BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//MIT Graduate Program in Comparative Media Studies - ECPv5.16.1//NONSGML v1.0//EN CALSCALE:GREGORIAN METHOD:PUBLISH X-WR-CALNAME:MIT Graduate Program in Comparative Media Studies X-ORIGINAL-URL:https://cms.mit.edu X-WR-CALDESC:Events for MIT Graduate Program in Comparative Media Studies REFRESH-INTERVAL;VALUE=DURATION:PT1H X-Robots-Tag:noindex X-PUBLISHED-TTL:PT1H BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:America/New_York BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 TZNAME:EDT DTSTART:20120311T070000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0400 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 TZNAME:EST DTSTART:20121104T060000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 TZNAME:EDT DTSTART:20130310T070000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0400 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 TZNAME:EST DTSTART:20131103T060000 END:STANDARD END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20130307T170000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20130307T190000 DTSTAMP:20260403T181459 CREATED:20140904T173849Z LAST-MODIFIED:20140904T173849Z UID:21617-1362675600-1362682800@cms.mit.edu SUMMARY:Angels of Death: David Foster Wallace and the Battle against Irony\, Letterman and Leyner? DESCRIPTION:D. T. Max\nD.T. Max\, staff writer at the New Yorker\, will look at David Foster Wallace and irony\, with an eye especially on his 1990’s attacks on David Letterman and the novelist Mark Leyner\, both in publications and in private correspondence. When did David Foster Wallace become obsessed with irony and why? What made him so sure it was corrosive to civil culture or initiative? Or was the unease he felt in its presence really more the product of his own personal history? \nCo-hosted with Literature at MIT. URL:https://cms.mit.edu/event/david-foster-wallace-battle-against-irony-letterman-and-leyner/ LOCATION:MIT Media Lab\, Room 633\, 75 Amherst St.\, Cambridge\, MA\, 02139\, United States CATEGORIES:Colloquium ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://cms.mit.edu/wp/wp-content/uploads/2013/03/DTMax.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20130228T170000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20130228T190000 DTSTAMP:20260403T181459 CREATED:20140814T170011Z LAST-MODIFIED:20140814T170011Z UID:21610-1362070800-1362078000@cms.mit.edu SUMMARY:A Conversation with Nate Silver DESCRIPTION:Nate Silver at MIT. Photo by Greg Peverill-Conti\nThe statistician and political polling analyst Nate Silver will discuss his career — from student journalist to baseball prognosticator to the creator of FiveThirtyEight.com\, perhaps the most influential political blog in the world — and the ways in which statistics are changing the face of journalism in a conversation with Seth Mnookin\, a former baseball and political writer who co-directs MIT’s Graduate Program in Science Writing. URL:https://cms.mit.edu/event/nate-silver-conversation/ LOCATION:MIT Media Lab\, Bartos Theater\, 20 Ames Street\, Cambridge\, MA\, 02139\, United States CATEGORIES:Communications Forum ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://cms.mit.edu/wp/wp-content/uploads/2013/03/Nate-Silver-GPC.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20130220T171500 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20130220T190000 DTSTAMP:20260403T181459 CREATED:20140905T161517Z LAST-MODIFIED:20141007T160708Z UID:21618-1361380500-1361386800@cms.mit.edu SUMMARY:Gregory Crane: "Automated Methods\, Human Understanding\, and Digital Libraries of Babel" DESCRIPTION:Organized by Literature. Co-sponsored with CMS\, the MIT HyperStudio for Digital Humanities\, and Ancient and Medieval Studies. \nGreg Crane\nMillions of documents produced around the world over more than four thousand years are now available in digital form — Google Books alone had scanned\, by March 2012\, more than 20 million books in more than 400 languages. Images of manuscripts\, papyri\, inscriptions and other non-print sources are also appearing in increasing numbers. But if we have addressed physical access to images of textual sources\, we are a long way from providing the intellectual access necessary to understand the written sources that we see. This talk explores the challenges and opportunities as we refashion our study of the past from ethnocentric monolingual conversations into a hyperlingual dialogue among civilizations\, where humans work with machines and with each other to communicate and where books do\, as Marvin Minksy opined decades ago\, talk to each other. \nGregory Crane is Chair of the Department of Classics at Tufts University\, as well as an Adjunct Professor in Tufts’ Department of Computer Science. Since 1988\, he has been Editor-in-Chief of the Perseus Project\, a long-running digital humanities effort focused on Greek\, Latin\, and Arabic Classics. URL:https://cms.mit.edu/event/gregory-crane-digital-libraries-of-babel/ LOCATION:MIT Media Lab\, Room 633\, 75 Amherst St.\, Cambridge\, MA\, 02139\, United States ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://cms.mit.edu/wp/wp-content/uploads/2013/02/greg-crane.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20130219T170000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20130219T190000 DTSTAMP:20260403T181459 CREATED:20141121T151725Z LAST-MODIFIED:20190426T152431Z UID:21615-1361293200-1361300400@cms.mit.edu SUMMARY:Convergence Journalism? Emerging Documentary and Multimedia Forms of News DESCRIPTION:Co-sponsored by the MIT Open Documentary Lab. \nHybrid forms of multimedia\, combining aspects of newspapers\, documentary film and digital video are a notable feature of today’s online journalism. How is this access to the power of the visual changing our journalism? What current projects are particularly significant? What will this convergence mean in the future? \nJason Spingarn-Koff\nJason Spingarn-Koff is the series producer and curator of Op-Docs\, a new initiative at the New York Times for short opinionated documentaries by independent filmmakers and artists. He directed the feature documentary “Life 2.0”\, which premiered at the 2010 Sundance Film Festival and was acquired by OWN: Oprah Winfrey Network’s Documentary Club\, and his work has appeared on PBS\, BBC\, MSNBC\, Time.com and Wired News. In 2010-2011\, he was a Knight Science Journalism Fellow at MIT. \n\nAlexandra Garcia\nAlexandra Garcia is a multimedia journalist for The Washington Post. She reports\, shoots and edits video stories on topics ranging from health care and immigration to fashion and education. Awarded an Edward R. Murrow award\, eight regional Emmy awards and named 2011 Video Editor of the Year by the White House News Photographers Association\, Garcia is currently a fellow at the Nieman Foundation for Journalism at Harvard University. \nModerator: Sarah Wolozin\, director of the MIT Open Documentary Lab\, has produced documentaries and educational media for a variety of media outlets including PBS\, History Channel\, Learning Channel and NPR. URL:https://cms.mit.edu/event/convergence-journalism-emerging-documentary-multimedia-forms-of-news/ LOCATION:MIT Media Lab\, Room 633\, 75 Amherst St.