Republican Resistance in the Age of Trump
MIT Building 3, Room 270 33 Massachusetts Ave (Rear), Cambridge, MAStuart Stevens believes Republicans are in a “GOP apocalypse,” and he’s mobilizing conservatives to stop it.
MIT Graduate Program in Comparative Media Studies
Studying Media and Making Media
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Between Participation and Control: A Long History of CCTV
MIT Building 56, Room 114 Access via 21 Ames Street, Cambridge, MAThis talk by Anne-Katrin Weber explores the politics of CCTV, highlighting the adaptability of closed-circuit technologies, which accommodate to, and underpin variable contexts of media participation as well as of surveillance and control.
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Bunk and the History of Hoaxes with Kevin Young
MIT Building 3, Room 270 33 Massachusetts Ave (Rear), Cambridge, MABefore fake news dominated headlines, Kevin Young was tracking down its roots.
Ordinary Violence and Network Form: On #blacklivesmatter
MIT Building 56, Room 114 Access via 21 Ames Street, Cambridge, MAScott C. Richmond argues that what is at stake in #blacklivesmatter is a Black political form that is also an emphatically network form, operating below, beyond, and to the side of what can be practiced, grasped at the level of the individual, of intention, and of representation.
Imperial Arrangements: South African Apartheid and the Force of Photography
MIT Building 56, Room 114 Access via 21 Ames Street, Cambridge, MAKimberly Juanita Brown will focus on US news media coverage of apartheid in the last year of its existence, and the images that anchored viewers' interpretation of the event.
Civic Arts Series: Erik Loyer
MIT Building E15, Room 001 ("The Cube") 20 Ames Street, Cambridge, MAErik Loyer's award-winning work explores new blends of game dynamics, poetic expression and interactive visual storytelling.
Thomas Allen Harris: “Collective Wisdom” Keynote
MIT Media Lab, Bartos Theater 20 Ames Street, Cambridge, MAIn conversation with MIT Professor Vivek Bald, critically-acclaimed filmmaker and artist Thomas Allen Harris will reveal his process, experiences, and unexpected outcomes working with communities in online and offline shared spaces and places. Livestream starting at 5pm.
Civic Arts Series: Daniel Bacchieri
MIT Building E15, Room 001 ("The Cube") 20 Ames Street, Cambridge, MABrazilian journalist Daniel Bacchieri and his StreetMusicMap collaborators are exploring the creative possibilities of collective story-telling through performance.
Civic Arts Series: Marisa Morán Jahn
MIT Building E15, Room 001 ("The Cube") 20 Ames Street, Cambridge, MAMarisa Morán Jahn is a multi-media artist, writer, educator and activist, whose colorful, often humorous uses of personae and media create imaginative pathways to civic awareness of urgent public issues.
#MoreThanCode: Practitioner-led Research to Reimagine Technology for Social Justice
MIT Building 56, Room 114 Access via 21 Ames Street, Cambridge, MASasha Costanza-Chock explores key findings and recommendations from #MoreThanCode (morethancode.cc), a recently-released field scan based on more than 100 practitioner interviews.
2018 Graduate Admissions Information Session
MIT Building E51, Room 095 70 Memorial Drive, Cambridge, MAMeet faculty and research managers, learn about the program, and ask questions.
2018 CMS Alumni Panel
MIT Building 56, Room 114 Access via 21 Ames Street, Cambridge, MAOn the heels of the day’s graduate program information session, join us for our annual colloquium featuring alumni of CMS, discussing their lives from MIT to their careers today.
Screening of Awake: A Dream from Standing Rock
MIT Building 32 (Stata Center), Room 155 32 Vassar Street, Cambridge, MAFilmmakers Myron Dewey, Josh Fox and James Spione spent months on the front lines documenting North Dakota’s violent response to the peaceful water protectors.
Civic Arts Series: Myron Dewey
MIT Building E15, Room 001 ("The Cube") 20 Ames Street, Cambridge, MAMyron Dewey has pioneered the blending of citizen monitoring, documentary filmmaking, and social networking in the cause of environment, social justice and indigenous people's rights.
The Language of Civic Life: Past to Present
MIT Building 56, Room 114 Access via 21 Ames Street, Cambridge, MAThe University of Texas' Roderick Hart argues that disagreements – endless, raucous disagreements – draw citizens in, or at least enough of them to sustain civic hope.
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