Content tagged "Peru"
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Event: Thursday, September 17, 2015 @ 5:00 pm
On the Politics of Punk Media and Peru
L. Shane Greene presents a theoretical overview of various situations – particularly their political, aesthetic, and media dimensions – that arose in the production of a book about the history of anarchism and punk rock during Peru’s war with the Maoist-inspired armed group known as the Shining Path.
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Posted by Eduardo Marisca S.M., Comparative Media Studies, 2014
Topics: culture, games, industry, Peru, technology, video gamesDeveloping Game Worlds: Gaming, Technology, and Innovation in Peru
This relatively unknown industry has been able to introduce complex skills and work around structural gaps and obstacles to create the foundations for a potentially viable technology and creative industry.
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Posted by Andrew Whitacre and Eduardo Marisca
Podcast: The Creative Industries Prototyping Lab
Eduardo Marisca: “But the need was not for technologies themselves. It’s something that they can get their hands on. The biggest problem was process.”
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Event: Thursday, May 15, 2014 @ 6:00 pm - 8:00 pm
Scientists, Bottle Tops, and Robot Guinea Pigs: Inside the Creative Industries Prototyping Lab
Hear what happened when six Comparative Media Studies graduate students went to Lima in April to work with some of Peru’s most promising entrepreneurs in the creative industries.
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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 Audubon Dougherty S.M., Comparative Media Studies, 2010
YouTube in the Amazon: Rural Peru’s Transition to the Internet
We found communities that embraced internet implementation and its potential for education and development, but who had not received enough training.