Content tagged "innovation"
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Posted by CMS/W
Video and podcast: Has Silicon Valley Lost Its Humanity?
Author Noam Cohen, technology critic Sara M. Watson, and technology journalist Christina Couch discuss the rise of Silicon Valley and whether the drive for innovation degrades our humanity.
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Event: Thursday, November 30, 2017 @ 6:00 pm - 8:00 pm
Has Silicon Valley Lost Its Humanity?
Author Noam Cohen, technology critic Sara M. Watson, and technology journalist Christina Couch discuss the rise of Silicon Valley and whether the drive for innovation degrades our humanity.
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Posted by Nathan Saucier S.M., Comparative Media Studies, 2017
Podcast: Charles Musser, “From Stereopticon to Telephone: The Selling of the President in the Gilded Age”
Charles Musser: “19th century media forms set in motion not only a new way of imagining how to market national campaigns and candidates; they also helped to usher in novel forms of mass spectatorship.”
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Event: Thursday, March 16, 2017 @ 5:00 pm
From Stereopticon to Telephone: The Selling of the President in the Gilded Age
Charles Musser: “19th century media forms set in motion not only a new way of imagining how to market national campaigns and candidates; they also helped to usher in novel forms of mass spectatorship.”
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Posted by Sarah Schwartz S.M., Science Writing, 2015
Topics: Association of Molecular Pathology v. Myriad Genetics, biology, biotechnology, genetics, Human Genome Project, innovation, law, morality, patents, rights, SCOTUSOwning the Code of Life: Human Gene Patents in America
A Supreme Court decision marked a surprising and historic shift in the relationship between patent law and fundamental biology–but questions and uncertainty about a future without gene patents remain.
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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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Posted by Stephen Schultze S.M., Comparative Media Studies, 2008
Topics: history, innovation, law, media, policy, public interest, technology, universal accessThe Business of Broadband and the Public Interest: Media Policy for the Network Society
Media policy in the United States has, since its inception, been governed by the principle that infrastructure providers should serve “the public interest.”
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Posted by Cristobal Garcia S.M., Comparative Media Studies, 2004
Topics: design, Design Continuum, ethnography, IDEO, innovation, MIT Media LabSpacing Innovation and Learning in Design Organizations
What is the relationship between spaces and innovation in the context of design organizations such as IDEO, the MIT Media Lab and Design Continuum?
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Posted by David Spitz S.M., Comparative Media Studies, 2001
Topics: culture, economics, industry, innovation, law, music, napsterContested Codes: The Social Construction of Napster
Napster as an object whose meanings were contested and ultimately resolved, or at least stabilized, within, across, and through a broader systems of power.