Content tagged "culture"
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Paloma Duong, “Portable Postsocialisms [postsocialismos de bolsillo]”
Assistant 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.”
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Three Flames: A Novel
Three Flames portrays the struggles of a Cambodian farming family against the extreme patriarchal attitudes of their society and a cruel and dictatorial father, set in a rural community that is slowly being exposed to the modern world and its values.
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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”
Professor 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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Podcast, Nancy Baym: “Music Fandom and the Shaping of Online Culture”
Nancy 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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Music Fandom and the Shaping of Online Culture
Nancy 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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Poetry Across Borders
As part of MIT’s Day of Action/Day of Engagement, come share poems from cultures beyond the US.
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Podcast: André Brock, “Black + Twitter: A Cultural Informatics Approach”
André Brock unpacks Black Twitter use from two perspectives: analysis of the interface and associated practice alongside discourse analysis of Twitter’s utility and audience.
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Black + Twitter: A Cultural Informatics Approach
André Brock, scholar of Black cyberculture, offers that Twitter’s feature set and ubiquity map closely onto Black discursive identity.
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Kara Keeling and Wendy Chun speak as part of “Racial Regimes, Digital Economies” symposium
With 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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Junot Díaz receives Hispanic Heritage Award for Literature
Ceremony to be broadcast on PBS on September 30, and Díaz will share the stage with other winners, including Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor.
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Podcast: Sarah Zaidan, “Celebrating the Female Superhero Through Digital Gaming”
Sarah 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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The Adventures of Ms. Meta: Celebrating the Female Superhero Through Digital Gaming
Sarah 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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Podcast: Hiromu Nagahara, “Hierarchy And Democracy In Modern Japan’s Mass Media Revolution”
Hiromu Nagahara on the life and career of Horiuchi Keizō, an MIT grad who found himself in the center of Japan’s “mass media revolution” in the 1920s and ’30s as a prominent composer, critic, radio broadcaster, and publisher.
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Hierarchy and Democracy in Modern Japan’s Mass Media Revolution
Hiromu 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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Staged Empathy: Empathy and Visual Perception in Virtual Reality Systems
Ainsley Sutherland’s thesis proposes “staged empathy” as a new analytical framework to examine how virtual reality work provokes empathic feeling.