\, Cambridge\, MA\, 02139\, United States CATEGORIES:Communications Forum ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://cms.mit.edu/wp/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/Jason-Spingarn-Koff-9-of-9.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20130207T170000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20130207T190000 DTSTAMP:20260403T181459 CREATED:20150327T134543Z LAST-MODIFIED:20161221T201206Z UID:21608-1360256400-1360263600@cms.mit.edu SUMMARY:Nostalgia for a Not-So-Distant Youth: Digital Games and Affect in Urban China DESCRIPTION:Marcella Szablewicz\nYoung people born in 1980’s and 1990’s China are the focus of a great deal of scholarly attention as they are the country’s first generation of only children. They are also the first generation to come of age with the Internet\, and\, for many\, playing Internet games forms an integral part of the youth experience. This presentation will explore the affective dimensions of digital games from the perspective of urban Chinese youth. What is the significance of an e-sports event that attracts tens of thousands of twenty-somethings\, many of whom experience it as a teary-eyed “farewell to their youth”? Or a viral video created by World of Warcraft gamers that urges millions of viewers to “raise their fists in solidarity” to show support for their “spiritual homeland”? What should we make of these phenomena that demonstrate\, ever more clearly\, the ways in which games are intertwined with people’s spiritual and emotional lives? Are games the imagined utopia they are made out to be in these nostalgic accounts or might these affective attachments prove to be a form of what Lauren Berlant (2011) has called “cruel optimism\,” a relationship in which the very thing that is desired becomes an obstacle to flourishing? \nMarcella Szablewicz is a Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow in Comparative Media Studies at MIT. She received her Ph.D. from the Department of Communication and Media at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute and an M.A. in East Asian Studies from Duke University. Her research focuses on youth and digital media in urban China. She is currently working on a book based on her dissertation\, provisionally entitled From Addicts to Athletes: Youth Mobilities and the Politics of Digital Gaming in Urban China. Based on ethnographic fieldwork supported by the Fulbright and National Science Foundations\, the book will examine the precarious socio-economic futures of urban Chinese youth through the lens of digital gaming culture\, while also considering how dominant discourse about digital leisure practice is shaped by larger cultural debates about patriotism and productivity\, class and the crafting of the “ideal citizen”. Her work can also be found in the Routledge volume Online Society in China and in the Chinese Journal of Communication. \nCo-sponsored by the Cool Japan Project. URL:https://cms.mit.edu/event/digital-games-and-affect-in-urban-china/ LOCATION:MIT Media Lab\, Room 633\, 75 Amherst St.\, Cambridge\, MA\, 02139\, United States CATEGORIES:Colloquium ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://cms.mit.edu/wp/wp-content/uploads/2013/02/200-marcella2.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20130131T150000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20130131T180000 DTSTAMP:20260403T181459 CREATED:20140904T180642Z LAST-MODIFIED:20140904T180642Z UID:21589-1359644400-1359655200@cms.mit.edu SUMMARY:Annotation Studio Workshop DESCRIPTION:Enrollment: Limited: Advance sign-up required\nSign-up by 01/25\nLimited to 20 participants \nHave you ever wondered how to annotate online texts with your thoughts\, comments\, or associations? Does an image better express what you are imagining while reading a literary text? How about sharing your comments with friends\, fellow students\, or colleagues? How can you integrate digital text annotation in your teaching? If the answer to any of these questions is yes\, please join us during IAP for HyperStudio’s workshop on digital annotation tools designed for humanities students\, scholars\, and educators. \nIn this hands-on workshop you’ll learn how to create\, tag\, link\, and share annotations in web-based environments. The workshop will include: \n\nIntroduction to digital text annotation – evaluate various online text annotation tools\nHands-on sessions – work with your own text using Annotation Studio\nText annotation for teaching and scholarship – Discuss how to best apply these tools in your research and scholarship.\n\nSponsor(s): Comparative Media Studies\nContact: Gabriella Horvath\, ghorvath@mit.edu URL:https://cms.mit.edu/event/annotation-studio-workshop/ LOCATION:MIT Building 56\, Room 180\, Access via 21 Ames Street\, Cambridge\, MA\, 02139\, United States CATEGORIES:Independent Activities Period ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://cms.mit.edu/wp/wp-content/uploads/2014/01/Annotation-Studio.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20130131T100000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20130131T113000 DTSTAMP:20260403T181459 CREATED:20150407T130743Z LAST-MODIFIED:20150407T131045Z UID:21594-1359626400-1359631800@cms.mit.edu SUMMARY:Oral Presentations and the Academic Conversation: A Writing Across the Curriculum IAP Workshop DESCRIPTION:Enrollment: Limited: First come\, first served (no advance sign-up) \nThis interactive workshop is geared to instructors across the disciplines who are interested in integrating oral presentation into their classes. We will discuss effective strategies to teach the oral component in CI classes as an act of critical thinking. Together\, we will define goals for a variety of speaking genres in science and humanities classes. Participants will collaborate in sharing good practices from their own experience. Finally\, we will explore some practical templates to teach oral presentation that encourage students to practice the following skills: (1) communicating complex ideas in accessible language; (2) creating presentations that clearly define goals and argument or hypothesis; (3) organizing