Content tagged "Lisa Parks"
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Event: Wednesday, November 14, 2018 @ 7:00 pm - 9:00 pm
Screening of Awake: A Dream from Standing Rock
Filmmakers Myron Dewey, Josh Fox and James Spione spent months on the front lines documenting North Dakota’s violent response to the peaceful water protectors.
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Posted by Edward Schiappa
In Medias Res 2018
Parks with a Genius Grant, an alum gives the MIT Ph.D. commencement address, and the relaunch of Media in Transition and the Media Spectacle.
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Posted by Peter Dizikes
Professor Lisa Parks awarded MacArthur Fellowship — the “Genius Grant”
MIT health care economist Amy Finkelstein and CMS/W media studies scholar Parks are the latest MIT faculty to nab prestigious “genius grants.”
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Posted by Peter Dizikes
Contemplating the Eyes in the Sky
Professor Lisa Parks examines the way satellites and other aerial technologies have changed society.
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Event: Thursday, March 22, 2018 @ 5:00 pm - 6:30 pm
Moving Broadband from Sea to Land: Internet Infrastructure and Digital Labor in Tanzania
CMS/W Professor Lisa Parks presents what keeps low-income Tanzanians from accessing broadband services despite four undersea cable landings and an innovative regulatory regime.
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Posted by Peter Dizikes
3 Questions: Lisa Parks on drones, warfare, and the media
CMS/W Professor Lisa Parks discusses new essay collection analyzing the impact of drones.
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Posted by Edward Schiappa
In Medias Res 2017
The 2017-2018 academic year comes with some great news around the growth and vibrancy of Comparative Media Studies/Writing: we have welcomed three new faculty members into the fold.
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Posted by Elise Chen
Neglected Public Property: The Study of Media Infrastructures
To Professor Lisa Parks, the air itself has become a medium controlled by drone warfare.
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Event: Thursday, February 11, 2016 @ 5:00 pm
Lisa Parks: “Drone Matters: Vertical Mediation in the Horn of Africa”
Lisa Parks is interested both in the discourses that have been used to expose covert US drone interventions and in the ways that drone operations themselves function as technologies of mediation.