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Cloud Policy: Anatomy of a Regulatory Crisis
Jennifer Holt examines the legal and cultural crises surrounding the regulation of data in “the cloud.” The complex landscape of laws and policies governing digital data are currently rife with unresolvable conflicts. The challenges of distributing and protecting digital data in a policy landscape that is simultaneously local, national, and global have created problems that often defy legal paradigms, national boundaries, and traditional geographies of control.
Find out more »Brian Michael Bendis: The 2017 Julius Schwartz Lecture
MIT Comparative Media Studies/Writing is thrilled to welcome award-winning comics creator Brian Michael Bendis, a New York Times bestseller and one of the most successful writers working in mainstream comics, for the 2017 Julius Schwartz lecture.
Find out more »CMS Graduate Admissions Information Session
CMS Graduate Admissions Information Session Come meet faculty and students, learn about the program and ask questions. Light refreshments provided. November 16, 2017 11AM-1 PM E51-095 Can'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.
Find out more »Fall 2017 Alumni Panel: Matthew Weise, Karen Schrier Shaenfield, and Ainsley Sutherland
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.
Find out more »Science Writing Admissions Information Session
Science Writing Admissions Information Session Come meet faculty, learn about the program and ask questions. Light refreshments provided. November 17, 2017 2-4PM 14E-304 Can'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.
Find out more »Has Silicon Valley Lost Its Humanity?
In this MIT Communications Forum, author Noam Cohen and Northeastern University assistant professor Jeff Howe discuss the rise of Silicon Valley and whether the drive for innovation degrades our humanity.
Find out more »The Emotional Politics of Piracy, Or Why We Feel Intellectual Property Infringement as National Trauma
Anjali Vat: "The everdayness and banality of piratical trauma fuels desires for intellectual property maximalism and intellectual property criminalization, which reproduce the very conditions which gave rise to the trauma."
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