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SUMMARY:Music Fandom and the Shaping of Online Culture
DESCRIPTION:Nancy Baym\, Principal Researcher\, Microsoft; Research Affiliate at MIT Comparative Media Studies/Writing\nFrom the earliest days of networked computing\, music fans were there\, shaping the technologies and cultures that emerged online. By the time musicians and industry figures realized they could use the internet to reach audiences directly\, those audiences had already established their presences and social norms online\, putting them in unprecedented positions of power. Even widely-hailed innovators like David Bowie\, Prince\, and Trent Reznor were late to the game. This talk traces the intertwined histories of music fandom and online culture\, unpacking the fundamental disruption and its broader implications for interacting with audiences. \nNancy Baym is a Principal Researcher at Microsoft in Cambridge\, Massachusetts and a Research Affiliate in CMS/W at MIT. She earned her Ph.D. in Communication at the University of Illinois in 1994 and joined Microsoft in 2012 after 18 years as a Communication professor. She is the author of Personal Connections in the Digital Age (Polity Press)\, now in its second edition\, Tune In\, Log On: Soaps\, Fandom and Online Community (Sage Press)\, and co-editor of Internet Inquiry: Conversations About Method (Sage Press) with Annette Markham. Her bookPlaying to the Crowd: Musicians\, Audiences\, and the Intimate Work of Connection will be published in July by NYU Press.  More information\, most of her articles\, and some of her talks are available at nancybaym.com
URL:https://cms.mit.edu/event/nancy-baym-music-fandom-online-culture/
LOCATION:MIT Building 56\, Room 114\, Access via 21 Ames Street\, Cambridge\, MA\, 02139\, United States
CATEGORIES:Colloquium
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SUMMARY:CMS Graduate Thesis Presentations - 2018
DESCRIPTION:This event is free and open to the public. You are welcome to attend as many or as few presentations as you wish. Livestream available at https://www.youtube.com/MITComparativeMediaStudiesWriting.\n\n10:30 Coffee and Conversation \n11:00 Presentations by: \nClaudia Lo When All You Have Is A Banhammer \nThe popular wisdom about internet moderation is\, simply: moderators remove stuff. But there is plenty that they do that doesn’t fit in such a simple definition. Through research with large-scale Twitch esports moderators\, we can see that there are social and communicative aspects to their work. From making their own moderation tools\, creating new policies and developing ethical standards for moderation\, what else do moderators do when all we give them is a banhammer? \nAashka Dave When to Start Freaking Out: Audience Engagement on Social Media During Disease Outbreaks \nHow do perceptions of risk contribute to sensationalized social media spectacles\, and how might social media practices further such a practice? This thesis will explore sensationalism and gatekeeping through an examination of how news and public health organizations used social media during the most recent Ebola and Zika outbreaks. \n12:30 Lunch Break \n1:00 Presentations by: \nVicky Zeamer Internet Killed the Michelin Star: The Motives of Narrative and Style in Food Text Creation on Social Media \nFood porn has become mainstream content on social media sites and digital streaming sites. With this comes a change in status—from expert to everyone. As a result\, the role of authority figures\, in particular chefs\, has changed. This thesis illustrates the convergences and divergences in the creation and consumption of food texts today. \nKaelan Doyle-Myerscough Intimate Worlds: Reading for Intimate Affects in Contemporary Video Games \nLeveraging affect theory and video game studies\, I examine Overwatch\, The Last Guardian and The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild for intimate affects. I read for intimacy as a way to understand how sensations of vulnerability\, the loss of control and precarity can become pleasurable in contemporary video games. \nSara Rafsky The Print that Binds: Local Media\, Civic Life and the Public Sphere \nAziria Rodriguez Arce Seizing the Memes of Production: Political Memes in Puerto Rico and the Puerto Rican Diaspora. \nMariel Garcia Montes Youth and Privacy in the Americas \nHow do youth allies promote young people’s critical thinking on privacy\, in informal learning contexts in the Americas? This thesis look at ways that educators and allies work to think about\, critique\, engage with\, and circulate ideas about youth online privacy.
