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SUMMARY:CMS Graduate Admissions Information Session
DESCRIPTION:CMS Graduate Admissions Information Session\nCome meet faculty and students\, learn about the program and ask questions.  Light refreshments provided.\nNovember 16\, 2017 \n11AM-1 PM\nE51-095 \n \nCan’t make it here?  Participate via live stream on our YouTube channel.  We’ll have a chat room open\, so you can ask questions and respond as if you were in the room.
URL:https://cms.mit.edu/event/cms-graduate-admissions-information-session/
LOCATION:MIT Building E51\, Room 095\, 70 Memorial Drive\, Cambridge\, MA\, 02139\, United States
CATEGORIES:Information Session
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SUMMARY:Fall 2017 Alumni Panel: Matthew Weise\, Karen Schrier Shaenfield\, Ainsley Sutherland\, and Beyza Boyacioglu
DESCRIPTION:Join us for this year’s alumni panel\, when we hear from four alums of the graduate program in Comparative Media Studies as they discuss their experience at MIT and what their careers have looked like in the fields a CMS degree prepared them for. As in past years\, we’ve scheduled the panel for the same day as the graduate program information session. \nPanelists this time around include: \nMatthew Weise\, CMS ’04\nMatthew Weise\, ’04\, a game designer and educator whose work spans industry and academia. He is the CEO of Empathy Box\, a company that specializes in narrative design for games and across media. He was the Narrative Designer at Harmonix Music Systems on Fantasia: Music Evolved\, the Game Design Director of the GAMBIT Game Lab at MIT\, and a consultant for Warner Bros.\, Microsoft\, PBS\, The National Ballet of Spain\, and others on storytelling and game design. His work\, both creatively and critically\, focuses on transmedia adaptation with an emphasis on the challenges of adapting cinema into video games. Matt has given lectures and workshops on film-to-game adaptation all over the world\, and has published work on how franchises like Alien\, James Bond\, and horror cinema in general are adapted into games. Links to his writing and game design work\, including his IGF nominated The Snowfield\, can be found at www.matthewweise.com. \n  \nKaren Schrier\, CMS ’05\nKaren Schrier\, ’05\, an educator\, innovator\, and creative researcher who is always looking for collaborators and new connections. She is an Associate Professor at Marist College and Director of the Games and Emerging Media program. She also runs the Play Innovation Lab\, where she researches and creates games that support learning\, ethical reflection\, and compassion. Her recent book\, Knowledge Games\, was published last year (Johns Hopkins University Press)\, and was covered by Forbes\, New Scientist\, Times Higher Education\, and SiriusXM. Dr. Schrier also edits the book series\, Learning\, Education & Games\, which is published by ETC Press (Carnegie Mellon)\, and she is the president of the Learning\, Education & Games group of the IGDA (International Game Developers Association). She holds a doctorate from Columbia University\, master’s from MIT\, and a bachelor’s from Amherst College. In addition\, Karen and her family (husband\, cats\, 5 year old and 2 year old) currently live in the Hudson Valley but are hoping to move to Pound Ridge\, NY in the winter. \n  \nAinsley Sutherland\, CMS ’15\nAinsley Sutherland\, ’15\, a media technologist and researcher working in immersive computing and human-computer interaction design. Her project Voxhop\, a tool for voice collaboration in virtual reality\, is a 2017 j360 Challenge winner funded by the Knight Foundation and Google News Lab. She was a 2016 fellow at the BuzzFeed Open Lab\, as well as a researcher in the Imagination\, Computation\, and Expression Lab at MIT. She has cofounded Mediate\, an MIT DesignX-backed company that enables collaboration in and analysis of 3D environments. She has an M.S. from MIT in Comparative Media Studies\, and a B.A. from the University of Chicago\, in Economics. \n  \nBeyza Boyacioglu\, CMS ’17\nBeyza Boyacioglu\, ’17\, is an award-winning documentary filmmaker and artist. Her work has been presented at MoMA Doc Fortnight\, IDFA DocLab\, Morelia International Film Festival\, RIDM\, Anthology Film Archives amongst other venues and festivals. She has received grants and fellowships from LEF Foundation\, MIT Council for the Arts\, Flaherty Seminar\, SALT Research and Greenhouse Seminar. She was an artist in residence at UnionDocs in 2012 where she co-directed “Toñita’s” — a documentary portrait of the last Puerto Rican social club in Williamsburg. She is currently producing a cross-platform documentary about Turkey’s gender-bending pop legend Zeki Müren. The project is comprised of a feature film “A Prince from Outer Space: Zeki Müren”\, a hotline and a web experience. Currently\, Boyacioglu works as a Producer at the MIT Open Documentary Lab.
URL:https://cms.mit.edu/event/fall-2017-alumni-panel/
LOCATION:MIT Building 56\, Room 114\, Access via 21 Ames Street\, Cambridge\, MA\, 02139\, United States
CATEGORIES:Colloquium
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SUMMARY:Science Writing Admissions Information Session
DESCRIPTION:Science Writing Admissions Information Session\nCome meet faculty\, learn about the program and ask questions.  Light refreshments provided.\nNovember 17\, 2017 \n2-4PM\n14E-304 \n \nCan’t make it in person?  Participate via live stream on our YouTube Channel.  We’ll have a chat window open\, so you can participate as if you were in the room.
URL:https://cms.mit.edu/event/science-writing-admissions-information-session/
LOCATION:MIT Building 14E\, Room 304\, 160 Memorial Drive\, Cambridge\, MA\, 02139\, United States
CATEGORIES:Information Session
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SUMMARY:Has Silicon Valley Lost Its Humanity?
DESCRIPTION:Silicon Valley innovations have given rise to a class of tech titans wielding immense economic and political influence\, and has paved the way for a cultural shift towards individualism with historically little regard for marginalized groups left in the wake. Noam Cohen\, a former New York Timestechnology columnist and author of The Know-It-Alls: The Rise of Silicon Valley as a Political Powerhouse and Social Wrecking Ball\, argues that this type of disruption often flies in the face of empathy\, civility\, and even democracy itself\, leading to problems ranging from the rise of fake news to the growing divide between the “haves” who benefit from these technologies and everyone else. Cohen joins Northeastern University assistant professor of journalism and Wired Magazine contributing editor Jeff Howe for a moderated panel that focuses on the ethical push and pull between the drive for innovation and preserving our own humanity and moral codes. \nSpeakers \nNoam Cohen covered the influence of the Internet on the larger culture for the New York Times\, where he wrote the “Link by Link” column beginning in 2007. His first book\, The Know-It-Alls: The Rise of Silicon Valley as a Political Powerhouse and Social Wrecking Ball\, was published in October\, 2017. \nJeff Howe is an assistant professor of journalism at Northeastern University and a contributing editor at Wired Magazine. He is the author of Crowdsourcing: How the Power of the Crowd is Driving the Future of Businessand co-author of Whiplash\, How to Survive Our Faster Future. \nSara M. Watson is a technology critic who writes and speaks about emerging issues in the intersection of technology\, culture\, and society. Her work has appeared in The Atlantic\, Wired\, The Washington Post\, Slate\, and Motherboard. She is an affiliate with the Berkman Klein Center for Internet and Society at Harvard University\, and author of the Tow Center for Digital Journalism’s report on the current state of technology coverage. \n\n \nThis event is sponsored by Radius at MIT and is free for the MIT community and the general public.
URL:https://cms.mit.edu/event/silicon-valley-lost-humanity/
LOCATION:MIT Building 3\, Room 270\, 33 Massachusetts Ave (Rear)\, Cambridge\, MA\, 02319\, United States
CATEGORIES:Communications Forum
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