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SUMMARY:Hacking VR Speaker Series: Eloi Champagne\, "Leading Innovation at the NFB"
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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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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
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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
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SUMMARY:Hacking VR Speaker Series: Masterclass with Vincent Morisset
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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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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20170406T170000
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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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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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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20170413T170000
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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
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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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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
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SUMMARY:Hacking VR Speaker Series: Jessica Brillhart\, "VR in Science"
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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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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20170504T170000
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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
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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
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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:20260403T172434
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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
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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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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20170921T170000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20170921T170000
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SUMMARY:Platforms in the Public Interest: Lessons from Minitel
DESCRIPTION:Julien Mailland (Indiana University) and Kevin Driscoll (University of Virginia) \nPlatforms such as Amazon\, Google\, and Facebook dominate the internet today\, providing private infrastructures for public culture. These systems are so massive that it’s easy to forget that the digital world was not always like this. More than two decades before widespread Internet access\, millions of people in France were already online\, chatting\, gaming\, buying\, selling\, searching\, and flirting. This explosion of digital culture came via Minitel\, a simple video terminal provided for free to anyone with a telephone line. After thirty years in service\, Minitel offers a wealth of data for thinking about internet policy and an alternative model for the internet’s future: a public platform for private innovation. \nJulien Mailland studies telecommunications networks design\, law\, and policy through the lens of history.  He is an assistant professor of telecommunications at Indiana University’s Media School\, a research associate with the Computer History Museum Internet History Program\, and a lawyer with the fintech industry. \nKevin Driscoll studies popular culture and computing. His research builds alternative models for platform governance and online community from the internet of the 1980s and 1990s. Recent projects examine dial-up BBSs in the US and Minitel in France. Kevin is an assistant professor of media studies at the University of Virginia.
URL:https://cms.mit.edu/event/minitel-platforms-public-interest-julien-mailland-kevin-driscoll/
LOCATION:MIT Building 56\, Room 114\, Access via 21 Ames Street\, Cambridge\, MA\, 02139\, United States
CATEGORIES:Colloquium
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SUMMARY:The Mediated Construction of Reality: from Berger and Luckmann to Norbert Elias
DESCRIPTION:Nick CouldryProfessor of Media Communications and Social Theory at the London School of Economics and Political Science \nIn this talk Nick Couldry outlines the project of his recent book\, The Mediated Construction of Reality (Polity October 2016\, co-written with Andreas Hepp). The book offers a critical reevaluation and rearticulation of the social constructivist ambitions of Berger and Luckmann’s 1966 book The Social Construction of Reality while radically rethinking the implications of this for a world saturated not just with digital media\, but with data processes. Couldry outlines how a materialist phenomenology can draw not just on traditional phenomenology\, but on the social theory of Norbert Elias\, particularly his concept of figurations\, to address the challenges of social analysis in the face of datafication. Elias\, Couldry argues\, is a particularly important theorist on whom to draw in making social constructivism ready to face the deep embedding of the social world with digital technologies\, and more than that\, to outline the challenges for social order of such a world. More broadly\, Couldry will argue for a reengagement of media theory with the broader tradition of social theory in the era of Big Data\, in the face of a radical expansion of what media are and how mediation is embedded in everyday social orders.    \nNick Couldry is a sociologist of media and culture. He is Professor of Media Communications and Social Theory at the London School of Economics and Political Science. He is currently a Visiting Researcher at Microsoft Research Lab\, and during 2017-2018 a Faculty Associate at the Berkman Klein Center for Internet and Society\, Harvard University. He is the author or editor of twelve books including most recently The Mediated Construction of Reality (with Andreas Hepp\, Polity\, 2016)\, Ethics of Media (2013 Palgrave\, coedited with Mirca Madianou and Amit Pinchevski)\, Media\, Society\, World: Social Theory and Digital Media Practice (Polity 2012) and Why Voice Matters: Culture and Politics After Neoliberalism (Sage 2010).
