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SUMMARY:Machine Visions
DESCRIPTION:Machine Visions is a grad student-run event series focused on developing cross-department connections around topics related to computer vision at MIT. We are interested in workshopping questions and gathering resources around collaboration between the general public\, artists/humanists\, research scientists\, and other technologists. \nThe event series starts with a workshare/workshop on March 19\, 6:00 to 8:30 pm in building E15\, dinner provided. We want to start building a resource repo for a Collaboration Starter Kit around machine vision projects. The aim is to build a strong base of questions\, resources\, and conversation starters towards an on-site installation at the Media in Transition conference in May. Our first workshare/workshop will provide an opportunity to meet and collaborate with students and affiliates from departments across campus\, including Comparative Media Studies\, Art Culture and Technology\, and the Media Lab. \nThe exact topic will be flexible depending on interest\, but we are coming to the table with an emphasis on artistic applications\, environmental impact\, ethics\, surveillance\, and accessibility. We aim for participants to walk away with ideas about how to collaborate with others outside their discipline to explore these topics in their own work. \nIf you have related projects/ideas you would be willing to discuss/workshop at any of these events\, are interested in collaborating on a computer vision installation\, or are generally interested in conversation around these topics—and can make it to the first meeting—please let us know. \nRSVP to machinevisions-contact@mit.edu
URL:https://cms.mit.edu/event/machine-visions/
LOCATION:MIT Building 10\, Room 150\, MA\, 02139\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20190320T170000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20190320T183000
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SUMMARY:Civic Arts Series\, "Gaming the Iron Curtain: Computer Games in Communist Czechoslovakia as Entertainment and Activism"
DESCRIPTION:Jaroslav Švelch\, Postdoctoral Researcher\, University of Bergen\nBased on the recent book Gaming the Iron Curtain\, this lecture will outline the idiosyncratic and surprising ways in which computer hobbyists in Cold War era Czechoslovakia challenged the power of the oppressive political regime and harnessed early microcomputer technology for both entertainment and activism. In the 1970s and 1980s\, Czechoslovak authorities treated computer and information technologies as an industrial resource rather than a social or cultural phenomenon. While dismissing the importance of home computing and digital entertainment\, they sponsored paramilitary computer clubs whose ostensible goal was to train expert cadres for the army and the centrally planned economy. But these clubs soon became a largely apolitical\, interconnected enthusiast network\, where two forms of tactical resistance could be identified. First\, the clubs offered an alternative spaces of communal hobby activity\, partially independent of the oppression experienced at work or at school. The club members’ ambitious DIY projects often substituted for the deficiencies of the state-controlled computer industry. Hobbyists not only built joysticks and programmed games\, but also introduced new standards for data storage and ran large-scale bottom-up education programs. Second\, especially in the late 1980s\, local authors started making games that were openly subversive. Several anti-regime text adventure games were made in 1988 and 1989\, including The Adventures of Indiana Jones on Wenceslas Square\, January 16\, 1989\, which pitted the iconic Western hero against riot police during an anti-regime demonstration. These games rank among the world’s earliest examples of activist computer games. \nAbout Jaroslav Švelch\nJaroslav Švelch is a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Bergen and assistant professor at Charles University\, Prague. He is the author of the monograph Gaming the Iron Curtain: How Teenagers and Amateurs in Communist Czechoslovakia Claimed the Medium of Computer Games (MIT Press\, 2018). He has published research on history and theory of computer games\, on humor in games and social media\, and on the Grammar Nazi phenomenon. His work has been published in journals including New Media & Society\, International Journal of Communication\, or Game Studies\, and in anthologies published by Oxford University Press\, Bloomsbury and others. He is currently researching history\, theory\, and reception of monsters in games.
URL:https://cms.mit.edu/event/jaroslav-svelch-gaming-the-iron-curtain/
LOCATION:MIT Building 4\, Room 270\, 182 Memorial Drive (Rear)\, Cambridge\, MA\, 02139\, United States
CATEGORIES:Civic Arts,Colloquium
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20190403T170000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20190403T183000
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SUMMARY:The Battle of Algiers as Ghost Archive: Specters of a Muslim International
DESCRIPTION:The Battle of Algiers\, a 1966 film that poetically captures Algerian resistance to French colonial occupation\, is widely considered one of the greatest films of all time\, having influenced leftist and anti-colonial struggles from the Palestine Liberation Organization\, to the Black Panther Party and the Irish Republican Army amongst others. But the film is more relevant and urgent than ever in the current “War on Terror” – having been screened by the Pentagon in 2003 and taught in Army war colleges as a blueprint for U.S. counterinsurgency doctrine. This talk will examine the film as a “ghost archive” of competing narratives\, a battleground over the meaning and memory of decolonization and Western power\, and a site for challenging the current imperial consensus. As the “War on Terror” expands and the threat of the Muslim looms\, the films’ afterlives reveal it to be more than an artifact of the past but rather a prophetic testament to the present and a cautionary tale of an imperial future\, as perpetual war has been declared on permanent unrest. \nCo-Sponsored by Global Studies & Languages’ French Program. \nAbout Sohail Daulatzai\nSohail Daulatzai\, author and founder of Razor Step\nSohail Daulatzai’s is the founder of Razor Step\, an L.A. based media lab. His work includes scholarship\, essay\, short film/video/installation and the curatorial. He is the author and co/editor of several books\, including of Fifty Years of “The Battle of Algiers”: Past as Prologue; Black Star\, Crescent Moon: The Muslim International and Black Freedom beyond America; With Stones in Our Hands: Writings on Muslims\, Racism and Empire; Return of the Mecca: The Art of Islam and Hip-Hop; and Born to Use Mics: Reading Nas’s Illmatic.  He is the curator of the celebrated exhibit Return of the Mecca: The Art of Islam and Hip-Hop and Histories Absolved: Revolutionary Cuban Poster Art and the Muslim International. His video/installation work includes short film essay pieces with Yasiin Bey\, a ciné-geography with Zack de la Rocha\, as well as an installation piece entitled cas·bah /ˈkazˌbä/noun\, 1. A place of confinement for the natives\, yet reclaimed. He wrote liner notes for the Sony Legacy Recordings Release of the 20th Anniversary Deluxe Box Set of Rage Against the Machine’s self titled debut album\, the liner notes for the DVD release of Freestyle: The Art of Rhyme\, the centerpiece in the museum catalog Movement: Hip-Hop in L.A.\, 1980’s – Now\, as well as an essay in iconic photographer Jamel Shabazz’s retrospective Pieces of a Man.  His other writings have appeared in Artbound\, The Nation\, Counterpunch\, Al Jazeera\, Souls\, and Wax Poetics\, amongst others. He teaches in Film and Media Studies\, African American Studies\, and Global Middle East Studies at the University of California\, Irvine. More of his work can be found at openedveins.com.
