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SUMMARY:Fall 2016 CMS Graduate Program Information Session
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URL:https://cms.mit.edu/event/fall-2016-cms-graduate-program-information-session/
LOCATION:MIT Building E51\, Room 095\, 70 Memorial Drive\, Cambridge\, MA\, 02139\, United States
CATEGORIES:Information Session
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20161117T170000
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SUMMARY:Fall 2016 Alumni Panel: Andres Lombana-Bermudez\, Colleen Kaman\, Abe Stein\, and Lily Bui
DESCRIPTION:Join us for this year’s alumni panel\, when we hear from four alums of the graduate program in Comparative Media Studies as they discuss their experience at MIT and what their careers have looked like in the fields a CMS degree prepared them for. As in past years\, we’ve scheduled the panel for the same day as the graduate program information session. \nPanelists this time around include: \nAndres Lombana-Bermudez\, ’08\, a researcher and designer working at the intersection of digital technology\, youth\, and learning. Andres holds a Ph.D. in Media Studies from UT-Austin\, an M.Sc. in Comparative Media Studies\, and bachelor’s degrees in Political Science and Literature from Universidad de los Andes in Bogota\, Colombia. He is a postdoctoral fellow at Harvard University’s Berkman Klein Center for Internet and Society and a Research Associate with the Connected Learning Research Network. \nColleen Kaman\, ’10\, is a user experience/experience design strategist and designer working at the intersection of digital technology\, persuasive design\, and content. Colleen holds an M.Sc. in Comparative Media Studies\, and bachelor’s degrees in Anthropology from Bates College. She is a senior managing consultant at IBMiX\, where she focuses on user-centric healthcare solutions and designing for aging users and helps lead the IBMiX department’s Accessibility practice area.  \nAbe Stein\, ’13\, Director of Strategic Partnerships at Kill Screen Media \nLily Bui\, ’16\, is currently a PhD student at MIT’s School of Architecture & Planning in the Department of Urban Studies & Planning. Her masters research focused on using sensors to support environmental monitoring\, and communicating sensor-based data to different stakeholders.
URL:https://cms.mit.edu/event/fall-2016-alumni-panel-andres-lombana-bermudez-colleen-kaman-abe-stein-and-lily-bui/
LOCATION:MIT Building 3\, Room 133\, 33 Massachusetts Ave\, Cambridge\, MA\, 02139\, United States
CATEGORIES:Colloquium
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20161201T170000
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SUMMARY:Black + Twitter: A Cultural Informatics Approach
DESCRIPTION:André Brock\, Assistant Professor of Communication Studies at the University of Michigan\nChris Sacca\, activist investor\, recently argued that Black Twitter IS Twitter. For example\, African American usage of the service often dominates user metrics in the United States\, despite their minority demographic numbers as computer users. This talk by André Brock unpacks Black Twitter use from two perspectives: analysis of the interface and associated practice alongside discourse analysis of Twitter’s utility and audience. Using examples of Black Twitter practice\, Brock offers that Twitter’s feature set and ubiquity map closely onto Black discursive identity. Thus\, Twitter’s outsized function as mechanism for cultural critique and political activism can be understood as the awakening of Black digital practice and an abridging of a digital divide. \nAndré Brock is an Assistant Professor of Communication Studies at the University of Michigan. Brock is one of the preeminent scholars of Black cyberculture. His work bridges Science and Technology Studies and Critical Discourse Analysis\, showing how the communicative affordances of online media align with those of Black communication practices. Through December 2016\, he is a Visiting Researcher with the Social Media Collective at Microsoft Research New England.
URL:https://cms.mit.edu/event/andre-brock-black-twitter-cultural-informatics-approach/
LOCATION:MIT Building 3\, Room 133\, 33 Massachusetts Ave\, Cambridge\, MA\, 02139\, United States
CATEGORIES:Colloquium
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20161208T170000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20161208T170000
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SUMMARY:#Misogynoir\, #SolidarityIsForWhiteWomen\, and other forms of Black Digital Feminisms
DESCRIPTION:Kishonna GrayMLK Visiting Scholar\nWomen of color have a variety of responses when employing digital technologies for empowerment. New communication technologies have expanded the opportunities and potential for marginalized communities to mobilize in this context counter to the dominant\, mainstream media. This growth reflects the mobilization of marginalized communities within virtual and real spaces reflecting a systematic change in who controls the narrative. No longer are mainstream media the only disseminators of messages or producers of content. Women\, in particular\, are employing social media to highlight issues that are often ignored in dominant discourse. However\, access itself neither ensures power nor guarantees a shift in the dominant ideology (as the use of #Misogynoir by Katy Perry reveals among other examples). Operating under the oppressive structures of masculinity\, heterosexuality\, and Whiteness that are sustained in digital spaces\, marginalized women persevere and resist such hegemonic realities. Yet the conceptual frameworks intended to capture the digital lives of women cannot deconstruct the structural inequalities of these spaces. \nKishonna L. Gray (Ph.D.\, Arizona State University) is currently a MLK Visiting Scholar in Women & Gender Studies and Comparative Media Studies/Writing. She is also the Founder of the Critical Gaming Lab at Eastern Kentucky University. She is expanding on the work created here to develop new initiatives surrounding Equity in Gaming (www.equityingaming.com). Her work broadly intersects identity and new media although she has a particular focus on gaming. Her most recent book\, Race\, Gender\, & Deviance in Xbox Live (Routledge\, 2014)\, provides a much-needed theoretical framework for examining deviant behavior and deviant bodies within that virtual gaming community.