presentations in the service of developing ideas in the broader context of the field. \nAll WAC workshops are open to faculty and teaching assistants who are interested in integrating writing and speaking into their subjects. \nSponsor(s): Comparative Media Studies\, Teaching and Learning Lab Contact: Ashley Caval\, 12-117\, 617 253-0650\, ACAVAL@MIT.EDU URL:https://cms.mit.edu/event/oral-presentations-and-the-academic-environment/ LOCATION:MIT Building 12\, Room 134\, Cambridge\, MA\, 02139\, United States CATEGORIES:Independent Activities Period END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20130129T100000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20130129T113000 DTSTAMP:20260403T181459 CREATED:20160818T174458Z LAST-MODIFIED:20160818T174458Z UID:21595-1359453600-1359459000@cms.mit.edu SUMMARY:Powerful Feedback: Strategies for Responding to Student Writing: A Writing Across the Curriculum IAP Workshop DESCRIPTION:Enrollment: Limited: First come\, first served (no advance sign-up) \nWhat kind of feedback will help students understand how to revise their essays\, reports or articles\, or to write their next assignment more effectively? This workshop will help faculty and TA’s to articulate their criteria for student writing and to develop powerful feedback practices\, from written comments to rubrics to peer review to individual conferences.= By considering feedback in relation to other forms of instruction\, participants will learn to provide the kinds of comments and strategies that will help students understand how to improve their skills as writers. \nAll WAC workshops are open to faculty and teaching assistants who are interested in integrating writing and speaking into their subjects. \nSponsor(s): Comparative Media Studies\, Teaching and Learning Lab Contact: Ashley Caval\, 12-117\, 617 253-0650\, ACAVAL@MIT.EDU URL:https://cms.mit.edu/event/strategies-responding-student-writing/ LOCATION:MIT Building 12\, Room 134\, Cambridge\, MA\, 02139\, United States CATEGORIES:Independent Activities Period ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://cms.mit.edu/wp/wp-content/uploads/2015/12/Independent-Activities-Period.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20130128T130000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20130128T160000 DTSTAMP:20260403T181459 CREATED:20150204T153116Z LAST-MODIFIED:20150204T153116Z UID:21597-1359378000-1359388800@cms.mit.edu SUMMARY:Learn to Knit! DESCRIPTION:Enrollment: Unlimited: Advance sign-up required\nSign-up by 01/25 \nDo you want to be able to knit your own cold-weather gear? Participants will learn the basic stitches\, knit and purl\, and other skills to make their first project: casting on\, reading patterns\, and understanding yarn and needles. Please bring materials (contact activity leader if you have any questions). \nSponsor(s): Comparative Media Studies \nContact: Ayse Gursoy\, agursoy@MIT.EDU URL:https://cms.mit.edu/event/learn-to-knit/ LOCATION:Comparative Media Studies: MIT Building E15\, Room 335\, 20 Ames St.\, Cambridge\, MA\, 02139\, United States CATEGORIES:Independent Activities Period ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://cms.mit.edu/wp/wp-content/uploads/2014/12/Knitting-photo-by-Flickr-user-anna-banana.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20130128 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20130201 DTSTAMP:20260403T181459 CREATED:20150121T153305Z LAST-MODIFIED:20150121T153305Z UID:21593-1359331200-1359676799@cms.mit.edu SUMMARY:Integrating Communication Instruction in CI Subjects: A Writing Across the Curriculum IAP Workshop DESCRIPTION:Enrollment: Limited: First come\, first served (no advance sign-up) \nInstructors of CI subjects often ask how they can more effectively connect writing and speaking instruction with the course content\, so that communication assignments are not just additional requirements\, but instead help students more deeply engage with the concepts of the course. How can we design instructional and assignment sequences that are organic to each subject\, and that help students approach writing and speaking as the space for developing conceptual thinking? Working with some examples from CI-M and CI-H classes\, we’ll explore how instructors can break down assignments to demystify research\, writing\, and presentation in their fields. Improved sequencing will help students experience a more productive writing experience. \nBring examples of assignments from your classes to share. \nAll WAC workshops are open to faculty and teaching assistants who are interested in integrating writing and speaking into their subjects. \nSponsor(s): Teaching and Learning Lab\, Comparative Media Studies\nContact: Ashley Caval\, 12-117\, 617 253-0650\, ACAVAL@MIT.EDU URL:https://cms.mit.edu/event/integrating-communication-instruction-in-ci-subjects/ LOCATION:MIT Building 12\, Room 134\, Cambridge\, MA\, 02139\, United States CATEGORIES:Independent Activities Period END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20130123T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20130123T210000 DTSTAMP:20260403T181459 CREATED:20140908T145338Z LAST-MODIFIED:20140908T145338Z UID:21591-1358967600-1358974800@cms.mit.edu SUMMARY:Best of the 2012 European Short Film Festival at MIT DESCRIPTION:Enrollment: Unlimited: No advance sign-up \nWatch a rarely seen selection of the best European short films from MIT’s 2012 European Short Film Festival. These films give you a glimpse into contemporary short film productions from European film schools\, young and established independent filmmakers\, and European festivals. 15 films – many of them US premiers – that reflect the most compelling fiction\, animation\, documentary and experimental film from the 3-day festival in April 2012. A brief introduction will precede the screening. \nSponsor(s): Comparative Media Studies\nContact: Gabriella Horvath\, ghorvath@mit.edu URL:https://cms.mit.edu/event/european-short-film-festival-2012-best-of/ LOCATION:MIT Building 3\, Room 133\, 33 Massachusetts Ave\, Cambridge\, MA\, 02139\, United States CATEGORIES:Independent Activities Period END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20130121 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20130123 DTSTAMP:20260403T181459 CREATED:20141210T161931Z LAST-MODIFIED:20201014T152731Z UID:21600-1358726400-1358899199@cms.mit.edu SUMMARY:Festival of Learning DESCRIPTION:The Festival of Learning is a two-day festival\, where anyone from MIT’s Media Lab buildings (E14 and E15) can teach\, learn\, and collaborate! \nFull info\, including session suggestions\, at fol2013.media.mit.edu. URL:https://cms.mit.edu/event/festival-of-learning/ LOCATION:MIT Building E14\, 75 Amherst Street\, Cambridge\, MA\, 02139\, United States CATEGORIES:Independent Activities Period ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://cms.mit.edu/wp/wp-content/uploads/2014/12/Festival-of-Learning.