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SUMMARY:Visualizing Information: ChartGirl on an Alternate Route to Understanding and Explaining Complicated Information
DESCRIPTION:Hilary Sargent\, founder of ChartGirl.com\nHilary Sargent is the founder of ChartGirl.com\, where she makes charts to describe complicated news stories. Her site was recently called one of the 50 Best Websites of 2013 by TIME Magazine and her charts have been featured by Reuters\, AtlanticWire\, BoingBoing\, Business Insider\, and others. Sargent has worked as an investigator for law firms\, corporations\, non-profit organizations and political campaigns. \nView the MIT Campus Map for Building 4’s exact location.
URL:https://cms.mit.edu/event/chartgirl-on-visualizing-information/
LOCATION:MIT Building 4\, Room 231\, Cambridge\, MA\, 02139\, United States
CATEGORIES:Colloquium
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ORGANIZER;CN="MIT%20Comparative%20Media%20Studies%2FWriting":MAILTO:cmsw@mit.edu
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20131113T163000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20131113T173000
DTSTAMP:20260403T184837
CREATED:20131112T172027Z
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SUMMARY:Nelly Rosario: "Noble Strains: Thoughts on a Hybridized Identity"
DESCRIPTION:Nelly Rosario’s hybrid talk presents a mash-up of genres to explore the benefits and pitfalls of hybridity as identity in these “post-racial” times. Also read Noble Strains\, Rosario’s recent blog post for the PBS Latino Americans series.
URL:https://cms.mit.edu/event/noble-strains-thoughts-hybridized-identity-nelly-rosario/
LOCATION:Boston College\, Devlin Hall\, Room 101\, Boston College Campus\, Chestnut Hill\, MA\, 02467\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20131107T170000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20131107T190000
DTSTAMP:20260403T184837
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SUMMARY:Sonia Livingstone: "The Class: Living and Learning in the Digital Age"
DESCRIPTION:Sonia Livingstone\, Department of Media and Communications\, London School of Economics and Political Science\nSonia Livingstone is a full professor in the Department of Media and Communications\, London School of Economics and Political Science. She is seconded to Microsoft Social Research for fall 2013 as well as being a faculty fellow at the Berkman Center for Internet and Society. Her talk will be based on her current book project\, “The Class: Living and Learning in the Digital Age”\, based on her ethnographic research with the MacArthur Foundation-funded Connected Learning Research Network. With a focus on young teenagers\, Sonia will examine how powerful forces of social reproduction result in missed opportunities for many youth in the risk society.
URL:https://cms.mit.edu/event/sonia-livingstone-class-living-learning-in-the-digital-age/
LOCATION:MIT Media Lab\, Room 633\, 75 Amherst St.\, Cambridge\, MA\, 02139\, United States
CATEGORIES:Colloquium
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ORGANIZER;CN="MIT%20Comparative%20Media%20Studies%2FWriting":MAILTO:cmsw@mit.edu
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20131031T170000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20131031T190000
DTSTAMP:20260403T184837
CREATED:20130822T133322Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20131023T153012Z
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SUMMARY:Todd Harper: "Fight Like Gentlemen: The Culture of Fighting Games"
DESCRIPTION:Todd Harper\, Postdoctoral Associate with the MIT Game Lab\nThe culture of fighting games — digital games of competitive martial arts-style combat—is one of the most interesting and contentious of gamer subcultures. This talk examines the influences and norms of that community\, including its spiritual and physical roots in the arcade\, common gameplay practices\, and how issues of ethnicity and gender collide with gamer identity in the ‘FGC’. \nTodd Harper is a researcher at the MIT Game Lab with a background in mass communication and cultural studies. His current research focuses on both competitive communities and their cultural norms\, as well as queer and gender representation and issues in gaming culture.
