Content tagged "Media in Transition"
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Media in Transition 10: A Reprise – Democracy and Digital Media
Now accepting paper proposals. Concepts of participation, trust, and democracy are increasingly fraught, essential, and powerfully repositioned. How will our news media look and sound in the next decade? What can we learn from news media of the past? What can international perspectives reveal about the variability and fluidity of media landscapes?
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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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The Week at @cmsw_mit, 2/9/15: Blizzardier
Snow be damned, our spring speaker series starts this week, with Bobbie Chase and Marjorie Liu on the “State of the Comic Book Medium”.
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The Week at @cmsw_mit: 1/20/15: Junot is the best when you quantify the imposter syndrome during the Great Molasses Flood
This weekend the BBC named Junot Díaz’s “The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao” as the best novel of the 21st century. (Good luck, years ’15 through ’99.)
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Podcast: Media in Transition 8, “Counterpublics: Self-Fashioning and Alternate Communities”
How is digital technology generating counterpublics — categories of identity and belonging in opposition to established norms of personhood or community?
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Podcast: Media in Transition 8, “Summing Up, Looking Ahead”
Roderick Coover, Temple University; Theo Hug, University of Innsbruck; Molly Sauter, MIT; Dan Whaley, hypothes.is; Moderator: James Paradis, MIT
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Podcast: Media in Transition 8, “Surveillance: Big Data and Other Watchers”
Do the ramifying surveillance systems for observing and recording our routine activities fundamentally threaten our privacy and freedom?
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Podcast: Media in Transition 8, “Oversharing: The End of Privacy?”
Amid disquiet over encroachments on privacy by government and corporations, are young people not respecting the traditional boundaries of privacy?
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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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In Medias Res, Fall 2011
The debates sparked in our reorganization serve as powerful reminders that the university has been blissfully isolated from seismic changes.
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Podcast: “Media in Transition 7: Summing Up, Looking Ahead”
The closing plenary from Media in Transition 7: Unstable Platforms.
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Podcast: “Media in Transition 7: Archives and Cultural Memory”
Does it still make sense to distinguish the roles of museums, galleries, and spaces for exhibition from those of archives and repositories?
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Podcast: “Media in Transition 7: Unstable Platforms”
What is happening to our culture’s stories and story-tellers? How are new technologies transforming our public discourse?
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Media in Transition 7: “Unstable Platforms: The Promise and Peril of Transition”
Has the digital age confirmed and exponentially increased the cultural instability and creative destruction that are often said to define advanced capitalism?
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In Medias Res: The CMS 10th Anniversary
CMS emerged as a hearty repast, richer and more nutritious than we had any right to expect. It was the right program at the right time.