URL:https://cms.mit.edu/event/misogynoir-solidarityisforwhitewomen-forms-black-digital-feminisms/
LOCATION:MIT Building 3\, Room 133\, 33 Massachusetts Ave\, Cambridge\, MA\, 02139\, United States
CATEGORIES:Colloquium
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20170112
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20170127
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SUMMARY:What Playfulness Can Change
DESCRIPTION:Check for locations at http://student.mit.edu/iap/ns85.html \n\nScot Osterweil\, Creative director \nEnrollment: Unlimited: No advance sign-up\nAttendance: Participants welcome at individual sessions \nThis class is about exploring playfulness and its business applications. \nPlayfulness is a very human value proposition that empowers people doing all kind of things. In this class\, I’m offering to discover the Playful and all its possibilities: From the empowerment of your employees\, your processes or your learning\, the Playful design methodology can be a real leverage of empowerment. \nThe class is open for all and divided in 3 workshops that are independent from each other but you are encouraged to follow all of them to have a better overview! \nContact: Laure Dousset\, +33681756009\, LDOUSSET@MIT.EDU \n\nSerious games co-design\n\n\n\n\nJan/12\nThu\n02:00PM-04:00PM\nLocation TBD\n\n\n\nSerious games are games that have another purpose than just pure entertainment. In this class\, we will test a serious game about Blockchain\, and try to assess it and find guidelines for when you’re developing that kind of game. After that\, I will share tips with you to design your serious game! Don’t hesitate to come with a topic in mind. \nScot Osterweil – Creative director\, Laure Dousset \n\nPlayfulness and your project\n\n\n\n\nJan/19\nThu\n02:00PM-04:00PM\nLocation TBD\n\n\n\nWhen you’re designing something\, it’s important to take the user experience into account. What I’m offering you in this class is to come with a project you have in mind (a technology\, a product\, a service) and to empower the experience with the playful methodology. You will see how you can use the playful value proposition\, and if you don’t have an idea in mind\, I have several interesting ones for you. \nScot Osterweil – Creative director\, Laure Dousset \n\nPlayfulness and your team\n\n\n\n\nJan/26\nThu\n02:00PM-04:00PM\nLocation TBD\n\n\n\nWe’ll see how to use playfulness in a team. How can you empower them using playful levers? Together\, we’ll practice by taking examples and try to use the playful design methodology to do this. We’ll choose together practical use cases you can encounter in your daily routines at work and try to make a change in order to make them more playful! \nLaure Dousset\, Scot Osterweil – Creative director
URL:https://cms.mit.edu/event/playfulness-can-change/
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CATEGORIES:Independent Activities Period
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20170117
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20170121
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SUMMARY:IAP 2017: "Wikipedia 101: How to be a media literate citizen"
DESCRIPTION:Enrollment: Limited: Advance sign-up required\nSign-up by 01/17\nLimited to 20 participants\nAttendance: Participants welcome at individual sessions \nRecent events have caused us to question\, more than ever before\, the validity of information gathered from the web. But Wikipedia\, now in its 15th year\, remains an online space where accuracy\, neutrality\, and fair representation matters. Growing the network of volunteer editors to contribute to Wikipedia (the largest collaborative writing project in history!) is one way to ensure that high quality information is freely available to all. \nStudents: \n– Would you like to build solid research skills?\n– Get practice communicating complex ideas to a broad audience?\n– Improve access to quality information and knowledge? \nFaculty & Instructors: \n– Would you like to support knowledge transfer in your courses?\n– Build students’ confidence in reading and analyzing complex texts?\n– Increase students’ proficiency in communicating technical content? \nThis three-day workshop will train participants to become competent Wikipedia editors\, and along the way they will cultivate a greater understanding of how to evaluate a range of sources\, from the popular news media\, to institutional archives\, to peer reviewed journals. \nPlease bring your laptop! \nTo reserve your spot\, please contact Amy Carleton (amymarie@mit.edu) and Rebecca Thorndike-Breeze (rtb@mit.edu). \nSponsor(s): Libraries\, Writing and Communication Center\, Comparative Media Studies/Writing\nContact: Rebecca Thorndike-Breeze\, E18-233\, 617-253-3090\, RTB@MIT.EDU \n\nIntroduction to Wikipedia\n\n\n\nJan/17\nTue\n10:00AM-12:00PM\n4-251\, Bring your laptop\n\n\n\nIntroduction to Wikipedia community philosophy and guidelines. Participants will learn about ways to contribute\, including how to enhance diversity of content. Also\, create user account\, make your first edit\, and begin brainstorming your first article. \nAmy Carleton – Lecturer\, CMS/W\, Rebecca Thorndike-Breeze – Lecturer\, Writing and Communication Center & CMS/W \n\nWhat makes a good Wikipedia article?\n\n\n\n\nJan/18\nWed\n10:00AM-12:00PM\n4-251\, Bring your laptop\n\n\n\nWhat makes a good Wikipedia article? Learn about best practices and common pitfalls. Get started on research and initial drafting of your first article. \nRebecca Thorndike-Breeze – Lecturer\, Writing and Communication Center & CMS/W\, Amy Carleton – Lecturer\, CMS/W \n\nWikipedia Editing Salon\n\n\n\n\nJan/19\nThu\n01:00PM-05:00PM\n4-251\, Bring your laptop\n\n\n\nEditing Salon with MIT Libraries and Archives — an in-person editing session focused on training new editors and improving Wikipedia articles. Continue working on your article or start a new one\, and work with others to improve Wikipedia. Stop by anytime throughout the session. \nRebecca Thorndike-Breeze – Lecturer\, Writing and Communication Center & CMS/W\, Amy Carleton – Lecturer\, CMS/W\, Phoebe Ayers – Librarian\, Greta Suiter – Collections Archivist
URL:https://cms.mit.edu/event/iap-2017-wikipedia-101-media-literate-citizen/
LOCATION:MIT Building 4\, Room 251\, 182 Memorial Drive (Rear)\, Cambridge\, MA\, 02139\, United States
CATEGORIES:Independent Activities Period
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20170119T130000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20170119T170000
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SUMMARY:IAP 2017: Women in Politics Wikipedia Edit-a-thon