URL:https://cms.mit.edu/event/todd-harper-culture-of-fighting-games/
LOCATION:MIT Building 4\, Room 231\, Cambridge\, MA\, 02139\, United States
CATEGORIES:Colloquium
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ORGANIZER;CN="MIT%20Comparative%20Media%20Studies%2FWriting":MAILTO:cmsw@mit.edu
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20131031T140000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20131031T160000
DTSTAMP:20260403T184837
CREATED:20150211T203234Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20150211T203234Z
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SUMMARY:Online Information Session
DESCRIPTION:
URL:https://cms.mit.edu/event/online-information-session-103113/
LOCATION:cms.mit.edu
CATEGORIES:Independent Activities Period
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20131031T140000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20131031T160000
DTSTAMP:20260403T184837
CREATED:20130626T143321Z
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SUMMARY:Online Information Session\, CMS Graduate Program
DESCRIPTION:Join us at 2pm on the 31st! (What time is that where you live?) \nJOIN NOW!\nRSVP is not required for online information sessions. \nIt may help to prepare some questions ahead of time. It’s as simple as scanning through the basic info about the graduate program: cmsw.mit.edu/education/comparative-media-studies/masters.
URL:https://cms.mit.edu/event/online-information-session-cms-graduate-program-oct-31-2013/
LOCATION:http://irc.lc/freenode/cmsinfo
CATEGORIES:Information Session
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20131024T170000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20131024T190000
DTSTAMP:20260403T184837
CREATED:20130725T200939Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20131017T144905Z
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SUMMARY:Coco Fusco: "A Performance Approach to Primate Politics"
DESCRIPTION:Coco Fusco\nNew York-based interdisciplinary artist and writer Coco Fusco will consider the critical responses to the original Planet of the Apes films\, focusing in particular on the interpretation of the films as critiques of American race relations during the 1960’s and ’70’s. \nShe will also discuss her interest in exploring the strategies used in early sci-fi cinema\, the ways that films such as Planet of the Apes employed speculative fiction to generate social critique. \nModerated by Professor of Writing Junot Díaz and Associate Professor Ian Condry.
URL:https://cms.mit.edu/event/coco-fusco-planet-of-the-apes-primate-politics/
LOCATION:MIT Media Lab\, Room 633\, 75 Amherst St.\, Cambridge\, MA\, 02139\, United States
CATEGORIES:Colloquium
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ORGANIZER;CN="MIT%20Comparative%20Media%20Studies%2FWriting":MAILTO:cmsw@mit.edu
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20131024T100000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20131024T150000
DTSTAMP:20260403T184837
CREATED:20130626T140413Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20150211T204949Z
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SUMMARY:On-campus Information Session\, CMS Graduate Program
DESCRIPTION:If you would like to attend an on-campus information session\, please RSVP to cms-admissions@mit.edu.
URL:https://cms.mit.edu/event/on-campus-information-session-oct-2013/
LOCATION:MIT Building E51\, Room 095\, 70 Memorial Drive\, Cambridge\, MA\, 02139\, United States
CATEGORIES:Information Session
ORGANIZER;CN="MIT%20Comparative%20Media%20Studies%2FWriting":MAILTO:cmsw@mit.edu
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20131017T170000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20131017T190000
DTSTAMP:20260403T184837
CREATED:20130829T124223Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20131017T134519Z
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SUMMARY:Zeynep Tufekci: "The Boom-Bust Cycle of Social Media-Fueled Protests"
DESCRIPTION:Zeynep Tufekci\nSocial media-fueled protests in many countries have surprised observers with their seemingly spontaneous\, combustible power. Yet\, many have fizzled out without having a strong impact on policy at the electoral and legislative levels. In this talk\, Tufekci will discuss some features of such protests that may be leading to this boom and bust cycle drawing upon primary research in Gezi protests in Turkey as well as “Arab Spring”\, Occupy and M15 movements. \nZeynep Tufekci is an assistant professor at the University of North Carolina\, Chapel Hill. \nModerated by Professor of Comparative Media Studies and Head of MIT Foreign Languages and Literatures Ian Condry and Ethan Zuckerman\, Director of the MIT Center for Civic Media.
URL:https://cms.mit.edu/event/zeynep-tufekci-boom-bust-cycle-social-media-fueled-protests/
LOCATION:MIT Media Lab\, Room 633\, 75 Amherst St.\, Cambridge\, MA\, 02139\, United States
CATEGORIES:Colloquium
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ORGANIZER;CN="MIT%20Comparative%20Media%20Studies%2FWriting":MAILTO:cmsw@mit.edu
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20131010T170000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20131010T190000
DTSTAMP:20260403T184837
CREATED:20130819T132855Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20130819T134430Z
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SUMMARY:Born Digital
DESCRIPTION:How is the generation born in the digital age different from its analog ancestors? Are those born digital likely to have different notions of privacy\, community\, identity itself? How do educators approach this generation to help prepare them for scholarship and for citizenship? \nSpeakers: John Palfrey\, Head of School at Phillips Academy and author of Born Digital: Understanding the First Generation of Digital Natives; and Ethan Zuckerman\, director of the Center for Civic Media\, a collaboration between the MIT Media Lab and Comparative Media Studies/Writing.