URL:https://cms.mit.edu/event/nick-couldry-mediated-construction-reality-berger-luckmann-norbert-elias/
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:20171005T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20171005T200000
DTSTAMP:20260403T172434
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SUMMARY:An Evening with Sarah Vowell
DESCRIPTION:Sarah Vowell is a contributing editor for public radio’s This American Lifeand has written for Time\, Esquire\, GQ\, Spin\, Salon\, McSweeneys\, The Village Voice\, and the Los Angeles Times. \nOverthrown Hawaiian queens\, religious zealots\, swindlers\, cranky cartographers\, presidential assassins\, and the people who visit their memorials on vacation are all fodder for historian and humorist Sarah Vowell. Vowell’s seven nonfiction books\, many of which have topped the New York Times’ best sellers list\, explore America’s not-so-squeaky-clean past and creates a framework for understanding our modern day values. Vowell brings her wit to the MIT Communications Forum for a moderated discussion with MIT Graduate Program in Science Writing director Seth Mnookin on what makes the past so funny\, the connections between historical research and modern journalism\, and much more. \nSarah Vowell is a contributing editor for public radio’s This American Lifeand has written for Time\, Esquire\, GQ\, Spin\, Salon\, McSweeneys\, The Village Voice\, and the Los Angeles Times. She is the author of seven books including Assassination Vacation\, Take the Cannoli\, and The Partly Cloudy Patriot. She lives in New York City. \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. \n\nThis event is sponsored by the MIT de Florez Fund for Humor and is free for the MIT community and the general public.
URL:https://cms.mit.edu/event/evening-sarah-vowell/
LOCATION:MIT Building 26\, Room 100\, Access Via 60 Vassar Street\, Cambridge\, MA\, 02139\, United States
CATEGORIES:Communications Forum
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20171012T170000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20171012T170000
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SUMMARY:Ecological Criticism in the Age of the Database
DESCRIPTION:Sean Cubitt\, Professor of Film and Television at Goldsmiths\, University of London \nThe ecological principle that everything connects with everything else should be a perfect match for the network principle of contemporary digital communications. But there is a problem that comes with the arrival very large\, proprietorial databases. This is partly to do with the sheer number of images and videos produced and circulated\, partly to do with the form they are stored in\, and partly because their dynamics share at least as much with contemporary capitalism as with the natural environment. New analytical tools for dealing with big data promise to reform classical humanities methods so we can conform our research to this new kind of object. In this paper Sean Cubitt asserts the value of anecdotal evidence against the rise of statistics\, but at the same time wants to confront the difficulties in bringing about an encounter between readers (human or otherwise) and the mass image constructed by social media and search giants. \nSean Cubitt is Professor of Film and Television at Goldsmiths\, University of London and Honorary Professorial Fellow of the University of Melbourne. His publications includeThe Cinema Effect\, Ecomedia\, The Practice of Light: Genealogies of Visual Media and Finite Media: Environmental Implications of Digital Technology. Series editor for Leonardo Books at MIT Press\, his current research is on political aesthetics\, media technologies\, media art history and ecocriticism.
URL:https://cms.mit.edu/event/ecological-criticism-age-database/
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:20171019T170000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20171019T170000
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SUMMARY:Mapping Climate Change: Contested Futures in New York City’s Flood Zone
DESCRIPTION:Liz Koslov\, Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow in the Humanities at MIT \nAs seas rise\, coasts erode\, deserts spread\, and permafrost melts\, climate change is altering everyday life in many places. Even with immediate\, drastic reductions in greenhouse gas emissions\, sufficient warming is already “baked in” to ensure ongoing disruption. What this disruption will look like\, however\, depends not only on the extent of global warming and its effects but also on the way these effects and their attendant risks are measured\, mapped\, and managed. In this talk\, we will explore how certain places come to be seen as “at risk” in anticipation of climate change\, and what this way of seeing means for their inhabitants. Drawing on fieldwork over four years in the aftermath of Hurricane Sandy\, the talk will focus on the fraught development and implementation of new FEMA (Federal Emergency Management Agency) flood maps for New York City\, where hundreds of thousands of people and billions of dollars in property now lie in the high-risk flood zone. \nLiz Koslov is a Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow in the Humanities at MIT and holds a PhD in Media\, Culture\, and Communication from NYU. Her research examines the cultural\, political\, and social dimensions of climate change adaptation. She is currently at work on her first book\, Retreat: Moving to Higher Ground in a Climate-Changed City\, under advance contract with the University of Chicago Press.