DESCRIPTION:Enrollment: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Meetup/Boston/Women_In_Politics_IAP_2017 \nThe Wikipedia community\, as a body\, is well aware that it is missing the diversity of perspectives necessary to meet their mandate to curate and share the sum of all human knowledge with all people\, the world over. In the last six years or so\, a number of outreach initiatives and WikiProjects have emerged within the Wikipedia community to address this systemic problem. One such project is WikiProject Women in Red — an ongoing project dedicated to increasing articles about notable women from a wide range of professions. \nInspired both by this project and the tremendous strides women in politics have made this year (e.g.\, Hillary Clinton’s historic run for president\, and Kamala Harris\, Maggie Hassan\, and Catherine Cortez Masto were newly elected to the U.S. Senate in November\, 2016)\, MIT Libraries and CMS/W are sponsoring this Women in Politics edit-a-thon. \nSign up for the event via the Wikipedia Meetup page. \nSponsor(s): Libraries\, Comparative Media Studies/Writing\nContact: Greta Suiter\, 14N-118\, 617 258-5533\, GSUITER@MIT.EDU
URL:https://cms.mit.edu/event/iap-2017-women-politics-wikipedia-edit-thon/
LOCATION:MIT Building 4\, Room 251\, 182 Memorial Drive (Rear)\, Cambridge\, MA\, 02139\, United States
CATEGORIES:Independent Activities Period
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20170120
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20170123
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SUMMARY:IAP 2017: Global Game Jam
DESCRIPTION:Enrollment: Limited: Advance sign-up required\nSign-up by 01/19\nLimited to 85 participants\nAttendance: Participants must attend all sessions \nRegister now at: http://gamelab.mit.edu/event/global-game-jam-2017-at-mit/  \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. \nWe open our doors on Friday\, January 20th at 5pm and run until midnight that day. Our site is open Saturday\, January 21st from 9am until midnight\, and Sunday\, January 22nd from 9am until 6pm. \nThe Global Game Jam is a 3-day event\, but our site closes at night so participants can go home and get rested for the next day. Participants should plan to attend the entire duration of the event as your team will need you to complete your game! \nParticipants must register to attend: http://gamelab.mit.edu/event/global-game-jam-2017-at-mit/ \n \nWe have 30 free slots open for the MIT Community (must have an @mit.edu email address to register). \nContact: Richard Eberhardt\, E15-329\, 617 324-2173\, REBERHAR@MIT.EDU \n  \nKeynote & Kickoff Presentations\n\n\n\n\nJan/20\nFri\n05:00PM-08:00PM\n32-123\n\n\n\nThe jam begins with a keynote\, presentations about the Jam\, and reveal of the Jam topic. \nTeams will be formed by 8:00pm. \n\nGame Jam\n\n\n\n\nJan/20\nFri\n08:00PM-11:45PM\n32-124 & 32-144\n\n\n\nJan/21\nSat\n09:00AM-11:45PM\n56-154\, 56-169\, and\n\n\n\nJan/22\nSun\n09:00AM-03:00PM\n32-124 & 32-144\n\n\n\nWork days for the Jam. Participants will be working in teams to create their games. \n\nPresentations & Postmortem\n\n\n\n\nJan/22\nSun\n03:00PM-06:30PM\n32-123\n\n\n\nGame Jam participants will present the work they created over the weekend and postmortem their process. \nThis is open to the general public – no registration is required for this session.
URL:https://cms.mit.edu/event/iap-2017-global-game-jam/
LOCATION:MIT Building 32 (Stata Center)\, Room 123\, 32 Vassar Street\, Cambridge\, MA\, 02139\, United States
CATEGORIES:Independent Activities Period
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20170126T180000
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SUMMARY:"Hands On" Workshop and Demo
DESCRIPTION:Enrollment: Limited: Advance sign-up required\nSign-up by 01/25\nLimited to 15 participants\nFee: $10.00 for materials fee \nLearn how to draw the hand and why you couldn’t do it before. \nThe hands represent unique challenges to both the beginning and intermediate artist. By approaching drawing and observation through a different lens\, we will overcome many of these obstacles. This course focuses on underlying structure and the process of observation\, rather than relying on anatomical instruction. Learn how to translate the hand that you see onto paper using pencil and graphite. \nThis workshop will meet once and consists of: \n• Drawing demonstration with a step-by-step explanation\n• Drawing tools and material demonstration\n• Drawing the hand from observation\n• Individual feedback from the instructor \nOnline payment of the enrollment fee reserves a spot: http://mauriciocordero.com/instruction/#pay \nContact: Mauricio Cordero\, mcordero@mit.edu
URL:https://cms.mit.edu/event/hands-workshop-demo-2/
LOCATION:MIT Building 4\, Room 145\, 182 Memorial Drive (Rear)\, Cambridge\, MA\, 02139\, United States
CATEGORIES:Independent Activities Period
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20170216T170000
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SUMMARY:Authoritarian and Democratic Data Science in an Experimenting Society
DESCRIPTION:J. Nathan MatiasPh.D. student\, MIT Media Lab’s Center for Civic Media\nHow will the role of data science in democracy be transformed as software expands the public’s ability to conduct our own experiments at scale? In the 1940s-70s\, debates over authoritarian uses of statistics led to new paradigms in social psychology\, management theory\, and policy evaluation. Today\, large-scale social experiments and predictive modeling are reviving these debates. Technology platforms now conduct hundreds of undisclosed experiments per day on pricing and advertising\, and the algorithms that shape our social lives remain opaque to to the public. Democratic methods for data science may offer an alternative to this corporate libertarian paternalism. \nIn this talk\, hear about the history and future of democratic social experimentation\, from Kurt Lewin and Karl Popper to Donald Campbell. You’ll also hear about CivilServant\, software that supports communities to conduct their own experiments on algorithms and social behavior online. \nJ. Nathan Matias is a Ph.D. candidate at the MIT Media Lab Center for Civic Media\, an affiliate at the Berkman-Klein Center at Harvard\, and founder of CivilServant. He conducts independent\, public interest research on flourishing\, fair\, and safe participation online. These include research on harassment reporting\, volunteer moderation online (PDF)\, behavior change toward equality (PDF)\, social movements (PDF)\, and networks of gratitude. \nNathan has extensive experience in tech startups\, nonprofits\, and corporate research\, including SwiftKey\, Microsoft Research\, and the Ministry of Stories. Nathan’s creative work and research have been covered extensively by international press\, and he has published data journalism and intellectual history in the Atlantic\, Guardian\, PBS\, and Boston Magazine.
