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SUMMARY:Helen Nissenbaum\, "Resisting Data’s Tyranny with Obfuscation"
DESCRIPTION:Helen Nissenbaum\nAgainst inexorable machinations of data surveillance\, analysis\, and profiling\, data obfuscation holds promise of relief. Whether it can withstand countervailing analytics is an intriguing question; whether it is unethical\, illegitimate\, or\, at best\, ungenerous cuts close to the bone. Yet\, as NYU’s Helen Nissenbaum will argue in this talk\, obfuscation is a compelling “weapon-of-the-weak\,” which deserves to be developed and strengthened\, its moral challenges countered and mitigated. \nHelen Nissenbaum is Professor of Media\, Culture and Communication\, and Computer Science\, at New York University\, where she is also Director of the Information Law Institute. Her work spans social\, ethical\, and political dimensions of information technology and digital media. She has written and edited five books\, including Values at Play in Digital Games\, with Mary Flanagan (forthcoming from MIT Press\, 2014) and Privacy in Context: Technology\, Policy\, and the Integrity of Social Life (Stanford University Press\, 2010) and her research publications have appeared in journals of philosophy\, politics\, law\, media studies\, information studies\, and computer science. The National Science Foundation\, Air Force Office of Scientific Research\, Ford Foundation\, U.S. Department of Homeland Security\, and the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Office of the National Coordinator have supported her work on privacy\, trust online\, and security\, as well as several studies of values embodied in computer system design\, search engines\, digital games\, facial recognition technology\, and health information systems. \nNissenbaum holds a Ph.D. in philosophy from Stanford University and a B.A. (Hons) from the University of the Witwatersrand. Before joining the faculty at NYU\, she served as Associate Director of the Center for Human Values at Princeton University.
URL:https://cms.mit.edu/event/helen-nissenbaum-resisting-datas-tyranny-with-obfuscation/
LOCATION:MIT Media Lab\, Room 633\, 75 Amherst St.\, Cambridge\, MA\, 02139\, United States
CATEGORIES:Colloquium
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SUMMARY:Documentaries\, Journalism\, and the Future of Reality-Based Storytelling
DESCRIPTION:Documentary and journalism have a complicated relationship. They share commitments to reality-based storytelling\, yet have distinctive legacies and institutional histories. They share technologies\, vocabularies and modes of address\, yet have different notions of time\, from the ‘now’ of breaking news to the ‘timeless’ status of classic documentaries. At a moment when the Internet has emerged as a platform common to print and broadcast journalism as well as new forms of interactive and participatory documentary\, complication seems more like confusion. One might try to clarify the situation by disambiguating these genres\, solidifying their boundaries. We seek instead to make productive use of the situation by taking advantage of their commonalities\, finding ways to re-invent and re-invigorate both documentary and journalism\, in the process expanding their audiences and enhancing their relevance. Documentaries have demonstrated the advantages of synergistic thinking\, finding a new place and new publics through digital journalism portals. But what can new forms of documentary contribute back to journalism? To answer that question\, we have to think critically and creatively about the affordances of these different traditions in light of their new ecosystem. \n\nRaney Aronson\, deputy executive producer\, FRONTLINE\nKaterina Cizek\, documentary director\, National Film Board of Canada\nJason Spingarn-Koff\, New York Times Op-Docs editor\nFrancesca Panetta\, Guardian multimedia special projects editor\nModerator: William Uricchio\, MIT
URL:https://cms.mit.edu/event/documentaries-journalism-future-reality-based-storytelling/
LOCATION:MIT Building 66\, Room 110\, 25 Ames Street\, Cambridge\, MA\, 02139\, United States
CATEGORIES:Communications Forum
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SUMMARY:Doris Sommer\, "Welcome Back\, to the Humanities as Civic Engagement"
DESCRIPTION:Doris Sommer. Staff Photo\, Stephanie Mitchell/Harvard University News Office\nDoris Sommer’s new book\, The Work of Art in the World: Civic Agency and Public Humanities\, revives the collaboration between aesthetic philosophy and democratic development. From the top and from below\, creative projects and their interpretation fuel positive change and renew humanists’ opportunities to make civic contributions. \nSommer is Ira and Jewell Williams Professor of Romance languages and Literatures and African and African American Studies at Harvard University and Director of the Cultural Agents Initiative.