URL:https://cms.mit.edu/event/sohail-daulatzai-battle-of-algiers-ghost-archive/
LOCATION:MIT Building 4\, Room 270\, 182 Memorial Drive (Rear)\, Cambridge\, MA\, 02139\, United States
CATEGORIES:Colloquium
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20190410T170000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20190410T183000
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SUMMARY:Civic Arts Series: “Thumbs Type and Swipe” featuring DIS's Lauren Boyle
DESCRIPTION:Lauren Boyle – Illustration by Mauricio Cordero\nIntroduction by Amy Rosenblum Martín\, Independent Curator and Educator\, Guggenheim \n\nDIS (est. 2010)  is a New York-based collective composed of Lauren Boyle\, Solomon Chase\, Marco Roso\, and David Toro. Its cultural interventions are manifest across a range of media and platforms\, from site-specific museum and gallery exhibitions to ongoing online projects. \nIn 2018 the collective transitioned platforms from an online magazine\, dismagazine.com\, to a video streaming edutainment platform\, dis.art\, narrowing in on the future of education and entertainment. \nDIS Magazine (2010-2017); DISimages (2013)\, DISown (2014)\, Curators of the 9th Berlin Biennale for Contemporary Art\, The Present in Drag (2016); DIS.art (2018–); Exhibited and organized shows at the de Young Museum\, San Francisco; La Casa Encendida\, Madrid; Plug In Institute of Contemporary Art\, Winnipeg; Baltimore Museum of Art; and Project Native Informant\, London. DIS has also been included in group exhibitions at MoMA PS1\, Museum of Modern Art\, and the New Museum all in New York; and Musée d’Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris; ICA Boston; Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago; and Kunsthal Charlottenborg\, Copenhagen\, among others. \nThe material presented by DIS today is the result of a change in attitude towards the present and aims to meet the demands of contemporary social\, political\, and economic complexity at eye level. \n\nIntroducer Amy Rosenblum Martín is a bilingual (English/Spanish) curator of contemporary art\, committed to equity and community engagement. Formerly a staff curator at the Pérez Art Museum Miami (when it was MAM) and The Bronx Museum\, she has also organized exhibitions\, written and/or lectured independently for la Colección Patricia Phelps de Cisneros\, MoMA\, The Metropolitan\, MACBA in Barcelona\, the Reina Sofía\, and Kunsthaus Bregenz as well as the Sugar Hill Children’s Museum. Her 20 years of interdepartmental museum work include 10 years at the Guggenheim. Rosenblum Martín’s expertise is in Latin America\, focusing on transhistorical connections among Buenos Aires\, Montevideo\, Rio de Janeiro\, São Paulo\, Caracas\, Havana\, Miami\, and New York. \nShe has worked with Janine Antoni\, Lothar Baumgarten\, Guy Ben-Ner\, Janet Cardiff\, Eloísa Cartonera\, Consuelo Castañeda\, Lygia Clark\, Willie Cole\, Jeannette Ehlers\, Teresita Fernández\, Naomi Fisher\, Marlon Griffith\, Lucio Fontana\, Dara Friedman\, Luis Gispert\, Felix Gonzalez-Torres\, Adler Guerrier\, Ann Hamilton\, Quisqueya Henríquez\, Leslie Hewitt\, Nadia Huggins\, Deborah Jack\, Seydou Keita\, Gyula Kosice\, Matthieu Laurette\, Miguel Luciano\, Gordon Matta-Clark\, Ana Mendieta\, Antoni Miralda\, Marisa Morán Jahn\, Glexis Novoa\, Hélio Oiticica\, Dennis Oppenheim\, Nam June Paik\, Manuel Piña\, Miguel Angel Ríos\, Bert Rodriguez\, Marco Roso\, Nancy Rubins\, George Sánchez-Calderón\, Beatriz Santiago Muñoz\, Tomás Saraceno\, Karin Schneider\, Regina Silveira\, Lorna Simpson\, Valeska Soares\, Javier Tellez\, Joaquín Torres García\, and Fred Wilson\, among many other remarkable artists.
URL:https://cms.mit.edu/event/lauren-boyle-dis-thumbs-type-and-swipe/
LOCATION:MIT Building 4\, Room 270\, 182 Memorial Drive (Rear)\, Cambridge\, MA\, 02139\, United States
CATEGORIES:Civic Arts,Colloquium
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20190417T170000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20190417T183000
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SUMMARY:Civic Arts Series\, "Do-it Yourself Cinema: Portable Film Projectors as Media History"
DESCRIPTION:Haidee WassonIllustration by Mauricio Cordero\nHosted with MIT Arts\, Culture\, and Technology and The Boston Cinema/Media Seminar. \nIntroduction by Lisa Parks\, Professor\, CMS/W \nHaidee Wasson’s talk will explore the long and vibrant place of portable film devices in the history of small media\, repositioning the ‘movie theatre’ as the singular or even central figuration of film presentation and viewing. From its earliest days\, film was – in a sense – born portable. Yet\, our attention to and affection for the movie theater has obscured our view to the parallel and paradigmatic development of a far more numerous and arguably more significant development: the international\, post-war proliferation of portable projectors. These small devices were used widely and for a sizable range of purposes: political\, industrial\, artistic\, cultural. They fundamentally changed the conditions in which films could be seen — and ultimately imagined — as complex projected\, often interactive and highly applied\, forms. Drawn from a book-length study\, this paper will highlight the productivity of “portability” as a concept and practice for opening up our understanding of film history as media history\, identifying key insights that expand our understanding of what cinema has long been\, a highly iterative media form. \nHaidee Wasson is Professor of Film and Media in the School of Cinema\, Concordia University\, Montreal.  She is author or editor of four books\, including the award-winning Museum Movies\, Inventing Film Studies (with Lee Grieveson) Useful Cinema  (with Charles Acland) and Cinema’s Military Industrial Complex (with Lee Grieveson). She is the founder of Fieldnotes\, an oral history project on the history of film and media studies\, and the recent recipient of the Distinguished Service Award\, Society for Cinema and Media Studies.  Her current research investigates the design and expansive use of film projectors by industrial\, military and government sectors\, exploring the transformation of cinema from an entertainment machine into a highly diversified display and performance device.
