Paloma Duong, “Portable Postsocialisms [postsocialismos de bolsillo]”

MIT Building E15, Room 318 (Common Area) 20 Ames Street, Cambridge, MA

Assistant Professor Paloma Duong on "how revisiting our assumptions about digital media and cultural agency, both in Cuba and in the broader hemispheric context, can speak to the dreams and demands of constituencies that operate between, beneath, and beyond the pressures of global markets and the nation-state."

T.L. Taylor, “Play as Transformative Work”

MIT Building E15, Room 318 (Common Area) 20 Ames Street, Cambridge, MA

Professor of Comparative Media Studies T.L. Taylor will explore the ways game live streamers are transforming their otherwise private play into public entertainment.

Imagining Prototypes: Writing about Design

MIT Building 56, Room 169 Access Via 21 Ames Street, Cambridge, MA

An 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, MA

Join us every Friday afternoon for discotheque history and classic grooves!

Imagining Prototypes: Writing about Design

MIT Building 56, Room 169 Access Via 21 Ames Street, Cambridge, MA

An 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, MA

Join us every Friday afternoon for discotheque history and classic grooves!

DJ History and Technology

MIT Building E15, Room 335 20 Ames Street, Cambridge, MA

Join us every Friday afternoon for discotheque history and classic grooves!

DJ History and Technology

MIT Building E15, Room 335 20 Ames Street, Cambridge, MA

Join us every Friday afternoon for discotheque history and classic grooves!

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, MA

Desmond 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.

CANCELLED: Artificial Intelligence and Ethics

MIT Building 4, Room 237 182 Memorial Drive (Rear), Cambridge, MA

Featuring Stephanie Dick, UPenn; Paul Dourish, UC-Irvine; Kate Klonick, St. John's University; and Safiya Noble, UCLA. Moderated by MIT professor Fox Harrell.