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SUMMARY:Online Information Session
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URL:https://cms.mit.edu/event/online-information-session-110112/
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CATEGORIES:Information Session
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SUMMARY:Digitizing the Culture of Print: The Digital Public Library of America and Other Urgent Projects
DESCRIPTION:The role of the library in the digital age is one of the compelling questions of our era.  How are libraries coping with the promise and perils of our impending digital future? What urgent initiatives are underway to assure universal access to our print inheritance and to the digital communication forms of the future? How is the very idea of the library changing?  These and related questions will engage our distinguished panelists\, who represent both research and public libraries and two of whom serve on the steering committee for the Digital Public Library of America. \nRobert Darnton is Carl H. Pforzheimer University Professor at Harvard\, Director of the Harvard University Library and one of America’s most distinguished historians. He serves on the steering committee of the Digital Public Library of America and has been a trustees of the New York Public Library since 1995. In a recent essay in the New York Review of Books\, Darnton defended a NYPL plan to liquidate some branches in the system while renovating the main Fifth Avenue branch. The essay sparked a number of responses. In November of last year\, Darnton provided a status report on the DPLA. Darnton is the author of many influential books including The Case for Books\, Past\, Present\, and Future and The Great Cat Massacre. \nSusan Flannery is director of libraries for the City of Cambridge and past president of the Massachusetts Library Association.
URL:https://cms.mit.edu/event/digital-public-library-of-america-digitizing-culture-of-print/
LOCATION:MIT Media Lab\, Room 633\, 75 Amherst St.\, Cambridge\, MA\, 02139\, United States
CATEGORIES:Communications Forum
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SUMMARY:New Media in West Africa
DESCRIPTION:(Note time.) \nThis forum launches the Futures of Entertainment 6 conference at MIT. Despite many infrastructural and economic hurdles\, entertainment media industries are burgeoning in West Africa. Today\, the Nigerian cinema market–“Nollywood”–is the second largest in the world in terms of the annual volume of films distributed behind only the Indian film industry. And an era of digital distribution has empowered content created in Lagos\, or Accra\, to spread across geographic and cultural boundaries. New commercial models for distribution as well as international diasporic networks have driven the circulation of this material. But so has rampant piracy and the unofficial online circulation of this content. What innovations are emerging from West Africa? How has Nigerian cinema in particular influenced local television and film markets in other countries across West Africa\, and across the continent? What does the increasing visibility of West African popular culture mean for this region–especially as content crosses various cultural contexts\, within and outside the region? And what challenges does West Africa face in continuing to develop its entertainment industries? \n \nDerrick N. Ashong leads the band Soulfège\, a group that produces an eclectic blend of hip-hop\, reggae\, funk\, world beat and West African highlife music and has been featured in such major media as MTV Africa and NPR. Also known as DNA\, which is the name of his blog\, Ashong hosted Oprah Radio’s The Derrick Ashong Experience and Al-Jazeera English’s social media TV show The Stream. \nFadzi Makanda is a business  development manager in the New York office for iROKO Partners\, a distributor of African—and particularly Nollywood—entertainment. Makanda leads the development and execution of U.S. advertising sales strategies for the company. \nColin M. Maclay is the managing director of the Berkman Center for Internet & Society at Harvard Law School. Both as co-founder of Harvard’s International Technologies Group and at Berkman\, Maclay’s research pairs hands-on multi-stakeholder collaborations with the generation of data that reveal trends\, challenges and opportunities for the integration of communications technologies in developing communities. \nRalph Simon is founder of the Mobilium Advisory Group\, which studies innovation in mobile usage in such countries as Nigeria\, Kenya\, Uganda and South Africa. He has served as an executive at Capitol Records\, Blue Note Records\, and EMI Music\, and he co-founded the Zomba Group with Clive Calder of South Africa. Simon earned the title “Father of the Ring Tone” when he created the first ring tone company in 1997.
URL:https://cms.mit.edu/event/media-media-in-west-africa/
LOCATION:MIT Building E25\, Room 111\, 45 Carleton Street\, Cambridge\, MA\, 02139\, United States
CATEGORIES:Communications Forum
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SUMMARY:Futures of Entertainment 6
DESCRIPTION:Futures of Entertainment is an annual event exploring the current state and future of media properties\, brands\, and audiences. This year’s event\, Nov. 9-10 at MIT\, will look at how media producers and audiences are relating to one another in new ways in a spreadable media landscape. \nRegister at the FOE website.