URL:https://cms.mit.edu/event/civic-arts-series-do-it-yourself-cinema-portable-film-projectors-as-media-history/
LOCATION:MIT Building 4\, Room 270\, 182 Memorial Drive (Rear)\, Cambridge\, MA\, 02139\, United States
CATEGORIES:Civic Arts
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20190501T170000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20190501T183000
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SUMMARY:POSTPONED: “No Yankee Rule for Us”: Annexation Rumors and the Interwar Circum-Caribbean Black Press
DESCRIPTION:We hope to reschedule this event for the 2019/2020 academic year. \n\nReena N. GoldthreeAssistant Professor of African American StudiesPrinceton University\nIn the aftermath of World War I\, rumors that the United States was planning to annex the islands of the British West Indies swept across the Caribbean\, sparking panics in Trinidad\, Jamaica\, Barbados\, Grenada\, and elsewhere. Annexation rumors were transmitted by sailors and migrants as well as by the cosmopolitan circum-Caribbean black press\, which reprinted stories from throughout the Americas. In this talk\, Reena N. Goldthree\, Assistant Professor of African American Studies at Princeton University\, examines how Caribbean newspapers–published in the islands and in the diaspora–both facilitated the spread of annexation rumors and provided a crucial platform for West Indians to challenge U.S. imperial expansion.
URL:https://cms.mit.edu/event/no-yankee-rule-for-us-annexation-rumors-and-the-interwar-circum-caribbean-black-press/
LOCATION:MIT Building 4\, Room 270\, 182 Memorial Drive (Rear)\, Cambridge\, MA\, 02139\, United States
CATEGORIES:Colloquium
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20190517
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20190519
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SUMMARY:Media in Transition 10: A Reprise – Democracy and Digital Media
DESCRIPTION:Save the date! An official call for papers will be distributed in early September 2018. \nIn 1998\, MIT’s Comparative Media Studies program held the first Media in Transition (MiT) conference and inaugurated a related book series. Research from that first MiT conference appeared in Democracy and New Media\, Jenkins & Thorburn\, eds.\, (MIT Press\, 2003). Now\, twenty years later\, we are organizing the 10th iteration of the event. Much has changed over these two decades\, but the theme “democracy and digital media” is as urgent as ever. Twenty years ago there was no Facebook\, Twitter\, or Netflix. iPhones and Samsung Galaxies had not yet hit the shelves. And Siri and Alexa were still in development. Since 1998\, media have undergone major transition. We have witnessed a shift from Napster to Spotify\, from Web 1.0 to 2.0\, from console games to Twitch TV\, and beyond. We have experienced the rise of social media\, civic media\, algorithmic cultures\, and have seen ever greater concentration of media ownership. The events of 9/11 catalyzed intensified state surveillance and privatized security using various media technologies. Undergirding these shifts have been major transformations in global media infrastructure\, the platformization of the Internet\, and the ubiquity of themobile phone. \nIn the US\, we also have seen changes in the news ecosystem with the likes of ProPublica and community engagement journalism. At the same time\, public trust in media has dropped from 55% in 1998 to 32% in 2016\, according to Pew. For better and worse\, a growth of interest in media ritual and a decline in the more familiar transmission paradigm is underway. Given such changes concepts of participation\, trust\, and democracy are increasingly fraught\, essential\, and powerfully repositioned. How will our news media look and sound in the next decade? What can we learn from news media of the past? What can international perspectives reveal about the variability and fluidity of media landscapes? \nWe are interested in how these issues play out across media\, whether as represented in television series and films\, or enacted in rule set and player interactions in games\, or enabled in community media\, social media\, and talk radio. We welcome research that considers these issues in public media and commercial media\, with individual users and collective stakeholders\, across media infrastructures and media texts\, and embedded in various historical eras or cultural settings.
URL:https://cms.mit.edu/event/media-in-transition-10/
LOCATION:Massachusetts Institute of Technology
CATEGORIES:Conference
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20190912T170000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20190912T183000
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SUMMARY:Christopher Weaver\, “Amplius Ludo\, Beyond the Horizon”
DESCRIPTION:Christopher Weaver\nWhile the appeal of games may be universal and satisfy our innate desire to play\, the powerful dynamics that govern our behavior within games is even more interesting than the play itself. Can we broaden our understanding of play mechanisms by applying the subliminal mechanics of play beyond games? Join Christopher Weaver\, Founder of Bethesda Softworks\, who teaches engineering and computational media respectively at MIT and Wesleyan\, as he explores these important issues in a lecture entitled “Amplius Ludo\, Beyond the Horizon”. Prof. Weaver will discuss how games work and why they are such potent tools in areas as disparate as military simulation\, childhood education\, and medicine. \nChristopher Weaver is Research Scientist and Lecturer\, MIT Comparative Media Studies\, Visiting Scientist and Lecturer\, MIT Microphotonics Center and Distinguished Professor of Computational Media at Wesleyan University. \nWeaver received his SM from MIT and was the initial Daltry Scholar at Wesleyan University\, where he earned dual Masters Degrees in Japanese and Computer Science and a CAS Doctoral Degree in Japanese and Physics. The former Director of Technology Forecasting for ABC and Chief Engineer to the Subcommittee on Communications for the US Congress\, Weaver founded Bethesda Softworks\, and developed a physics-based\, realtime sports engine used to create the original John Madden Football for Electronic Arts. Bethesda is well known for The Elder Scrolls role-playing series of which Skyrim was the latest major installment. An adviser to both government and industry\, Weaver holds patents in interactive media\, security\, and telecommunications engineering.