URL:https://cms.mit.edu/event/born-digital/
LOCATION:MIT Media Lab\, Room 633\, 75 Amherst St.\, Cambridge\, MA\, 02139\, United States
CATEGORIES:Communications Forum
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ORGANIZER;CN="MIT%20Communications%20Forum":MAILTO:couch@mit.edu
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20131003T080000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20131003T100000
DTSTAMP:20260403T184837
CREATED:20150211T202840Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20150211T203019Z
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SUMMARY:Online Information Session
DESCRIPTION:
URL:https://cms.mit.edu/event/online-information-session-100313/
LOCATION:cms.mit.edu
CATEGORIES:Independent Activities Period
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20131003T080000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20131003T100000
DTSTAMP:20260403T184837
CREATED:20130626T143235Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20150211T204804Z
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SUMMARY:Online Information Session\, CMS Graduate Program
DESCRIPTION:RSVP not required for online information sessions.
URL:https://cms.mit.edu/event/online-information-session-cms-graduate-program-oct-03-2013/
LOCATION:http://irc.lc/freenode/cmsinfo
CATEGORIES:Information Session
ORGANIZER;CN="MIT%20Comparative%20Media%20Studies%2FWriting":MAILTO:cmsw@mit.edu
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20130926T170000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20130926T190000
DTSTAMP:20260403T184837
CREATED:20130830T122641Z
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SUMMARY:Ethan Zuckerman: "Digital Cosmopolitanism and Cognitive Diversity"
DESCRIPTION:Ethan Zuckerman\, Director of the MIT Center for Civic Media and author of Rewire: Digital Cosmopolitans in the Age of Connection\nNew media technologies have sharply increased the number of people who are able to create and disseminate content. But they may not be leading to a more diverse media environment\, as tools that allow us to tailor what content we see and what we ignore are becoming more powerful and more personal. The framework of cosmopolitanism suggests a way through this challenge – by examining perspectives we are exposed to and insulated from\, we may be able to design tools and approaches that help readers increase their cognitive diversity and prepare themselves to tackle transnational challenges. \nEthan Zuckerman is the Director of the MIT Center for Civic Media. \nModerated by Associate Professor Ian Condry.
URL:https://cms.mit.edu/event/ethan-zuckerman-digital-cosmopolitanism-cognitive-diversity/
LOCATION:MIT Building 4\, Room 231\, Cambridge\, MA\, 02139\, United States
CATEGORIES:Colloquium
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ORGANIZER;CN="MIT%20Comparative%20Media%20Studies%2FWriting":MAILTO:cmsw@mit.edu
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20130919T170000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20130919T190000
DTSTAMP:20260403T184837
CREATED:20130823T171408Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20130916T195619Z
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SUMMARY:Hong Qu: "Keepr: Algorithm for Extracting Entities\, Eyewitnesses and Amplifiers"
DESCRIPTION:Hong Qu\nWhen a big news story breaks\, Twitter goes crazy. Keepr tries to make sense of these periodic bursts by implementing natural language processing and social network analysis algorithms to surface topics\, eyewitnesses\, and amplifiers. A live demo will be followed by a discussion of the capabilities and limitations of computational newsgathering\, along with reports of how it is being used in newsrooms. \nHong Qu is a digital toolmaker. He has led teams at YouTube and Upworthy.  He enjoys building social media tools that help us better understand ourselves and the world around us.
URL:https://cms.mit.edu/event/hong-qu-keepr-algorithm-extracting-entities-eyewitnesses-amplifiers/
LOCATION:MIT Media Lab\, Room 633\, 75 Amherst St.\, Cambridge\, MA\, 02139\, United States
CATEGORIES:Colloquium
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ORGANIZER;CN="MIT%20Comparative%20Media%20Studies%2FWriting":MAILTO:cmsw@mit.edu
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20130919T100000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20130919T150000
DTSTAMP:20260403T184837
CREATED:20130626T140224Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20150211T205002Z
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SUMMARY:On-campus Information Session\, CMS Graduate Program
DESCRIPTION:If you would like to attend an on-campus information session\, please RSVP to cms-admissions@mit.edu.
