Making Computing Strange: Cultural Analytics and Phantasmal Media
MIT Building 66, Room 110 25 Ames Street, Cambridge, MAWith Lev Manovich, author of the seminal The Language of New Media, and MIT's Fox Harrell and Nick Montfort.
MIT Graduate Program in Comparative Media Studies
Studying Media and Making Media
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Visual Representations of Race and Gender: Analyzing “Me” in #IfTheyGunnedMeDown on Tumblr
MIT Building 56, Room 114 Access via 21 Ames Street, Cambridge, MAJenny Korn uses critical race theories and intersectional feminist theories to analyze the visual and textual content of the blog #IfTheyGunnedMeDown to reveal constructions of social justice, respectability politics, media biases, racial stereotypes, viral popularity, and hashtag activism on Tumblr.
Ordinary Violence and Network Form: On #blacklivesmatter
MIT Building 56, Room 114 Access via 21 Ames Street, Cambridge, MAScott C. Richmond argues that what is at stake in #blacklivesmatter is a Black political form that is also an emphatically network form, operating below, beyond, and to the side of what can be practiced, grasped at the level of the individual, of intention, and of representation.
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