Comparative Media Insights: “The Googlization of Everything”
Siva Vaidhyanathan asks, what are we really gaining and losing by inviting Google to be the lens through which we view the world?
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MIT Building 14N, Room 313 160 Memorial Drive, Cambridge, MA, United States
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Comparative Media Insights: “Viva Las Vegas: a Neo-Baroque Conception of the World”
MIT Building 14N, Room 313 160 Memorial Drive, Cambridge, MA, United StatesAngela Ndalianis analyze how Las Vegas -- a city-as-monument to entertainment and leisure culture -- has appropriated tropes and modes of engagement taken from pre-20th Century high culture traditions of the Church and aristocracy.
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Comparative Media Insights: “Art of the Impossible: Utopia, Imagination, and Critical Media Practice”
MIT Building 14E, Room 310 160 Memorial Drive, Cambridge, MA, United StatesStephen Duncombe asks, does the traditional truth-revealing role of critical media practice still have any political relevance?
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Comparative Media Insights: “From Gamer Theory to Critical Practice”
MIT Building 14E, Room 310 160 Memorial Drive, Cambridge, MA, United StatesHow can media studies be both in and of the emergent media forms, and yet retain a creative and critical distance from them?
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Comparative Media Insights: “Race, Rights, and Virtual Worlds: Digital Games as Spaces of Labor Migration”
MIT Building 14E, Room 310 160 Memorial Drive, Cambridge, MA, United StatesIf virtual world users' claims to citizenship and sovereignty within those worlds are to be taken seriously, so too must the question of "gray collar" or semi-legal virtual laborers.
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Creative Industries, Micro-productivity and Social Learning: A Cultural Science Approach to Cultural and Media Studies
MIT Media Lab, Room 633 75 Amherst St., Cambridge, MA, United StatesJohn Hartley on recent developments in the field of cultural and media studies, including an account of changes in the economy, culture and technology, and consequent initiatives in educational provision for the creative industries.
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Designing Culture: The Technological Imagination at Work
MIT Media Lab, Room 633 75 Amherst St., Cambridge, MA, United StatesDrawing on her experiences working as part of collaborative research-design teams that combine art/science/design/engineering, Anne Balsamo will describe her new research on public interactives and the infrastructures of public intimacy.
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Before Fox News: Right-Wing Broadcasting, Cold War America, and the Conservative Movement
MIT Media Lab, Room 633 75 Amherst St., Cambridge, MA, United StatesRight-wing broadcasting was reborn when Reagan suspended the Fairness Doctrine in 1987, enabling the rise of Rush Limbaugh, and Fox News shortly thereafter.
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Professional Play and the E-sports Industry
Comparative Media Studies: MIT Building E15, Room 335 20 Ames St., Cambridge, MA, United StatesT.L. Taylor on the issues around the ownership of e-sports playing fields, and the status of player action within them.
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Mary Flanagan, “Humanist Inquiry Through Critical Play: Designing and Enacting our Enduring Questions”
MIT Media Lab, Room 633 75 Amherst St., Cambridge, MA, United StatesIn this talk, Dartmouth's Mary Flanagan reveals how games can be sources of deep human inquiry and introspection.
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Aswin Punathambekar: “Media, Sociability, and Political Potentials in Contemporary India”
MIT Media Lab, Room 633 75 Amherst St., Cambridge, MA, United StatesInstead of a narrow emphasis on political effects, Aswin Punathambekar draws on a range of cases across India, China, and the Middle East to ask: what happens when such phases of participation fade away?
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Michael Curtin: “The Burdens of Official Aspiration: National Policy in the Age of Global Media”
MIT Media Lab, Room 633 75 Amherst St., Cambridge, MA, United StatesUCSB's Michael Curtin explores the implications of national cultural policy within the broader context of media globalization.
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Jason Mittell: “Strategies of Storytelling in Transmedia Television”
MIT Media Lab, Room 633 75 Amherst St., Cambridge, MA, United StatesMiddlebury's Jason Mittell on how television narratives have expanded and been complicated through transmedia extensions, including video games, novelizations, websites, online video, and alternate reality games.
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Vicki Mayer: “Where ‘Home’ Is: Film Production Economies and the Privatization of Space”
MIT Media Lab, Room 633 75 Amherst St., Cambridge, MA, United StatesVicki Mayer speaks on the impacts of regional policies for film production on ordinary people’s understandings of time, space and place.