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MIT Comparative Media Studies/Writing — 408 episodes · page 1 of 5
A Reading with Poet Laureate Arthur Sze
"Pomegranate" reading and discussion, with the book's author Helen Elaine Lee
Bernard Geoghegan, “Learning to Code: From Information Theory to French Theory”
Francesca Bolla Tripodi, “The Propagandists’ Playbook”
Lupe Fiasco presents “Rap Theory & Practice: an Introduction”
Resilient Witnessing In The Face Of Human Rights Abuses, Distrust, And Deepfakes
The Forensic Citizen Learning From The Past, Preparing For The Future
The Long & Ambiguous (pre)history Of Audiovisual In The Black Experience
The Whole World Is Watching How 1968 Helps Us Frame The Present
Moving Images In Absentia Courtroom Looking In The Age Of Hyper - Mediation
Mary Beth Meehan and Fred Turner, “Seeing Silicon Valley”
Charles North - The William Corbett Poetry Series 01
Saving the News: Why the Constitution Calls for Government Action to Preserve Freedom of Speech
Oscar Winberg, "Archie Bunker Goes to Washington"
Jens Pohlmann, "Platform Regulation and the Digital Public Sphere"
“Our Ancestors Did Not Breathe This Air”, Six Muslim Women in STEM
Racquel Gates, “Reintroducing Melvin Van Peebles”
Katherine Jewell, "Party City: WMBR, Institutional Change, and Democratic Media"
David Thorburn: William Corbett Poetry Series
Jorge Caraballo, “How to Use Audio Storytelling to Cultivate a Community and Keep it Engaged”
Eric Freedman, "Non-Binary Binaries and Unreal MetaHumans"
Lynn Nottage’s "By the Way, Meet Vera Stark" and the Making of Black Women’s Film History
Uplifting Us: Design Opportunities in Centering Racialized Experiences in Games
Craig Robertson, “The Filing Cabinet and the Gendering of Information Work”
Graphic Materiality, Trauma, and Expressionist Comics: Artist’s Talk With Leela Corman
Edward Schiappa, "The Transgender Exigency: The Role of Media Representation"
Memorial Colloquium for Professor Jing Wang
Nick Thurston, "Document Practices: The Art of Propagating Access"
Educated Viewers: Civic Spectatorship, Media Literacy, and American Schools
Sulafa Zidani, “Messy on the Inside: Internet Memes as Mapping Tools of Everyday Life”
Sandra Rodriguez, "Creating and Interacting with Virtual Entities"
Jonathan Sterne, "Diminished Vocalities: On Prostheses and Abilities"
Promotional Narratives, Science Fiction, and the Case for Mars Colonization
Measuring Equity-Promoting Behaviors in Digital Teaching Simulations: A Topic Modeling Approach
Charisse L’Pree: "What is a Media Psychography? A 20-year Methodological Journey"
Reworking the Archive: The Southeast Chicago Archive and Storytelling Project
#BlackInTheIvory: Academia’s Role in Institutional Racism
BORDERx: A Crisis In Graphic Detail
Beyond the Living Dead: Treasures from the George A. Romero Archive
Patricia Saulis, “Two-Eyed Seeing in Environmental Justice and Media”
Lana Swartz, "New Money: How Payment Became Social Media"
Media Distortions: Understanding the Power Behind Spam, Noise, and Other Deviant Media
Race and Representation of Syrian, Palestinian, and Norwegian Refugees in the News
Eric Gordon, "Towards a Meaningfully Inefficient Smart City"
Jing Wang, "Walking Around Obstacles: Nonconfrontational Activists In Gray China"
Justin Reich, "Failure to Disrupt: Why Technology Alone Can’t Transform Education"
Kishonna Gray, "Exploring the Black Cultural Production of Gamers in Transmediated Culture"
Shawna Kidman: "The Infrastructure of the U.S. Comic Book Industry"
Marina Bers, “Coding in Early Childhood: Storytelling or Puzzle Solving?”
Desmond Upton Patton: “Contextual Analysis of Social Media”
Creative Agency: Making, Learning, and Playing towards Understanding Computational Content
Can Journalists Save the Planet?
Eric Klopfer: "Design Based Research on Participatory Simulations"
Lucy Suchman: "Artificial Intelligence and Modern Warfare"
William Uricchio: "Why Co-Create? And Why Now? Reports from A Field Study"
If I Could Reach the Border…
Anushka Shah: "How Entertainment Can Help Fix the System"
Nick Montfort: "Poet/Programmers, Artist/Programmers, and Scholar/Programmers”
Christopher Weaver: “Amplius Ludo, Beyond the Horizon”
Plenary 2: Digital Technologies and Cultures
Remarks By Conference Planning Committee Member Professor Lisa Parks
Plenary 1: Culture Industries
Haidee Wasson, "Do-it Yourself Cinema: Portable Film Projectors as Media History"
Civic Arts Series: Lauren Boyle, “Thumbs Type and Swipe”
The Battle of Algiers as Ghost Archive - Specters of a Muslim International
An Evening with Comedienne Cameron Esposito
Gaming the Iron Curtain: Computer Games in Communist Czechoslovakia as Entertainment and Activism
Social Media Entertainment
Dispatches from The Golden Age of Audio
“The Good Stuff”: The Intersections of Work, Leisure, and Relational Bonding on Tumblr and Patreon
Caren Kaplan: "Bringing the War Home"
The Language of Civic Life: Past to Present
Civic Arts Series: Myron Dewey, "Protecting the Water in Solidarity and Unity"
The Consequences of America’s Miracle Machine
Brian Michael Bendis - The 2018 Julius Schwartz Lecture at MIT
2018 CMS Alumni Panel: Nick Seaver, Colleen Kaman, and Sean Flynn
#MoreThanCode: Practitioner-led Research to Reimagine Technology for Social Justice
Civic Arts Series: Marisa Morán Jahn
What’s So Funny About Oppressive Regimes?
How To Fight A Nazi
Civic Arts Series - Daniel Bacchieri
Collective Intelligence
Thomas Allen Harris: “Collective Wisdom” Keynote
Civic Arts Series: Erik Loyer
Imperial Arrangements: South African Apartheid and the Force of Photography
Bunk and the History of Hoaxes with Kevin Young
Between Participation and Control: A Long History of CCTV
Republican Resistance in the Age of Trump
The City Talks: Storytelling at the New York Times's Metro Desk
When To Start Freaking Out - Audience Engagement On Social Media During Disease Outbreaks
The Motives Of Narrative And Style In Food Text Creation On Social Media
Intimate Worlds - Reading For Intimate Affects In Contemporary Video Games
Youth And Privacy In The Americas
Music Fandom and the Shaping of Online Culture
The Tip of the Iceberg: Sound Studies and the Future of Afrofuturism
Designing for a Neurodiverse World
The (Non)Americans: Tracking and Analyzing Russian Influence Operations on Twitter
ICTs for Refugees and Displaced Persons
Eric Klopfer: "From Augmented to Virtual Learning"
Has Silicon Valley Lost Its Humanity?