URL:https://cms.mit.edu/event/christopher-weaver-amplius-ludo-beyond-the-horizon/
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:20190919T170000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20190919T170000
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SUMMARY:Ian Condry\, “Sound\, Learning and Democracy: The Curvature of Social Space-Time through Japanese Music\, from Underground Techno to Pop Idols”
DESCRIPTION:Professor Ian Condry\, cultural anthropologist in MIT Comparative Media Studies/Writing\nThe talk will explore contemporary Japanese music\, with a comparison of diverse examples\, such as female Japanese rappers\, underground techno festivals\, the virtual idol Hatsune Miku\, and the pop idol group AKB48. How can music help us understand the curvature of social space-time?  What does this mean for our understanding of society\, culture\, and media? \nIan Condry is a cultural anthropologist in the department of Comparative Media Studies/Writing at MIT\, where he has taught since 2002. He is the author of two books\, Hip-Hop Japan and The Soul of Anime\, both of which have been translated into Japanese.  He organizes the MIT/Harvard Cool Japan research project and a new initiative called Dissolve Music\,which brings together musicians\, sound artists\, technologists and educators to use audio experiences to dissolve the structures of inequality.
URL:https://cms.mit.edu/event/ian-condry-japanese-music-underground-techno-pop-idols/
LOCATION:MIT Building E15\, Room 318 (Common Area)\, 20 Ames Street\, Cambridge\, MA\, 02139\, United States
CATEGORIES:Colloquium
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20190926T170000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20190926T183000
DTSTAMP:20260403T192626
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SUMMARY:Nick Montfort\, “Poet/Programmers\, Artist/Programmers\, and Scholar/Programmers: What and Who Are They?”
DESCRIPTION:Nick Montfort\, Professor of Digital Media at MIT Comparative Media Studies/Writing\nComputer programming is a general-purpose way of using computation. It can be instrumental (oriented toward a predefined end\, as with the development of well-specified apps and Web services) or exploratory (used for artistic work and intellectual inquiry). Professor Nick Monfort’s emphasis in this talk\, as in his own work\, is on exploratory programming\, that type of programming which can be used as part of a creative or scholarly methodology. He will say a bit about his own work but will use much of the discussion to survey how many other poet/programmers\, artist/programmers\, and scholar/programmers are creating radical new work and uncovering new insights. \nNick Montfort is Professor of Digital Media at Comparative Media Studies/Writing. He develops computational poetry and art and has participated in dozens of literary and academic collaborations. Recent books include The Future and Exploratory Programming for the Arts and Humanities (MIT Press) and several books of computational poetry: Hard West Turn\, The Truelist\, #!\, the collaboration 2×6\, and Autopia. He has worked to contribute to platform studies\, critical code studies\, and electronic literature.
URL:https://cms.mit.edu/event/nick-montfort-poet-programmers-artist-programmers-and-scholar-programmers-what-and-who-are-they/
LOCATION:MIT Building E15\, Room 318 (Common Area)\, 20 Ames Street\, Cambridge\, MA\, 02139\, United States
CATEGORIES:Colloquium
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20191003T170000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20191003T170000
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SUMMARY:Helen Elaine Lee: "Pomegranate"
DESCRIPTION:Professor Helen Elaine Lee\nAt this week’s colloquium\, Helen Elaine Lee reads from the manuscript of her novel\, Pomegranate\, about a recovering addict who is getting out of prison and trying to stay clean\, regain custody of her children\, and choose life. Professor Lee\, who teaches writing in Comparative Media Studies/Writing\, is also Director of MIT’s Program in Women’s & Gender Studies. She is a graduate of Harvard College and Harvard Law School. Her first novel\, The Serpent’s Gift\, was published by Atheneum and her second novel\, Water Marked\, was published by Scribner. Her short story “Blood Knot” appeared in the spring 2017 issue of Ploughshares and the story “Lesser Crimes” appeared in the Winter 2016 issue of Callaloo. She recently finished The Unlocked Room\, a novel about a group of people who are incarcerated in two neighboring U.S. prisons and the woman who comes to teach them poetry as she searches for her lost brother.
URL:https://cms.mit.edu/event/helen-elaine-lee-pomegranate/
LOCATION:MIT Building E15\, Room 318 (Common Area)\, 20 Ames Street\, Cambridge\, MA\, 02139\, United States
CATEGORIES:Colloquium
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20191009
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20191012
DTSTAMP:20260403T192626
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SUMMARY:Design and Semantics of Form and Movement
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URL:https://cms.mit.edu/event/design-and-semantics-of-form-and-movement/
LOCATION:Cambridge\, MA\, 02139\, United States
CATEGORIES:Conference
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20191010T170000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20191010T183000
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SUMMARY:Anushka Shah\, “How Entertainment Can Help Fix the System”
DESCRIPTION:Anushka Shah\, founder of Civic Studios and the Civic Entertainment project at the Center for Civic Media\, MIT Media Lab.\nAround the world\, citizens are saying the system is broken. If it’s education and schools one day\, it’s healthcare the next. Our trust in politics and public institutions is falling globally\, and our confidence in the ability to solve problems around us is teetering. \nCan entertainment and pop culture be a way out? Can films\, television shows\, and digital content become spaces to teach us how to fix our systems? Can we create influential media that changes how we talk about identity\, social justice\, public institutions\, and citizen power? \nIn this talk\, Anushka Shah\, founder of the production house Civic Studios and the Civic Entertainment project at the MIT Media Lab\, explores how entertainment can provide alternate narratives of citizen participation. \nShah’s Civic Entertainment project explores the intersection of civic participation with film\, television\, radio\, theatre and digital entertainment. The project focuses on researching the media effects of fiction towards thought and behavior change\, explores how methods of social change available to citizens can be best represented in entertainment media\, and investigates the representation of protest and activism in current popular culture. \nHer production firm Civic Studios focuses on creating such civic entertainment content for Indian audiences. The aim of the content is to empower audiences by addressing the lack of trust in public institutions\, knowledge of government and democratic systems\, and increasing self-efficacy to participate in change as a citizen. \nOriginally from Mumbai\, India\, Anushka divides her time between Mumbai\, Boston\, and Chicago. She has a background in applied statistics and digital text analysis\, and has also previously worked with non-profits and political parties in India.