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20130117T130000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20130117T160000 DTSTAMP:20260403T181459 CREATED:20150324T154453Z LAST-MODIFIED:20150324T154453Z UID:21599-1358427600-1358438400@cms.mit.edu SUMMARY:ModIT Workshop: Online HTML Game Engine/Creation Tool DESCRIPTION:Enrollment:\nLimited: Advance sign-up required\nSign-up by 01/16\nLimited to 30 participants\nPrereq: see description \nIntroduction to a set of tools for creating games. Modit is currently in private beta but in this workshop\, we will showcase our HTML5 game development. ModitTM seeks to transform HTML5 games into a new medium for self-expression by turning players into game creators. By bringing a full development environment into the browser\, players will be empowered to modify the games they play and instantly publish and share those creations with the world. \nRequired of attendees: 1) Familiarity with JavaScript is ideal\, but basic understanding of any programming language should be sufficient. 2) Laptop with Google Chrome\, or Firefox\, and Internet connectability. 3) Gmail account to log into the ModIt platform. \nSponsor(s): Comparative Media Studies\, Game Lab\nContact: Sara Verrilli\, akiru@mit.edu URL:https://cms.mit.edu/event/modit-workshop-online-html-game-engine-creation-tool/ LOCATION:MIT Building 32 (Stata Center)\, Room 124\, 32 Vassar Street\, Cambridge\, MA\, 02139\, United States CATEGORIES:Independent Activities Period END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20130115T100000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20130115T113000 DTSTAMP:20260403T181459 CREATED:20150115T195606Z LAST-MODIFIED:20150115T195606Z UID:21603-1358244000-1358249400@cms.mit.edu SUMMARY:How to Write a Great Abstract DESCRIPTION:Enrollment: Limited: Advance sign-up required\nLimited to 20 participants\nPrereq: none \nFor your paper to be successful\, people have to actually read it. A compelling abstract is essential for capturing their attention and making them want to read more. But writing an effective abstract is challenging because you need to summarize what motivated you\, what you did\, and what you found\, in a small number of words. In this workshop\, we’ll analyze sample abstracts from different fields\, learn editing strategies\, and practice revising abstracts. You’ll leave with a better understanding of how to write a strong abstract that clearly presents your research. \nSponsor(s): Writing and Communication Center\nContact: Steven Strang\, 12-120\, 617 253-4459\, SMSTRANG@MIT.EDU URL:https://cms.mit.edu/event/how-to-write-a-great-abstract/ LOCATION:MIT Building 12\, Room 132\, 60 Vassar Street\, Cambridge\, MA\, 02139\, United States CATEGORIES:Independent Activities Period END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20130114T100000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20130118T170000 DTSTAMP:20260403T181459 CREATED:20140919T153115Z LAST-MODIFIED:20141015T145458Z UID:21570-1358157600-1358528400@cms.mit.edu SUMMARY:Building Story Worlds: Space\, Time\, Rules\, and Narrative in Game Design DESCRIPTION:Enrollment: Limited: Advance sign-up required\nSign-up by 01/09\nLimited to 20 participants \nAttendance: Participants must attend all sessions \nVisiting Artist Guilherme Marcondes\, in conjunction with researchers from the MIT Game Lab and the Program in Science\, Technology\, and Society\, will lead a workshop exploring the role of space in storytelling. The workshop will focus on exploring how artists can use the tools of game design—including space\, time\, and rule sets—to construct complex narratives that are deeply embedded in the settings in which they unfold. Participants will learn how to design and refine a game prototype through playtesting and observation; produce\, gather\, organize\, and use concept art\, music\, sounds\, and other source materials to establish the mood of a narrative setting; and evaluate their own and others’ creations in a critique-based studio environment. \nNo prior programming experience is required. Participants will review examples of stories that deal with spatial exploration; explore in and around MIT on foot; and work in teams to create tabletop game prototypes.  Students who want to advance their projects may continue working with the researchers Jan. 21-24 & may exhibit and demonstrate these prototypes at a public event on Jan. 24 at the MIT Museum.  There is also opportunity in the second week for exploratory visits with faculty and labs. \nThe MIT Visiting Artists Program will host filmmaker\, animator\, and mixed-media artist Guilherme Marcondes for a two-week residency.  For more information visit http://arts.mit.edu/artists/guilherme-marcondes/. \nTo register\, email Meg Rotzel at mrotzel@mit.edu. \nSponsor(s): Science\, Technology\, and Society\, MIT Game Lab\, Comparative Media Studies\n\nContact: Meg Rotzel\, 617-253-2372\, mrotzel@mit.edu URL:https://cms.mit.edu/event/building-story-worlds-game-design/ LOCATION:MIT Building 56\, Room 180\, Access via 21 Ames Street\, Cambridge\, MA\, 02139\, United States CATEGORIES:Independent Activities Period END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20130112T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20130112T210000 DTSTAMP:20260403T181459 CREATED:20141121T153404Z LAST-MODIFIED:20141121T153404Z UID:21587-1358017200-1358024400@cms.mit.edu SUMMARY:Create a Web Series! DESCRIPTION:Enrollment: Unlimited: Advance sign-up required\n \nAre you interesting in storytelling or filmmaking? Are you a fan of creative web series such as Dr. Horrible\, The Guild\, or The Lizzie Bennet Diaries? Would you like to work with other energetic story-lovers? Then you’re invited to get in on the ground floor of developing an MIT-themed web series for debut in 2014! Comedy or drama\, sci-fi or mystery\, wacky or serious—your creative vision will help shape the show. Together\, we’ll acheive our nefarious master plan: to create something so interesting\, so entertaining\, and so well-made that it will ensnare every procrastinator on campus! \nRegister by email to get location information as it becomes available. \nSponsor(s): Comparative Media Studies\n Contact: Sarah Coe\, coesa@mit.edu URL:https://cms.mit.edu/event/create-a-web-series/ CATEGORIES:Independent Activities Period END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20130110T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20130131T220000 