URL:https://cms.mit.edu/event/mapping-climate-change-contested-futures-new-york-citys-flood-zone/
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:20171026T170000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20171026T183000
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SUMMARY:Cloud Policy: Anatomy of a Regulatory Crisis
DESCRIPTION:Jennifer Holt\, Associate Professor of Film and Media Studies\, University of California\, Santa Barbara \nJennifer Holt examines the legal and cultural crises surrounding the regulation of data in “the cloud.” The complex landscape of laws and policies governing digital data are currently rife with unresolvable conflicts. The challenges of distributing and protecting digital data in a policy landscape that is simultaneously local\, national\, and global have created problems that often defy legal paradigms\, national boundaries\, and traditional geographies of control. She examines these challenges with an eye towards their shared histories with obscene phone calls\, wiretapping organized crime figures\, the PATRIOT Act\, Facebook\, and the battles over net neutrality. Ultimately\, these intertwined histories of policies related to privacy\, data security\, and digital freedoms become most instructive when they are brought to bear on the current regulatory crisis\, revealing the growing stakes for the digital futures of culture\, information\, and citizenship.  \nJennifer Holt is Associate Professor of Film and Media Studies at the University of California\, Santa Barbara. She is the author of Empires of Entertainment and co-editor of Distribution Revolution; Connected Viewing; and Media Industries: History\, Theory\, Method. She is currently writing a monograph about the history of US digital media policies. She is also a co-founder of the Media Industries journal.
URL:https://cms.mit.edu/event/jennifer-holt-cloud-regulatory-crisis/
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:20171116T110000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20171116T130000
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SUMMARY:CMS Graduate Admissions Information Session
DESCRIPTION:CMS Graduate Admissions Information Session\nCome meet faculty and students\, learn about the program and ask questions.  Light refreshments provided.\nNovember 16\, 2017 \n11AM-1 PM\nE51-095 \n \nCan’t make it here?  Participate via live stream on our YouTube channel.  We’ll have a chat room open\, so you can ask questions and respond as if you were in the room.
URL:https://cms.mit.edu/event/cms-graduate-admissions-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:20171116T170000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20171116T183000
DTSTAMP:20260403T172434
CREATED:20160928T185206Z
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SUMMARY:Fall 2017 Alumni Panel: Matthew Weise\, Karen Schrier Shaenfield\, Ainsley Sutherland\, and Beyza Boyacioglu
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: \nMatthew Weise\, CMS ’04 \nMatthew Weise\, ’04\, a game designer and educator whose work spans industry and academia. He is the CEO of Empathy Box\, a company that specializes in narrative design for games and across media. He was the Narrative Designer at Harmonix Music Systems on Fantasia: Music Evolved\, the Game Design Director of the GAMBIT Game Lab at MIT\, and a consultant for Warner Bros.