CMS Colloquium Podcast
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Podcast: "How Not to Be Seen"
Hanna Rose Shell, a historian and media artist, is as ...
Hanna Rose Shell, a historian and media artist, is as Assistant Professor in the Program on Science, Technology and Society at MIT. This was a talk about camouflage framed by the question of "how not to be seen"--in film, on film, as film. In the first part, Shell introduced "how not to be seen" in terms of the aspiration for, and actualization of concealment in both filmic and natural ecologies through mixed-media practices that simultaneously incorporate and subvert the photographic media of reconnaissance. In the second part, Shell screened and discussed her film-in-progress, called Blind, about the phenomenology of camouflage. Blind as in blindness, and blind as in that actively constructed structure intended for the concealment of a hunter from her game. Shell's book Hide and Seek: Camouflage and the Media of Reconnaissance will be published by Zone Books. Download Here!
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Podcast: "Fantasy Freaks and Gaming Geeks"
Ethan Gilsdorf discussed some of the themes of his new ...
Ethan Gilsdorf discussed some of the themes of his new book, Fantasy Freaks and Gaming Geeks: An Epic Quest for Reality Among Role Players, Online Gamers, and Other Dwellers of Imaginary Realms, a blend of travelogue, pop culture analysis, and memoir as forty-year-old former D&D; addict Gilsdorf crisscrosses America, the world, and other worlds--from Boston to Wisconsin, France to New Zealand, and Planet Earth to the realm of Aggramar. He asks: Who are these gamers and fantasy fans? What explains the irresistible appeal of such "escapist" adventures? How do the players balance their escapist urges with the kingdom of adulthood? Gilsdorf talked about the culture's discomfort with the geek/nerd/gamer stereotype and looked at society's ambivalent relationship with gaming and fantasy play, and the origins of that prejudice, as well as the author's own past misgivings and final acceptance of his "geek" identity. Download Here!
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Video: "J. Michael Straczynski: The Julius Schwartz Lecture"
The entire video is available for download (.m4v, 305mb). This ...
The entire video is available for download (.m4v, 305mb). This year's Julius Schwartz Lecture speaker was transmedia creator J. Michael Straczynski, who has most recently entered the motion picture arena, writing the period drama Changeling for Clint Eastwood and Angelina Jolie, adapting such books as Lensman for Ron Howard, World War Z for Brad Pitt's company, and They Marched Into Sunlight for Tom Hanks and Paul Greengrass, as well as reviving Forbidden Planet for Warner Bros. and selling two new original movies, The Flickering Light and Proving Ground to Universal and Tom Cruise's United Artists, respectively. He has also begun work on Last Words, a pilot for a new TV series for the TNT network.
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Podcast: "Anecdotes from a Lifetime of Electronic Product Creation"
A long lifetime of developing electronic consumer products has taken ...
A long lifetime of developing electronic consumer products has taken Ralph Baer from vacuum tube through microprocessor designs. Although the technology has undergone vast changes, the underlying motivation for, and execution of, the process has not changed radically. Baer cited numerous examples of specific product designs that made it all the way through the process to a successful product and drew some conclusions from that experience that shed some light on the continuum of invention, development, and marketing novel product ideas. Download Here!
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Podcast: "The Discipline of Political Messages in an Unruly Era"
Presidential elections are considered decisions on politicians' virtues and reflections ...
Presidential elections are considered decisions on politicians' virtues and reflections of public values. On an ongoing basis, polling data and snap punditry engorge the body politic between elections. Taken together, these judgments on leadership and partisanship - on statecraft and stagecraft - lie at the core of democracy today. Tucker Eskew explores the permanent campaign of the last ten years. What is "message discipline" in an era of atomized opinion leadership - a necessity or a fool's errand? Are the parties inevitably devoted to different styles of communication, and is this era's favored approach inextricably the domain of the new Administration? Can unfettered dialogue, as an expression of freedom, be a pure benefit to society, or is "Fire!" being texted in a crowded coffee house? Consistent with his conservatism, Eskew will have firm answers to some of these and other questions. Reflecting his consulting firm ViaNovo's "new ways", he welcomed dialogue on all. Download Here!
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Podcast: Media in Transition 6: "Summary Perspectives"
MiT6 Plenary 5 Panelists: Mary Bryson, University of British Columbia ...
MiT6 Plenary 5 Panelists: Mary Bryson, University of British Columbia Marlene Manoff, MIT Libraries John Durham Peters, University of Iowa Thomas Pettitt, University of Southern Denmark Moderator: James Paradis, MIT Writing and Humanistic Studies Download Here!
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Podcast: Media in Transition 6: "The Future of Publishing"
MiT6 Plenary 4 | Panel Questions Panelists: Gavin Grant, Small ...
MiT6 Plenary 4 | Panel Questions Panelists: Gavin Grant, Small Bear Press Jennifer Jackson, Donald Maass Literary Agency Robert Miller, HarperCollins Bob Stein, Institute for the Future of the Book Moderator: Geoff Long, MIT Download Here!
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Podcast: Media in Transition 6: "Institutional Perspectives on Storage"
MiT6 Plenary 3 | Panel Questions Panelists: Claude Mussou, INA ...
MiT6 Plenary 3 | Panel Questions Panelists: Claude Mussou, INA France Pelle Snickars, Swedish National Archive Richard Wright, BBC Research and Information Moderator: William Uricchio, MIT and Utrecht University Download Here!
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Podcast: Media in Transition 6: "New Media, Civic Media"
MiT6 Plenary 2 | Panel Questions Panelists: Jessica Clark, Center ...
MiT6 Plenary 2 | Panel Questions Panelists: Jessica Clark, Center for Social Media (American University) Ellen Hume, Center for Future Civic Media (MIT) Persephone Miel, Media Re:public and Internews Network Respondents: Dean Jansen, Participatory Culture Foundation Jake Shapiro, Public Radio Exchange (PRX) Moderator: Pat Aufderheide, American University Download Here!
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Podcast: Media in Transition 6: "Archives and History"
MiT6 Plenary 1 | Panel Questions Panelists: John Miles Foley, ...
MiT6 Plenary 1 | Panel Questions Panelists: John Miles Foley, Univ. of Missouri Lisa Gitelman, Harvard Univ. Rick Prelinger, Prelinger Archives Ann Wolpert, MIT Libraries Moderator: Peter Walsh, Andover Newton Theological School Download Here!