URL:https://cms.mit.edu/event/on-campus-information-session-sept-2013/
LOCATION:MIT Building E51\, Room 095\, 70 Memorial Drive\, Cambridge\, MA\, 02139\, United States
CATEGORIES:Information Session
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ORGANIZER;CN="MIT%20Comparative%20Media%20Studies%2FWriting":MAILTO:cmsw@mit.edu
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20130912T170000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20130912T190000
DTSTAMP:20260403T184837
CREATED:20130813T191455Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20150414T193512Z
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SUMMARY:The Phoenix Burns Out: Remembering a Boston Institution
DESCRIPTION:Featuring essayist Anita Diamant\, former staff writing Charles Pierce\, music critic Lloyd Schwartz\, and Phoenix editor Carly Carioli.Moderated by Seth Mnookin.\nA generation of great journalists cut their teeth at alt-weeklies\, and The Boston Phoenix produced some of the best of them. When the Phoenix announced it was closing last March\, the city lost a powerful cultural force and a vibrant source of information. \nWe’ll discuss the Phoenix‘s legacy and the ways in which its loss will affect Boston. \nPanelists will be author and essayist Anita Diamant\, who started out answering the editor’s phone in the mid-1970s; Charles Pierce of Esquire and NPR\, and a staff writer with the Phoenix in the 1980s and ’90s; poet and classical music critic Lloyd Schwartz\, who won a Pulitzer Prize with the Phoenix; and Carly Carioli\, who started as an intern and rose to become the paper’s editor. \nSeth Mnookin will moderate.
URL:https://cms.mit.edu/event/the-phoenix-burns-out-remembering-a-boston-institution/
LOCATION:MIT Media Lab\, Room 633\, 75 Amherst St.\, Cambridge\, MA\, 02139\, United States
CATEGORIES:Communications Forum
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ORGANIZER;CN="MIT%20Communications%20Forum":MAILTO:couch@mit.edu
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20130509T170000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20130509T180000
DTSTAMP:20260403T184837
CREATED:20140730T180348Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20150706T170706Z
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SUMMARY:10 PRINT CHR$(205.5+RND(1)); : GOTO 10
DESCRIPTION:The MIT Press book we affectionately call 10 PRINT — actually 10 PRINT CHR$(205.5+RND(1)); : GOTO 10 — was an unusual project in several respects. The book focuses on a single line of now-unfamiliar code\, code of the sort that millions typed in and modified in the 1970s and 1980s. The book contributes to several threads of contemporary digital media scholarship\, including critical code studies\, software studies\, and platform studies. Also somewhat oddly\, the book was written in a single voice by ten people: Nick Montfort\, Patsy Baudoin\, John Bell\, Ian Bogost\, Jeremy Douglass\, Mark C. Marino\, Michael Mateas\, Casey Reas\, Mark Sample\, and Noah Vawter. \nAt this CMS colloquium\, co-authors will discuss the nature of their collaboration\, which was organized by Montfort\, designed as a book by Reas\, and facilitated by structured conversations and writing done online (using a mailing list and a wiki) as well as (in a few cases) in person. The writing of 10 PRINT is offered as a new mode of scholarship\, very suitable in digital media but capable of being applied throughout the humanities. It brings some of the benefits of laboratory work and collaborative design practice to the traditionally individual mode of scholarly research and argument.