\, Microsoft\, PBS\, The National Ballet of Spain\, and others on storytelling and game design. His work\, both creatively and critically\, focuses on transmedia adaptation with an emphasis on the challenges of adapting cinema into video games. Matt has given lectures and workshops on film-to-game adaptation all over the world\, and has published work on how franchises like Alien\, James Bond\, and horror cinema in general are adapted into games. Links to his writing and game design work\, including his IGF nominated The Snowfield\, can be found at www.matthewweise.com. \n  \nKaren Schrier\, CMS ’05 \nKaren Schrier\, ’05\, an educator\, innovator\, and creative researcher who is always looking for collaborators and new connections. She is an Associate Professor at Marist College and Director of the Games and Emerging Media program. She also runs the Play Innovation Lab\, where she researches and creates games that support learning\, ethical reflection\, and compassion. Her recent book\, Knowledge Games\, was published last year (Johns Hopkins University Press)\, and was covered by Forbes\, New Scientist\, Times Higher Education\, and SiriusXM. Dr. Schrier also edits the book series\, Learning\, Education & Games\, which is published by ETC Press (Carnegie Mellon)\, and she is the president of the Learning\, Education & Games group of the IGDA (International Game Developers Association). She holds a doctorate from Columbia University\, master’s from MIT\, and a bachelor’s from Amherst College. In addition\, Karen and her family (husband\, cats\, 5 year old and 2 year old) currently live in the Hudson Valley but are hoping to move to Pound Ridge\, NY in the winter. \n  \nAinsley Sutherland\, CMS ’15 \nAinsley Sutherland\, ’15\, a media technologist and researcher working in immersive computing and human-computer interaction design. Her project Voxhop\, a tool for voice collaboration in virtual reality\, is a 2017 j360 Challenge winner funded by the Knight Foundation and Google News Lab. She was a 2016 fellow at the BuzzFeed Open Lab\, as well as a researcher in the Imagination\, Computation\, and Expression Lab at MIT. She has cofounded Mediate\, an MIT DesignX-backed company that enables collaboration in and analysis of 3D environments. She has an M.S. from MIT in Comparative Media Studies\, and a B.A. from the University of Chicago\, in Economics. \n  \nBeyza Boyacioglu\, CMS ’17 \nBeyza Boyacioglu\, ’17\, is an award-winning documentary filmmaker and artist. Her work has been presented at MoMA Doc Fortnight\, IDFA DocLab\, Morelia International Film Festival\, RIDM\, Anthology Film Archives amongst other venues and festivals. She has received grants and fellowships from LEF Foundation\, MIT Council for the Arts\, Flaherty Seminar\, SALT Research and Greenhouse Seminar. She was an artist in residence at UnionDocs in 2012 where she co-directed “Toñita’s” — a documentary portrait of the last Puerto Rican social club in Williamsburg. She is currently producing a cross-platform documentary about Turkey’s gender-bending pop legend Zeki Müren. The project is comprised of a feature film “A Prince from Outer Space: Zeki Müren”\, a hotline and a web experience. Currently\, Boyacioglu works as a Producer at the MIT Open Documentary Lab.
URL:https://cms.mit.edu/event/fall-2017-alumni-panel/
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:20171117T140000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20171117T160000
DTSTAMP:20260403T172434
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SUMMARY:Science Writing Admissions Information Session
DESCRIPTION:Science Writing Admissions Information Session\nCome meet faculty\, learn about the program and ask questions.  Light refreshments provided.\nNovember 17\, 2017 \n2-4PM\n14E-304 \n \nCan’t make it in person?  Participate via live stream on our YouTube Channel.  We’ll have a chat window open\, so you can participate as if you were in the room.
URL:https://cms.mit.edu/event/science-writing-admissions-information-session/
LOCATION:MIT Building 14E\, Room 304\, 160 Memorial Drive\, Cambridge\, MA\, 02139\, United States
CATEGORIES:Information Session
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20171130T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20171130T200000
DTSTAMP:20260403T172434
CREATED:20170906T141819Z
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SUMMARY:Has Silicon Valley Lost Its Humanity?
