Content tagged "culture"
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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.
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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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The phenomenon of creative computing and the way computer programs exist in culture, through one line of code.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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.