URL:https://cms.mit.edu/event/nathan-matias-authoritarian-democratic-data-science-experimenting-society/
LOCATION:MIT Building 56\, Room 114\, Access via 21 Ames Street\, Cambridge\, MA\, 02139\, United States
CATEGORIES:Colloquium
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20170223T170000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20170223T170000
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SUMMARY:Race and Racism in the 2016 Presidential Election
DESCRIPTION:Jamelle Bouie\nThe 2016 Presidential election brought issues of race and racism to the forefront of American politics and forced journalists to confront how to cover these topics without providing a platform for hate groups. Slate chief political correspondent and CBS News political analyst Jamelle Bouie joins MIT Communications Forum director Seth Mnookin to explore how race and ethnicity framed the election and how journalists and content creators can improve coverage of these issues moving forward. \nSpeakers\nJamelle Bouie’s work has appeared in The New Yorker\, the Washington Post\, and The Nation. He is a former a staff writer at The Daily Beast and currently serves as a political analyst for CBS News and chief political correspondent for Slate. \nModerator: Seth Mnookin is the director of the MIT Communications Forum and director of MIT’s Graduate Program in Science Writing. His most recent book\, The Panic Virus: The True Story Behind the Vaccine-Autism Controversy\, won the “Science in Society” award from the National Association of Science Writers. \nThis event is sponsored by Radius at MIT.
URL:https://cms.mit.edu/event/race-racism-2016-presidential-election/
LOCATION:MIT Building 3\, Room 270\, 33 Massachusetts Ave (Rear)\, Cambridge\, MA\, 02319\, United States
CATEGORIES:Communications Forum
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20170228T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20170228T133000
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SUMMARY:Hacking VR Speaker Series: Brian Chirls\, "WebVR"
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URL:https://cms.mit.edu/event/brian-chirls-webvr/
LOCATION:Open Doc Lab: MIT Building E15\, Room 318\, 20 Ames Street\, Cambridge\, MA\, 02139\, United States
CATEGORIES:Hacking VR Speaker Series
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20170302T170000
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SUMMARY:Desktop Reveries: Hand\, Software\, and the Space of Japanese Artist Animation
DESCRIPTION:Paul RoquetMIT Global Studies and Languages\, Assistant Professor of Japanese Studies\nIndependent animators often pride themselves on an intimate\, hand-drawn aesthetic. But they increasingly rely on computer software not only to accelerate their workflow\, but to manipulate the look and feel of their drawings. Compositing software enables subtle but decisive shifts in the spaces portrayed\, through manipulations of color\, texture\, line\, and movement. Seeking to unravel the analytical split between the “drawn” and the “digital” in animation and media studies more broadly\, Roquet’s project moves back and forth between two desktops: the hard surface of the drawing table and the pixelated surface of the screen. This talk focuses on how the physical and perceptual affordances of both interfaces appear reimagined in the textures\, movements\, and tactility present in the animations themselves. Through a phenomenology of the contemporary desktop\, Roquet seeks to ground the contemporary audiovisual imagination in the materiality of the tools and techniques at hand. \nPaul Roquet is Assistant Professor of Japanese Studies in the Global Studies and Languages Section at MIT. He is the author of Ambient Media: Japanese Atmospheres of Self (Minnesota 2016) as well as numerous essays on Japanese audiovisual and literary aesthetics.
URL:https://cms.mit.edu/event/hand-software-space-japanese-artist-animation/
LOCATION:MIT Building 56\, Room 114\, Access via 21 Ames Street\, Cambridge\, MA\, 02139\, United States
CATEGORIES:Colloquium
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20170309T170000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20170309T190000
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SUMMARY:Sexual Harassment and Gender Equity in Science
DESCRIPTION:In October\, 2015\, BuzzFeed News reporter Azeen Ghorayshi broke an investigative story detailing astronomer Geoffrey Marcy’s long history of sexual harassment. Since then\, more female scientists have come forward about their experiences with harassment. Ghorayshi\, MIT astronomer Sarah Ballard\, and Harvard history of science professor Evelynn M. Hammonds join science journalist and MIT Communications Forum coordinator Christina Couch to discuss barriers to gender equality in the sciences and steps to over come them. \nSpeakers\nAzeen Ghorayshi is a science reporter for BuzzFeed News and recipient of the AAAS Kavli Science Journalism Award and the Evert Clark/Seth Payne Award for young science journalists. She frequently covers gender and equality issues in the sciences. \nSarah Ballard is an astronomer and a Torres Fellow for Exoplanetary Research at the MIT Kavli Institute for Astrophysics and Space Research. She frequently writes about the culture of science and equity issues therein. \nEvelynn M. Hammonds is a professor of the history of science and of African and African American Studies at Harvard University. She is the former dean of Harvard College and the first woman and first African-American to hold that position. \nModerator: Christina Couch is a science journalist and coordinator for the MIT Communications Forum. Her work explores the intersections of technology and psychology. \n\nThis event is sponsored by Radius at MIT and is free for the MIT community and the general public.
