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SUMMARY:Civic Media Insights: Rachel Kuo\, “Movement Media: Racial Solidarities Across Platforms”
DESCRIPTION:Looking at processes behind media-making and information sharing\, this talk demonstrates ways that racial justice movements create and sustain connections across incommensurable and uneven racial differences. As a collective site for political work\, movement media make up a broad array of internal and external information produced and circulated by and within social movements for organizing purposes–from meeting agendas and text threads to social media posts and public statement letters. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nSpeaker Rachel Kuo brings archival materials from women of color organizing in the 1970s alongside interviews with present-day organizers to trace tenuous pursuits of solidarity and address the possibilities and challenges in building movements for the long-haul in today’s digital landscape. \n\n\n\nDr. Rachel Kuo studies race\, technology\, and social movements. She is a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the Center for Information\, Technology\, and Public Life and School of Information and Library Science at the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill; a founding member and current affiliate of the Center for Critical Race and Digital Studies; and co-founder of the Asian American Feminist Collective.
URL:https://cms.mit.edu/event/civic-media-insights-rachel-kuo-movement-media-racial-solidarities-across-platforms/
CATEGORIES:Civic Media Insights
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SUMMARY:Beyza Boyacioglu and Jeff Soyk\, “Zeki Müren Hotline - Mobile Experience”
DESCRIPTION:Zeki Müren Hotline started as a simple hotline in 2015\, collecting everyday people’s messages to Zeki Müren — Turkey’s most beloved and equally controversial pop star. An homage to the intimacy Müren established with his fans and a throwback to the 1990’s hotline phenomenon\, this participatory project quickly became a sensation in Turkey. During the few months it was active\, the hotline received hundreds of messages\, often expressing nostalgia for the deceased icon and Turkey’s bygone days. The Zeki Müren Hotline mobile experience is an interactive web app* that presents a selection from those messages alongside vignettes from Müren’s life and legacy. \n\n\n\n*Please come prepared with a charged mobile device (phone or tablet) and headphones. \n\n\n\n\nBeyza Boyacioglu (Director) is a filmmaker and editor from Istanbul. Her work has been exhibited at MoMA Doc Fortnight\, IDFA\, RIDM\, Morelia International Film Festival\, !f Istanbul\, Barbican Centre and many other venues and festivals. She received fellowships from Chicken & Egg\, Flaherty Seminar\, Greenhouse/Close Up\, UnionDocs and is a Brooklyn Filmmakers Collective member. Her editing credits include In Search of Bengali Harlem by Vivek Bald and Black Lives Matter: A Global Reckoning: Italy by Vice News. She holds an MSc in Comparative Media Studies from MIT and a BA in Visual Arts from Sabanci University. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nJeff Soyk (Director) is an award-winning media artist with experience in creative direction\, UX design\, UI design\, HTML5/CSS3/JS\, and film/video. His credits include creative director and UI/UX designer on PBS Frontline’s Inheritance (2016 News & Documentary EMMY winner and Peabody-Facebook Award winner) as well as art director\, UI/UX designer and architect on Hollow (2013 Peabody Award winner and News & Documentary EMMY nominee).
URL:https://cms.mit.edu/event/zeki-muren-hotline-beyza-boyacioglu-jeff-soyk/
CATEGORIES:Colloquium
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SUMMARY:Civic Media Insights: Rogelio Alejandro Lopez\, “Rebels with a Cause: Youth\, Social Movements\, and Media”
DESCRIPTION:Student walkouts against gun violence in support of March for Our Lives in 2018. Mass youth mobilizations across the US and abroad for environmental justice as part of the Global Climate Strike in 2019. Continued Black Lives Matter protests for racial justice\, many organized by young people\, during the Covid-19 pandemic in 2020. This talk takes a look at youth\, social movements\, and media and cultural production in recent years. \n\n\n\n\nUsing a mixed-methods\, and multi-framework approach — social movements and participatory politics — Lopez examines notable instances of youth protest and contextualizes them within broader movements to center and prioritize generational and intersectional social justice claims and grievances. Lopez also focuses on the ways youth media and cultural production cultivate a civic imagination — “the capacity to imagine alternatives to current cultural\, social\, political\, or economic conditions” — which highlights youth civic agency and collective power to change the world. Taking Alicia Garza’s words to heart “hashtags do not start movements—people do\,” Lopez aims to reconcile a focus on the relevance of media and communication tools in the social justice efforts of youth alongside unchecked power among tech companies\, misinformation\, partisan media\, and counter-movements. This talk highlights the potential of media tactics to empower youth\, while also critically examining the replication of systems of oppression in a broader media ecology. In short: what remains of the liberatory potential of ICTs for young people in the US and around the world? \n\n\n\nRogelio Alejandro Lopez (he/him) is a Ph.D. candidate in Communication at the University of Southern California’s Annenberg School for Communication and Journalism\, where his work centers on social movements\, civic media\, and youth culture. His dissertation is a comparative look into the use of media tactics and cultural production among youth in contemporary social movements to cultivate “civic imagination.” 
URL:https://cms.mit.edu/event/civic-media-insights-rogelio-alejandro-lopez-youth-social-movements-media/
CATEGORIES:Civic Media Insights
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SUMMARY:Civic Media Insights: Jabari Evans\, “The Anatomy of Digital Clout(chasing): Examining Social Media Visibility\, Relational Labor and Empowerment Strategies of Black Youth in Chicago’s Drill Rap Scene”
DESCRIPTION:Prior literature has suggested that it is through popular music that the social\, professional and technological aspirations of Black youth often come together. Nowhere is this more evident than in the context of Hip-Hop music\, where Black youth inventiveness with digital tools is celebrated and valued far more than any other genre of media entertainment. Though many scholars have theorized on the centrality of individual authenticity\, sexuality and masculinity to the communication of Hip-Hop artists in digital spaces\, academic work has paid very little attention to artist perspectives of how their relational and visibility labor helps them cultivate neighborhood respectability and build community with like minded peers. \n\n\n\n\n Using interviews and participant observation of Drill rap artists\, speaker Jabari Evans explores the content and character of their work on social media toward acquiring “clout”- a digital form of influence rooted in Hip-Hop that allows marginalized youth to leverage digital tools in building social status\, maintain authenticity\, cultivate connections with fans\, community among friends and other cultural producers. Ultimately\, Evans argues Chicago’s Drill rap scene provides an example of why formal institutions need to rethink how race\, class\, gender and geography influence the barriers to civic action for Black youth and how their digital practices add significantly to the understanding of the counterpublics arising from social media. \n\n\n\nJabari Evans is a Ph.D. candidate in the School of Communication Studies at Northwestern University and a research fellow at the Northwestern Center of Media and Human Development. As a media scholar\, his research focuses on the digital subcultures that urban youth and young adults of color develop and inhabit to understand social justice\, their living environments\, emotional development and professional aspirations.
URL:https://cms.mit.edu/event/civic-media-insights-jabari-evans-clout-chasing-chicago-drill-rap/
CATEGORIES:Civic Media Insights
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SUMMARY:Joshua Littenberg-Tobias\, “Measuring Equity-Promoting Behaviors in Digital Teaching Simulations: A Topic Modeling Approach”
DESCRIPTION:Digital simulations offer learning opportunities to engage and reflect on systemic issues of racism and structural violence against communities of color. This talk examines how natural language processing tools can be used to better understand participants’ experiences within simulated environments focused on anti-racist teaching and identify changes in participants’ behavior over time. As K-12 schools increasingly reckon with our country’s long history of racist teaching practices\, digital simulations may provide ways to help teachers name\, re-examine\, and reflect on their own practice and move toward anti-racist teaching. \n\n\n\n\nDr. Joshua Littenberg-Tobias is a Research Scientist in the MIT Teaching Systems Lab. His research focuses on measuring and supporting learning within large-scale technology-mediated environments with a focus on civic engagement and anti-racist teaching practices. He received his Ph.D. from Boston College in 2015 in educational research\, measurement\, and evaluation.
URL:https://cms.mit.edu/event/joshua-littenberg-tobias-measuring-equity-promoting-behaviors/
CATEGORIES:Colloquium
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SUMMARY:Civic Media Insights: Sulafa Zidani\, “‘Speaking in Memes’: The Linguistic and Creative Politics of the Untranslatable Public”
DESCRIPTION:Speaker Sulafa Zidani examines the transnational power dynamics within the creative practices of online publics. Through an analysis of meme production and circulation among global linguistic contexts (Chinese\, Arabic\, Hebrew\, Spanish\, French\, and English)\, her work theorizes how incommensurabilities across digital vernaculars manifest into what she calls the “untranslatable public”: online communities that are constituted through their itinerancy between different languages\, thus producing myriad forms of illegibility and misunderstanding. \n\n\n\n\nBy centering untranslatability as itself a creative and civic practice\, this study reveals how meme makers enact forms of agency through the communities and discourses in which they participate\, critique\, or refuse altogether. \n\n\n\nSulafa Zidani is a Ph.D. Candidate in Communication at the University of Southern California\, where she studies global creative practices in digital civic engagement. She is author of various journal articles\, and the co-editor of the forthcoming anthology\, the Intersectional Internet II: Power\, Politics\, and Resistance Online (Peter Lang Digital Editions Series).
URL:https://cms.mit.edu/event/civic-media-insights-sulafa-zidani-speaking-memes-linguistic-creative-politics-untranslatable-public/
CATEGORIES:Civic Media Insights
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SUMMARY:Discuss “The Infiltrators” with director Alex Rivera
DESCRIPTION:Alex Rivera is a filmmaker who has been telling new\, urgent\, and visually adventurous Latino stories for more than twenty years. His first feature film\, Sleep Dealer\, won multiple awards at the 2008 Sundance Film Festival and the Berlin International Film Festival. Rivera’s second feature film\, a documentary/scripted hybrid\, The Infiltrators\, won both the Audience Award and the Innovators Award in the NEXT section of the 2019 Sundance Film Festival\, Best Documentary Feature at the Blackstar Film Festival\, and is currently being developed as a scripted series by Blumhouse Television. Rivera’s work has been supported by the Ford Foundation\, the Tribeca Film Institute\, the Robert Rauschenberg Foundation\, the Open Society Institute\, Creative Capital\, and many others. Alex studied at Hampshire College\, was the Rothschild Lecturer at Harvard University\, and is currently a distinguished lecturer of media studies at Queens College. \n\n\n\n\nAbout The Infiltrators\n\n\n\n\n\nThe Infiltrators is available on many platforms\, including Amazon and theinfiltratorsfilm.com.\n\n\n\n\nWithout warning\, Claudio Rojas is detained by ICE officials outside his Florida home. He is transferred to the Broward Transitional Center\, a detention facility used as a holding space for imminent deportations. Terrified of never seeing him again\, Claudio’s family contacts the National Immigrant Youth Alliance (NIYA)\, a group of activist Dreamers known for stopping deportations. Believing that no one is free as long as one is in detention\, NIYA enlists Marco Saavedra to self-deport with the hopes of gaining access to the detention center and impeding Claudio’s expulsion. Once inside\, Marco discovers a complex for-profit institution housing hundreds of multinational immigrants\, all imprisoned without trial. \n\n\n\nDirectors Cristina Ibarra (in her Sundance debut) and Alex Rivera (Sleep Dealer\, 2008 Sundance Film Festival) design a hybrid cinematic language\, combining familiar documentary form and scripted narrative to map an uncharted domain: inside an Obama-era immigration detention system. Based on true events\, The Infiltrators is both a suspenseful account of a high-stakes mission and an emotionally charged portrait of visionary youth fighting for their community.
URL:https://cms.mit.edu/event/the-infiltrators-alex-rivera/
CATEGORIES:Colloquium
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