Poetry Across Borders
MIT Building 6, Room 120 182 Memorial Drive (Rear), Cambridge, MAAs part of MIT’s Day of Action/Day of Engagement, come share poems from cultures beyond the US.
MIT Graduate Program in Comparative Media Studies
Studying Media and Making Media
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Michael Lee: “The Conservative Canon Before and After Trump”
MIT Building 56, Room 114 Access via 21 Ames Street, Cambridge, MAMichael J. Lee charts the vital role of canonical post–World War II (1945–1964) books in generating, guiding, and sustaining conservatism as a political force in the United States.
Hacking VR Speaker Series: Jessica Brillhart, “VR in Science”
Open Doc Lab: MIT Building E15, Room 318 20 Ames Street, Cambridge, MAGoogle has been at the forefront of exploring new ways to shoot 360, VR stories. As the medium develops, how can VR be used to raise awareness about science-related project? How can it be used to tell stories about our bodies, our health? VR in developments sometimes mean collaborations with doctors, neuroscientists, data scientists. How can scientific knowledge inform creation and creation inform science?
The Contingencies of Comparison: Rethinking Comparative Media
MIT Building 56, Room 114 Access via 21 Ames Street, Cambridge, MABrian Larkin and Stefan Andriopoulos: "It is clear that future media centers will emerge in places far outside their traditional Western centers."
From Taft to Trump: How Conservative Media Activists Won — and Lost — the GOP
MIT Building 56, Room 114 Access via 21 Ames Street, Cambridge, MANicole Hemmer will explain how conservative media activists won the GOP for the right -- and how in the era of Trump, they lost it.
Playful Practice: Designing the Future of Teacher Learning
MIT Building 56, Room 114 Access via 21 Ames Street, Cambridge, MAIn this participatory session, play samples of some of the practice spaces that Justin Reich's team is developing and discuss the theoretical foundations of their vision for the future of teacher learning.
Engineering Virality: BuzzFeed’s Scientific Approach To Creating Content
MIT Building 56, Room 114 Access via 21 Ames Street, Cambridge, MABuzzFeed's Walter Menendez: "This talk will detail how BuzzFeed thinks about and creates content, highlighting our paradigms for the function and role of our content."
B.I.C. at MIT
MIT Building 32 (Stata Center), Room 155 32 Vassar Street, Cambridge, MAHaitian poet, singer and song-writer Roosevelt Saillant, better known as “B.I.C.” for “Brain. Intelligence. Creativity,” is one of the best known and most creative and prolific artists in Haiti.
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Platforms in the Public Interest: Lessons from Minitel
MIT Building 56, Room 114 Access via 21 Ames Street, Cambridge, MAAfter thirty years in service, Minitel offers a wealth of data for thinking about internet policy and an alternative model for the internet's future: a public platform for private innovation.
The Mediated Construction of Reality: from Berger and Luckmann to Norbert Elias
MIT Building 56, Room 114 Access via 21 Ames Street, Cambridge, MASociologist Nick Couldry radically rethinks the implications of social constructivism for a work saturated not just with digital media, but with data processes
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.
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 […]
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