URL:https://cms.mit.edu/event/sexual-harassment-gender-equity-science/
LOCATION:MIT Building 3\, Room 270\, 33 Massachusetts Ave (Rear)\, Cambridge\, MA\, 02319\, United States
CATEGORIES:Communications Forum
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20170310T110000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20170310T130000
DTSTAMP:20260403T184833
CREATED:20170223T161029Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20170302T205840Z
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SUMMARY:Hacking VR Speaker Series: Masterclass with Arnaud Colinart
DESCRIPTION:
URL:https://cms.mit.edu/event/arnaud-colinart-masterclass/
LOCATION:Open Doc Lab: MIT Building E15\, Room 318\, 20 Ames Street\, Cambridge\, MA\, 02139\, United States
CATEGORIES:Hacking VR Speaker Series
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20170314T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20170314T133000
DTSTAMP:20260403T184833
CREATED:20170223T161513Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20170302T205824Z
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SUMMARY:Hacking VR Speaker Series: Eloi Champagne\, "Leading Innovation at the NFB"
DESCRIPTION:
URL:https://cms.mit.edu/event/eloi-champagne-leading-innovation-at-the-nfb/
LOCATION:Open Doc Lab: MIT Building E15\, Room 318\, 20 Ames Street\, Cambridge\, MA\, 02139\, United States
CATEGORIES:Hacking VR Speaker Series
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ORGANIZER;CN="Open%20Documentary%20Lab":MAILTO:opendoclab-contact@mit.edu
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20170316T170000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20170316T170000
DTSTAMP:20260403T184833
CREATED:20170210T192826Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20170302T205713Z
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SUMMARY:From Stereopticon to Telephone: The Selling of the President in the Gilded Age
DESCRIPTION:Charles Musser\, Professor of Film and Media Studies at Yale University.\nContrary to our received notions on the newness of new media\, the presidential campaigns of the late nineteenth century witnessed an explosion of media forms as advisers and technicians exploited a variety of forms promote their candidates and platforms\, including the stereopticon (a modernized magic lantern)\, the phonograph\, and the telephone. In the process\, they set in motion not only a new way of imagining how to market national campaigns and candidates; they also helped to usher in novel forms of mass spectatorship. Analogies to presidential campaigns in the 21st century are inevitable—and will not be avoided. The presentation comes out of Charlie Musser’s new book\, Politicking and Emergent Media: US Presidential Elections of the 1890s (University of California Press). \nCharles Musser is professor of Film & Media Studies\, American Studies and Theater Studies at Yale University. He is the author of numerous books\, including the now-classic The Emergence of Cinema: The American Screen to 1907. His most recent documentary is Errol Morris: A Lightning Sketch (2014).
URL:https://cms.mit.edu/event/from-stereopticon-to-telephone-the-selling-of-the-president-in-the-gilded-age/
LOCATION:MIT Building 56\, Room 114\, Access via 21 Ames Street\, Cambridge\, MA\, 02139\, United States
CATEGORIES:Colloquium
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20170323T170000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20170323T170000
DTSTAMP:20260403T184833
CREATED:20170214T153042Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20170323T144926Z
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SUMMARY:The Networked Sensory Landscape Meets the Future of Documentary
DESCRIPTION:Glorianna Davenport\, co-founder and current visiting scientist at the MIT Media Lab\nAt its heart\, documentary cinema has always been an experimental medium. Its evolution has been driven on the one hand by the creativity and interests of the media maker and on the other by technological invention and the evolution of particular sensing\, imaging and display technologies. \nSome insight into the experimental trajectory of the documentary approach can be found in definitions and naming conventions that emerged. Where as John Grierson’s famous definition\, the “creative treatment of actuality”\, speaks to the object\, Richard Leacock’s\, “the feeling of being there”\, emphasizes the audience’ experience\, which strongly parallels the filmmaker’s in the task of making. The difference lies not only in the sensibility of the maker but also in the technological breakthrough that allowed Leacock to marry the motion image to synchronous sound\, thus vastly expanding the horizon of what stories could be told. \nFor the past two decades\, the story experience was expanded as media makers incorporated computational “interactive” interfaces into their work\, inviting the audience to re-order the presentation on the fly as they explored an archive of short segments.  In this phase\, however\, the documentary impulse continued to be defined by the primary sensors of the past: motion images and (synchronous) sound. \nToday\, the arrival of expanded sensing technologies is reshaping the documentary opportunity. In a new work-in-progress\, DoppelMarsh\, developed in the Responsive Environment Group at the Media Lab\, data from a dense network of diverse environmental sensors are mapped to deliver “a sense of being there” in a re-synthesized\, ever-changing landscape. \nGlorianna Davenport is a co-founder of the Media Lab where she directed the Interactive Cinema Group (1987-2004) and the Media Fabrics Group (2004-2008).  In 2008\, she turned her attention to transitioning a 600 acre cranberry farm in Plymouth Massachusetts into restored wetlands and conservation property. In 2011 she founded Living Observatory\, a collaborative of research partners including the Responsive Environments Group at the Media Lab to develop a long-term study of this property and create experiences that invite the public to witness ecological change across this landscape in transition. Davenport is a visiting scientist at the MIT Media Lab.
