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.
MIT Graduate Program in Comparative Media Studies
Studying Media and Making Media
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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.
The Tip of the Iceberg: Sound Studies and the Future of Afrofuturism
MIT Building 56, Room 114 Access via 21 Ames Street, Cambridge, MAandré carrington's research on the cultural politics of race in science fiction radio drama aims to expand the repertoire of literary adaptation studies by reintegrating critical perspectives from marginal and popular sectors of the media landscape into the advancing agendas of Afrofuturism and decolonization.
Visual Representations of Race and Gender: Analyzing “Me” in #IfTheyGunnedMeDown on Tumblr
MIT Building 56, Room 114 Access via 21 Ames Street, Cambridge, MAJenny Korn uses critical race theories and intersectional feminist theories to analyze the visual and textual content of the blog #IfTheyGunnedMeDown to reveal constructions of social justice, respectability politics, media biases, racial stereotypes, viral popularity, and hashtag activism on Tumblr.
Sound, the First Rule of Immersion
Open Doc Lab: MIT Building E15, Room 318 20 Ames Street, Cambridge, MASome say sound is 50% of immersion in VR but also AR and XR. How does it translate to new platforms? How should we think of music, sound, audio and texture in immersive media productions? With its patented sound design, HeadSpace Studio has been designing sound spaces and 360 environments for pioneering experiences.
Moving Broadband from Sea to Land: Internet Infrastructure and Digital Labor in Tanzania
MIT Building 56, Room 114 Access via 21 Ames Street, Cambridge, MACMS/W Professor Lisa Parks presents what keeps low-income Tanzanians from accessing broadband services despite four undersea cable landings and an innovative regulatory regime.
Music Fandom and the Shaping of Online Culture
MIT Building 56, Room 114 Access via 21 Ames Street, Cambridge, MANancy Baym: "By the time musicians and industry figures realized they could use the internet to reach audiences directly, those audiences had already established their presences and social norms online, putting them in unprecedented positions of power."
CMS Graduate Thesis Presentations – 2018
MIT Building W20, Room 491 84 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge, MAFood porn, banhammers, and the memes of production -- it's time for the 2018 CMS thesis presentations. Open to the public. You are welcome to attend as many or as few presentations as you wish.
Vibranium Culture: Race, Gender, Technology, and History in Black Panther (#WakandaUniversity)
MIT Black Students' Union Lounge (Building 50, Room 105) 142 Memorial Drive, Cambridge, MAA discussion of Black Panther at the MIT Black Students' Union Lounge, co-organized by Annis Rachel Sands (CMS master's student) and Ángel R. Rodríguez (Harvard University Ph.D. candidate).
The City Talks: Storytelling at the New York Times’s Metro Desk
MIT Building 56, Room 114 Access via 21 Ames Street, Cambridge, MAEmily Rueb, a reporter for The New York Times, will share insights gained in bursting boundaries of traditional storytelling for The New York Times's Metro desk -- weaving video, audio, illustrations and text across multiple platforms.
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.
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