DTSTAMP:20260403T181459 CREATED:20140828T183754Z LAST-MODIFIED:20140828T183822Z UID:21592-1357844400-1359669600@cms.mit.edu SUMMARY:Alchemists and Mad Scientists: from Faust to Dr. Strangelove DESCRIPTION:Enrollment: Unlimited: No advance sign-up\nAttendance: Participants welcome at individual sessions \nCuriosity is perhaps the defining characteristic of scientists in the popular mind\, but a popular belief asserts that “curiosity killed the cat.” In the popular imagination scientists challenge the boundaries of human knowledge\, frequently paying a dire price for their audacity\, and sometimes bringing that price down on the population around them. In this activity we will consider how science and scientists have been depicted in popular culture\, starting with one manifestation of the widely celebrated Faust legend. We will trace the development in mass media of the evolution of alchemists into mad scientists\, using the films “Faust\,” “Metropolis\,” “The Bride of Frankenstein\,” and “Dr. Strangelove” as our texts. Our goal will be a deeper understanding of the history of representations of science and scientists in Western narrative media. \nAdvance sign-up isn’t required\, but please email Stephen Brophy (stephbr@mit.edu) if you plan to attend so he can give you access to the activity’s Stellar site. \nSponsor(s): Science\, Technology\, and Society\, Comparative Media Studies\nContact: Stephen Brophy\, stephbr@mit.edu \nFaust\nJanuary 10\nThu\n7:00PM-10:00PM\n3-133 \nWhat do you do when you have it all and it isn’t enough? Faust was the most highly respected philosopher\, theologian\, and physician of his time\, but because he wasn’t satisfied with all that he sold his soul to the Devil. And then what happened? \nStephen Brophy – Lecturer\, Program in Writing and Humanistic Studies \nMetropolis\nJanuary 17\nThu\n7:00PM-10:00PM\n3-133 \nBack in the good old days\, when you built a city that had sunshine and sport for the 1%\, but endless drudgery for the 99% who kept it going\, you needed a mad scientist to run it all. And no scientist has ever been madder than Rotwang\, the genius behind Metropolis! \nNicole Labruto – PhD Student in History\, Anthropology\, and STS (HASTS)\, Stephen Brophy – Lecturer\, Program in Writing and Humanistic Studies \n The Bride of Frankenstein\nJanuary 24\nThu\n7:00PM-10:00PM\n3-133 \nWhat happens when you build a creature with parts collected from graveyards and gallows\, but neglect to provide him with a companion? He becomes monstrous in his loneliness. But maybe building a companion from the same materials isn’t the best solution? \nStephen Brophy – Lecturer\, Program in Writing and Humanistic Studies\, Marie Burks – PhD Student in History\, Anthropology\, and STS (HASTS) \nDr. Strangelove\nJanuary 31\nThu\n7:00PM-10:00PM\n3-133 \nMad scientists don’t only haunt medieval castles – they also ply their wares in the most up to date War Rooms. What happens when a modern mad scientist builds a Doomsday Machine for the Pentagon? See this movie to learn how to stop worrying and love the Bomb! \nStephen Brophy – Lecturer\, Program in Writing and Humanistic Studies\, Benjamin Wilson – PhD Student in History\, Anthropology\, and STS (HASTS) URL:https://cms.mit.edu/event/alchemists-mad-scientist-faust-to-dr-strangelove/ LOCATION:MIT Building 3\, Room 133\, 33 Massachusetts Ave\, Cambridge\, MA\, 02139\, United States CATEGORIES:Independent Activities Period ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://cms.mit.edu/wp/wp-content/uploads/2014/08/Dr-Strangelove.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20130109T160000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20130109T170000 DTSTAMP:20260403T181459 CREATED:20161027T190623Z LAST-MODIFIED:20161027T190623Z UID:21586-1357747200-1357750800@cms.mit.edu SUMMARY:Reading Programming Code as a Cultural Object DESCRIPTION:Enrollment: Limited: First come\, first served (no advance sign-up)\nPrereq: None \nSo much around us is driven by programs and written in code\, in one or several computer languages. We use algorithms to visualize data\, interpret behaviors\, read trends\, and drive decisions. Programs and algorithms are culturally determined objects\, often observable as aesthetic works or philosophical gestures. It’s time to think more about the cultural aspects of code and what goes on “under the hood” of digital manifestations. How is code written and by whom? Under what conditions? How does code circulate? Where do the creative aspects of programming lie? What do porting code and natural language translation have in common? How do we understand the obsolescence of computer languages? Let’s talk about what it means to start reading code differently\, as cultural objects and statements. Let’s raise the questions that need to be raised. \nSponsor(s): Libraries\, Comparative Media Studies\nContact: Patsy Baudoin\, 14S-230\, 617 253-4979\, patsy@mit.edu URL:https://cms.mit.edu/event/reading-code-cultural-object/ LOCATION:MIT Building 14E\, Room 311\, 160 Memorial Drive\, Cambridge\, MA\, 02139\, United States CATEGORIES:Independent Activities Period ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://cms.mit.edu/wp/wp-content/uploads/2015/12/Independent-Activities-Period.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20130109 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20130117 DTSTAMP:20260403T181459 CREATED:20150327T145806Z LAST-MODIFIED:20150327T145845Z UID:21601-1357689600-1358380799@cms.mit.edu SUMMARY:[For Credit] CMS.S98: Special Subject: Comparative Media Studies Qualitative Data Analysis DESCRIPTION:Jan 9: 4-5pm\nJan 10\, 14\, 16: 2-5pm\nPre-register on WebSIS and attend first class.\nLimited to 12 participants.\nNo listeners \nPrereq: Permission of instructor limited to graduate students only \nLevel: G 3 units Standard A – F Grading Can be repeated for credit \nSeminar or lecture on a topic that is not covered in the regular curriculum. \nThe goal of this class is to provide frameworks and hands on experience in analyzing data collected through interviews\, observations and other qualitative methods. We will cover standards for analysis\, strategies (such as thematic analysis\, discourse analysis\, critical analysis and narrative analysis)\, and analytic processes such as iterative coding\, building matrices\, and pulling out logics. The instructor will provide a data set of selections from interviews with musicians in which they discuss their understanding of the music business\, but if people already have data sets they are eager to work with\, they can do that too. \n \nContact: Becky Shepardson\, bshep@mit.edu URL:https://cms.mit.edu/event/cmss98-comparative-media-studies-qualitative-data-analysis/ LOCATION:Comparative Media Studies: MIT Building E15\, Room 335\, 20 Ames St.