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Nick Montfort

Code and Platform in Computational Media

MIT Media Lab, Room 633 75 Amherst St., Cambridge, MA

This talk will describe how looking at the code and platform levels can enhance our comparative media studies of computational works.

Media in Transition 10: A Reprise – Democracy and Digital Media

Massachusetts Institute of Technology

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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Paloma Duong, “Portable Postsocialisms [postsocialismos de bolsillo]”

MIT Building E15, Room 318 (Common Area) 20 Ames Street, Cambridge, MA

Assistant Professor Paloma Duong on "how revisiting our assumptions about digital media and cultural agency, both in Cuba and in the broader hemispheric context, can speak to the dreams and demands of constituencies that operate between, beneath, and beyond the pressures of global markets and the nation-state."