Civic Lunch Series: Jenny Stromer-Galley
Jenny Stromer-Galley on how Obama’s campaign was not the first nor even the most innovative in using digital media in the work of campaigning.
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MIT Center for Civic Media 20 Ames St., Cambridge, MA, United States
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The Dancing Body of the State: Queer Social Dance, Political Leadership, and Black Popular Culture
MIT Building 4, Room 231 Cambridge, MA, United StatesThomas DeFranz "wonders at the intertwining of African American social dances and political leadership, conceived as the bodies of elected officials."
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Dissolve Unconference: A Summit on Inequality
Stata Center Lawn Cambridge, MA, United StatesFeaturing social scientists, media theorists, writers, artists, activists, this unconference asks: "How can we dissolve the structures of power that produce today’s inequalities?"
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From Firing Line to The O’Reilly Factor
MIT Building 4, Room 231 Cambridge, MA, United StatesHow did political TV and radio move from honest intellectual combat to become a vast echo chamber? Heather Hendershot will answer this difficult question.
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Women in Politics: Representation and Reality
MIT Building 3, Room 270 33 Massachusetts Ave (Rear), Cambridge, MA, United StatesWomen are chronically underrepresented in U.S. politics. Yet TV shows, fictions, and films have leapt ahead of the electoral curve. Political consultant Mary Anne Marsh and children/teens book author Ellen Emerson White look at the connections (if any) we can draw between representation and reality.
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Being Muslim in America (and MIT) in 2016
MIT Building 3, Room 270 33 Massachusetts Ave (Rear), Cambridge, MA, United StatesCambridge City Councilman Nadeem Mazen and Wise Systems co-founder Layla Shaikley--both MIT alumni--join engineering student Abubakar Abid to explore how hateful, discriminatory rhetoric influences public opinion, discuss its impact on the lives of Muslim-Americans, and examine strategies to combat it.
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Illuminating 2016: Using Social Listening Tools to Understand the Presidential Campaign
MIT Building 3, Room 133 33 Massachusetts Ave, Cambridge, MA, United StatesJennifer Stromer-Galley describes the large-scale collection and machine learning techniques used to study how presidential candidates use social media.
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Race and Racism in the 2016 Presidential Election
MIT Building 3, Room 270 33 Massachusetts Ave (Rear), Cambridge, MA, United StatesSlate's Jamelle Bouie on how race and ethnicity framed the election and how journalists and content creators can improve coverage of these issues moving forward.
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From Stereopticon to Telephone: The Selling of the President in the Gilded Age
MIT Building 56, Room 114 Access via 21 Ames Street, Cambridge, MA, United StatesCharles Musser: "19th century media forms set in motion not only a new way of imagining how to market national campaigns and candidates; they also helped to usher in novel forms of mass spectatorship."
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Michael Lee: “The Conservative Canon Before and After Trump”
MIT Building 56, Room 114 Access via 21 Ames Street, Cambridge, MA, United StatesMichael J. Lee charts the vital role of canonical post–World War II (1945–1964) books in generating, guiding, and sustaining conservatism as a political force in the United States.
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Unleashing Alternative Futures: Constructing New Worlds through Imagination, Narrative, and Radical Hope
MIT Building 9, Room 217 105 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge, MA, United StatesLearn from the rich ancestry of speculative fiction, exercise collaborative ideation and world-building, and create stories and art that may unleash new futures to topple the hegemonic order.
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The (Non)Americans: Tracking and Analyzing Russian Influence Operations on Twitter
MIT Building 56, Room 114 Access via 21 Ames Street, Cambridge, MA, United StatesUniversity of North Carolina's Deen Freelon will explain how he and his collaborators are addressing challenges to analyzing Russian political influence operations and present key preliminary findings from their ongoing project focused on this campaign.
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Republican Resistance in the Age of Trump
MIT Building 3, Room 270 33 Massachusetts Ave (Rear), Cambridge, MA, United StatesStuart Stevens believes Republicans are in a “GOP apocalypse,” and he’s mobilizing conservatives to stop it.
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Ordinary Violence and Network Form: On #blacklivesmatter
MIT Building 56, Room 114 Access via 21 Ames Street, Cambridge, MA, United StatesScott C. Richmond argues that what is at stake in #blacklivesmatter is a Black political form that is also an emphatically network form, operating below, beyond, and to the side of what can be practiced, grasped at the level of the individual, of intention, and of representation.
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The Battle of Algiers as Ghost Archive: Specters of a Muslim International
MIT Building 4, Room 270 182 Memorial Drive (Rear), Cambridge, MA, United StatesSohail Daulatzai on The Battle of Algiers' "competing narratives, a battleground over the meaning and memory of decolonization and Western power, and a site for challenging the current imperial consensus."