URL:https://cms.mit.edu/event/glorianna-davenport-networked-sensory-landscape-future-documentary/
LOCATION:MIT Building 56\, Room 114\, Access via 21 Ames Street\, Cambridge\, MA\, 02139\, United States
CATEGORIES:Colloquium
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20170403T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20170403T210000
DTSTAMP:20260403T184833
CREATED:20170223T161925Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20170302T205618Z
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SUMMARY:Hacking VR Speaker Series: Masterclass with Vincent Morisset
DESCRIPTION:
URL:https://cms.mit.edu/event/vincent-morisset-masterclass/
LOCATION:Open Doc Lab: MIT Building E15\, Room 318\, 20 Ames Street\, Cambridge\, MA\, 02139\, United States
CATEGORIES:Hacking VR Speaker Series
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ORGANIZER;CN="Open%20Documentary%20Lab":MAILTO:opendoclab-contact@mit.edu
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20170406T170000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20170406T170000
DTSTAMP:20260403T184833
CREATED:20170202T182557Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20170406T174610Z
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SUMMARY:Barbie and Mortal Kombat 20 Years Later
DESCRIPTION:In Diversifying Barbie and Mortal Kombat\, the third edited volume in the series that includes From Barbie to Mortal Kombat and Beyond Barbie and Mortal Kombat\, the authors and contributors expand the discussions on gender\, race\, and sexuality in gaming. They include intersectional perspectives on the experiences of diverse players\, non-players and designers and promote inclusive designs for broadening access and participation in gaming\, design and development. Contributors from media studies\, gender studies\, game studies\, educational design\, learning sciences\, computer science\, and game development examine who plays\, how they play\, where and what they play\, why they play (or choose not to play)\, and with whom they play. This volume further explores how the culture can diversify access\, participation and design for more inclusive play and learning. \nYasmin Kafai\, Professor of Learning Sciences\, University of Pennsylvania\nYasmin Kafai is Professor of Learning Sciences at the University of Pennsylvania. She is a researcher and developer of tools\, communities\, and materials to promote computational participation\, crafting\, and creativity across K-16. Her recent books include “Connected Gaming: What Making Video Games Can Teach Us About Learning and Literacy\,” and “Connected Code: Why Children Need to Learn Programming\,” and edited volumes such as “Textile Messages: Dispatches from the World of Electronic Textiles and Education” and “Diversifying Barbie and Mortal Kombat: Intersectional Perspectives and Inclusive Designs for Gaming.” She coauthored the 2010 National Educational Technology Plan for the US Department of Education. Kafai earned a doctorate in education from Harvard University while working with Seymour Papert at the MIT Media Lab. She is a Fellow of the American Educational Research Association and past President of the International Society for the Learning Sciences. Justice Walker and Emma Anderson are doctoral students at the University of Pennsylvania. \nGabriela Richard\, Assistant Professor of Learning\, Design and Technology\, Pennsylvania State University\nGabriela Richard is an Assistant Professor of Learning\, Design and Technology at Pennsylvania State University. Her research focuses on understanding the intersections between culture\, experience\, media\, and learning\, particularly in the areas of online and emerging technologies\, including gaming. Her work has focused on understanding the ways that gender\, race/ethnicity\, and sexuality are defined and experienced in game culture and online gaming in order to inform inclusive and equitable designs for learning with serious games\, as well as play and participation with gaming and emerging technology more broadly. She has written extensively about games and learning\, as well as youth learning\, engagement\, and computational thinking with electronic textiles\, game design\, and online communities. She was an NSF graduate research fellow\, an AAUW dissertation fellow\, and a Postdoctoral Fellow for Academic Diversity at the University of Pennsylvania.
URL:https://cms.mit.edu/event/barbie-mortal-kombat-20-years/
LOCATION:MIT Building 56\, Room 114\, Access via 21 Ames Street\, Cambridge\, MA\, 02139\, United States
CATEGORIES:Colloquium
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20170407T100000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20170407T170000
DTSTAMP:20260403T184833
CREATED:20170329T154229Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20201102T133653Z
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SUMMARY:CMS Graduate Thesis Presentations
DESCRIPTION:You are cordially invited to attend the thesis presentations of the Class of 2017 in Comparative Media Studies. The event will be held in the Doc Edgerton room\, on the first floor of the Cambridge Residence Inn at 6 Cambridge Center. Coffee and conversation at 9:30\, presentations begin at 10:00 am. Open to the public.\n\nFor those unable to attend\, the presentations will be live streamed via our YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/c/MITComparativeMediaStudiesWriting
URL:https://cms.mit.edu/event/cms-graduate-thesis-presentations-3/
LOCATION:Cambridge Residence Inn\, Doc Edgerton Room\, 6 Cambridge Center\, Cambridge\, MA\, 02142\, United States
CATEGORIES:Thesis Presentations
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ORGANIZER;CN="MIT%20Comparative%20Media%20Studies%2FWriting":MAILTO:cmsw@mit.edu
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20170413T170000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20170413T170000
DTSTAMP:20260403T184833
CREATED:20170130T175850Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20170627T173923Z
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SUMMARY:An Evening with Aparna Nancherla
DESCRIPTION:Comedian Aparna Nancherla
URL:https://cms.mit.edu/event/evening-aparna-nancherla/
LOCATION:MIT Building 3\, Room 270\, 33 Massachusetts Ave (Rear)\, Cambridge\, MA\, 02319\, United States
CATEGORIES:Communications Forum
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20170418T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20170418T180000
DTSTAMP:20260403T184833
CREATED:20170324T172444Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20201019T134709Z
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SUMMARY:Poetry Across Borders
DESCRIPTION:As part of MIT’s Day of Action/Day of Engagement\, come share poems from cultures beyond the US. We welcome participants who will read or recite poems from other cultures\, in the original language and in translation. You do not need to be a poet or translator to take part. We only ask that you share a poem you love. You can email us before­hand or sign up to read at the event (poetryacross@mit.edu) or sign up at the event. \nCurrent readers include… \n\nStephen Tapscott\nAndres Rios Tascon\nValentina Chamorro\nEd Barrett\nNick Montfort\nPatsy Baudoin\nSofian Audry\nDiego Cornejo Barra\nMichel DeGraff\nCynthia Yang\nJing Wang and Hongliang Wang\nYusef Audeh\nMargery Resnick
URL:https://cms.mit.edu/event/poetry-across-borders/
LOCATION:MIT Building 6\, Room 120\, 182 Memorial Drive (Rear)\, Cambridge\, MA\, 02139\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20170427T170000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20170427T170000
DTSTAMP:20260403T184833
CREATED:20170131T185426Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20170302T205649Z
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SUMMARY:Michael Lee: "The Conservative Canon Before and After Trump"
DESCRIPTION:Michael LeeAssociate Professor\, Department of Communication at the College of Charleston \nMichael J. Lee charts the vital role of canonical post–World War II (1945–1964) books in generating\, guiding\, and sustaining conservatism as a political force in the United States. Dedicated conservatives have argued for decades that the conservative movement was a product of print\, rather than a march\, a protest\, or a pivotal moment of persecution. The Road to Serfdom\, Ideas Have Consequences\, Witness\, The Conservative Mind\, God and Man at Yale\, The Conscience of a Conservative\, and other mid-century texts became influential not only among conservative office-holders\, office-seekers\, and well-heeled donors but also at dinner tables\, school board meetings\, and neighborhood reading groups. Taking an expansive approach\, he shows the wide influence of the conservative canon on traditionalist\, libertarian\, and other types of conservatives. By exploring the varied uses to which each founding text has been put from the Cold War to the culture wars\, he aims to highlight the struggle over what it means to think and speak conservatively in America. \nLee teaches and researches political communication and rhetoric at the College of Charleston. His book\, Creating Conservatism\, won five national book awards in his field.  He is also the co-founder of With Purpose\, a non-profit organization that raises money and awareness to fight childhood cancer.