DESCRIPTION:Silicon Valley innovations have given rise to a class of tech titans wielding immense economic and political influence\, and has paved the way for a cultural shift towards individualism with historically little regard for marginalized groups left in the wake. Noam Cohen\, a former New York Timestechnology columnist and author of The Know-It-Alls: The Rise of Silicon Valley as a Political Powerhouse and Social Wrecking Ball\, argues that this type of disruption often flies in the face of empathy\, civility\, and even democracy itself\, leading to problems ranging from the rise of fake news to the growing divide between the “haves” who benefit from these technologies and everyone else. Cohen joins Northeastern University assistant professor of journalism and Wired Magazine contributing editor Jeff Howe for a moderated panel that focuses on the ethical push and pull between the drive for innovation and preserving our own humanity and moral codes. \nSpeakers \nNoam Cohen covered the influence of the Internet on the larger culture for the New York Times\, where he wrote the “Link by Link” column beginning in 2007. His first book\, The Know-It-Alls: The Rise of Silicon Valley as a Political Powerhouse and Social Wrecking Ball\, was published in October\, 2017. \nJeff Howe is an assistant professor of journalism at Northeastern University and a contributing editor at Wired Magazine. He is the author of Crowdsourcing: How the Power of the Crowd is Driving the Future of Businessand co-author of Whiplash\, How to Survive Our Faster Future. \nSara M. Watson is a technology critic who writes and speaks about emerging issues in the intersection of technology\, culture\, and society. Her work has appeared in The Atlantic\, Wired\, The Washington Post\, Slate\, and Motherboard. She is an affiliate with the Berkman Klein Center for Internet and Society at Harvard University\, and author of the Tow Center for Digital Journalism’s report on the current state of technology coverage. \n\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/silicon-valley-lost-humanity/
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:20171207T170000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20171207T183000
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SUMMARY:The Emotional Politics of Piracy\, Or Why We Feel Intellectual Property Infringement as National Trauma
DESCRIPTION:Anjali Vats\, Assistant Professor of Communication and African and African Diaspora Studies at Boston College and Assistant Professor of Law\, Boston College Law School \nEmbracing the recent turns toward the study of public feelings\, this talk examines the emotional politics of intellectual property “piracy.” Situating the figure of the pirate within larger narratives of Americanness\, meritocracy\, hard work\, and postrace advanced in political speeches and media representations\, it reads public feelings about the exceptional inventiveness and industriousness of US workers as context for intellectual property policy. Specifically\, couching piracy as the unjust theft of the work of industrious and uniquely creative Americans fosters sentiments of pride\, entitlement\, resentment\, and anxiety. When taken together\, these public feelings transform intellectual property infringement into racialized piratical trauma\, which threatens the very fabric of the nation. The everdayness and banality of piratical trauma fuels desires for intellectual property maximalism and intellectual property criminalization\, which reproduce the very conditions which gave rise to the trauma. \nAnjali Vats is Assistant Professor of Communication and African and African Diaspora Studies at Boston College and Assistant Professor of Law\, by courtesy\, at Boston College Law School. She is currently working on a monograph entitled Created Differences: Intellectual Properties and Racial Formation in the Making of Americans which considers how intellectual property discourses shape our understandings of race\, citizenship\, and the capacity to engage in valuable intellectual labor. She has published articles in the Quarterly Journal of Speech\, Communication\, Culture & Critique\, Communication and Critical/Cultural Studies\, and Southern Communication Journal. She has also co-authored law review articles in the Duquesne Law Review and Wayne Law Review. In 2016\, Professor Vats was awarded an AAUW Postdoctoral Fellowship and an Exemplary Diversity Scholar Citation from the National Center for Institutional Diversity at the University of Michigan. Prior to teaching\, she clerked for the Honorable A. William Maupin of the Supreme Court of Nevada.
