DJ History and Technology
MIT Building E15, Room 335 20 Ames Street, Cambridge, MAJoin us every Friday afternoon for discotheque history and classic grooves!
MIT Graduate Program in Comparative Media Studies
Studying Media and Making Media
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Imagining Prototypes: Writing about Design
MIT Building 56, Room 169 Access Via 21 Ames Street, Cambridge, MAAn activity-based writing workshop for anyone who builds anything at MIT and beyond, or who dreams of doing so. The workshop will introduce techniques in writing for designers who rely on written or oral communication to generate interest in a design idea or prototype.
DJ History and Technology
MIT Building E15, Room 335 20 Ames Street, Cambridge, MAJoin us every Friday afternoon for discotheque history and classic grooves!
DJ History and Technology
MIT Building E15, Room 335 20 Ames Street, Cambridge, MAJoin us every Friday afternoon for discotheque history and classic grooves!
DJ History and Technology
MIT Building E15, Room 335 20 Ames Street, Cambridge, MAJoin us every Friday afternoon for discotheque history and classic grooves!
Matthew Berland, “Creative Agency: Making, Learning, and Playing towards Understanding Computational Content”
MIT Building E15, Room 318 (Common Area) 20 Ames Street, Cambridge, MAMatthew Berland on how we can create environments where learners are supported in developing creative agency, and how we might assess or evaluate success.
Desmond Upton Patton, “Contextual Analysis of Social Media: The Promise and Challenge of Eliciting Context in Social Media Posts with Natural Language Processing”
MIT Building E15, Room 318 (Common Area) 20 Ames Street, Cambridge, MADesmond Upton Patton introduces a critical systematic approach for extracting culture, context and nuance in social media data. The Contextual Analysis of Social Media (CASM) approach considers and critiques the gap between inadequacies in natural language processing tools and differences in geographic, cultural, and age-related variance of social media use and communication.
Marina Bers, “Coding in Early Childhood: Storytelling or Puzzle Solving?”
MIT Building E15, Room 318 (Common Area) 20 Ames Street, Cambridge, MAProf. Marina Bers will describe current research on a pedagogical approach for early childhood computer science education called “Coding as Another Language”.
Shawna Kidman, “The Infrastructure of the U.S. Comic Book Industry and the Long History of Superheroes in Hollywood”
MIT Building E15, Room 318 (Common Area) 20 Ames Street, Cambridge, MA"The best way to understand the immense influence of this relatively small business is through a political economic analysis. Specifically, she will discuss industrial infrastructure—the aspects of our media environment that often lack public visibility."
POSTPONED UNTIL SPRING 2021: Meghan Sutherland, “Variety, Genealogy, History: On the Politics of Media Convergence”
MIT Building E15, Room 318 (Common Area) 20 Ames Street, Cambridge, MARecasting the phenomenon of "media convergence" as a matter of aesthetic form fundamental to the biopolitical imaginary of liberalism and neoliberalism but to the idea of governmental "technology".
CANCELLED: Artificial Intelligence and Ethics
MIT Building 4, Room 237 182 Memorial Drive (Rear), Cambridge, MAFeaturing Stephanie Dick, UPenn; Paul Dourish, UC-Irvine; Kate Klonick, St. John's University; and Safiya Noble, UCLA. Moderated by MIT professor Fox Harrell.
POSTPONED UNTIL FALL: Elinor Carmi, “Media Distortions: Understanding the Power Behind Spam, Noise, and Other Deviant Media”
MIT Building E15, Room 318 (Common Area) 20 Ames Street, Cambridge, MAThe 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.
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).
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.
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