Content tagged "technology"
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Posted by Elise Chen
Podcast: Walter Menendez, “Engineering Virality: BuzzFeed’s Scientific Approach To Creating Content”
BuzzFeed’s Walter Menendez: “This talk will detail how BuzzFeed thinks about and creates content, highlighting our paradigms for the function and role of our content.”
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Event: Thursday, September 14, 2017 @ 5:00 pm
Engineering Virality: BuzzFeed’s Scientific Approach To Creating Content
BuzzFeed’s Walter Menendez: “This talk will detail how BuzzFeed thinks about and creates content, highlighting our paradigms for the function and role of our content.”
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Posted by Elise Chen and Justin Reich
Podcast: Justin Reich, “Playful Practice: Designing the Future of Teacher Learning”
As a learning scientist, Justin Reich investigates the complex, technology-rich classrooms of the future and the systems we need to prepare educators to thrive in those environments.
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Event: Thursday, September 7, 2017 @ 5:00 pm - 6:30 pm
Playful Practice: Designing the Future of Teacher Learning
In this participatory session, play samples of some of the practice spaces that Justin Reich’s team is developing and discuss the theoretical foundations of their vision for the future of teacher learning.
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Posted by Andrew Whitacre and Vicky Zeamer
Podcast: Brian Larkin and Stefan Andriopoulos, “The Contingencies of Comparison: Rethinking Comparative Media”
Brian Larkin and Stefan Andriopoulos: “It is clear that future media centers will emerge in places far outside their traditional Western centers.”
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Event: Thursday, May 4, 2017 @ 5:00 pm
The Contingencies of Comparison: Rethinking Comparative Media
Brian Larkin and Stefan Andriopoulos: “It is clear that future media centers will emerge in places far outside their traditional Western centers.”
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Posted by Andrew Whitacre and Vicky Zeamer
Podcast: Nathan Matias, “Authoritarian and Democratic Data Science in an Experimenting Society”
How will the role of data science in democracy be transformed as software expands the public’s ability to conduct our own experiments at scale?
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Event: Thursday, February 16, 2017 @ 5:00 pm
Authoritarian and Democratic Data Science in an Experimenting Society
MIT’s Nathan Matias asks, how will the role of data science in democracy be transformed as software expands the public’s ability to conduct our own experiments at scale?
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Posted by Andrew Whitacre and Vicky Zeamer
Podcast, Kishonna L . Gray: “#Misogynoir, #SolidarityIsForWhiteWomen, and other forms of Black Digital Feminisms”
Operating under the oppressive structures of masculinity, heterosexuality, and Whiteness that are sustained in digital spaces, marginalized women persevere and resist such hegemonic realities.
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Event: Thursday, December 8, 2016 @ 5:00 pm
#Misogynoir, #SolidarityIsForWhiteWomen, and other forms of Black Digital Feminisms
Operating under the oppressive structures of masculinity, heterosexuality, and Whiteness that are sustained in digital spaces, marginalized women persevere and resist such hegemonic realities.
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Posted by Suzanne Lane and Andreas Karatsolis
Engineering Innovation Through Rhetorical Invention
A “What-How-Why” diagram integrates the thinking that chemical engineers need to cover as they design the work of a project, with the thinking that they need to do in order to communicate that work to an audience.
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Event: Thursday, October 13, 2016 @ 5:00 pm
How Did the Computer Learn to See?
Did computers learn to see by modernity’s most highly evolved technologies of vision, or, as Alexander Galloway argues, from sculpture?
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Event: Thursday, October 6, 2016 @ 5:00 pm
This Land Is Our Land: Mobile Media, Protest, and Debate in Maasai and Mongolian Land Disputes
Baruch College’s Allison Hahn on how academics might engage once-distant communities and better understand the complexity of mobile media and nomadic deliberation.
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Posted by Lilia Kilburn S.M., Comparative Media Studies, 2016
Topics: auto-tune, Chaz, Cher, queer, technology, vocality, voiceAnswering Machine, Auto-Tune, Spectrograph: Queer Vocality Through Sonic Technology
Do sound technologies allow us to hold on one another–mourning and loss, calling and the promise of response, the identification of individuals (or oneself) via the voice?
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Posted by Lily Bui S.M., Comparative Media Studies, 2016
Topics: data, environment, government, sensors, smart cities, technology, urban planningSense and the City: Representations of Air Quality Data in the “Smart City”
Examining representations of air quality data intended for governmental to grassroots audiences, and how these representations may prove to be problematic in attempts to reconcile their myriad forms and meanings across contexts and constituencies.