413T173847Z LAST-MODIFIED:20160413T173847Z UID:27012-1461258000-1461258000@cms.mit.edu SUMMARY:CMS/W Town Hall DESCRIPTION:Closed to the public. URL:https://cms.mit.edu/event/cmsw-town-hall/ CATEGORIES:Colloquium ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://cms.mit.edu/wp/wp-content/uploads/2013/09/CMSW-logo-square-2x1.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20160423 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20160424 DTSTAMP:20260403T195502 CREATED:20160423T113926Z LAST-MODIFIED:20160423T115134Z UID:27107-1461369600-1461455999@cms.mit.edu SUMMARY:MIT Open House\, with CMS/W Events DESCRIPTION:This year MIT celebrates 100 years in Cambridge! On April 23\, it hosts a campus-wide open house\, welcoming the public into every department to check out the coolest of the Institute’s work. We’ll have five spots of our own where you can stop. (And check out the full list of Open House activities.) See you there: \n\nOnce More\, With Feelies: Video Game Materials (an exhibition)\n11:00 AM to 3:00 PM\nRotch Library\, Building 7 – Room 238 \nExploring the Potential of Play\n11:00 AM to 2:00 PM\nWiesner Building\, Building E15 – Room 320 \nDesigning Digital Humanities\n12:00 PM to 2:00 PM\nBuilding 16 – Room 635 \nPlayful\, Powerful Learning\n10:00 AM to 3:00 PM\nWiesner Building\, Building E15 – Room 301 \nComputer-Generated Poetry\n10:00 AM to 3:00 PM\nWiesner Building\, Building E15 – Room 318 URL:https://cms.mit.edu/event/mit-open-house-cmsw-events/ ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://cms.mit.edu/wp/wp-content/uploads/2016/04/mit2016-logo-200plus.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20160425T180000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20160425T180000 DTSTAMP:20260403T195502 CREATED:20160411T174221Z LAST-MODIFIED:20160422T144125Z UID:27004-1461607200-1461607200@cms.mit.edu SUMMARY:17th Annual CMS Media Spectacle DESCRIPTION:(Submissions are now closed.) \nSubmission deadline is April 20. \nThe CMS Media Spectacle showcases video projects of all genres created by MIT students\, staff\, faculty and affiliates. Prizes include the Chris Pomiecko Award for Best Undergraduate Entry\, as well as awards for Best Non-undergraduate Entry\, Animation\, Experimental\, Narrative\, Nonfiction/Documentary\, and Audience Favorite. To submit an entry\, send your video to: \nBecky Shepardson\n14N-336\n77 Mass. Ave.\, Cambridge\, MA 02139\nbshep@mit.edu\n(if the video is online\, please make sure it’s downloadable) \nPlease include with your submission: contact email\, video title\, brief description\, and running time. The maximum running time is 15 minutes. The deadline for submissions is April 20. Contact bshep@mit.edu with any questions. URL:https://cms.mit.edu/event/2016-media-spectacle/ 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/2013/04/media-spectacle.png END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR