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SUMMARY:Not Funny Anymore: Deepfakes\, Manipulated Media\, and Mis/disinformation
DESCRIPTION:Deepfakery: A Livestream Talk Series and Exploration of Critical Questions
URL:https://cms.mit.edu/event/not-funny-anymore-deepfakes-manipulated-media-and-mis-disinformation/
CATEGORIES:Deepfakery
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SUMMARY:Using AI-generated Face Doubles in Documentary: Welcome to Chechnya
DESCRIPTION:Deepfakery: A Livestream Talk Series and Exploration of Critical Questions
URL:https://cms.mit.edu/event/using-ai-generated-face-doubles-in-documentary-welcome-to-chechnya/
CATEGORIES:Deepfakery
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SUMMARY:CMS graduate student administrivia session
DESCRIPTION:A roundtable co-hosted by Academic Administrator Shannon Larkin and Ladybird\, this first Colloquium of the semester is for CMS graduate students to learn everything they need to know about completing a master’s degree but were afraid to ask. \n\n\n\nAttendees may want to take a look at the CMS Student Resources page for ideas of the range of things they might bring up with Shannon and each other.
URL:https://cms.mit.edu/event/cms-graduate-student-administrivia-session/
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SUMMARY:Boundary Lines? Deepfakes Weaponized Against Journalists and Activists
DESCRIPTION:Deepfakery: A Livestream Talk Series and Exploration of Critical Questions
URL:https://cms.mit.edu/event/boundary-lines-deepfakes-weaponized-against-journalists-and-activists/
CATEGORIES:Deepfakery
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SUMMARY:Kishonna Gray\, "Intersectional Tech: Exploring the Black Cultural Production of Gamers in Transmediated Culture"
DESCRIPTION:[Streamed live at https://mit.zoom.us/j/94087151099.] \n\n\n\n\nWith this presentation\, Dr. Kishonna Gray illustrates a framework for studying the intersectional development of technological artifacts and systems and their impact on Black cultural production and social processes. Using gaming as the glue that binds this project\, she puts forth intersectional tech as a framework to make sense of the visual\, textual\, and oral engagements of marginalized users\, exploring the complexities in which they create\, produce\, and sustain their practices. Gaming\, as a medium often outside conversations on Blackness and digital praxis\, is one that is becoming more visible\, viable\, and legible in making sense of Black technoculture. Intersectional tech implores us to make visible the force of discursive practices that position practices within (dis)orderly social hierarchies and arrangements. The explicit formulations of the normative order are sometimes in disagreement with the concrete human condition as well as inconsistent with the consumption and production practices that constitute Black digital labor. It is\, in fact\, these practices that inform the theoretical underpinnings of Black performances\, cultural production\, exploited labor\, and resistance strategies inside oppressive technological structures that Black users reside. \n\n\n\n\nEngaging intersectionality across transmediated platforms reveals a significant moment of critiquing narratives\, creating content\, and controlling narratives. The aftermath of Mike Brown’s death in 2014\, for instance\, revealed the power of this innovative engagement that the once-invisible could now actively engage\, participate\, and produce content in hypervisible ways. In the context of #BlackLivesMatter\, the combination of the textual and the visual ignited not only a movement\, but a proclamation of reclaiming narratives and identities across media and platforms – from BlackLivesMatter to Black-ish to “The Breakfast Club.” It is important to examine the everydayness of mediated\, intersectional\, counterpublics to examine Black oral\, visual\, and textual culture in digital spaces and how this manifests within gaming culture. The transmediated nature of contemporary gaming communities affords the possibility of reframing traditional narratives\, controlling and producing content\, sustaining Black cultural production. \n\n\n\nDr. Kishonna L. Gray (@kishonnagray) is an assistant professor in the Department of Communication and Gender and Women’s Studies at the University of Illinois – Chicago. Dr. Gray is an interdisciplinary\, intersectional\, digital media scholar and digital herstorian whose areas of research include identity\, performance and online environments\, embodied deviance\, cultural production\, video games\, and Black Cyberfeminism. Dr. Gray’s recent monograph\, Intersectional Tech: The Transmediated Praxis of Black Users in Digital Gaming (LSU Press\, 2020) explores the visual\, textual\, and/or oral engagement of the Black body in transmediated spaces\, focusing on the critical deconstruction of the exploited\, hypervisible\, labor of any associated Black performances (online and ‘IRL’). \n\n\n\nShe is also the author of Race\, Gender\, & Deviance in Xbox Live (Routledge\, 2014) co-editor of Feminism in Play (Palgrave-Macmillan\, 2018) and Woke Gaming (University of Washington Press\, 2018). Dr. Gray has published in a variety of outlets across disciplines and has also been featured in public outlets such as The Guardian\, The Telegraph\, The New York Times\, Business Insider\, CNET\, BET\, and others.
URL:https://cms.mit.edu/event/kishonna-gray-intersectional-tech-black-cultural-production-gamers/
CATEGORIES:Colloquium
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SUMMARY:Manipulating Memories: Archives\, History and Deepfakes
DESCRIPTION:Deepfakery: A Livestream Talk Series and Exploration of Critical Questions
URL:https://cms.mit.edu/event/manipulating-memories-archives-history-and-deepfakes/
CATEGORIES:Deepfakery
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SUMMARY:Justin Reich\, "Failure to Disrupt: Why Technology Alone Can't Transform Education"
DESCRIPTION:[Streamed live at https://mit.zoom.us/j/94087151099.] \n\n\n\n\nIn the 2000s and 2010s\, education technology evangelists promised that new learning media would transform schooling and education. Then\, a pandemic shut down schools all over the world\, and online learning face a pivotal moment\, and left a global public mostly disappointed. Instead of adaptive tutors\, artificial intelligence\, MOOCs or other new technologies\, most learners got digital worksheets on learning management systems and ZOOM lecturers. Failure to Disrupt: Why Technology Alone Can’t Transform Education explores the recent history of large scale learning technologies to explain why technology provides such uneven support—useful in some contexts but not others\, to some people but not others—to learners. The book concludes by examining four as-yet intractable dilemmas that learning media researchers and designers can use to identify persistent challenges in using technology to accelerate human learning. \n\n\n\n\nJustin Reich is the Mitsui Career Development Professor of Comparative Media at MIT\, and the director of the MIT Teaching Systems Lab. He is the host of the TeachLab podcast\, the author of the forthcoming book Failure to Disrupt: Why Technology Alone Can’t Transform Education from Harvard University Press\, and the instructor for six massive open online courses on EdX and available through the MIT Open Learning Library. 
URL:https://cms.mit.edu/event/justin-reich-failure-to-disrupt-why-technology-alone-cant-transform-education/
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