Joan Naviyuk Kane: The William Corbett Poetry Series
Tuesday, February 25 @ 7:00 pm. A 2019-2020 Hilles Bush Fellow at the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study, Joan Naviyuk Kane was a 2018 Guggenheim Fellow in Poetry.
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The Promise and Challenge of Eliciting Context in Social Media Posts with Natural Language Processing”
Thursday, February 20 @ 5:00 pm with Columbia University’s Desmond Upton Patton
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Creative Agency: Making, Learning, and Playing towards Understanding Computational Content
Thursday, February 13 @ 5:00 pm, Matthew Berland on how we can create environments where learners are supported in developing creative agency, and how we might assess or evaluate success.
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Podcast: Lucy Suchman, “Artificial Intelligence & Modern Warfare”
Lancaster University’s Lucy Suchman’s concern is with the asymmetric distributions of sociotechnologies of (in)security, their deadly and injurious effects, and the legal, ethical, and moral questions that haunt their operations.
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Integrating documentary and medical technology to produce new perceptions of reproductive health
“It was only through working concretely with the Calla campaign that I truly learned of the challenges of communicating between researchers and artists.”
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Recent Posts
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Podcast, Matthew Berland: “Creative Agency: Making, Learning, and Playing towards Understanding Computational Content”
Matthew Berland on how we can create environments where learners are supported in developing creative agency, and how we might assess or evaluate success.
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Call for Participation: Media Arts and Design | Blockchain Conference 2020 (May 2-3, 2020 @ Drexel University)
Scientists, scene experts and specialists from academia and industry are cordially invited to submit proposals for delivering a talk or workshop with the option to contribute a chapter to the
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The Other Digital China
Professor Jing Wang tells the story of change makers operating within the Chinese Communist system, whose ideas of social action necessarily differ from those dominant in Western, liberal societies.
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The 20th Anniversary of CMS
“What I found in talking at this personal rather than institutional level was that the draw of CMS was simultaneously more idealistic and pragmatic than we’ve described in the past.”
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Podcast: Eric Klopfer, “Design Based Research on Participatory Simulations”
CMS/W Professor Eric Klopfer and The Education Arcade are currently working on a set of “Participatory Simulations”: mobile collaborative systems-based games.
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In Medias Res 2019
“Recent months have been filled with wonderful moments as we celebrate the twentieth anniversary of the Comparative Media Studies program.”
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Podcast: William Uricchio, “Why Co-Create? And Why Now? Reports from A Field Study”
Professor William Uricchio on how co-creation is picking up steam as a claim, aspiration, and buzz-word du jour. But what is and why does it matter?