URL:https://cms.mit.edu/event/anushka-shah-how-entertainment-can-help-fix-the-system/
LOCATION:MIT Building E15\, Room 318 (Common Area)\, 20 Ames Street\, Cambridge\, MA\, 02139\, United States
CATEGORIES:Colloquium
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20191017T170000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20191017T183000
DTSTAMP:20260403T192626
CREATED:20191007T134028Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20200518T195111Z
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SUMMARY:Vivek Bald\, “If I Could Reach the Border...”
DESCRIPTION:Vivek Bald\, filmmaker and Associate Professor of Writing and Digital Media\nVivek Bald\, Associate Professor of Writing and Digital Media\, will read from a new essay that uses a teenage encounter with police and the justice system to explore questions of immigrant acceptability\, racialization\, and the South Asians American embrace of model minority status. He will also provide an update on his documentary film\, In Search of Bengali Harlem\, recently funded by the PBS-affiliated Center for Asian American Media\, and currently being edited by Comparative Media Studies master’s alum\, Beyza Boyacioglu. Between the essay and film\, Bald will reflect on South Asian American experiences of multi-racial identity and histories of cross-racial community-making. \nBald is a scholar\, writer\, and documentary filmmaker whose work focuses on histories of migration and diaspora\, particularly from the South Asian subcontinent. He is the author of Bengali Harlem and the Lost Histories of South Asian America (Harvard University Press\, 2013)\, and co-editor\, with Miabi Chatterji\, Sujani Reddy\, and Manu Vimalassery of The Sun Never Sets: South Asian Migrants in an Age of U.S. Power (NYU Press\, 2013).
URL:https://cms.mit.edu/event/vivek-bald-if-i-could-reach-the-border/
LOCATION:MIT Building E15\, Room 318 (Common Area)\, 20 Ames Street\, Cambridge\, MA\, 02139\, United States
CATEGORIES:Colloquium
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20191024T170000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20191024T183000
DTSTAMP:20260403T192626
CREATED:20190923T164228Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20200518T195105Z
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SUMMARY:William Uricchio\, “Why Co-Create?  And Why Now?  Reports from A Field Study”
DESCRIPTION:William Uricchio\, Professor of Comparative Media Studies and Principal Investigator of the MIT Open Documentary Lab\nCo-Creation is picking up steam as a claim\, aspiration\, and buzz-word du jour. But what is and why does it matter? Drawing on a just-released field study\, Collective Wisdom\, this session will address those questions and explore the method’s implications for just and equitable creation. It will consider co-creation in the arts with communities\, across disciplines and organizations\, and with non-humans (both biological and AI systems)\, calling out precedents and best practices in a broad array of communities\, including historically marginalized groups. What are the trends\, opportunities\, and challenges bound up in co-creation and its various deployments\, and why it is increasingly urgent in our time? \nWilliam Uricchio is Professor of Comparative Media Studies at MIT\, where he is also founder and Principal Investigator of the MIT Open Documentary Lab and Principal Investigator of the Co-Creation Studio. He\, together with Katerina Cizek\, authored Collective Wisdom — a field study on co-creation. His current research considers co-creation\, documentary\, and the epistemological crisis that characterizes our time.
URL:https://cms.mit.edu/event/william-uricchio-why-co-create-and-why-now-reports-from-a-field-study/
LOCATION:MIT Building E15\, Room 318 (Common Area)\, 20 Ames Street\, Cambridge\, MA\, 02139\, United States
CATEGORIES:Colloquium
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20191107T170000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20191107T170000
DTSTAMP:20260403T192626
CREATED:20190903T172512Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20201002T130622Z
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SUMMARY:Lucy Suchman\, “Artificial Intelligence & Modern Warfare”
DESCRIPTION:Lucy Suchman\, Professor of Anthropology of Science and Technology in the Department of Sociology\, Lancaster University\nIn June of 2018\, following a campaign initiated by activist employees within the company\, Google announced its intention not to renew a US Defense Department contract for Project Maven\, an initiative to automate the identification of military targets based on drone video footage. Defendants of the program argued that that it would increase the efficiency and effectiveness of US drone operations\, not least by enabling more accurate recognition of those who are the program’s legitimate targets and\, by implication\, sparing the lives of noncombatants. But this promise begs a more fundamental question: What relations of reciprocal familiarity does recognition presuppose? And in the absence of those relations\, what schemas of categorization inform our readings of the Other? The focus of a growing body of scholarship\, this question haunts not only US military operations but an expanding array of technologies of social sorting. Understood as apparatuses of recognition (Barad 2007: 171)\, Project Maven and the US program of targeted killing are implicated in perpetuating the very architectures of enmity that they take as their necessitating conditions. Taking any apparatus for the identification of those who comprise legitimate targets for the use of violent force as problematic\, this talk joins a growing body of scholarship on the technopolitical logics that underpin an increasingly violent landscape of institutions\, infrastructures and actions\, promising protection to some but arguably contributing to our collective insecurity. Lucy Suchman’s concern is with the asymmetric distributions of sociotechnologies of (in)security\, their deadly and injurious effects\, and the legal\, ethical\, and moral questions that haunt their operations. She closes with some thoughts on how we might interrupt the workings of these apparatuses\, in the service of wider movements for social justice. \nLucy Suchman is a Professor of Anthropology of Science and Technology in the Department of Sociology at Lancaster University\, in the United Kingdom.
URL:https://cms.mit.edu/event/lucy-suchman-artificial-intelligence-modern-warfare/
LOCATION:MIT Building 56\, Room 114\, Access via 21 Ames Street\, Cambridge\, MA\, 02139\, United States
CATEGORIES:Colloquium
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20191114T140000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20191114T160000
DTSTAMP:20260403T192626
CREATED:20190808T141215Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20200518T195058Z
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SUMMARY:2019 Comparative Media Studies Graduate Admissions Information Session
DESCRIPTION:Please RSVP. Meet faculty and research managers\, learn about the program\, and ask questions. The event is twofold: there will be a presentation and Q&A from 2-4pm. In addition\, attendees are invited to attend that day’s Colloquium\, which will feature CMS/W Head Eric Klopfer presenting on a set of “Participatory Simulations”: mobile collaborative systems-based games. \nThose who can’t attend in person are welcome to follow the live stream on our YouTube channel  (no registration required): https://www.youtube.com/c/MITComparativeMediaStudiesWriting.
URL:https://cms.mit.edu/event/2019-graduate-admissions-information-session/
LOCATION:MIT Building E51\, Room 095\, 70 Memorial Drive\, Cambridge\, MA
CATEGORIES:Information Session
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20191114T170000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20191114T183000
DTSTAMP:20260403T192626
CREATED:20190923T165220Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20200518T195055Z
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SUMMARY:Eric Klopfer\, “Design Based Research on Participatory Simulations”
DESCRIPTION:Professor Eric Klopfer\nAn important part of the work done at the The Education Arcade is based on a process of Design Based Research (DBR). In DBR\, we design products that are meant to fill real classroom needs and then iteratively test and refine them. Eric Klopfer and The Education Arcade are currently working on a set of “Participatory Simulations”: mobile collaborative systems-based games. \nDuring this talk\, attendees will have a chance to play a couple of these games and participate in a design discussion with one of the games that is currently in progress. \nProfessor Klopfer\, currently Head of Comparative Media Studies/Writing\, is Director of the Scheller Teacher Education Program and The Education Arcade at MIT. He is also a co-faculty director for MIT’s J-WEL World Education Lab.
URL:https://cms.mit.edu/event/eric-klopfer-design-based-research-on-participatory-simulations/
LOCATION:MIT Building E15\, Room 318 (Common Area)\, 20 Ames Street\, Cambridge\, MA\, 02139\, United States
CATEGORIES:Colloquium
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20191121T170000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20191121T183000
DTSTAMP:20260403T192626
CREATED:20190918T181655Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20200518T195048Z
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SUMMARY:Paloma Duong\, “Portable Postsocialisms [postsocialismos de bolsillo]”
DESCRIPTION:Paloma Duong\, Assistant Professor of Latin American Studies\nHow do Cuban culture and media register the defining aspects of its transformation at the turn of the 21st century: the expansion of transnational capitalist markets\, the proliferation of digital media\, and the simultaneous reorganization of its official state ideology and its social imaginaries? This talk will explore competing narratives about Cuba’s postsocialist moment across a range of cultural and media practices—from music to memes—inviting us to consider whether we can continue to frame Cuba as a regional exception. We will also examine how revisiting our assumptions about digital media and cultural agency\, both in Cuba and in the broader hemispheric context\, can speak to the dreams and demands of constituencies that operate between\, beneath\, and beyond the pressures of global markets and the nation-state. \n Paloma Duong is Assistant Professor of Latin American Studies at MIT. At the intersection of cultural studies\, media theory\, and political philosophy\, Paloma researches and teaches modern and contemporary Latin American culture. She works with social texts and emergent media cultures that speak to the exercise of cultural agencies and the formation of political subjectivity. She is currently writing Portable Postsocialisms: Culture and Media in 21st century Cuba\, a book-length study of Cuba’s changing mediascape and an inquiry on the postsocialist condition and its contexts. Her articles have been published in the Journal of Latin American Cultural Studies\, Art Margins\, and Cuban Counterpoints: Public Scholarship about a Changing Cuba.
URL:https://cms.mit.edu/event/paloma-duong-portable-postsocialisms-postsocialismos-de-bolsillo/
LOCATION:MIT Building E15\, Room 318 (Common Area)\, 20 Ames Street\, Cambridge\, MA\, 02139\, United States
CATEGORIES:Colloquium
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20191205T170000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20191205T170000
DTSTAMP:20260403T192626
CREATED:20190903T182431Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20200518T195045Z
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SUMMARY:T.L. Taylor\, “Play as Transformative Work”
DESCRIPTION:T.L. Taylor\, Professor of Comparative Media Studies at MIT\nProfessor of Comparative Media Studies T.L. Taylor will explore the ways game live streamers are transforming their otherwise private play into public entertainment. She will focus on this new form of creative labor and offer a challenge to current models of IP and fandom\, suggesting the work of professional live streamers is not easily captured by non-commercial frameworks nor simple work/play dichotomies. \nT.L. Taylor is Professor of Comparative Media Studies and co-founder and Director of Research for AnyKey\, an organization dedicated to supporting and developing fair and inclusive esports. She is a qualitative sociologist who has focused on internet and game studies for over two decades. Dr. Taylor’s research explores the interrelations between culture and technology in online leisure environments. Her book Raising the Stakes: E-Sports and the Professionalization of Computer Gaming (MIT Press\, 2012) chronicles the rise of esports and professional computer gaming. Her book about game live streaming – Watch Me Play: Twitch and the Rise of Game Live Streaming (Princeton University Press) – is now out and is the first of its kind to chronicle this emerging media space.
URL:https://cms.mit.edu/event/t-l-taylor-play-as-transformative-work/
LOCATION:MIT Building E15\, Room 318 (Common Area)\, 20 Ames Street\, Cambridge\, MA\, 02139\, United States
CATEGORIES:Colloquium
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20200109T130000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20200109T150000
DTSTAMP:20260403T192627
CREATED:20200102T141753Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20200518T195040Z
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SUMMARY:Imagining Prototypes: Writing about Design
DESCRIPTION:Nora Jackson\, Karen Pepper \nEnrollment: Limited: Advance sign-up required\nSign-up by 01/03\nLimited to 10 participants\nAttendance: Participants must attend all sessions \nAn activity-based writing workshop for anyone who builds anything at MIT and beyond\, or who dreams of doing so. The workshop will introduce techniques in writing for designers who rely on written or oral communication to generate interest in a design idea or prototype. \nThursday 1/9 from 1-3 pm: discussion of a pre-circulated reading packet with design writing samples; come to the workshop with an object/prototype in mind that you will write about by Mon 1/13\nMonday 1/13 from 1-3 pm: workshop participants present and peer review their design write-ups \n  \nContact: norajack@mit.edu and kpepper@mit.edu \nSponsor(s): Writing\, Rhetoric\, and Professional Communication\, Comparative Media Studies/Writing\, Comparative Media Studies\nContact: Nora Jackson\, norajack@mit.edu \n\nSession 1\n\n\n\n\nJan/09\nThu\n01:00PM-03:00PM\n56-169\n\n\n\ndiscussion of a pre-circulated reading packet with design writing samples; come to the workshop with an object/prototype in mind that you will write about by Mon 1/13 \nNora Jackson\, Karen Pepper \n\nSession 2\n\n\n\n\nJan/13\nMon\n01:00PM-03:00PM\n56-169\n\n\n\nworkshop participants present and peer review their design write-ups \nNora Jackson\, Karen Pepper
URL:https://cms.mit.edu/event/imagining-prototypes-writing-about-design/
LOCATION:MIT Building 56\, Room 169\, Access Via 21 Ames Street\, Cambridge\, MA\, 02139\, United States
CATEGORIES:Independent Activities Period
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20200110T140000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20200110T160000
DTSTAMP:20260403T192627
CREATED:20191209T143405Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20200518T195036Z
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SUMMARY:DJ History and Technology
DESCRIPTION:
URL:https://cms.mit.edu/event/dj-history-and-technology/
LOCATION:MIT Building E15\, Room 335\, 20 Ames Street\, Cambridge\, MA\, 02139\, United States
CATEGORIES:Independent Activities Period
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20200113T130000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20200113T150000
DTSTAMP:20260403T192627
CREATED:20200102T141753Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20200518T195031Z
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SUMMARY:Imagining Prototypes: Writing about Design
DESCRIPTION:Nora Jackson\, Karen Pepper \nEnrollment: Limited: Advance sign-up required\nSign-up by 01/03\nLimited to 10 participants\nAttendance: Participants must attend all sessions \nAn activity-based writing workshop for anyone who builds anything at MIT and beyond\, or who dreams of doing so. The workshop will introduce techniques in writing for designers who rely on written or oral communication to generate interest in a design idea or prototype. \nThursday 1/9 from 1-3 pm: discussion of a pre-circulated reading packet with design writing samples; come to the workshop with an object/prototype in mind that you will write about by Mon 1/13\nMonday 1/13 from 1-3 pm: workshop participants present and peer review their design write-ups \n  \nContact: norajack@mit.edu and kpepper@mit.edu \nSponsor(s): Writing\, Rhetoric\, and Professional Communication\, Comparative Media Studies/Writing\, Comparative Media Studies\nContact: Nora Jackson\, norajack@mit.edu \n\nSession 1\n\n\n\n\nJan/09\nThu\n01:00PM-03:00PM\n56-169\n\n\n\ndiscussion of a pre-circulated reading packet with design writing samples; come to the workshop with an object/prototype in mind that you will write about by Mon 1/13 \nNora Jackson\, Karen Pepper \n\nSession 2\n\n\n\n\nJan/13\nMon\n01:00PM-03:00PM\n56-169\n\n\n\nworkshop participants present and peer review their design write-ups \nNora Jackson\, Karen Pepper
URL:https://cms.mit.edu/event/imagining-prototypes-writing-about-design-2020-01-13/
LOCATION:MIT Building 56\, Room 169\, Access Via 21 Ames Street\, Cambridge\, MA\, 02139\, United States
CATEGORIES:Independent Activities Period
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20200117T140000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20200117T160000
DTSTAMP:20260403T192627
CREATED:20191209T143405Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20200518T195029Z
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SUMMARY:DJ History and Technology
DESCRIPTION:
URL:https://cms.mit.edu/event/dj-history-and-technology-2020-01-17/
LOCATION:MIT Building E15\, Room 335\, 20 Ames Street\, Cambridge\, MA\, 02139\, United States
CATEGORIES:Independent Activities Period
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20200124T140000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20200124T160000
DTSTAMP:20260403T192627
CREATED:20191209T143405Z
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SUMMARY:DJ History and Technology
DESCRIPTION:
URL:https://cms.mit.edu/event/dj-history-and-technology-2020-01-24/
LOCATION:MIT Building E15\, Room 335\, 20 Ames Street\, Cambridge\, MA\, 02139\, United States
CATEGORIES:Independent Activities Period
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20200131T140000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20200131T160000
DTSTAMP:20260403T192627
CREATED:20191209T143405Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20200518T195015Z
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SUMMARY:DJ History and Technology
DESCRIPTION:
URL:https://cms.mit.edu/event/dj-history-and-technology-2020-01-31/
LOCATION:MIT Building E15\, Room 335\, 20 Ames Street\, Cambridge\, MA\, 02139\, United States
CATEGORIES:Independent Activities Period
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20200213T170000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20200213T183000
DTSTAMP:20260403T192627
CREATED:20200128T153943Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20200518T195012Z
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SUMMARY:Matthew Berland\, “Creative Agency: Making\, Learning\, and Playing towards Understanding Computational Content”
DESCRIPTION:Matthew Berland\, Associate Professor of Design\, Informal\, and Creative Education in the Department of Curriculum and Instruction at the University of Wisconsin–Madison\nPeople often learn complex computational content most easily and deeply when they have “creative agency” – the social network\, ability\, skills\, resources\, and support to collaboratively and playfully make creative computational content in feedback-rich environments. This talk will present a lens on how we can create environments where learners are supported in developing creative agency\, and how we might assess or evaluate success. Matthew Berland will cover his projects in museums\, computer science classrooms\, after-school clubs\, and universities\, showing how we can use design-based research\, learning analytics\, and games to enable creative agency towards more equitable outcomes and better understand how\, why\, and when people make and learn complex computational content together. \nMatthew Berland is an Associate Professor of Design\, Informal\, and Creative Education in the Department of Curriculum and Instruction at the University of Wisconsin–Madison\, spending 2019-2020 as a visiting scholar in CMS/W at MIT. In addition\, he is the director of the UW Games Program and the Complex Play Lab and Affiliate Faculty in Computer Sciences\, Information Studies\, STS\, and the Learning Sciences. He uses design-based research and learning analytics to design\, create\, and study learning environments that support students’ creativity in learning computational literacies\, systems literacies\, and computer science & engineering content.
