Content tagged "culture"
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Posted by Andrew Whitacre and Ta-Nehisi Coates
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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Event: Wednesday, January 9, 2013 @ 4:00 pm - 5:00 pm
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.
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Posted by Andrew Whitacre
Podcast: Hector Postigo, “Cultural Production and Social Media as Capture Platforms: How the Matrix Has You”
Hector Postigo on a theoretical framework for understanding how, generally, social media’s technical feature-sets create a system of capture and conversion.
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Posted by Nick Montfort
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The phenomenon of creative computing and the way computer programs exist in culture, through one line of code.
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Event: Thursday, November 15, 2012 @ 5:00 pm - 7:00 pm
Cultural Production and Social Media as Capture Platforms: How the Matrix Has You
Hector Postigo’s presentation develops a framework for understanding how social media’s technical feature-sets create a system of capture and conversion.
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Posted by Andrew Whitacre
Podcast, Gediminas Urbonas
Gediminas Urbonas is artist and educator, and co-founder (with Nomeda Urbonas) of Urbonas Studio – an interdisciplinary research program that advocates for the reclamation of public culture.
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Posted by Andrew Whitacre and Nancy Baym
Podcast, Nancy Baym: “Artist-Audience Relations in the Age of Social Media”
Nancy Baym, Principal Researcher at Microsoft Research New England, asks how direct access to fans changes what it means to be an artist.
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Event: Friday, May 4, 2012 - Saturday, May 5, 2012
ROFLCon 2012
“Informed commentators suggest that this may be the most important gathering of humanity since the fall of the tower of Babel.”
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Posted by Andrew Whitacre
Podcast, Craig Watkins: “Exploring the Digital Practices of Black and Latino Youth”
Craig Watkins studies young people’s social and digital media behaviors. He teaches at the University of Texas, Austin.
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Event: Tuesday, March 20, 2012 @ 5:00 pm - 7:00 pm
Documentary Film and New Technologies
Emerging digital technologies are opening powerful new ways to create and even to reconceptualize the documentary film.
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Posted by Andrew Whitacre
Podcast: Anne Balsamo, “Designing Culture: The Technological Imagination at Work”
In her transmedia project, Designing Culture, Anne Balsamo investigates the way in which culture influences the process of technological innovation.
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Event: Wednesday, January 18, 2012 - Thursday, January 26, 2012
CMS.S62 Special Subject (For Credit): Time Machine: Building a Model for Predicting Culture
As our culture becomes more diverse and changeable, cultural prediction becomes more urgent and difficult.
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Posted by Andrew Whitacre
Podcast: Philip Napoli, “Social Media, Television, and the Evolution of the ‘Institutionally Effective’ Audience”
Philip Napoli on enabling and inhibiting TV’s incorporation of social media and their implications for audience representation and cultural production.
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Event: Monday, December 19, 2011 @ 2:00 pm - 4:00 pm
Designing Culture: The Technological Imagination at Work
Drawing on her experiences working as part of collaborative research-design teams that combine art/science/design/engineering, Anne Balsamo will describe her new research on public interactives and the infrastructures of public intimacy.
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Event: Tuesday, December 13, 2011 @ 5:00 pm - 7:00 pm
Creative Industries, Micro-productivity and Social Learning: A Cultural Science Approach to Cultural and Media Studies
John Hartley on recent developments in the field of cultural and media studies, including an account of changes in the economy, culture and technology, and consequent initiatives in educational provision for the creative industries.