Todd Harper: “Fight Like Gentlemen: The Culture of Fighting Games”
A talk on the fighting game community, its spiritual and physical roots in the arcade, common practices, and how issues of ethnicity and gender collide.
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MIT Building 4, Room 231 Cambridge, MA, United States
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Miguel Sicart: “Play in the Age of Computing Machinery”
MIT Media Lab, Room 633 75 Amherst St., Cambridge, MA, United StatesGames scholar Miguel Sicart of the IT University of Copenhagen looks at the culture, aesthetics, and technological implications of play in the age of computers.
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Jonathan Sterne, “Who Tunes Whom?: Auto-Tune, the Earth, and the Politics of Frequency”
MIT Media Lab, Room 633 75 Amherst St., Cambridge, MA, United StatesMcGill's Jonathan Sterne gives a cultural history of auto-tune as a form of signal processing, drawing on patent documents, interviews, operational protocols, tuning standards and competing acoustemologies.
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Kate Crawford, “Squeaky Dolphin to Normcore: Anxiety and Big Data Culture”
MIT Building 4, Room 231 Cambridge, MA, United StatesKate Crawford is a Principal Researcher at Microsoft Research (Social Media Collective) and a Visiting Professor at the MIT Center for Civic Media. She is currently working on a new book.
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MIT Museum: “Creating Culture in Virtual Worlds”
MIT Museum 314 Main Street, Cambridge, MA, United StatesFeaturing our prof. Fox Harrell and postdoc Todd Harper.
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Illuminated Bodies: Kat Von D, LA Ink, and the Borderlands of Tattoo Culture
MIT Building 4, Room 231 Cambridge, MA, United StatesTheresa Rojas examines the prolific, heavily tattooed Kat Von D, who offers an aesthetic that challenges tattoo culture and notions of the “monstrous body”.
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Cultural Studies and The Expediency of Culture, Rethought in Relation to Internet Platforms and Megadata
MIT Building 4, Room 231 Cambridge, MA, United StatesThe argument that culture empties out as it becomes ever more pivotal in the creative economy has, George Yúdice thinks, been borne out.
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Hierarchy and Democracy in Modern Japan’s Mass Media Revolution
MIT Building 4, Room 231 Cambridge, MA, United StatesHiromu Nagahara explores Japan's first “mass media revolution”, in the 1920s and '30s, when technology expanded the number of media product consumers.
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The Adventures of Ms. Meta: Celebrating the Female Superhero Through Digital Gaming
MIT Building 4, Room 231 Cambridge, MA, United StatesSarah Zaidan is a game designer, artist and researcher whose work explores how video games and comic books can engage in a dialogue with identity, gender and civic awareness.
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Kara Keeling and Wendy Chun speak as part of “Racial Regimes, Digital Economies” symposium
MIT Building 3, Room 133 33 Massachusetts Ave, Cambridge, MA, United StatesWith USC's Kara Keeling on "Black Futures and the Queer Times of Life" and Brown University's Wendy Chun on "Racial Infrastructure".
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Black + Twitter: A Cultural Informatics Approach
MIT Building 3, Room 133 33 Massachusetts Ave, Cambridge, MA, United StatesAndré Brock, scholar of Black cyberculture, offers that Twitter's feature set and ubiquity map closely onto Black discursive identity.
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Poetry Across Borders
MIT Building 6, Room 120 182 Memorial Drive (Rear), Cambridge, MA, United StatesAs part of MIT’s Day of Action/Day of Engagement, come share poems from cultures beyond the US.
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Music Fandom and the Shaping of Online Culture
MIT Building 56, Room 114 Access via 21 Ames Street, Cambridge, MA, United StatesNancy Baym: "By the time musicians and industry figures realized they could use the internet to reach audiences directly, those audiences had already established their presences and social norms online, putting them in unprecedented positions of power."
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Ian Condry, “Sound, Learning and Democracy: The Curvature of Social Space-Time through Japanese Music, from Underground Techno to Pop Idols”
MIT Building E15, Room 318 (Common Area) 20 Ames Street, Cambridge, MA, United StatesProfessor Ian Condry explores contemporary Japanese music, with a comparison of diverse examples, such as female Japanese rappers, underground techno festivals, the virtual idol Hatsune Miku, and the pop idol group AKB48.
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Paloma Duong, “Portable Postsocialisms [postsocialismos de bolsillo]”
MIT Building E15, Room 318 (Common Area) 20 Ames Street, Cambridge, MA, United StatesAssistant Professor Paloma Duong on "how revisiting our assumptions about digital media and cultural agency, both in Cuba and in the broader hemispheric context, can speak to the dreams and demands of constituencies that operate between, beneath, and beyond the pressures of global markets and the nation-state."