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SUMMARY:This Land Is Our Land: Mobile Media\, Protest\, and Debate in Maasai and Mongolian Land Disputes
DESCRIPTION:Allison HahnAssistant Professor of Communication Studies at the City University of New York – Baruch College\nHow has mobile media changed the ways that nomadic communities receive and send information\, engage state actors\, and participate in international deliberations? Allison Hahn examines the ways that two pastoral-nomadic communities\, Maasai of Kenya and Tanzania and Mongolians of Mongolia and China\, are utilizing new media and social media platforms to challenge power hierarchies and deliberative norms. Many governmental policy makers presume that this technological adaptation indicates a determination amongst nomadic communities to integrate and settle. This presentation asks if nomadic communities might instead be incorporating new media technologies as a method to preserve their traditional lifestyles while engaging in national and international deliberations about land policy. Hahn draws from evidence of this engagement found in Maasai and Mongolian use of YouTube\, RenRen\, Twitter and Facebook as well as in-person protests and her decade of fieldwork amongst pastoral-nomadic communities. In this talk\, Hahn focuses on specific examples from Maasai and Mongolian communities\, as well as addresses the broader questions of how academics might engage once-distant communities and better understand the complexity of mobile media and nomadic deliberation.  \nAllison Hahn (Ph.D.\, University of Pittsburgh) is Assistant Professor of Communication Studies at the City University of New York – Baruch College. Her current book project\, Nomads\, New Media\, and the State (in progress) explores the ways pastoral-nomadic communities in Central Asia\, East Africa\, and the Middle East are utilizing new and mobile technologies to participate in conservation policy and negotiate land rights.
URL:https://cms.mit.edu/event/allison-hahn-mobile-media-protest-debate-maasai-mongolian-land-disputes/
LOCATION:MIT Building 3\, Room 133\, 33 Massachusetts Ave\, Cambridge\, MA\, 02139\, United States
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SUMMARY:How Did the Computer Learn to See?
DESCRIPTION:Alexander GallowayPhoto by Ivan Brodey\nHow did the computer learn to see? A common response to the question is that the computer learned to see from cinema and photography\, that is\, from modernity’s most highly evolved technologies of vision. In this talk we will explore a different response to the question\, that the computer learned to see not from cinema but from sculpture. With reference to the work of artists Sarah Oppenheimer and Zach Blas\, along with techniques for digital image compression\, we will explore the uniquely computational mode of vision. \nAlexander Galloway is a writer and computer programmer working on issues in philosophy\, technology\, and theories of mediation. He is author of several books\, most recently a monograph on the work of François Laruelle\, and is currently a visiting professor in the Department of Visual and Environmental Studies at Harvard University.
URL:https://cms.mit.edu/event/alexander-galloway-computer-learn-see/
LOCATION:MIT Building 3\, Room 133\, 33 Massachusetts Ave\, Cambridge\, MA\, 02139\, United States
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SUMMARY:Time Traveling with James Gleick
DESCRIPTION:James Gleick\nInternational best-selling author and science historian James Gleick discusses his career\, the state of science journalism\, and his newest book Time Travel: A History\, which delves into the evolution of time travel in literature and science and the thin line between pulp fiction and modern physics. This Communications Forum event will be moderated by author and physicist Alan Lightman\, the first professor at MIT to receive a joint appointment in the sciences and the humanities. \nSpeakers\nJames Gleick\, author of seven books\, including Chaos\, Genius\, and Isaac Newton\, all of which were finalists for the Pulitzer Prize \nModerator: Alan Lightman\, Professor of the Practice of the Humanities at MIT and author of 15 books
URL:https://cms.mit.edu/event/time-traveling-james-gleick/
LOCATION:MIT Building 2\, Room 190\, 182 Memorial Drive\, Cambridge\, MA\, 02139\, United States
CATEGORIES:Communications Forum
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SUMMARY:The Turn to “Tween”: An Age Category and its Cultural Consequences
DESCRIPTION:Even though people age nine through twelve have always been with us\, the same cannot be said for the category “tween.” When did this category emerge and why? How are “tweens” represented in popular culture\, including music\, television\, and YA literature? And how does this relatively new age category intersect with–or elide–issues pertaining to race\, class\, and gender identity? \nSpeakers \nTyler Bickford is an assistant professor of English at the University of Pittsburgh and is completing two book projects on music and childhood. \nMeryl Alper worked at Nickelodeon and Disney before becoming an Assistant Professor of Communication at Northeastern University and publishing Digital Youth with Disabilities. \nModerator: Marah Gubar is an Associate Professor of Literature at MIT and author of Artful Dodgers: Reconceiving the Golden Age of Children’s Literature (2009).
URL:https://cms.mit.edu/event/turn-tween-age-category-cultural-consequences/
LOCATION:MIT Building 3\, Room 270\, 33 Massachusetts Ave (Rear)\, Cambridge\, MA\, 02319\, United States
CATEGORIES:Communications Forum
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