\, Cambridge\, MA\, 02139\, United States CATEGORIES:Independent Activities Period END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20130107 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20130201 DTSTAMP:20260403T181459 CREATED:20150121T152251Z LAST-MODIFIED:20150121T152251Z UID:21604-1357516800-1359676799@cms.mit.edu SUMMARY:Individual Consultations at the Writing and Communication Center DESCRIPTION:Enrollment: Limited: Advance sign-up required\nAttendance: Repeating event\, participants welcome at any session\nPrereq: none \nThe Writing Center will continue to offer free consultation and advice on oral presentations and on any writing problem\, including finding a topic\, generating ideas\, overcoming writer’s block\, improving grammar\, crafting effective sentences and paragraphs\, organizing ideas\, using of evidence\, analyzing audiences\, and writing strategically. We can help with technical writing; theses in all departments; job\, graduate and med school application essays; research and teaching statements; resumes; conference talks; articles for publication; book proposals and chapters; and papers for any course. We also offer help on pronunciation. \nSponsor(s): Writing and Communication Center\nContact: Steven Strang\, 12-132\, 617-253-4459\, smstrang@mit.edu URL:https://cms.mit.edu/event/writing-communications-center-individual-consultations/ LOCATION:MIT Building 12\, Room 132\, 60 Vassar Street\, Cambridge\, MA\, 02139\, United States CATEGORIES:Independent Activities Period END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20130107 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20130129 DTSTAMP:20260403T181459 CREATED:20150309T174731Z LAST-MODIFIED:20150309T174731Z UID:21605-1357516800-1359417599@cms.mit.edu SUMMARY:MIT Writers' Group DESCRIPTION:Enrollment: Unlimited: Advance sign-up required\nSign-up by 01/04\nAttendance: Repeating event on the 7th\, 14th\, and 28th\, participants welcome at any session\nPrereq: none \nWant to write something creative but need some motivation or support? Join other writers to get advice about your own writing\, to help other writers\, or to get inspiration to write something to share with the group–any type of creative writing\, including fiction\, poetry\, literary nonfiction\,memoirs\, personal essays\, plays. Open to MIT undergraduate and graduate students\, lecturers\, staff and faculty. \nSponsor(s): Writing and Communication Center\nContact: Steven Strang\, (617) 253-4459\, smstrang@mit.edu URL:https://cms.mit.edu/event/mit-writers-group/ LOCATION:MIT Building 12\, Room 134\, Cambridge\, MA\, 02139\, United States CATEGORIES:Independent Activities Period END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20130105 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20130118 DTSTAMP:20260403T181459 CREATED:20150327T150208Z LAST-MODIFIED:20150327T150208Z UID:21602-1357344000-1358467199@cms.mit.edu SUMMARY:[For Credit] 21W.794: Graduate Technical Writing Workshop DESCRIPTION:Pre-register on WebSIS and attend first class.\nListeners welcome at individual sessions (series)\nPrereq: Level: G 3 units Standard A – F Grading \nDraft a thesis proposal\, thesis chapter\, journal article\, progress report\, or specification\, and review basics of engineering writing. Sessions cover the processes of organizing and drafting professional papers\, improving writing style\, and revising documents. Students determine own projects; each project increment receives instructor’s editorial suggestions. \nIAP version:This course focuses on improving your ability to communicate technical information. Through a combination of lecture\, assignments\, and in-class writing exercises\, we will cover the basics of working with sources\, including summarizing & paraphrasing\, synthesizing source materials\, citing\, quoting\, and avoiding plagiarism. We will also cover how to write an abstract and a literature review. \nYou must attend all three meetings. No rescheduling is possible. NO LISTENERS.\nContact: Nick Altenbernd\, 14E-303\, x3-7894\, altenb@mit.edu \nSteven Strang\, Pamela Siska\nThis section is for Mechanical Engineering students or others who need this time.\nTue Jan 15\, 22\, Thu Jan 24\, 10am-01:00pm\, 2-147 \nSteven Strang\, Pamela Siska\nThis section is for Aero-Astro students\, and Chemical Engineering students or others who need this time.\nTue Jan 15\, 22\, Thu Jan 24\, 02-05:00pm\, 2-147 \nSteven Strang\, Pamela Siska\nThis section is for Civil-Environ Engr students\, Media Studies students\, and Nuclear Engineering students or others who need this time.\nThu Jan 17\, Wed Jan 23\, Fri Jan 25\, 10am-01:00pm\, 2-147 \nSteven Strang\, Pamela Siska\nThis section is for Supply Chain Management students\, and TPP-ESD students or others who need this time.\n>Thu Jan 17\, Wed Jan 23\, Fri Jan 25\, 02-05:00pm\, 2-147 URL:https://cms.mit.edu/event/21w794-graduate-technical-writing-workshop/ LOCATION:MIT Building 2\, Room 147\, 182 Memorial Drive\, Cambridge\, MA\, 02139\, United States CATEGORIES:Independent Activities Period END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20121206T170000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20121206T190000 DTSTAMP:20260403T181459 CREATED:20150325T183327Z LAST-MODIFIED:20161221T201012Z UID:21563-1354813200-1354820400@cms.mit.edu SUMMARY:New Forms\, New Markets for Independent Film DESCRIPTION:Independent film-maker Andrew Silver will discuss emerging forms of hybrid media\, some promising new pathways for distributing films and his career as a director and producer in this colloquium\, which will include clips from his most recent film\, Second Wind. Debra Wise of MIT’s Central Square Theater will join the discussion. Andrew and Debra played husband and wife in Radio Cape Cod\, a Silver production shot in Woods Hole. Andrew Silver is a graduate of MIT and the Harvard Business School\, co-author of a chapter in the HBS anthology Breakthrough Thinking\, and a long-time member of the Council for the Arts at MIT. His films are distributed by Tesco\, the second largest global retail chain: \n\nSecond Wind\, 13 min\nOverboard\, 16 min\nDownward Facing\, 6 min URL:https://cms.mit.edu/event/andrew-silver-new-forms-new-markets-independent-film/ LOCATION:MIT Building 4\, Room 231\, Cambridge\, MA\, 02139\, United States CATEGORIES:Colloquium ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://cms.mit.edu/wp/wp-content/uploads/2015/03/andrew-silver.