Media in Transition 8: Public Media, Private Media
Submissions accepted on a rolling basis until Friday, March 1, 2013.
MIT Graduate Program in Comparative Media Studies
Studying Media and Making Media
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Sinan Aral, “Social Influence and The Dynamics of Online Reputation”
MIT Media Lab, Room 633 75 Amherst St., Cambridge, MAMIT Sloan's Sinan Aral will argue that a new science of online identity could help guide our business, platform design, and social policy decisions in light of the rising importance of online reputation and social influence.
Re-calling the Modem World: The Dial-up History of Social Media
MIT Building 4, Room 231 Cambridge, MAKevin Driscoll presents how the history of bulletin-board systems reveals the popular origins of computer-mediated social life.
The Dancing Body of the State: Queer Social Dance, Political Leadership, and Black Popular Culture
MIT Building 4, Room 231 Cambridge, MAThomas DeFranz "wonders at the intertwining of African American social dances and political leadership, conceived as the bodies of elected officials."
The Adventures of Ms. Meta: Celebrating the Female Superhero Through Digital Gaming
MIT Building 4, Room 231 Cambridge, MASarah Zaidan is a game designer, artist and researcher whose work explores how video games and comic books can engage in a dialogue with identity, gender and civic awareness.
Fox Harrell: “Reflections on Advanced Identity Representation”
MIT Building 56, Room 114 Access via 21 Ames Street, Cambridge, MAFox Harrell presents outcomes from his National Science Foundation-supported Advanced Identity Representation project, which helped reveal social biases in existing systems and implements systems to respond to those biases with greater nuance and expressive power.
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