The Gutenberg Parenthesis: Oral Tradition and Digital Technologies
Is our emerging digital culture partly a return to practices and ways of thinking that were central to human societies before the advent of the printing press?
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MIT Building 3, Room 270 33 Massachusetts Ave (Rear), Cambridge, MA, United States
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Jenkins’ Farewell
MIT Media Lab, Bartos Theater (Room 070) 20 Ames Street, Cambridge, MA, United StatesHenry Jenkins returns to talk about his scholarship on digital culture, founding Comparative Media Studies, and experiences as a teacher and housemaster.
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ROFLCon
Sponsored in part by CMS, ROFLCon is "Two days and two nights of the most epic internet culture conference ever assembled."
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Cultural Politics of the South Asian Diaspora: Popular Cultural Responses to the “War on Terror”
Comparative Media Studies: MIT Building E15, Room 335 20 Ames St., Cambridge, MA, United StatesRajini Srikanth and Vijay Prashad discuss two South Asian popular cultural responses to 9-11 and 'the war on terror': M.I.A.'s 'Born Free' music video, and the Bollywood film 'My Name is Khan'.
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(Face)book of the Dead
MIT Building 2, Room 105 182 Memorial Drive, Cambridge, MA, United StatesIn the Age of Always Connect, are we witnessing a plague of oversharing? Are social networks its vectors of transmission? Is this the "Death of Shame"?
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Mimi Ito, “Fandom Unbound: Otaku Culture in a Connected World”
MIT Media Lab, Room 633 75 Amherst St., Cambridge, MA, United StatesMimi Ito, cultural anthropologist, discusses how this once marginalized popular culture came to play a major role in Japan’s identity at home and abroad.
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Fandom Unbound: Otaku Culture in a Connected World
MIT Media Lab, Room 633 75 Amherst St., Cambridge, MA, United StatesBy exploring the rich variety of otaku culture from multiple perspectives, Mimi Ito will provide fascinating insights into the present and future of cultural production and distribution in the digital age.
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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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CMS.S62 Special Subject (For Credit): Time Machine: Building a Model for Predicting Culture
MIT Building 4, Room 231 Cambridge, MA, United StatesAs our culture becomes more diverse and changeable, cultural prediction becomes more urgent and difficult.
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Documentary Film and New Technologies
MIT Media Lab, Bartos Theater (Room 070) 20 Ames Street, Cambridge, MA, United StatesEmerging digital technologies are opening powerful new ways to create and even to reconceptualize the documentary film.
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ROFLCon 2012
"Informed commentators suggest that this may be the most important gathering of humanity since the fall of the tower of Babel."
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Cultural Production and Social Media as Capture Platforms: How the Matrix Has You
Comparative Media Studies: MIT Building E15, Room 335 20 Ames St., Cambridge, MA, United StatesHector Postigo's presentation develops a framework for understanding how social media’s technical feature-sets create a system of capture and conversion.
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Reading Programming Code as a Cultural Object
MIT Building 14E, Room 311 160 Memorial Drive, Cambridge, MA, United StatesLet's talk about what it means to start reading code differently, as cultural objects and statements. Let's raise the questions that need to be raised.
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Media in Transition 8: Public Media, Private Media
Submissions accepted on a rolling basis until Friday, March 1, 2013.