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SUMMARY:Michael Taussig: "Mooning Texas"
DESCRIPTION:Michael Taussig\, Professor of Anthropology\, Columbia University\n“Mooning Texas” – an adventure story involving social energy + art + Emile Durkheim’s “take” on Mauss + Hubert’s “take” on mana + the creativity of gossip. \nMichael Taussig\, professor of anthropology at Columbia University\, was dubbed by the New York Times as “Anthropology’s Alternative Radical.” Taussig has been doing fieldwork since 1969. He has written on the commercialization of peasant agriculture; slavery; hunger; the working of commodity fetishism; colonialism on “shamanism” and folk healing; the relevance of modernism and post-modernist aesthetics for the understanding of ritual; the making\, talking\, and writing of terror; and mimesis. He has also written “a study of exciting substance loaded with seduction and evil\, gold and cocaine\, in a montage-ethnography of the Pacific Coast of Colombia.” \nIntroduced by Prof. Ian Condry\, Global Studies and Languages\, MIT.  \nPresented by the Dissolve Inequality series and the Latin American Studies Forum of MIT Global Studies and Languages.\ngsl-events@mit.edu • mitgsl.mit.edu
URL:https://cms.mit.edu/event/michael-taussig-mooning-texas/
LOCATION:MIT Building 32 (Stata Center)\, Room 155\, 32 Vassar Street\, Cambridge\, MA\, 02139\, United States
CATEGORIES:Colloquium
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SUMMARY:Being Muslim in America (and MIT) in 2016
DESCRIPTION:Last December\, Republican presidential frontrunner Donald Trump called for a ban on all Muslims entering the United States. In March\, he added that “I think Islam hates us.” Cambridge City Councilman Nadeem Mazen and Wise Systems co-founder Layla Shaikley–both MIT alumni–join engineering masters student Abubakar Abid to explore how this type of hateful\, discriminatory rhetoric influences public opinion\, discuss its impact on the daily lives of Muslim-Americans\, and examine strategies for combating it. \nNadeem Mazen is an MIT graduate\, Cambridge’s first Muslim city councilman and CEO of the Cambridge makerspace danger!awesome. \nLayle Shaikley is an MIT alum\, co-founder of Wise Systems and co-founder of TEDxBaghdad. With her viral video sensation “Muslim Hipsters: #mipsterz\,” she helped launch a national conversation about how Muslim women are represented. \nAbubakar Abid is a engineering masters student at MIT and a member of the Muslim Student Association. \nModerator: Seth Mnookin\, associate director of MIT’s Graduate Program in Science Writing and director of the MIT Communications Forum.
URL:https://cms.mit.edu/event/muslim-america-mit-2016/
LOCATION:MIT Building 3\, Room 270\, 33 Massachusetts Ave (Rear)\, Cambridge\, MA\, 02319\, United States
CATEGORIES:Communications Forum
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SUMMARY:CMS Graduate Thesis Presentations
DESCRIPTION:These students aim to misbehave.\nThesis presentations of the class of 2016. \n \n9:00 am coffee and conversation\n\n9:30 am presentations begin\n\n	Lily Bui\, “Sense and the City: A Critical Look at Representations of Air Quality Data in the ‘Smart City'”\n	Lilia Kilburn\, “The Ghost in the (Answering) Machine: Vocality\, Technology\, Temporality”\n	Anika Gupta\, “Towards A Better Inclusivity: Online Comments and Community at News Organizations”\n	Andrew Stuhl\, “Making Software with Sound: Process and Politics in Interactive Musical Works”\n\nLunch Break\n\n	Kyrie Caldwell\, “That Momentary Glow: Gender and Systems of Warm Interaction in Digital Games”\n	Deniz Tortum\, “Real-time 3D Documentary: Representation Through Reality Capture and Game Engines”\n	Beyza Boyacioglu\, “Zeki Muren: A Prince from Space”\n	Gordon Mangum\, “DeepStream.tv: Designing Informative and Engaging Live Streaming Video Experiences”\n	Lacey Lord\, “Panels from Digits to Digital: The Evolution of Touch in Comics”\n\nIf you can’t make it to the presentation\, follow the livestream here: http://www.ustream.tv/channel/cEyEXhb4ryX
URL:https://cms.mit.edu/event/cms-graduate-thesis-presentations-2/
LOCATION:MIT Building E51\, Room 095\, 70 Memorial Drive\, Cambridge\, MA\, 02139\, United States
CATEGORIES:Thesis Presentations
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20160414T170000
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SUMMARY:Nick Seaver: "What Do People Do All Day?"