URL:https://cms.mit.edu/event/michael-lee-the-conservative-canon-before-and-after-trump/
LOCATION:MIT Building 56\, Room 114\, Access via 21 Ames Street\, Cambridge\, MA\, 02139\, United States
CATEGORIES:Colloquium
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20170502T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20170502T133000
DTSTAMP:20260403T184833
CREATED:20170223T162431Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20170302T205539Z
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SUMMARY:Hacking VR Speaker Series: Jessica Brillhart\, "VR in Science"
DESCRIPTION:
URL:https://cms.mit.edu/event/jessica-brillhart-vr-science/
LOCATION:Open Doc Lab: MIT Building E15\, Room 318\, 20 Ames Street\, Cambridge\, MA\, 02139\, United States
CATEGORIES:Hacking VR Speaker Series
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ORGANIZER;CN="Open%20Documentary%20Lab":MAILTO:opendoclab-contact@mit.edu
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20170504T170000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20170504T170000
DTSTAMP:20260403T184833
CREATED:20170119T193524Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20201014T151112Z
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SUMMARY:The Contingencies of Comparison: Rethinking Comparative Media
DESCRIPTION:Brian Larkin\, Professor of Anthropology at Barnard College\, Columbia UniversityStefan Andriopoulos\, Professor in the Department of Germanic Languages and Literatures\, Columbia University \nBrian Larkin and Stefan Andriopoulos draw on the concept of comparison to examine how the same technologies work in radically different ways across the globe\, juxtaposing media practices in Africa\, Latin America\, and Asia as well as in Western centers. There is an assumption that media\, whether print\, cinema\, or digital media\, were developed in the West and later exported to other places which were then in the place of ‘catching up’ with a media history that had already been established. But we know that cinema arrived in Shanghai and Calcutta at the same time as it did in London and evolved in those locations to produce different institutional and aesthetic forms. We also know that currently Seoul is far more ‘wired’ than New York and that Lagos is developing a film industry that is rapidly becoming dominant in all of Africa. It is clear that future media centers will emerge in places far outside their traditional Western centers.  \nMedia emerge from a reciprocal exchange between technical forms and cultural religious\, political\, and economic domains. When these formations shift\, features we have seen as core to media\, sometimes part of their very ontology\, turn out to be contingent rather than necessary. Exploring the concept of comparison opens up new questions for media studies by highlighting the contingencies of media and the specificity of historical and geographical formations. \nBrian Larkin is Professor of Anthropology at Barnard College\, Columbia University. He is the author of Signal and Noise: Media Infrastructure and Urban Culture in Nigeria and writes on issues of media\, religion\, infrastructure and urban studies in Nigeria. \nStefan Andriopoulos is Professor in the Department of Germanic Languages and Literatures. He is the author of Ghostly Apparitions: German Idealism\, the Gothic Novel\, and Optical Media (Zone Books\, 2013)\, which was named “book of the year” in Times Literary Supplement. His previous book Possessed: Hypnotic Crimes\, Corporate Fiction\, and the Invention of Cinema won the SLSA Michelle Kendrick award for best academic book on literature\, science\, and the arts.
URL:https://cms.mit.edu/event/contingencies-comparison-rethinking-comparative-media/
LOCATION:MIT Building 56\, Room 114\, Access via 21 Ames Street\, Cambridge\, MA\, 02139\, United States
CATEGORIES:Colloquium
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20170511T170000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20170511T170000
DTSTAMP:20260403T184833
CREATED:20170123T184530Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20170124T144735Z
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SUMMARY:From Taft to Trump: How Conservative Media Activists Won -- and Lost -- the GOP
DESCRIPTION:Nicole Hemmer\, assistant professor at the University of Virginia’s Miller Center and author of Messengers of the Right (2016) \nAs Donald Trump built his lead in the Republican primaries\, the editors of National Review came out with an entire “Against Trump” issue\, a full-throated — and ultimately ineffective — denunciation of the GOP nominee. Soon conservative media personalities were taking sides\, culminating in the hiring of Breitbart’s Steve Bannon to run the Trump campaign. \nBut the centrality of conservative media to presidential politics is not a new development. As early as the 1950s\, conservative media activists were organizing third-party tickets\, promoting presidential candidates\, and encouraging their audiences to cast votes based on ideology rather than party. In this talk\, Nicole Hemmer will explain how conservative media activists won the GOP for the right — and how in the era of Trump\, they lost it. \nNicole Hemmer is an assistant professor at the University of Virginia’s Miller Center and a research associate at the US Studies Centre at the University of Sydney. Her book\, Messengers of the Right\, a history of conservative media in the United States\, was published in Penn Press in September 2016. She is a columnist for Vox\, US News & World Report\, and The Age in Melbourne\, Australia. Her writing has also appeared in a number of national and international publications\, including the New York Times\, Atlantic\, New Republic\, Politico\, Washington Post\, and the Los Angeles Times. She co-hosts and produces Past Present\, a history podcast that launched in October 2015.