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20121129T173000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20121129T173000 DTSTAMP:20260403T181459 CREATED:20150107T191729Z LAST-MODIFIED:20211020T202705Z UID:21577-1354210200-1354210200@cms.mit.edu SUMMARY:GO ASK A.L.I.C.E: A Panel Discussion DESCRIPTION:The Collection of Historical Scientific Instruments at Harvard University’s Department of the History of Science is hosting a semester-long exhibit\, “GO ASK A.L.I.C.E: Turing Tests\, Parlor Games\, & Chatterbots”\, highlighted in part by this special panel discussion on November 29. \nGO ASK A.L.I.C.E explores the strange afterlife of the Turing Test as it has circulated in popular\, scientific\, and commercial cultures. It reexamines elements of Alan Turing‘s own interactions with humans and machines\, later imaginations of thinking machines\, as well as a famous attempt to translate Turing’s parlor game into a real test of artificial intelligence: the Loebner Prize. URL:https://cms.mit.edu/event/go-ask-alice-panel-discussion/ LOCATION:Harvard University Science Center\, Room 469\, 1 Oxford St\, Cambridge\, MA\, 02138\, United States ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://cms.mit.edu/wp/wp-content/uploads/2012/12/goa_web_001.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20121129T170000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20121129T190000 DTSTAMP:20260403T181459 CREATED:20150309T173159Z LAST-MODIFIED:20150309T173238Z UID:21569-1354208400-1354215600@cms.mit.edu SUMMARY:Minding the News DESCRIPTION:Sponsored by the MIT Imagination\, Computation\, and Expression Laboratory (ICE Lab) \nSee Part 1 of this series\, from September 6\, featuring Francis Steen. \nMark Turner\nThe Red Hen Lab is a distributed laboratory for the study of network news. In an earlier talk\, Professor Francis Steen provided a technical overview of the activities of Red Hen and surveyed the study by Francis Steen and Mark Turner of international network news coverage of the Anders Bering Brevik event in Oslo\, Norway\, in July\, 2011\, with an emphasis on the way in which network news is occupied with the assessment of culpability\, blame\, and credit. \nThis talk will discuss research on the cognitive underpinnings of network news\, with an emphasis on blended joint attention\, story-telling\, counterfactuality\, and hypotheticals. \nMark Turner is Institute Professor and Professor of Cognitive Science at Case Western Reserve University. \nHe is the founding director of the Cognitive Science Network. His most recent book publications are Ten Lectures on Mind and Language and two edited volumes\, The Artful Mind: Cognitive Science and the Riddle of Human Creativity\, and Meaning\, Form\, & Body\, edited with Fey Parrill and Vera Tobin. His other publications include Cognitive Dimensions of Social Science: The Way We Think about Politics\, Economics\, Law\, and Society\, The Literary Mind: The Origins of Thought and Language\, and many more. He has been a fellow of the Institute for Advanced Study\, the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation\, the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences\, the National Humanities Center\, the National Endowment for the Humanities\, and the Institute of Advanced Study of Durham University. He is a fellow of the Institute for the Science of Origins\, external research professor at the Krasnow Institute for Advanced Study in Cognitive Neuroscience\, distinguished fellow at the New England Institute for Cognitive Science and Evolutionary Psychology\, and Extraordinary Member of the Humanwissenschaftsliches Zentrum. In 1996\, the Académie française awarded him the Prix du Rayonnement de la langue et de la littérature françaises. For 2011-2012\, he is a fellow of the Centre for Advanced Study at the Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters. URL:https://cms.mit.edu/event/minding-the-news/ LOCATION:MIT Media Lab\, Room 633\, 75 Amherst St.\, Cambridge\, MA\, 02139\, United States CATEGORIES:Colloquium ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://cms.mit.edu/wp/wp-content/uploads/2012/11/538px-MarkTurnerWikipedia.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20121115T170000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20121115T190000 DTSTAMP:20260403T181459 CREATED:20141121T155504Z LAST-MODIFIED:20141121T155504Z UID:21568-1352998800-1353006000@cms.mit.edu SUMMARY:Cultural Production and Social Media as Capture Platforms: How the Matrix Has You DESCRIPTION:Hector Postigo\nThis presentation develops a theoretical framework (rooted in Science and Technology Studies) for understanding how\, generally\, social media’s technical feature-sets create a system of capture and conversion. Capture describes the persistent ways in which social web platforms record and fix online/offline social and technical practices. Conversion applies to the way in which technical architectures convert what is captured into value (both culturally contingent and economic). The notions of capture and conversion are developed in light of other work in the field that seeks to understand how social web platforms use technology to leverage user generated content (UGC). The framework bridges a focus on ongoing social practice within/through platforms with analysis of technology as a determinant of probable practice. Ultimately this work is part of a larger project that seeks to develop a way of critically engaging the political economy of the social web while at the same time not ignoring the subject positions of those whose lives on display make it compelling. \nHector Postigo is Associate Professor in Media Studies and Production at Temple University’s School of Media and Communication. He is the co-founder of the blog culturedigitally.org and most recently the author of The Digital Rights Movement: The Role of Technology in Subverting Digital Copyright from MIT Press and co-editor of Managing Privacy Through Accountability from Palgrave Press. His research is funded by the National Science Foundation and the European Commission. He teaches and writes about video game culture\, labor in digital networks\, and privacy and copyright on the social web. URL:https://cms.mit.edu/event/hector-postigo-cultural-production-social-media-as-capture-platforms/ LOCATION:Comparative Media Studies: MIT Building E15\, Room 335\, 20 Ames St.\, Cambridge\, MA\, 02139\, United States CATEGORIES:Colloquium ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://cms.mit.edu/wp/wp-content/uploads/2012/11/HectorPostigo2.