DESCRIPTION:Nick Seaver\, CMS ’10\, and Assistant Professor at Tufts University \nThe algorithmic infrastructures of the internet are made by a weird cast of characters: rock stars\, gurus\, ninjas\, wizards\, alchemists\, park rangers\, gardeners\, plumbers\, and janitors can all be found sitting at computers in otherwise unremarkable offices\, typing. These job titles\, sometimes official\, sometimes informal\, are a striking feature of internet industries. They mark jobs as novel or hip\, contrasting starkly with the sedentary screenwork of programming. But is that all they do? In this talk\, drawing on several years of fieldwork with the developers of algorithmic music recommenders\, Seaver describes how these terms help people make sense of new kinds of jobs and their positions within new infrastructures. They draw analogies that fit into existing prestige hierarchies (rockstars and janitors) or relationships to craft and technique (gardeners and alchemists). They aspire to particular imaginations of mastery (gurus and ninjas). Critics of big data have drawn attention to the importance of metaphors in framing public and commercial understandings of data\, its biases and origins. The metaphorical borrowings of role terms serve a similar function\, highlighting some features at the expense of others and shaping emerging professions in their image. If we want to make sense of new algorithmic industries\, we’ll need to understand how they make sense of themselves. \nNick Seaver is assistant professor of anthropology at Tufts University. His current research examines the cultural life of algorithms for understanding and recommending music. He received a masters from CMS in 2010 for research on the history of the player piano.
URL:https://cms.mit.edu/event/nick-seaver-what-do-people-do-all-day/
LOCATION:MIT Building 56\, Room 114\, Access via 21 Ames Street\, Cambridge\, MA\, 02139\, United States
CATEGORIES:Colloquium
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SUMMARY:CMS/W Town Hall
DESCRIPTION:Closed to the public.
URL:https://cms.mit.edu/event/cmsw-town-hall/
CATEGORIES:Colloquium
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SUMMARY:MIT Open House\, with CMS/W Events
DESCRIPTION:This year MIT celebrates 100 years in Cambridge! On April 23\, it hosts a campus-wide open house\, welcoming the public into every department to check out the coolest of the Institute’s work. We’ll have five spots of our own where you can stop. (And check out the full list of Open House activities.) See you there: \n\nOnce More\, With Feelies: Video Game Materials (an exhibition)\n11:00 AM to 3:00 PM\nRotch Library\, Building 7 – Room 238 \nExploring the Potential of Play\n11:00 AM to 2:00 PM\nWiesner Building\, Building E15 – Room 320 \nDesigning Digital Humanities\n12:00 PM to 2:00 PM\nBuilding 16 – Room 635 \nPlayful\, Powerful Learning\n10:00 AM to 3:00 PM\nWiesner Building\, Building E15 – Room 301 \nComputer-Generated Poetry\n10:00 AM to 3:00 PM\nWiesner Building\, Building E15 – Room 318
URL:https://cms.mit.edu/event/mit-open-house-cmsw-events/
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SUMMARY:17th Annual CMS Media Spectacle
DESCRIPTION:(Submissions are now closed.) \nSubmission deadline is April 20. \nThe CMS Media Spectacle showcases video projects of all genres created by MIT students\, staff\, faculty and affiliates. Prizes include the Chris Pomiecko Award for Best Undergraduate Entry\, as well as awards for Best Non-undergraduate Entry\, Animation\, Experimental\, Narrative\, Nonfiction/Documentary\, and Audience Favorite. To submit an entry\, send your video to: \nBecky Shepardson\n14N-336\n77 Mass. Ave.\, Cambridge\, MA 02139\nbshep@mit.edu\n(if the video is online\, please make sure it’s downloadable) \nPlease include with your submission: contact email\, video title\, brief description\, and running time. The maximum running time is 15 minutes. The deadline for submissions is April 20. Contact bshep@mit.edu with any questions.
URL:https://cms.mit.edu/event/2016-media-spectacle/
LOCATION:MIT Building 32 (Stata Center)\, Room 155\, 32 Vassar Street\, Cambridge\, MA\, 02139\, United States
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SUMMARY:Fox Harrell: "Reflections on Advanced Identity Representation"
DESCRIPTION:Fox HarrellPhoto by Bryce Vickmark \nNearly everyone these days imaginatively uses virtual identities such as social media profiles\, e-commerce accounts\, and/or videogame characters. Yet\, virtual identities can reproduce discrimination and stereotypes with devastating impacts on users ranging from worse performance and engagement for students to bullying and threats of violence. If such forms of oppression persist\, e.g.\, female virtual identity users being threatened online\, surely we must go advance our understanding of the roles these technologies play in society and how to design them to better suit diverse social needs. In this talk\, Harrell presents some of the outcomes from his 5-year National Science Foundation-supported research initiative called the Advanced Identity Representation project. Namely\, applying approaches from artificial intelligence\, cognitive science\, and sociology to technologies such as videogames and social media\, his research both reveals social biases in existing systems and implements systems to respond to those biases with greater nuance and expressive power. \nD. Fox Harrell is an Associate Professor of Digital Media at MIT in the Comparative Media Studies Program and Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory. He founded and directs the MIT Imagination\, Computation\, and Expression Laboratory (ICE Lab). He was a 2014-15 recipient of the Lenore Annenberg and Wallis Annenberg Fellowship in Communication and fellow at the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences at Stanford University.
URL:https://cms.mit.edu/event/fox-harrell-reflections-on-advanced-identity-representation/
LOCATION:MIT Building 56\, Room 114\, Access via 21 Ames Street\, Cambridge\, MA\, 02139\, United States
CATEGORIES:Colloquium
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