URL:https://cms.mit.edu/event/nicole-hemmer-conservative-media-activists-won-lost-gop/
LOCATION:MIT Building 56\, Room 114\, Access via 21 Ames Street\, Cambridge\, MA\, 02139\, United States
CATEGORIES:Colloquium
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20170907T170000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20170907T183000
DTSTAMP:20260403T184833
CREATED:20170815T194008Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20170815T194446Z
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SUMMARY:Playful Practice: Designing the Future of Teacher Learning
DESCRIPTION:Justin Reich\, director of the MIT Teaching Systems Lab and Assistant Professor in Comparative Media Studies/Writing \nAll across the world\, educational systems are exploring new ways to encourage more ambitious teaching and learning in classrooms: shifting away from recitation and rote learning to more engaging forms of collaborative\, active\, problem-centered learning. For this shift in classrooms to occur\, we need to dramatically increase the quantity and quality of learning opportunities available to educators in these systems\, and new forms of blended and online learning experiences will be central to this growth. One crucial element in teacher learning is practice. For most teachers\, opportunities for low-stakes\, deliberate practice is quite limited–teachers either learn theory in graduate school of education seminar rooms or test ideas in real classrooms\, with real students\, with real and immediate learning needs. At the MIT Teaching Systems Lab\, we are developing new forms of teacher practice spaces\, technology platforms inspired by games and simulations that provide the opportunity for teachers to rehearse for and reflect on important decisions in teaching. In this participatory session\, we’ll play samples of some of the practice spaces that we are developing\, and discuss the theoretical foundations of our vision for the future of teacher learning. \nJustin Reich is the director of the MIT Teaching Systems Lab\, an Assistant Professor in the Comparative Media Studies/Writing department\, and a Faculty Associate of the Berkman-Klein Center for Internet and Society. As a learning scientist\, he investigates the complex\, technology-rich classrooms of the future and the systems we need to prepare educators to thrive in those environments.
URL:https://cms.mit.edu/event/justin-reich-future-teacher-learning-playful-practice/
LOCATION:MIT Building 56\, Room 114\, Access via 21 Ames Street\, Cambridge\, MA\, 02139\, United States
CATEGORIES:Colloquium
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20170914T170000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20170914T170000
DTSTAMP:20260403T184833
CREATED:20170823T141912Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20170823T142950Z
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SUMMARY:Engineering Virality: BuzzFeed's Scientific Approach To Creating Content
DESCRIPTION:Walter Menendez\,  Senior Data Infrastructure Engineer at BuzzFeed \nIf you’ve heard of BuzzFeed\, you probably think about our famous articles and quizzes\, such as The Dress and Which State Are You Actually From?\, as well as our video escapades\, such as The Try Guys Try Sexy Halloween Costumes and our famous Watermelon Explosion experiment on Facebook Live. The success of our content might seem accidental\, but as a result of BuzzFeed’s experimental approach to producing content\, the virality of these posts is actually a very scientific and calculated effort. This talk will detail how BuzzFeed thinks about and creates content\, highlighting our paradigms for the function and role of our content. We’ll also discuss the software stack that supports this experimental loop\, as BuzzFeed also employs a variety of technologies to build an analytics layer. Included in that tech discussion will also be an overview of the metrics and signals BuzzFeed is interested in once content is live. Along the way\, we’ll highlight some of the Comparative Media Studies learnings Walter employs on a daily basis to thrive in the BuzzFeed content ecosystem. \nWalter Menendez is a Senior Data Infrastructure Engineer at BuzzFeed\, based in New York. He is an MIT alum of the class of 2015\, having majored in Computer Science and Engineering (Course 6-3). While at MIT\, he concentrated in Comparative Media Studies\, as well as having done undergraduate research in various Media Lab groups (Fluid Interfaces\, Laboratory for Social Machines). At BuzzFeed\, he is responsible for the development and maintanence of all of BuzzFeed’s data collection\, from on-site impression collection to data warehousing solutions\, empowering the analytical approach that BuzzFeed uses for the content creation cycle.
URL:https://cms.mit.edu/event/walter-menendez-engineering-virality-buzzfeed/
LOCATION:MIT Building 56\, Room 114\, Access via 21 Ames Street\, Cambridge\, MA\, 02139\, United States
CATEGORIES:Colloquium
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20170919T171500
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20170919T171500
DTSTAMP:20260403T184833
CREATED:20170913T175248Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20170913T175248Z
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SUMMARY:B.I.C. at MIT
DESCRIPTION:Haitian poet\, singer and song-writer Roosevelt Saillant\, better known as “B.I.C.” for “Brain. Intelligence. Creativity\,” is one of the best known and most creative and prolific artists in Haiti. He has been writing and singing songs for the past 20 years. B.I.C.’s songs\, now taught at Haitian universities\, reveal a unique philosophy of development and justice. His trenchant criticism about\, and positive messages for\, Haitian society are expressed in mordant\, yet beautiful\, lyrics in his native Haitian Creole\, replete with word play and rhyme crafting. His songs – a mix of hip hop\, rap\, folk and traditional Haitian rhythms – express a profound love for his native Haiti\, along with an active engagement for the defense of human rights. He is visiting MIT to develop digital poetry in Kreyòl with Michel DeGraff and Nick Montfort\, and he will present a concert that will include some discussion\, and will be free and open to the public. \n[Sample some of B.I.C.’s music at https://g.co/kgs/wDXfU6]
URL:https://cms.mit.edu/event/bic-mit/
LOCATION:MIT Building 32 (Stata Center)\, Room 155\, 32 Vassar Street\, Cambridge\, MA\, 02139\, United States
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