An Evening with Sarah Vowell
MIT Building 26, Room 100 Access Via 60 Vassar Street, Cambridge, MAOn October 5th, best-selling author Sarah Vowell brings history and humor to MIT.
MIT Graduate Program in Comparative Media Studies
Studying Media and Making Media
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Ecological Criticism in the Age of the Database
MIT Building 56, Room 114 Access via 21 Ames Street, Cambridge, MASean 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.
Mapping Climate Change: Contested Futures in New York City’s Flood Zone
MIT Building 56, Room 114 Access via 21 Ames Street, Cambridge, MAExplore 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.
Cloud Policy: Anatomy of a Regulatory Crisis
MIT Building 56, Room 114 Access via 21 Ames Street, Cambridge, MAJennifer 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.
CMS Graduate Admissions Information Session
MIT Building E51, Room 095 70 Memorial Drive, Cambridge, MACMS Graduate Admissions Information Session Come meet faculty and students, learn about the program and ask questions. Light refreshments provided. November 16, 2017 11AM-1 PM E51-095 Can'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 […]
Fall 2017 Alumni Panel: Matthew Weise, Karen Schrier Shaenfield, Ainsley Sutherland, and Beyza Boyacioglu
MIT Building 56, Room 114 Access via 21 Ames Street, Cambridge, MAJoin 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.
Science Writing Admissions Information Session
MIT Building 14E, Room 304 160 Memorial Drive, Cambridge, MAScience Writing Admissions Information Session Come meet faculty, learn about the program and ask questions. Light refreshments provided. November 17, 2017 2-4PM 14E-304 Can'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.
Has Silicon Valley Lost Its Humanity?
MIT Building 3, Room 270 33 Massachusetts Ave (Rear), Cambridge, MAAuthor Noam Cohen, technology critic Sara M. Watson, and technology journalist Christina Couch discuss the rise of Silicon Valley and whether the drive for innovation degrades our humanity.
The Emotional Politics of Piracy, Or Why We Feel Intellectual Property Infringement as National Trauma
MIT Building 56, Room 114 Access via 21 Ames Street, Cambridge, MAAnjali Vats: "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."
India and Indianisms: Documentary Master Classes
Open area opposite E15-320 20 Ames Street, Cambridge, MACome attend screenings of documentary films followed by discussions on a few things that define India today – love, innovation and spies.
SO BAD IT’S GOOD: An Introduction to Media Analysis Through Watching Bad Media
MIT Building 5, Room 217 55 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge, MAWhat 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?”
From Augmented to Virtual Learning: Affordances of Different Mixes of Reality for Learning
MIT Building 56, Room 114 Access via 21 Ames Street, Cambridge, MAEric Klopfer asks, what theories and evidence can we generate and build upon to provide a foundation for using augmented and virtual reality technologies productively for learning?
ICTs for Refugees and Displaced Persons
MIT Building 56, Room 114 Access via 21 Ames Street, Cambridge, MACarleen Maitland introduces the terms "digital refugee" and "digital humanitarian brokerage" as she previews her new edited volume Digital Lifeline? ICTs for Refugees and Displaced Persons.
The (Non)Americans: Tracking and Analyzing Russian Influence Operations on Twitter
MIT Building 56, Room 114 Access via 21 Ames Street, Cambridge, MAUniversity of North Carolina's Deen Freelon will explain how he and his collaborators are addressing challenges to analyzing Russian political influence operations and present key preliminary findings from their ongoing project focused on this campaign.
Designing for a Neurodiverse World
MIT Building 3, Room 270 33 Massachusetts Ave (Rear), Cambridge, MASometimes simple changes can significantly expand accessibility to people who have neurological differences like autism, dyslexia, ADHD, or epilepsy, but designers and policymakers frequently aren’t aware of issues affecting this neurodiverse community.
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