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20121109 DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20121111 DTSTAMP:20260403T181459 CREATED:20141216T142444Z LAST-MODIFIED:20141216T142514Z UID:21572-1352419200-1352591999@cms.mit.edu SUMMARY:Futures of Entertainment 6 DESCRIPTION:Futures of Entertainment is an annual event exploring the current state and future of media properties\, brands\, and audiences. This year’s event\, Nov. 9-10 at MIT\, will look at how media producers and audiences are relating to one another in new ways in a spreadable media landscape. \nRegister at the FOE website. URL:https://cms.mit.edu/event/futures-of-entertainment-6/ LOCATION:MIT Building E51\, Wong Auditorium\, 70 Memorial Drive\, Cambridge\, MA\, 02139\, United States CATEGORIES:Conference ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://cms.mit.edu/wp/wp-content/uploads/2014/12/Futures-of-Entertainment-6.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20121108T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20121108T210000 DTSTAMP:20260403T181459 CREATED:20150326T140517Z LAST-MODIFIED:20201206T214104Z UID:21571-1352401200-1352408400@cms.mit.edu SUMMARY:New Media in West Africa DESCRIPTION:(Note time.) \nThis forum launches the Futures of Entertainment 6 conference at MIT. Despite many infrastructural and economic hurdles\, entertainment media industries are burgeoning in West Africa. Today\, the Nigerian cinema market–“Nollywood”–is the second largest in the world in terms of the annual volume of films distributed behind only the Indian film industry. And an era of digital distribution has empowered content created in Lagos\, or Accra\, to spread across geographic and cultural boundaries. New commercial models for distribution as well as international diasporic networks have driven the circulation of this material. But so has rampant piracy and the unofficial online circulation of this content. What innovations are emerging from West Africa? How has Nigerian cinema in particular influenced local television and film markets in other countries across West Africa\, and across the continent? What does the increasing visibility of West African popular culture mean for this region–especially as content crosses various cultural contexts\, within and outside the region? And what challenges does West Africa face in continuing to develop its entertainment industries? \n \nDerrick N. Ashong leads the band Soulfège\, a group that produces an eclectic blend of hip-hop\, reggae\, funk\, world beat and West African highlife music and has been featured in such major media as MTV Africa and NPR. Also known as DNA\, which is the name of his blog\, Ashong hosted Oprah Radio’s The Derrick Ashong Experience and Al-Jazeera English’s social media TV show The Stream. \nFadzi Makanda is a business development manager in the New York office for iROKO Partners\, a distributor of African—and particularly Nollywood—entertainment. Makanda leads the development and execution of U.S. advertising sales strategies for the company. \nColin M. Maclay is the managing director of the Berkman Center for Internet & Society at Harvard Law School. Both as co-founder of Harvard’s International Technologies Group and at Berkman\, Maclay’s research pairs hands-on multi-stakeholder collaborations with the generation of data that reveal trends\, challenges and opportunities for the integration of communications technologies in developing communities. \nRalph Simon is founder of the Mobilium Advisory Group\, which studies innovation in mobile usage in such countries as Nigeria\, Kenya\, Uganda and South Africa. He has served as an executive at Capitol Records\, Blue Note Records\, and EMI Music\, and he co-founded the Zomba Group with Clive Calder of South Africa. Simon earned the title “Father of the Ring Tone” when he created the first ring tone company in 1997. URL:https://cms.mit.edu/event/media-media-in-west-africa/ LOCATION:MIT Building E25\, Room 111\, 45 Carleton Street\, Cambridge\, MA\, 02139\, United States CATEGORIES:Communications Forum ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://cms.mit.edu/wp/wp-content/uploads/2012/11/DNA-Head-no-H2O.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20121101T170000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20121101T190000 DTSTAMP:20260403T181459 CREATED:20141202T160818Z LAST-MODIFIED:20150611T154457Z UID:21567-1351789200-1351796400@cms.mit.edu SUMMARY:Digitizing the Culture of Print: The Digital Public Library of America and Other Urgent Projects DESCRIPTION:The role of the library in the digital age is one of the compelling questions of our era. How are libraries coping with the promise and perils of our impending digital future? What urgent initiatives are underway to assure universal access to our print inheritance and to the digital communication forms of the future? How is the very idea of the library changing? These and related questions will engage our distinguished panelists\, who represent both research and public libraries and two of whom serve on the steering committee for the Digital Public Library of America. \nRobert Darnton is Carl H. Pforzheimer University Professor at Harvard\, Director of the Harvard University Library and one of America’s most distinguished historians. He serves on the steering committee of the Digital Public Library of America and has been a trustees of the New York Public Library since 1995. In a recent essay in the New York Review of Books\, Darnton defended a NYPL plan to liquidate some branches in the system while renovating the main Fifth Avenue branch. The essay sparked a number of responses. In November of last year\, Darnton provided a status report on the DPLA. Darnton is the author of many influential books including The Case for Books\, Past\, Present\, and Future and The Great Cat Massacre. \nSusan Flannery is director of libraries for the City of Cambridge and past president of the Massachusetts Library Association. URL:https://cms.mit.edu/event/digital-public-library-of-america-digitizing-culture-of-print/ LOCATION:MIT Media Lab\, Room 633\, 75 Amherst St.\, Cambridge\, MA\, 02139\, United States CATEGORIES:Communications Forum ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://cms.mit.edu/wp/wp-content/uploads/2008/10/artworks-000049284438-l2bc6u-t200x200.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20121101T140000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20121101T160000 DTSTAMP:20260403T181459 CREATED:20150211T202603Z LAST-MODIFIED:20150211T202940Z UID:23549-1351778400-1351785600@cms.mit.edu SUMMARY:Online Information Session DESCRIPTION: URL:https://cms.mit.edu/event/online-information-session-110112/ LOCATION:cms.mit.edu CATEGORIES:Information Session ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://cms.mit.edu/wp/wp-content/uploads/2013/09/chat.png END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR