Content tagged "culture"
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Posted by Yu Wang S.M., Comparative Media Studies, 2015
Topics: China, Chuangke, culture, hacker, maker, media, technology, Yu WangHeike, Jike, Chuangke: Creativity in the Chinese Technology Community
Creativity in Chinese technology communities and its implication in China’s development mode shift from “Made in China” to “Created in China.”
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Posted by Desi Gonzalez S.M., Comparative Media Studies, 2015
Topics: art, creativity, culture, history, maker culture, museums, technologyMuseum Making: Creating with New Technologies in Art Museums
Hackathons, maker spaces, R&D labs: these terms are common to the world of technology, but have only recently seeped into museums.
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Posted by Liam Andrew S.M., Comparative Media Studies, 2015
Podcast: George Yúdice, “Cultural Studies and The Expediency of Culture, Rethought in Relation to Internet Platforms and Megadata”
Culture understood as the “terrain of struggle for interpretive power” needs to take into consideration its relocation and reconfiguration in new media and technologies.
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Event: Thursday, April 2, 2015 @ 5:00 pm - 7:00 pm
Cultural Studies and The Expediency of Culture, Rethought in Relation to Internet Platforms and Megadata
The 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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Event: Thursday, February 19, 2015 @ 5:00 pm - 7:00 pm
Illuminated Bodies: Kat Von D, LA Ink, and the Borderlands of Tattoo Culture
Theresa 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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Posted by Eduardo Marisca S.M., Comparative Media Studies, 2014
Topics: culture, games, industry, Peru, technology, video gamesDeveloping Game Worlds: Gaming, Technology, and Innovation in Peru
This relatively unknown industry has been able to introduce complex skills and work around structural gaps and obstacles to create the foundations for a potentially viable technology and creative industry.
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Event: Thursday, March 27, 2014 @ 6:00 pm - 7:30 pm
MIT Museum: “Creating Culture in Virtual Worlds”
Featuring our prof. Fox Harrell and postdoc Todd Harper.
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Event: Thursday, March 13, 2014 @ 5:00 pm - 7:00 pm
Kate Crawford, “Squeaky Dolphin to Normcore: Anxiety and Big Data Culture”
Kate 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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Event: Thursday, February 20, 2014 @ 5:00 pm - 7:00 pm
Jonathan Sterne, “Who Tunes Whom?: Auto-Tune, the Earth, and the Politics of Frequency”
McGill’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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Event: Thursday, February 13, 2014 @ 5:00 pm - 7:00 pm
Miguel Sicart: “Play in the Age of Computing Machinery”
Games 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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Posted by Anita Chan S.M., Comparative Media Studies, 2002
Networking Peripheries: Technological Futures and the Myth of Digital Universalism
Anita Chan shows how digital cultures flourish beyond Silicon Valley and other celebrated centers of technological innovation and entrepreneurship.
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Event: Thursday, October 31, 2013 @ 5:00 pm - 7:00 pm
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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Posted by Sonny Sidhu S.M., Comparative Media Studies, 2013
Topics: aesthetics, culture, design, games, marketing, video gamesPoetics of the Videogame Setpiece
Sonny Sidhu, ’13, placing the technique of AAA videogame setpieces within a series of wider technical, aesthetic, commercial, and cultural problematics.
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Posted by Aswin Punathambekar S.M., Comparative Media Studies, 2003
From Bombay to Bollywood: The Making of a Global Media Industry
The transformation of the national film industry in Bombay into a transnational and multi-media cultural enterprise, which has come to be known as Bollywood.
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Event: Friday, May 3, 2013 - Sunday, May 5, 2013
Media in Transition 8: Public Media, Private Media
Submissions accepted on a rolling basis until Friday, March 1, 2013.