MIT Graduate Program in Comparative Media Studies
Studying Media and Making Media
Sociologist Nick Couldry radically rethinks the implications of social constructivism for a work saturated not just with digital media, but with data processes
On October 5th, best-selling author Sarah Vowell brings history and humor to MIT.
Sean 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.
Explore 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.
Jennifer 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 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 […]
Join 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 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.
Author 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.
Anjali 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."
Come attend screenings of documentary films followed by discussions on a few things that define India today – love, innovation and spies.
What 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?”
Eric 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?
Carleen 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.
University 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.