URL:https://cms.mit.edu/event/doris-sommer-humanities-as-civic-engagement/
LOCATION:MIT Media Lab\, Room 633\, 75 Amherst St.\, Cambridge\, MA\, 02139\, United States
CATEGORIES:Colloquium
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20141023T130000
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SUMMARY:On-campus Information Session\, CMS Graduate Program
DESCRIPTION:Registration required at Eventbrite.
URL:https://cms.mit.edu/event/on-campus-information-session-oct-2014-2/
LOCATION:MIT Building 4\, Room 231\, Cambridge\, MA\, 02139\, United States
CATEGORIES:Information Session
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SUMMARY:CMS Alumni Panel
DESCRIPTION:Three Comparative Media Studies alums return to discuss their post-graduate lives. \nSam Ford\, S.M.\, ’07\nSam Ford is Director of Audience Engagement at strategic communication and marketing firm Peppercomm. He is co-author of the 2013 book Spreadable Media and co-editor of the 2011 book The Survival of Soap Opera. Sam is a contributing author to Harvard Business Review\, Fast Company\, and Inc.; a research affiliate with MIT’s Program in Comparative Media Studies/Writing; and an instructor with Western Kentucky University’s Popular Culture Studies Program. Sam currently serves as Co-Chair of the Word of Mouth Marketing Association’s Ethics Committee. He has recently published work with The Journal of Fandom Studies\, Panorama Social\, Cinema Journal\, The Journal of Digital & Social Media Marketing\, Advertising Age\, PRWeek\, PR News\, O’Dwyer PR\, IABC Communication World\, The Public Relations Strategist\, PropertyCasualty360\, Oxford University Press Bibliographies\, and the NYU Press book\, Making Media Work\, among other outlets. He’s based in Bowling Green\, Kentucky. \n\nRekha Murthy\, S.M.\, ’05\nRekha Murthy is Director of Projects + Partnerships at PRX\, where she finds innovative ways for public media stations and producers to reach audiences and earn revenue. Rekha runs PRX’s digital distribution program\, where she forges new\, non-broadcast pathways for audio works. These range from established channels like iTunes and Amazon\, to aggregators like TuneIn and Stitcher\, to entertainment and education services large and small. \nAs part of PRX’s award-winning Apps team\, Rekha has set new standards for public media’s mobile strategy and adoption with apps including the Public Radio Player\, This American Life\, and for major stations. She launched PRX’s iTunes distribution service\, making independent productions and major national programs available for sale in the iTunes Store.  \nRekha advises various transmedia initiatives for public media and served on the board of the Integrated Media Association (now part of Greater Public).  \nBefore PRX\, Rekha was a producer for NPR’s All Things Considered and an editor of NPR.org. She’s been a project manager and user experience designer for web and mobile clients. \nParmesh Shahani\, S.M.\, ’05\nParmesh Shahani\, listed in 2012 as one of 25 Indians to watch out for by Financial Times\, is the head of the Godrej India Culture Lab — an experimental idea-space that cross-­pollinates the best ideas and people working on India from across the academic\, creative and corporate worlds to explore what it means to be modern and Indian. In addition\, Parmesh also serves as the Editor-at-large for Verve magazine\, India. He is a Yale World Fellow\, currently spending a semester in New Haven. He is also a World Economic Forum Young Global Leader\, TED Fellow\, and a Utrecht University-Impakt Fellow. Parmesh’s masters’ thesis at CMS was released as a book  “Gay Bombay: Globalization\, Love and  (Be)Longing in Contemporary India” by Sage Publications in 2008.  You can follow Parmesh on Twitter at @parmeshs.
URL:https://cms.mit.edu/event/cms-alumni-panel/
LOCATION:MIT Building 4\, Room 231\, Cambridge\, MA\, 02139\, United States
CATEGORIES:Colloquium
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SUMMARY:Online Information Session\, CMS Graduate Program
DESCRIPTION:Join us at 9am on October 24th\, here at cmsw.mit.edu! (What time is that where you live?) \nJOIN NOW!\nRSVP is not required for online information sessions\, though you can sign up for a reminder below. \nIt may help to prepare some questions ahead of time. It’s as simple as scanning through the basic info about the graduate program: cmsw.mit.edu/education/comparative-media-studies/masters.
URL:https://cms.mit.edu/event/online-information-session-cms-graduate-program-oct-24-2014/
CATEGORIES:Information Session
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