Games in Everyday Life and Why That Matters to You
What can finance, health care, philanthropy, and education learn from cutting-edge games and game theory?
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Tang Center 70 Memorial Drive, Cambridge, MA, United States
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Futures of Entertainment 6
MIT Building E51, Wong Auditorium 70 Memorial Drive, Cambridge, MA, United StatesThis year's event, Nov. 9-10 at MIT, will look at how media producers and audiences are relating to one another in new ways in a spreadable media landscape.
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MIT Alumni in the Game Industry
MIT Building 32 (Stata Center), Room 155 32 Vassar Street, Cambridge, MA, United StatesThe MIT Game Lab has invited a number of local MIT alumni in the game industry to talk about their experiences entering the industry.
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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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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.
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Susan Murray, “‘Natural Vision vs. Tele-Vision’: Defining and Managing Electronic Color in the Post-War Era”
MIT Media Lab, Room 633 75 Amherst St., Cambridge, MA, United StatesSusan Murray on the discourses that framed and managed color use and reception not only in the standardization period, but also during RCA and NBC's early attempts to sell color to consumers, sponsors, and critics.
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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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Amanda Lotz: “Television Didn’t Die: But Broadband Distribution Revolutionized It”
MIT Building 56, Room 114 Access via 21 Ames Street, Cambridge, MA, United StatesAmanda Lotz on what transpired when the long anticipated face off between "new media" and television finally took place in 2010.
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Nick Seaver: “What Do People Do All Day?”
MIT Building 56, Room 114 Access via 21 Ames Street, Cambridge, MA, United StatesDrawing on years of fieldwork with the developers of algorithmic music recommenders, Seaver describes how people make sense of new kinds of jobs.
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“Innovation” and “Engagement”: Experiments with What Industry Buzzwords Can Mean in Practice
MIT Building 3, Room 133 33 Massachusetts Ave, Cambridge, MA, United StatesSam Ford and Federico Rodriguez Tarditi discuss Fusion Media Group’s experiments with exploring new ways of telling stories, relationships with key publics, and new types of roles/positions in the company.
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The Exit Zero Project: A Transmedia Exploration of Family and Class in Postindustrial Chicago
MIT Building 3, Room 133 33 Massachusetts Ave, Cambridge, MA, United StatesChristine Walley, Professor of Anthropology at MIT, will present an overview of the Exit Zero Project, which "seeks to recapture the stories of a region traumatized by de-industrialization."
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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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What Playfulness Can Change
Location To Be DeterminedExploring playfulness and its business applications. Three workshops on January 12, 19, and 26.
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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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Shawna Kidman, “The Infrastructure of the U.S. Comic Book Industry and the Long History of Superheroes in Hollywood”
MIT Building E15, Room 318 (Common Area) 20 Ames Street, Cambridge, MA, United States"The best way to understand the immense influence of this relatively small business is through a political economic analysis. Specifically, she will discuss industrial infrastructure—the aspects of our media environment that often lack public visibility."