URL:https://cms.mit.edu/event/matthew-berland-creative-agency-computational-content/
LOCATION:MIT Building E15\, Room 318 (Common Area)\, 20 Ames Street\, Cambridge\, MA\, 02139\, United States
CATEGORIES:Colloquium
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20200220T170000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20200220T183000
DTSTAMP:20260403T192627
CREATED:20200128T155913Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20200518T195008Z
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SUMMARY:Desmond Upton Patton\, “Contextual Analysis of Social Media: The Promise and Challenge of Eliciting Context in Social Media Posts with Natural Language Processing”
DESCRIPTION:Desmond Upton Patton\, Associate Professor of Social Work\, Columbia University\nWhile natural language processing affords researchers an opportunity to automatically scan millions of social media posts\, there is growing concern that automated computational tools lack the ability to understand context and nuance in human communication and language. Columbia University’s Desmond Upton Patton introduces a critical systematic approach for extracting culture\, context and nuance in social media data. The Contextual Analysis of Social Media (CASM) approach considers and critiques the gap between inadequacies in natural language processing tools and differences in geographic\, cultural\, and age-related variance of social media use and communication. CASM utilizes a team-based approach to analysis of social media data\, explicitly informed by community expertise. The team uses CASM to analyze Twitter posts from gang-involved youth in Chicago. They designed a set of experiments to evaluate the performance of a support vector machine using CASM hand-labeled posts against a distant model. They found that the CASM-informed hand-labeled data outperforms the baseline distant labels\, indicating that the CASM labels capture additional dimensions of information that content-only methods lack. They then question whether this is helpful or harmful for gun violence prevention.
URL:https://cms.mit.edu/event/desmond-patton-contextual-analysis-social-media-natural-language-processing/
LOCATION:MIT Building E15\, Room 318 (Common Area)\, 20 Ames Street\, Cambridge\, MA\, 02139\, United States
CATEGORIES:Colloquium
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20200227T170000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20200227T183000
DTSTAMP:20260403T192627
CREATED:20200117T172319Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20200518T195002Z
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SUMMARY:Marina Bers\, “Coding in Early Childhood: Storytelling or Puzzle Solving?”
DESCRIPTION:Professor Marina Bers\, Tufts University\nComputer programming is an essential skill in the 21st century and new policies and frameworks are in place for preparing students for computer science. Today\, the development of new interfaces and block-programming languages\, facilitates the teaching of coding and computational thinking starting in kindergarten. However\, as new programming languages that are developmentally appropriate emerge\, it is not enough to copy models developed for older children\, which mostly grew out of traditional STEM (Science\, Technology\, Engineering and Math) disciplines and instructional practices. In this talk\, Prof. Marina Bers will describe current research on a  pedagogical approach for early childhood computer science education called “Coding as Another Language” (CAL)\, grounded on the principle that learning to program involves learning how to use a new language (a symbolic system of representation) for communicative and expressive functions. Due to the critical foundational role of language and literacy in the early years\, the teaching of computer science can be augmented by models of literacy instruction.  Case studies of young children using either the KIBO robot or the ScratchJr app\, designed by Prof Bers\,  to illustrate the instructional practices of CAL curriculum will be presented\, as well as novel approaches using fMRI to explore what regions of the brain activate when coding. \n\nMarina Umaschi Bers (tufts.edu/~mbers01) is a professor at the Eliot-Pearson Department of Child Study and Human Development and an adjunct professor in the Computer Science Department at Tufts University. She heads the interdisciplinary Developmental Technologies research group. Her research involves the design and study of innovative learning technologies to promote children’s positive development. She also developed and serves as director of the graduate certificate program on Early Childhood Technology at Tufts University. \nProf. Bers is passionate about using the power of technology to promote positive development and learning for young children. Bers’ philosophy and theoretical approach  as well as the curriculum and assessment methods can be found in her books “Coding as Playground: Programming and Computational Thinking in the Early Childhood Classroom” (Routledge\, 2018); “The Official ScratchJr Book” (2015; No Starch Press); “Designing Digital Experiences for Positive Youth Development: From Playpen to Playground” (2012\, Oxford University Press); and “Blocks to Robots: Learning with Technology in the Early Childhood Classroom” (2008; Teacher’s College Press). \nProf. Bers loves teaching and in 2016 she received the Outstanding Faculty Contribution to Graduate Student Studies award at Tufts University which recognizes her mentorship.
URL:https://cms.mit.edu/event/marina-bers-coding-early-childhood-storytelling-puzzle-solving/
LOCATION:MIT Building E15\, Room 318 (Common Area)\, 20 Ames Street\, Cambridge\, MA\, 02139\, United States
CATEGORIES:Colloquium
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SUMMARY:Shawna Kidman\, “The Infrastructure of the U.S. Comic Book Industry and the Long History of Superheroes in Hollywood”
DESCRIPTION:Shawna Kidman\, Assistant Professor\, University of California San Diego\nThis talk will discuss the history of the American comic book industry during the 20th century. This medium has dominated the film and television landscape in recent years\, and has come to define contemporary corporate transmedia production. But before moving to the center of mainstream popular culture\, comic books spent half a century wielding their influence from the margins and in-between spaces of the entertainment business. Dr. Kidman will argue that the best way to understand the immense influence of this relatively small business is through a political economic analysis. Specifically\, she will discuss industrial infrastructure—the aspects of our media environment that often lack public visibility\, including distribution\, copyright and contract law\, and financing. These systems channeled the industry’s growth and ultimately gave the medium its shape. Accordingly\, a closer look at the everyday intricacies of the business yields a very different kind of narrative about what comic books are and how they came to be. It also helps explain why comic books and comic book strategies became so central to media production in the 21st century\, and why these trends are likely to persist well into the future. \nShawna Kidman is an Assistant Professor of Communication at UC San Diego where she teaches courses in media studies. Her research on the media industries has been published in Velvet Light Trap\, the International Journal of Learning and Media\, and the International Journal of Communication. She is the author of Comic Books Incorporated: How the Business of Comics Became the Business of Hollywood (UC Press\, 2019)\, a history of the U.S. comic book industry’s convergence with the film and television business. Before earning her PhD in Critical Media Studies at USC\, Shawna worked in the media business\, including as a creative executive at DC Comics.
URL:https://cms.mit.edu/event/shawna-kidman-superheroes-hollywood/
LOCATION:MIT Building E15\, Room 318 (Common Area)\, 20 Ames Street\, Cambridge\, MA\, 02139\, United States
CATEGORIES:Colloquium
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