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SUMMARY:Nostalgia for a Not-So-Distant Youth: Digital Games and Affect in Urban China
DESCRIPTION:Marcella Szablewicz\nYoung people born in 1980’s and 1990’s China are the focus of a great deal of scholarly attention as they are the country’s first generation of only children. They are also the first generation to come of age with the Internet\, and\, for many\, playing Internet games forms an integral part of the youth experience. This presentation will explore the affective dimensions of digital games from the perspective of urban Chinese youth. What is the significance of an e-sports event that attracts tens of thousands of twenty-somethings\, many of whom experience it as a teary-eyed “farewell to their youth”? Or a viral video created by World of Warcraft gamers that urges millions of viewers to “raise their fists in solidarity” to show support for their “spiritual homeland”? What should we make of these phenomena that demonstrate\, ever more clearly\, the ways in which games are intertwined with people’s spiritual and emotional lives? Are games the imagined utopia they are made out to be in these nostalgic accounts or might these affective attachments prove to be a form of what Lauren Berlant (2011) has called “cruel optimism\,” a relationship in which the very thing that is desired becomes an obstacle to flourishing? \nMarcella Szablewicz is a Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow in Comparative Media Studies at MIT. She received her Ph.D. from the Department of Communication and Media at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute and an M.A. in East Asian Studies from Duke University. Her research focuses on youth and digital media in urban China. She is currently working on a book based on her dissertation\, provisionally entitled From Addicts to Athletes: Youth Mobilities and the Politics of Digital Gaming in Urban China. Based on ethnographic fieldwork supported by the Fulbright and National Science Foundations\, the book will examine the precarious socio-economic futures of urban Chinese youth through the lens of digital gaming culture\, while also considering how dominant discourse about digital leisure practice is shaped by larger cultural debates about patriotism and productivity\, class and the crafting of the “ideal citizen”. Her work can also be found in the Routledge volume Online Society in China and in the Chinese Journal of Communication. \nCo-sponsored by the Cool Japan Project.
URL:https://cms.mit.edu/event/digital-games-and-affect-in-urban-china/
LOCATION:MIT Media Lab\, Room 633\, 75 Amherst St.\, Cambridge\, MA\, 02139\, United States
CATEGORIES:Colloquium
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SUMMARY:Convergence Journalism? Emerging Documentary and Multimedia Forms of News
DESCRIPTION:Co-sponsored by the MIT Open Documentary Lab. \nHybrid forms of multimedia\, combining aspects of newspapers\, documentary film and digital video are a notable feature of today’s online journalism. How is this access to the power of the visual changing our journalism? What current projects are particularly significant? What will this convergence mean in the future? \nJason Spingarn-Koff\nJason Spingarn-Koff is the series producer and curator of Op-Docs\, a new initiative at the New York Times for short opinionated documentaries by independent filmmakers and artists. He directed the feature documentary “Life 2.0”\, which premiered at the 2010 Sundance Film Festival and was acquired by OWN: Oprah Winfrey Network’s Documentary Club\, and his work has appeared on PBS\, BBC\, MSNBC\, Time.com and Wired News. In 2010-2011\, he was a Knight Science Journalism Fellow at MIT. \n\nAlexandra Garcia\nAlexandra Garcia is a multimedia journalist for The Washington Post. She reports\, shoots and edits video stories on topics ranging from health care and immigration to fashion and education. Awarded an Edward R. Murrow award\, eight regional Emmy awards and named 2011 Video Editor of the Year by the White House News Photographers Association\, Garcia is currently a fellow at the Nieman Foundation for Journalism at Harvard University. \nModerator: Sarah Wolozin\, director of the MIT Open Documentary Lab\, has produced documentaries and educational media for a variety of media outlets including PBS\, History Channel\, Learning Channel and NPR.
URL:https://cms.mit.edu/event/convergence-journalism-emerging-documentary-multimedia-forms-of-news/
LOCATION:MIT Media Lab\, Room 633\, 75 Amherst St.\, Cambridge\, MA\, 02139\, United States
CATEGORIES:Communications Forum
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SUMMARY:Gregory Crane: "Automated Methods\, Human Understanding\, and Digital Libraries of Babel"
DESCRIPTION:Organized by Literature. Co-sponsored with CMS\, the MIT HyperStudio for Digital Humanities\, and Ancient and Medieval Studies. \nGreg Crane\nMillions of documents produced around the world over more than four thousand years are now available in digital form — Google Books alone had scanned\, by March 2012\, more than 20 million books in more than 400 languages. Images of manuscripts\, papyri\, inscriptions and other non-print sources are also appearing in increasing numbers. But if we have addressed physical access to images of textual sources\, we are a long way from providing the intellectual access necessary to understand the written sources that we see. This talk explores the challenges and opportunities as we refashion our study of the past from ethnocentric monolingual conversations into a hyperlingual dialogue among civilizations\, where humans work with machines and with each other to communicate and where books do\, as Marvin Minksy opined decades ago\, talk to each other. \nGregory Crane is Chair of the Department of Classics at Tufts University\, as well as an Adjunct Professor in Tufts’ Department of Computer Science. Since 1988\, he has been Editor-in-Chief of the Perseus Project\, a long-running digital humanities effort focused on Greek\, Latin\, and Arabic Classics.
URL:https://cms.mit.edu/event/gregory-crane-digital-libraries-of-babel/
LOCATION:MIT Media Lab\, Room 633\, 75 Amherst St.\, Cambridge\, MA\, 02139\, United States
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SUMMARY:A Conversation with Nate Silver
DESCRIPTION:Nate Silver at MIT. Photo by Greg Peverill-Conti\nThe statistician and political polling analyst Nate Silver will discuss his career — from student journalist to baseball prognosticator to the creator of FiveThirtyEight.com\, perhaps the most influential political blog in the world — and the ways in which statistics are changing the face of journalism in a conversation with Seth Mnookin\, a former baseball and political writer who co-directs MIT’s Graduate Program in Science Writing.
URL:https://cms.mit.edu/event/nate-silver-conversation/
LOCATION:MIT Media Lab\, Bartos Theater\, 20 Ames Street\, Cambridge\, MA\, 02139\, United States
CATEGORIES:Communications Forum
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