URL:https://cms.mit.edu/event/cms-graduate-thesis-presentations-2018-2/
LOCATION:MIT Building W20\, Room 491\, 84 Massachusetts Avenue\, Cambridge\, MA\, 02139
CATEGORIES:Thesis Presentations
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SUMMARY:Vibranium Culture: Race\, Gender\, Technology\, and History in Black Panther (#WakandaUniversity)
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URL:https://cms.mit.edu/event/vibranium-culture-black-panther-wakandauniversity/
LOCATION:MIT Black Students’ Union Lounge (Building 50\, Room 105)\, 142 Memorial Drive\, Cambridge\, MA\, 02139\, United States
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SUMMARY:The City Talks: Storytelling at the New York Times's Metro Desk
DESCRIPTION:Emily Rueb – Photo by Leslye Davis \nAs attention spans shrink and the representation of factual information is under scrutiny by the public\, news organizations need clear\, engaging storytelling that reaches readers where they are. In this talk\, Emily Rueb\, a reporter for The New York Times\, will share insights gained in bursting boundaries of traditional storytelling for The New York Times’s Metro desk. Weaving video\, audio\, illustrations and text across multiple platforms\, she chronicled aspects of New York’s complex but rarely seen infrastructure\, like the power grid and the water system\, and also its overlooked neighbors\, like red-tailed hawks. Her talk will also look at what’s next for an organization that cherished its customs but has come to realize that its most important legacy values cannot survive without steady\, rapid integration of new techniques. \nMs. Rueb writes and produces New York 101\, a multimedia column explaining infrastructure. At the Times\, she pioneered new approaches to storytelling for the breaking news blog\, City Room\, where she covered Hurricane Sandy and major elections\, and created a niche writing about avian life. She also edited Metropolitan Diary. Her New York 101 series examined the power grid\, road construction\, organics recycling and the water system. Winner of an Emmy and a Knight-Batten Award for Innovation in Journalism\, Rueb also has contributed to The Financial Times\, BBC Scotland\, Time Out Paris and Cleveland Magazine.
URL:https://cms.mit.edu/event/storytelling-new-york-times-metro-desk/
LOCATION:MIT Building 56\, Room 114\, Access via 21 Ames Street\, Cambridge\, MA\, 02139\, United States
CATEGORIES:Colloquium
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SUMMARY:Republican Resistance in the Age of Trump
DESCRIPTION:Stuart Stevens\, Republican political consultant \nStuart Stevens believes Republicans are in a “GOP apocalypse\,” and he’s mobilizing conservatives to stop it. \nStevens is a Republican political consultant who’s worked on presidential campaigns for Bob Dole and George W. Bush\, served as the lead strategist for Mitt Romney’s 2012 presidential campaign\, and helped elect more governors and US Senators than any other GOP consultant working today. He’s also an outspoken critic of Donald Trump\, starting from the earliest days of Trump’s candidacy. Stevens joins MIT Communications Forum director Seth Mnookin to discuss the future of the GOP\, how Donald Trump has influenced the American political system\, and predictions for the 2018 midterm and the 2020 presidential elections. \nSpeakers: \nStuart Stevens is a political consultant\, author\, and founding partner of the consultancy firm Strategic\, Partners & Media. Stevens has served as a strategist and media consultant to President George W. Bush\, Governor Tom Ridge\, and senators Chuck Grassley\, John McCain\, Thad Cochran\, Roger Wicker\, Dick Lugar\, and many others. Stevens was the lead strategist for Mitt Romney’s 2012 presidential campaign. \nJennifer Nassour is the founder of Conservative Women for a Better Future\, a non-profit organization dedicated to electing more conservative women in the Northeast\, and former chairman of the Massachusetts Republican Party. During her tenure\, Republicans won the U.S. Senate seat held by Scott Brown and doubled their ranks in the Massachusetts House of Representatives. \nDr. Daniel Barkhuff is president of Veterans for Responsible Leadership\, a nonpartisan political action committee that supports veterans who have demonstrated integrity and rational thought as they run for positions in local\, state and federal elections. Barkhuff served for 7 years as a member of Naval Special Warfare and is currently a faculty member and emergency medicine doctor at the University of Vermont. \nModerator: Seth Mnookin is the director of the MIT Communications Forum and director of MIT’s Graduate Program in Science Writing. His most recent book\, The Panic Virus: The True Story Behind the Vaccine-Autism Controversy\,won the “Science in Society” award from the National Association of Science Writers.
URL:https://cms.mit.edu/event/republican-resistance-age-trump/
LOCATION:MIT Building 3\, Room 270\, 33 Massachusetts Ave (Rear)\, Cambridge\, MA\, 02319\, United States
CATEGORIES:Communications Forum
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SUMMARY:Between Participation and Control: A Long History of CCTV
DESCRIPTION:Anne-Katrin Weber \nClosed-circuit television (CCTV) has become synonymous with surveillance society and the widespread use of media technologies for contemporary regimes of power and control. Considered from the perspective of television’s long history\, however\, closed-circuit systems are multifaceted\, and include\, but are not limited to sorting and surveillance. During the media’s experimental phase in the 1920s and 1930s\, closed-circuit systems were an essential feature of its public display\, shaping its identity as a new technology for instantaneous communication. With the emergence of activist video practices in the 1970s\, closed-circuit TV became a core feature for alternative experiments such as the Videofreex’ Lanesville TV\, where it offered access to community-based media making. This use of CCTV as a tool for participatory media took place simultaneously with the rise of CCTV as a surveillance technology\, which had been promoted under the label of “industrial television” already from the early 1950s on. Based on war-driven technological developments\, industrial TV implemented televisual monitoring in industrial\, educational\, and military spheres decades before the global spread of surveillance cameras in public space. \nThis talk by Anne-Katrin Weber explores the politics of CCTV as they unfold in different institutional and ideological settings. Examining television’s history beyond broadcasting and programs\, it focuses on television’s multiple applications and meanings in public space – from the early presentation of television at World’s Fairs to community-based initiatives – and thus highlights the adaptability of closed-circuit technologies\, which accommodate to\, and underpin variable contexts of media participation as well as of surveillance and control. \nAnne-Katrin Weber is a postdoctoral fellow supported by the Swiss National Science Foundation and is a visiting scholar at MIT Comparative Media Studies/Writing. Her research examines the history of television outside broadcasting institutions. Currently preparing her first monograph titled Television on Display: Visual Culture and Technopolitics in Europe and the USA\, 1928-1939\, she is the editor of La télévision du téléphonoscope à Youtube: pour une archéologie de l’audiovision (with Mireille Berton\, Antipodes\, 2009) and an issue of View: Journal of European Television History and Culture (“Archaeologies of Tele-Visions and –Realities\,” with Andreas Fickers\, 2015).
URL:https://cms.mit.edu/event/anne-katrin-weber-history-cctv/
LOCATION:MIT Building 56\, Room 114\, Access via 21 Ames Street\, Cambridge\, MA\, 02139\, United States
CATEGORIES:Colloquium
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SUMMARY:Bunk and the History of Hoaxes with Kevin Young
DESCRIPTION:Kevin Young\, poetry editor for The New Yorker and director of the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture at the New York Public Library \nThe author of 11 books and poetry collections\, poetry editor for The New Yorker and director of the New York Public Library’s Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture\, Young has spent the past six years tracing the history of news-worthy fraudulence all the way back to the 18th century. Young’s latest book Bunk: The Rise of Hoaxes\, Humbug\, Plagiarists\, Phonies\, Post-Facts\, and Fake News chronicles the racially prejudiced path that brought fake news to where it is to today. Longlisted for the 2017 National Book Award\, Bunk dives into hoaxes big and small that permeate American history and the cultural attitudes that drive them. Young joins Carole Bell\, an assistant professor of Communication Studies at Northeastern University whose research explores the connections between media and politics\, for a broad-ranging discussion on the current state and political consequences of fake news. A book signing will follow. \nSpeakers: \nKevin Young is poetry editor for The New Yorker\, director of the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture at the New York Public Library\, and the author of 11 books and poetry collections including The Grey Album: On the Blackness of Blackness\, which was a New York Times Notable Book\, and Jelly Roll: A Blues\, which was a finalist for the National Book Award. \nCarole Bell is an assistant professor of Communication Studies and affiliated faculty in Political Science at Northeastern University. Bell’s teaching and research focuses on the intersections of media\, politics\, public opinion and public policy\, with a particular focus on issues of social identity. Her first book\, The Politics of Interracial Romance in American Film\, is forthcoming from Routledge. \nThis event is sponsored by Radius at MIT. All Communications Forum events are free and open to the general public.
URL:https://cms.mit.edu/event/fake-news-history-hoaxes-kevin-young/
LOCATION:MIT Building 3\, Room 270\, 33 Massachusetts Ave (Rear)\, Cambridge\, MA\, 02319\, United States
CATEGORIES:Communications Forum
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