URL:https://cms.mit.edu/event/anjali-vats-emotional-politics-piracy-intellectual-property/
LOCATION:MIT Building 56\, Room 114\, Access via 21 Ames Street\, Cambridge\, MA\, 02139\, United States
CATEGORIES:Colloquium
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20180109
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20180124
DTSTAMP:20260403T172434
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SUMMARY:India and Indianisms: Documentary Master Classes
DESCRIPTION:Anandana Kapur\, Fulbright Fellow at the MIT Open Documentary Lab \nEnrollment: Unlimited: No advance sign-up\nAttendance: Participants welcome at individual sessions \nCome attend screenings of documentary films followed by discussions on a few things that define India today – love\, innovation and spies. We will also talk about approaches to documentary filmmaking\, behind the scenes choices and DIY tips for those who want to make a film of their own. Anandana Kapur is an award winning filmmaker from India whose works have screened in over 35 countries. She also teaches courses on documentary practice\, gender and rights based media. \nThe last workshop of this screening series will showcase excerpts from works in progress.  A key focus will be on how documentary aesthetics can shape conversations for change. Some of the suggestions may shape the trajectory of future works! \nPs: Bring some coffee\, popcorn or a friend…or two. \nSponsor(s): Comparative Media Studies/Writing\nContact: Anandana Kapur\, anandana@MIT.EDU \n\nMuch Ado About Knotting\n\n\n\nJan/09\nTue\n03:30PM-05:00PM\noutside E15-335\n\n\n\nAre matches made in heaven or via multi-million dollar enterprises? \n\nJasoosni: Look who’s watching you!\n\n\n\nJan/16\nTue\n03:30PM-05:00PM\noutside E15-335\n\n\n\nIs that a friend from a gym or an undercover spy? \n\nThe Great Indian Jugaad; Conversations\n\n\n\nJan/23\nTue\n03:30PM-05:00PM\noutside E15-335\n\n\n\nThe Great Indian Jugaad: MIT loves hacks\, India adores Jugaad! \nConversations: Stories by the “Invisible” Women of Delhi
URL:https://cms.mit.edu/event/india-indianisms-documentary-master-classes/
LOCATION:Open area opposite E15-320\, 20 Ames Street\, Cambridge\, MA\, 02139\, United States
CATEGORIES:Independent Activities Period
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20180123
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20180126
DTSTAMP:20260403T172434
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SUMMARY:SO BAD IT'S GOOD: An Introduction to Media Analysis Through Watching Bad Media
DESCRIPTION:Kaelan Doyle Myerscough \nEnrollment: contact kaelandm@mit.edu before day you plan to attend\nLimited to 20 participants\nAttendance: Participants are encouraged\, but not required\, to attend all three sessions \nWhat is it that makes watching so-called “trashy TV” so fun? What does it mean for a film to be “so bad it’s good?” In such a saturated media landscape\, what makes us seek out and enjoy the worst of it? And what is with all of those screenings of The Room? \nIn this three-day course\, we will watch and analyze bad media as an introduction to media studies concepts and fields. Each class will consist of a screening and an extended discussion. \nContact: Kaelan Doyle Myerscough\, kaelandm@mit.edu \n\nThe Room\nTuesday\, Jan 23\n03:00PM-06:00PM \nThe Room: The Anatomy of a Good-Bad Movie. We’ll stage a screening of The Room complete with plastic spoons and a football\, then talk about what makes the film so enjoyably bad\, why people think this is\, and the fandom that has cropped up around it. \n\nKeeping Up with the Kardashians\nWednesday\, Jan 24\n03:00PM-05:00PM \nKeeping Up with the Kardashians: Reality TV\, social media\, and “trashiness.” We’ll use the Kardashian empire to talk about how and in what contexts people watch TV and consume social media\, and how the contemporary internet landscape has reshaped reality TV. \nMonster Factory\nThursday\, Jan 25\n03:00PM-05:00PM\nMonster Factory: Bad games and the art of making fun of them. What makes bad games enjoyable\, and how is this different from bad film and television? We’ll watch a few works by YouTube creators to figure this out\, and then get our hands dirty with character creators and make some monsters of our own.