URL:https://cms.mit.edu/event/10-print/
LOCATION:MIT Building 4\, Room 231\, Cambridge\, MA\, 02139\, United States
CATEGORIES:Colloquium
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20130503
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20130506
DTSTAMP:20260403T184837
CREATED:20150303T192836Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20170316T192813Z
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SUMMARY:Media in Transition 8: Public Media\, Private Media
DESCRIPTION:Submissions accepted on a rolling basis until Friday\, March 1\, 2013 (evaluations begin in November). Please see the end of this call for papers for submission instructions. \nThe distinction between public and private — where the line is drawn and how it is sometimes inverted\, the ways that it is embraced or contested — says much about a culture. Media have been used to enable\, define and police the shifting line between the two\, so it is not surprising that the history of media change to some extent maps the history of these domains. Media in Transition 8 takes up the question of the shifting nature of the public and private at a moment of unparalleled connectivity\, enabling new notions of the socially mediated public and unequalled levels of data extraction thanks to the quiet demands of our Kindles\, iPhones\, televisions and computers. While this forces us to think in new ways about these long established categories\, in fact the underlying concerns are rooted in deep historical practice. MiT8 considers the ways in which specific media challenge or reinforce certain notions of the public or the private and especially the ways in which specific “texts” dramatize or imagine the public\, the private and the boundary between them. It takes as its foci three broad domains: personal identity\, the civic (the public sphere) and intellectual property. \nRead the full call for papers…
URL:https://cms.mit.edu/event/media-in-transition-8-public-media-private-media/
CATEGORIES:Conference
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20130429T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20130429T210000
DTSTAMP:20260403T184837
CREATED:20140731T172836Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20140731T172836Z
UID:21623-1367258400-1367269200@cms.mit.edu
SUMMARY:15th Annual CMS Media Spectacle
DESCRIPTION:The CMS Media Spectacle\, founded by late CMS program administrator Chris Pomiecko\, celebrates his love for filmmaking by showcasing the finest video projects created by MIT students\, staff and faculty. \nHistorically\, the event has received submissions of every genre from experimental to documentary to narrative works created on every conceivable platform and device. Prizes include the Chris Pomiecko Award for Best Undergraduate Entry\, as well as awards for Best Non-undergraduate Entry\, Animation\, Experimental\, Narrative\, Nonfiction\, and Audience Favorite. The event is judged by esteemed members of the CMS community\, including Cathy Pomiecko\, Chris’s sister.
URL:https://cms.mit.edu/event/15th-annual-cms-media-spectacle/
LOCATION:MIT Building 32 (Stata Center)\, Room 141\, 32 Vassar Street\, Cambridge\, MA\, 02139\, United States
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20130425T170000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20130425T190000
DTSTAMP:20260403T184837
CREATED:20141215T153201Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20141215T153201Z
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SUMMARY:Film Preservation in the Age of Digitality
DESCRIPTION:Chris Horak\nWe now live in a digital age\, seemingly guaranteeing instant accessibility. Much of the general public in fact believes that every film and television program ever made has already been digitized and is now available in Netflix’s catalog. That is hardly the case\, because digitization is still massively expensive\, there is no such thing as a digital preservation medium\, and even the migration of digital films is fraught with technical difficulties. \nChris Horak is Director of the UCLA Film and Television Archive.
URL:https://cms.mit.edu/event/chris-horak-film-preservation-in-the-age-of-digitality/
LOCATION:MIT Building 4\, Room 231\, Cambridge\, MA\, 02139\, United States
CATEGORIES:Colloquium
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20130418T170000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20130418T190000
DTSTAMP:20260403T184837
CREATED:20170530T233059Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20200521T124612Z
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SUMMARY:Size Is Only Half the Story:Valuing the Dimensionality of BIG DATA
DESCRIPTION:Mary L. Gray\nRecent provocations (boyd and Crawford\, 2011) about the role of “big data” in human communication research and technology studies deserve an outline of the value of anthropology\, as a particular kind of “big data”. \nMary L. Gray\, Senior Researcher at Microsoft Research New England and Associate Professor of Communication and Culture at Indiana University\, will walk through the different dimensions of social inquiry that fall under the rubric of “big data”. She argues for attending to different dimensions rather than scales of data\, more collaborative approaches to how we arrive at what we (think we) know\, and critical analysis of the cultural assumptions embedded in the data we collect. By moving from the “snapshot” of quantitative work to the
URL:https://cms.mit.edu/event/size-is-only-half-story-valuing-dimensionality-big-data/
LOCATION:MIT Building 4\, Room 231\, Cambridge\, MA\, 02139\, United States
CATEGORIES:Colloquium
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20130417T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20130417T203000
DTSTAMP:20260403T184837
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SUMMARY:The Future of Print in the Digital Age
DESCRIPTION:Co-sponsored by Comparative Media Studies/Writing\, its Graduate Program in Science Writing\, and the MIT Program in Science Technology and Society. \nDavid Carr writes the Media Equation column for the Monday Business section of the New York Times that focuses on media issues including print\, digital\, film\, radio and television. He also works as a general assignment reporter in the Culture section of The Times covering all aspects of popular culture. Carr blogs regularly at Media Decoder. \nFor the past 25 years\, Carr has been writing about media as it intersects with business\, culture and government. \nSeth Mnookin is a former baseball and political writer who now co-directs MIT’s Graduate Program in Science Writing. \nTa-Nehisi Coates is a 2012-2013 Dr. Martin Luther King\, Jr. Visiting Scholar at MIT and a senior editor at The Atlantic where he writes about culture\, politics\, and social issues for TheAtlantic.com and the magazine. He is the author of the memoir The Beautiful Struggle.
