Content tagged "culture"
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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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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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Developing 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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MIT Museum: “Creating Culture in Virtual Worlds”
Featuring our prof. Fox Harrell and postdoc Todd Harper.
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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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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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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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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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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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Poetics 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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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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Media in Transition 8: Public Media, Private Media
Submissions accepted on a rolling basis until Friday, March 1, 2013.
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Master’s Degree in Comparative Media Studies
We provide a bridge between technology and the humanities, by examining the social and cultural impact of the changing media landscape.
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Podcast: A Conversation with Ta-Nehisi Coates
“One of the things people say is the humanities tend to be easier than the sciences. But practicing the humanities is not easy at all.”
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Reading Programming Code as a Cultural Object
Let’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.