URL:https://cms.mit.edu/event/bad-good-introduction-media-analysis-watching-bad-media/
LOCATION:MIT Building 5\, Room 217\, 55 Massachusetts Avenue\, Cambridge\, MA\, 02139\, United States
CATEGORIES:Independent Activities Period
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20180208T170000
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SUMMARY:From Augmented to Virtual Learning: Affordances of Different Mixes of Reality for Learning
DESCRIPTION:Professor Eric Klopfer\, Director of the Scheller Teacher Education Program and The Education Arcade \nMixed realities that combine digital and real experiences are now becoming a true reality.  These experiences are being delivered over smartphones as well as increasingly accessible and practical head mounted displays. This ubiquity of devices is in turn making mixed reality the next digital frontier in entertainment\, education and the workplace. But what do we know about where these technologies have value? Where do they add to the learning experience? And what theories and evidence can we generate and build upon to provide a foundation for using these technologies productively for learning? \nWe have been working on mixed realities in education for over a decade and have started to learn about where\, when and for whom they can add value. Part of this understanding stems from differentiating the wide variety of mixed realities and focusing on affordances. Landscape based augmented realities\, popularized by Pokemon Go\, have fundamentally different affordances than smartphone based virtual realities like Google Cardboard\, which in turn are different than immersive experiences delivered by headsets like the Oculus Rift and HTC Vive.  The core of our work has been doing research and development to identify these affordances that match with key learning challenges\, particular in Science\, Technology\, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM). In this talk\, Eric Klopfer will draw upon our work in location-based augmented reality games\, as well as work in virtual reality. In the realm of augmented reality\, he will discuss a long series of design experiments through which we have learned about where these technologies play an important role in learning\, primarily around socio-scientific issues. In the space of virtual reality our newest designs and experiments focus on the concept of scale\, and how we can use virtual realities to teach about STEM systems at radically different scales. This talk will provide a history and overview of these experiences\, including iterations of design research experiments. \nEric Klopfer is Professor and Director of the Scheller Teacher Education Program and The Education Arcade at MIT. Klopfer’s research focuses on the development and use of computer games and simulations for building understanding of science\, technology\, engineering and mathematics.
URL:https://cms.mit.edu/event/eric-klopfer-augmented-virtual-learning/
LOCATION:MIT Building 56\, Room 114\, Access via 21 Ames Street\, Cambridge\, MA\, 02139\, United States
CATEGORIES:Colloquium
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SUMMARY:ICTs for Refugees and Displaced Persons
DESCRIPTION:Carleen Maitland\, co-Director of the Institute for Information Policy and Associate Professor in the College of Information Sciences and Technology at Penn State University \nExpanding use of information and communication technology (ICT) together with the humanitarian reform agenda are changing both the experience of being a refugee as well as humanitarian response. These forces are giving rise to the digital refugee and a new form of humanitarian operations\, digital humanitarian brokerage. In this talk\, Carleen Maitland presents these two concepts\, evidence of their emergence and differences in the role information plays in each. The concepts emerge from a synthesis of scholarship from international law\, information and organization science\, GIS\, computer and data science as presented in her upcoming edited volume Digital Lifeline? ICTs for Refugees and Displaced Persons. The talk culminates in an analysis of the implications of these trends for information policy as well as the research necessary to insure both technologies and policies evolve to mitigate potential harms and amplify potential benefits for refugees. \nCarleen Maitland is co-Director of the Institute for Information Policy and Associate Professor in the College of Information Sciences and Technology at Penn State University. Her expertise includes analyses of ICT use in international organizations\, particularly those involved in fostering economic and social development as well as humanitarian relief. Her work\, reported in over 100 refereed journal articles\, conference proceedings\, and presentations\, has influenced scholarship in the fields of Information and Communication Technologies for Development (ICTD)\, communications\, information systems and human computer interaction fields. Her work is supported by the National Science Foundation\, USAID\, the U.S. Department of Commerce\, and IBM\, among others. She has held several leadership positions in both the ICTD and policy communities\, currently serves as Associate Editor of the open access journal Information Technology & International Development (USC Annenberg Press). Also\, from 2010-2012 she served as a Program Manager in the U.S. National Science Foundation\, both in the Office of International Science and Engineering and the Office of Cyberinfrastructure.
URL:https://cms.mit.edu/event/icts-refugees-displaced-persons/
LOCATION:MIT Building 56\, Room 114\, Access via 21 Ames Street\, Cambridge\, MA\, 02139\, United States
CATEGORIES:Colloquium
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