URL:https://cms.mit.edu/event/future-print-digital-age/
LOCATION:MIT Building 6\, Room 120\, 182 Memorial Drive (Rear)\, Cambridge\, MA\, 02139\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20130411T170000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20130411T190000
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CREATED:20150326T141159Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20161221T201056Z
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SUMMARY:News or Entertainment? The Press in Modern Political Campaigns
DESCRIPTION:In the 2012 presidential campaign\, a handful of media outlets deployed “fact-checking” divisions which reported the lies and distortions of the candidates. Some commentators have argued that these truth-squads exposed the inadequacy of standard print and broadcast coverage\, much of which seems more like entertainment than news. This forum will examine the changing role of the political media in the U.S. Is our political journalism serving democratic and civic ideals? What do emerging technologies and the proliferation of news sources mean for the future? \nTa-Nehisi Coates is a senior editor at The Atlantic where he writes about culture\, politics\, and social issues for TheAtlantic.com and the magazine. He is the author of the memoir The Beautiful Struggle. \nMark McKinnon is a senior advisor of Hill & Knowlton Strategies\, an international communications consultancy\, a weekly columnist for The Daily Beast and The London Telegraph\, and is a co-founder of the bipartisan group No Labels. As a political advisor\, he has worked for many causes\, companies and candidates including former President George W. Bush\, 2008 Republican presidential candidate Senator John McCain\, late former Texas Governor Ann Richards and Congressman Charlie Wilson.
URL:https://cms.mit.edu/event/news-or-entertainment-press-modern-political-campaigns/
LOCATION:MIT Media Lab\, Room 633\, 75 Amherst St.\, Cambridge\, MA\, 02139\, United States
CATEGORIES:Communications Forum
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20130404T170000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20130404T190000
DTSTAMP:20260403T184837
CREATED:20170530T233059Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20211209T132503Z
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SUMMARY:The Cultural Feedback of Noise
DESCRIPTION:Noise\, an underground music made through an amalgam of feedback\, distortion\, and electronic effects\, first emerged in the 1980s\, circulating on cassette tapes traded between fans in Japan\, Europe and North America. With its cultivated obscurity\, ear-shattering sound\, and over-the-top performances\, Noise captured the imagination of a small but passionate transnational audience\, despite remaining deeply underground. How did the submergent circulations of Noise become such a compelling metaphor for the complexities of globalization\, intercultural exchange and participatory media at the turn of the millennium? In this talk\, I trace the “cultural feedback” of noise through the productive distortions of its mediated networks: its recorded forms\, technologies of live performance\, and into the lives and creative practices of musicians and listeners. \nDavid Novak teaches in the Music Department at the University of California\, Santa Barbara. His work deals with the globalization of popular music\, media technologies\, experimental culture\, and social practices of listening. He is the author of recent essays in Public Culture\, Cultural Anthropology\, and Popular Music\, as well as the book Japanoise: Music at the Edge of Circulation (Duke University Press).
URL:https://cms.mit.edu/event/cultural-feedback-noise/
LOCATION:MIT Building 4\, Room 231\, Cambridge\, MA\, 02139\, United States
CATEGORIES:Colloquium
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20130321T170000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20130321T190000
DTSTAMP:20260403T184837
CREATED:20150324T154947Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20210113T175133Z
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SUMMARY:MOOCs and the Emerging Digital Classroom
DESCRIPTION:MOOCs and other forms of online learning have the potential to disrupt traditional classroom education — or to help us better understand how to exploit the many learning spaces students now inhabit.  This forum examines the ongoing migration of our analog practices into digital forms\, looking at the ways in which digital technologies are transforming teaching and learning both on and off campus. What gaps in our curricula\, or in our students’ experience\, can be filled through technology?  What elements of teaching practice can be effectively translated into new media\, and what aspects of “teaching” must be redefined? \nAnant Agarwal the president of edX\, a worldwide\, online learning initiative of MIT and Harvard University\, and a professor in MIT’s electrical engineering and computer science department. \nAlison Byerly holds an interdisciplinary appointment as College Professor at Middlebury College and\, during 2012-2013\, she is a visiting scholar in the Literature Section at MIT. \nDaphne Koller is the Rajeev Motwani Professor in the               computer science department at Stanford University. Koller will join the conversation live from the west coast.
