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SUMMARY:Henry Jenkins Returns
DESCRIPTION:Legendary former MIT professor and housemaster Henry Jenkins\, now the Provost’s Professor of Communications\, Journalism\, Cinematic Arts and Education at the University of Southern California\, returns to the Forum for a conversation about his time at the Institute and the founding of CMS as well as his path-breaking scholarship on contemporary media. Forum Director David Thorburn\, Jenkins’ longtime friend and colleague\, will moderate the discussion. \nHenry Jenkins is Provost’s Professor of Communication\, Journalism\, Cinematic Arts and Education at the University of Southern California. He taught at MIT from 1990-2009 and was the founding director of the Comparative Media Studies program at the Institute. He has written many books on film\, popular culture and media\, including Convergence Culture: Where Old and New Media Collide (2008). \nDavid Thorburn is a professor of Literature and Director of the MIT Communications Forum. He is the author of a critical study of the novelist Joseph Conrad and many essays on literature and media. Among his publications: Rethinking Media Change (2007)\, co-edited with Henry Jenkins.
URL:https://cms.mit.edu/event/henry-jenkins-returns/
LOCATION:MIT Building 4\, Room 370\, 182 Memorial Drive (Rear)\, Cambridge\, MA\, 02139\, United States
CATEGORIES:Communications Forum
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SUMMARY:Kate Crawford\, "Squeaky Dolphin to Normcore: Anxiety and Big Data Culture"
DESCRIPTION:Kate Crawford\nKate Crawford is a Principal Researcher at Microsoft Research (Social Media Collective)\, a Visiting Professor at the MIT Center for Civic Media\, a Senior Fellow at the Information Law Institute at NYU\, and an Associate Professor at the University of New South Wales. She researches how people engage with networked technologies\, and analyze the political\, cultural\, legal\, philosophical and policy-making implications. She has done interview-based studies in Australia\, India and the US\, in big cities and in very small towns. Crawford is interested in how networked data becomes part of our understanding of knowledge\, privacy\, democracy\, intimacy and subjectivity. Her first book Adult Themes was through Pan Macmillan\, and she is currently working on a new book.
URL:https://cms.mit.edu/event/kate-crawford-anxiety-big-data-culture/
LOCATION:MIT Building 4\, Room 231\, Cambridge\, MA\, 02139\, United States
CATEGORIES:Colloquium
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SUMMARY:Barry Werth and The Antidote: Reporting from Inside the World of Big Pharma
DESCRIPTION:Journalist and author Barry Werth has been writing about the business and practice of the pharmaceutical industry for more than two decades. The Billion Dollar Molecule\, his 1995 book on Vertex Pharmaceuticals\, was named one the “75 Smartest Books We Know” by Fortune. His sixth and most recent book\, The Antidote: Inside the World of Big Pharma\, revisits Vertex\, offering unprecedented behind-the-scenes access to a company that that went from cash-starved startup to a triumph of American bio-tech innovation. Werth has also written for The New Yorker\, The New York Times\, and Technology Review\, among many others publications.
URL:https://cms.mit.edu/event/barry-werth-antidote-inside-world-big-pharma/
LOCATION:MIT Media Lab\, Room 633\, 75 Amherst St.\, Cambridge\, MA\, 02139\, United States
CATEGORIES:Colloquium
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