URL:https://cms.mit.edu/event/futures-of-entertainment-6/
LOCATION:MIT Building E51\, Wong Auditorium\, 70 Memorial Drive\, Cambridge\, MA\, 02139\, United States
CATEGORIES:Conference
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20121115T170000
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SUMMARY:Cultural Production and Social Media as Capture Platforms: How the Matrix Has You
DESCRIPTION:Hector Postigo\nThis presentation develops a theoretical framework (rooted in Science and Technology Studies) for understanding how\, generally\, social media’s technical feature-sets create a system of capture and conversion.  Capture describes the persistent ways in which social web platforms record and fix online/offline social and technical practices.  Conversion applies to the way in which technical architectures convert what is captured into value (both culturally contingent and economic). The notions of capture and conversion are developed in light of other work in the field that seeks to understand how social web platforms use technology to leverage user generated content (UGC).  The framework bridges a focus on ongoing social practice within/through platforms with analysis of technology as a determinant of probable practice.   Ultimately this work is part of a larger project that seeks to develop a way of critically engaging the political economy of the social web while at the same time not ignoring the subject positions of those whose lives on display make it compelling. \nHector Postigo is Associate Professor in Media Studies and Production at Temple University’s School of Media and Communication. He is the co-founder of the blog culturedigitally.org and most recently the author of The Digital Rights Movement: The Role of Technology in Subverting Digital Copyright from MIT Press and co-editor of Managing Privacy Through Accountability from Palgrave Press. His research is funded by the National Science Foundation and the European Commission.  He teaches and writes about video game culture\, labor in digital networks\, and privacy and copyright on the social web.
URL:https://cms.mit.edu/event/hector-postigo-cultural-production-social-media-as-capture-platforms/
LOCATION:Comparative Media Studies: MIT Building E15\, Room 335\, 20 Ames St.\, Cambridge\, MA\, 02139\, United States
CATEGORIES:Colloquium
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SUMMARY:Minding the News
DESCRIPTION:Sponsored by the MIT Imagination\, Computation\, and Expression Laboratory (ICE Lab) \nSee Part 1 of this series\, from September 6\, featuring Francis Steen. \nMark Turner\nThe Red Hen Lab is a distributed laboratory for the study of network news.  In an earlier talk\, Professor Francis Steen provided a technical overview of the activities of Red Hen and surveyed the study by Francis Steen and Mark Turner of international network news coverage of the Anders Bering Brevik event in Oslo\, Norway\, in July\, 2011\, with an emphasis on the way in which network news is occupied with the assessment of culpability\, blame\, and credit. \nThis talk will discuss research on the cognitive underpinnings of network news\, with an emphasis on blended joint attention\, story-telling\, counterfactuality\, and hypotheticals. \nMark Turner is Institute Professor and Professor of Cognitive Science at Case Western Reserve University. \nHe is the founding director of the Cognitive Science Network. His most recent book publications are Ten Lectures on Mind and Language and two edited volumes\, The Artful Mind: Cognitive Science and the Riddle of Human Creativity\, and Meaning\, Form\, & Body\, edited with Fey Parrill and Vera Tobin. His other publications include Cognitive Dimensions of Social Science: The Way We Think about Politics\, Economics\, Law\, and Society\, The Literary Mind: The Origins of Thought and Language\, and many more. He has been a fellow of the Institute for Advanced Study\, the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation\, the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences\, the National Humanities Center\, the National Endowment for the Humanities\, and the Institute of Advanced Study of Durham University. He is a fellow of the Institute for the Science of Origins\, external research professor at the Krasnow Institute for Advanced Study in Cognitive Neuroscience\, distinguished fellow at the New England Institute for Cognitive Science and Evolutionary Psychology\, and Extraordinary Member of the Humanwissenschaftsliches Zentrum.  In 1996\, the Académie française awarded him the Prix du Rayonnement de la langue et de la littérature françaises. For 2011-2012\, he is a fellow of the Centre for Advanced Study at the Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters.
URL:https://cms.mit.edu/event/minding-the-news/
LOCATION:MIT Media Lab\, Room 633\, 75 Amherst St.\, Cambridge\, MA\, 02139\, United States
CATEGORIES:Colloquium
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SUMMARY:GO ASK A.L.I.C.E: A Panel Discussion
DESCRIPTION:The Collection of Historical Scientific Instruments at Harvard University’s Department of the History of Science is hosting a semester-long exhibit\, “GO ASK A.L.I.C.E: Turing Tests\, Parlor Games\, & Chatterbots”\, highlighted in part by this special panel discussion on November 29. \nGO ASK A.L.I.C.E explores the strange afterlife of the Turing Test as it has circulated in popular\, scientific\, and commercial cultures. It reexamines elements of Alan Turing‘s own interactions with humans and machines\, later imaginations of thinking machines\, as well as a famous attempt to translate Turing’s parlor game into a real test of artificial intelligence: the Loebner Prize.
URL:https://cms.mit.edu/event/go-ask-alice-panel-discussion/
LOCATION:Harvard University Science Center\, Room 469\, 1 Oxford St\, Cambridge\, MA\, 02138\, United States
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