URL:https://cms.mit.edu/event/moocs-emerging-digital-classroom/
LOCATION:MIT Media Lab\, Room 633\, 75 Amherst St.\, Cambridge\, MA\, 02139\, United States
CATEGORIES:Communications Forum
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20130307T170000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20130307T190000
DTSTAMP:20260403T184837
CREATED:20140904T173849Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20140904T173849Z
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SUMMARY:Angels of Death: David Foster Wallace and the Battle against Irony\, Letterman and Leyner?
DESCRIPTION:D. T. Max\nD.T. Max\, staff writer at the New Yorker\, will look at David Foster Wallace and irony\, with an eye especially on his 1990’s attacks on David Letterman and the novelist Mark Leyner\, both in publications and in private correspondence. When did David Foster Wallace become obsessed with irony and why? What made him so sure it was corrosive to civil culture or initiative? Or was the unease he felt in its presence really more the product of his own personal history? \nCo-hosted with Literature at MIT.
URL:https://cms.mit.edu/event/david-foster-wallace-battle-against-irony-letterman-and-leyner/
LOCATION:MIT Media Lab\, Room 633\, 75 Amherst St.\, Cambridge\, MA\, 02139\, United States
CATEGORIES:Colloquium
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20130228T170000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20130228T190000
DTSTAMP:20260403T184837
CREATED:20140814T170011Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20140814T170011Z
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SUMMARY:A Conversation with Nate Silver
DESCRIPTION:Nate Silver at MIT. Photo by Greg Peverill-Conti\nThe statistician and political polling analyst Nate Silver will discuss his career — from student journalist to baseball prognosticator to the creator of FiveThirtyEight.com\, perhaps the most influential political blog in the world — and the ways in which statistics are changing the face of journalism in a conversation with Seth Mnookin\, a former baseball and political writer who co-directs MIT’s Graduate Program in Science Writing.
URL:https://cms.mit.edu/event/nate-silver-conversation/
LOCATION:MIT Media Lab\, Bartos Theater\, 20 Ames Street\, Cambridge\, MA\, 02139\, United States
CATEGORIES:Communications Forum
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20130220T171500
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20130220T190000
DTSTAMP:20260403T184837
CREATED:20140905T161517Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20141007T160708Z
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SUMMARY:Gregory Crane: "Automated Methods\, Human Understanding\, and Digital Libraries of Babel"
DESCRIPTION:Organized by Literature. Co-sponsored with CMS\, the MIT HyperStudio for Digital Humanities\, and Ancient and Medieval Studies. \nGreg Crane\nMillions of documents produced around the world over more than four thousand years are now available in digital form — Google Books alone had scanned\, by March 2012\, more than 20 million books in more than 400 languages. Images of manuscripts\, papyri\, inscriptions and other non-print sources are also appearing in increasing numbers. But if we have addressed physical access to images of textual sources\, we are a long way from providing the intellectual access necessary to understand the written sources that we see. This talk explores the challenges and opportunities as we refashion our study of the past from ethnocentric monolingual conversations into a hyperlingual dialogue among civilizations\, where humans work with machines and with each other to communicate and where books do\, as Marvin Minksy opined decades ago\, talk to each other. \nGregory Crane is Chair of the Department of Classics at Tufts University\, as well as an Adjunct Professor in Tufts’ Department of Computer Science. Since 1988\, he has been Editor-in-Chief of the Perseus Project\, a long-running digital humanities effort focused on Greek\, Latin\, and Arabic Classics.
