Ranked #1
The Mediated Construction of Reality - From Berger and Luckmann to Norbert Elias
The Mediated Construction of Reality - From Berger and Luckmann to Norbert Elias
Nick Couldry outlined the project of his recent book, The Mediated Construction of Reality (Polity October 2016, co-writ... Read more
29 Sep 2017
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1hr 28mins
Ranked #2
Brian Michael Bendis - The 2018 Julius Schwartz Lecture at MIT
Brian Michael Bendis - The 2018 Julius Schwartz Lecture at MIT
[Video and photos available at https://cmswm.it/bendis-mit]MIT Comparative Media Studies/Writing is thrilled to welcome ... Read more
11 Nov 2018
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1hr 46mins
Ranked #3
Designing for a Neurodiverse World
Designing for a Neurodiverse World
An MIT Communications Forum: https://commforum.mit.edu/neurodiversity-at-mit-and-design-for-everyone-march-1-2018-f7886b... Read more
2 Mar 2018
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1hr 58mins
Ranked #4
Fred Turner, "The Family of Man and the Politics of Attention in Cold War America"
Fred Turner, "The Family of Man and the Politics of Attention in Cold War America"
In 1955, the Museum of Modern Art mounted one of the most widely seen – and widely excoriated – photography exhibitions ... Read more
14 Dec 2011
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1hr 23mins
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Ranked #5
Exploratory Programming for the Arts and Humanities
Exploratory Programming for the Arts and Humanities
MIT professor Nick Montfort talks about his new book and how learning to explore code isn't just for the tech-inclined -... Read more
3 Feb 2017
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11mins
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Cities and the Future of Entertainment
Cities and the Future of Entertainment
As a prologue to the conference, this Forum will focus on the emergence of powerful new production cultures in such citi... Read more
13 Nov 2011
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1hr 59mins
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Plenary 2: Digital Technologies and Cultures
Plenary 2: Digital Technologies and Cultures
In 1998, MIT’s Comparative Media Studies program held the first Media in Transition (MiT) conference and inaugurated a r... Read more
18 May 2019
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1hr 22mins
Ranked #8
The Language of Civic Life: Past to Present
The Language of Civic Life: Past to Present
When everyday citizens interact about politics today, they often do so (1) anonymously and (2) in digital space, which r... Read more
28 Nov 2018
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1hr 23mins
Ranked #9
Between Participation and Control: A Long History of CCTV
Between Participation and Control: A Long History of CCTV
Closed-circuit television (CCTV) has become synonymous with surveillance society and the widespread use of media technol... Read more
27 Apr 2018
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1hr 13mins
Ranked #10
Siva Vaidhyanathan, "The Googlization of Everything"
Siva Vaidhyanathan, "The Googlization of Everything"
Google seems omniscient, omnipotent, and omnipresent. It also claims to be benevolent. It’s no surprise that we hold the... Read more
1 Dec 2009
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1hr 18mins
Ranked #11
Playful Practice: Designing the Future of Teacher Learning
Playful Practice: Designing the Future of Teacher Learning
All across the world, educational systems are exploring new ways to encourage more ambitious teaching and learning in cl... Read more
8 Sep 2017
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1hr 25mins
Ranked #12
Nathan Matias: "Authoritarian and Democratic Data Science in an Experimenting Society"
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 ow... Read more
16 Feb 2017
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58mins
Ranked #13
Haidee Wasson, "Do-it Yourself Cinema: Portable Film Projectors as Media History"
Haidee Wasson, "Do-it Yourself Cinema: Portable Film Projectors as Media History"
Hosted with MIT Arts, Culture, and Technology and The Boston Cinema/Media Seminar.Introduction by Lisa Parks, Professor,... Read more
18 Apr 2019
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1hr 14mins
Ranked #14
Nick Montfort: "Poet/Programmers, Artist/Programmers, and Scholar/Programmers”
Nick Montfort: "Poet/Programmers, Artist/Programmers, and Scholar/Programmers”
Computer programming is a general-purpose way of using computation. It can be instrumental (oriented toward a predefined... Read more
27 Sep 2019
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1hr 2mins
Ranked #15
Glorianna Davenport, "The Networked Sensory Landscape Meets the Future of Documentary"
Glorianna Davenport, "The Networked Sensory Landscape Meets the Future of Documentary"
At its heart, documentary cinema has always been an experimental medium. Its evolution has been driven on the one hand b... Read more
24 Mar 2017
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1hr 7mins
Ranked #16
Kishonna Gray, "#Misogynoir, #SolidarityIsForWhiteWomen, and other forms of Black Digital Feminisms"
Kishonna Gray, "#Misogynoir, #SolidarityIsForWhiteWomen, and other forms of Black Digital Feminisms"
Women of color have a variety of responses when employing digital technologies for empowerment. New communication techno... Read more
9 Dec 2016
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1hr 13mins
Ranked #17
The Tip of the Iceberg: Sound Studies and the Future of Afrofuturism
The Tip of the Iceberg: Sound Studies and the Future of Afrofuturism
Iconic developments in the artistic and intellectual ethos known as Afrofuturism are closely linked to music: Sun Ra’s e... Read more
9 Mar 2018
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1hr 23mins
Ranked #18
Collective Intelligence
Collective Intelligence
CAST Visiting Artist Agnieszka Kurant joins Stefan Helmreich, professor of Anthropology; Caroline Jones, professor of Hi... Read more
28 Sep 2018
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1hr 43mins
Ranked #19
Imperial Arrangements: South African Apartheid and the Force of Photography
Imperial Arrangements: South African Apartheid and the Force of Photography
This talk by Kimberly Juanita Brown considers the prominence of graphic photographic images during the decades of aparth... Read more
11 May 2018
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1hr 20mins
Ranked #20
Michael Lee: "The Conservative Canon Before and After Trump"
Michael Lee: "The Conservative Canon Before and After Trump"
Michael J. Lee charts the vital role of canonical post–World War II (1945–1964) books in generating, guiding, and sustai... Read more
28 Apr 2017
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1hr 14mins