URL:https://cms.mit.edu/event/gregory-crane-digital-libraries-of-babel/
LOCATION:MIT Media Lab\, Room 633\, 75 Amherst St.\, Cambridge\, MA\, 02139\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20130219T170000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20130219T190000
DTSTAMP:20260403T184837
CREATED:20141121T151725Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20190426T152431Z
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SUMMARY:Convergence Journalism? Emerging Documentary and Multimedia Forms of News
DESCRIPTION:Co-sponsored by the MIT Open Documentary Lab. \nHybrid forms of multimedia\, combining aspects of newspapers\, documentary film and digital video are a notable feature of today’s online journalism. How is this access to the power of the visual changing our journalism? What current projects are particularly significant? What will this convergence mean in the future? \nJason Spingarn-Koff\nJason Spingarn-Koff is the series producer and curator of Op-Docs\, a new initiative at the New York Times for short opinionated documentaries by independent filmmakers and artists. He directed the feature documentary “Life 2.0”\, which premiered at the 2010 Sundance Film Festival and was acquired by OWN: Oprah Winfrey Network’s Documentary Club\, and his work has appeared on PBS\, BBC\, MSNBC\, Time.com and Wired News. In 2010-2011\, he was a Knight Science Journalism Fellow at MIT. \n\nAlexandra Garcia\nAlexandra Garcia is a multimedia journalist for The Washington Post. She reports\, shoots and edits video stories on topics ranging from health care and immigration to fashion and education. Awarded an Edward R. Murrow award\, eight regional Emmy awards and named 2011 Video Editor of the Year by the White House News Photographers Association\, Garcia is currently a fellow at the Nieman Foundation for Journalism at Harvard University. \nModerator: Sarah Wolozin\, director of the MIT Open Documentary Lab\, has produced documentaries and educational media for a variety of media outlets including PBS\, History Channel\, Learning Channel and NPR.
URL:https://cms.mit.edu/event/convergence-journalism-emerging-documentary-multimedia-forms-of-news/
LOCATION:MIT Media Lab\, Room 633\, 75 Amherst St.\, Cambridge\, MA\, 02139\, United States
CATEGORIES:Communications Forum
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20130207T170000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20130207T190000
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CREATED:20150327T134543Z
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SUMMARY:Nostalgia for a Not-So-Distant Youth: Digital Games and Affect in Urban China
DESCRIPTION:Marcella Szablewicz\nYoung people born in 1980’s and 1990’s China are the focus of a great deal of scholarly attention as they are the country’s first generation of only children. They are also the first generation to come of age with the Internet\, and\, for many\, playing Internet games forms an integral part of the youth experience. This presentation will explore the affective dimensions of digital games from the perspective of urban Chinese youth. What is the significance of an e-sports event that attracts tens of thousands of twenty-somethings\, many of whom experience it as a teary-eyed “farewell to their youth”? Or a viral video created by World of Warcraft gamers that urges millions of viewers to “raise their fists in solidarity” to show support for their “spiritual homeland”? What should we make of these phenomena that demonstrate\, ever more clearly\, the ways in which games are intertwined with people’s spiritual and emotional lives? Are games the imagined utopia they are made out to be in these nostalgic accounts or might these affective attachments prove to be a form of what Lauren Berlant (2011) has called “cruel optimism\,” a relationship in which the very thing that is desired becomes an obstacle to flourishing? \nMarcella Szablewicz is a Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow in Comparative Media Studies at MIT. She received her Ph.D. from the Department of Communication and Media at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute and an M.A. in East Asian Studies from Duke University. Her research focuses on youth and digital media in urban China. She is currently working on a book based on her dissertation\, provisionally entitled From Addicts to Athletes: Youth Mobilities and the Politics of Digital Gaming in Urban China. Based on ethnographic fieldwork supported by the Fulbright and National Science Foundations\, the book will examine the precarious socio-economic futures of urban Chinese youth through the lens of digital gaming culture\, while also considering how dominant discourse about digital leisure practice is shaped by larger cultural debates about patriotism and productivity\, class and the crafting of the “ideal citizen”. Her work can also be found in the Routledge volume Online Society in China and in the Chinese Journal of Communication. \nCo-sponsored by the Cool Japan Project.
URL:https://cms.mit.edu/event/digital-games-and-affect-in-urban-china/
LOCATION:MIT Media Lab\, Room 633\, 75 Amherst St.\, Cambridge\, MA\, 02139\, United States
CATEGORIES:Colloquium
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