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Our fall festival is just two weeks away! In "Media in Motion II: Shaping AI For Critical Creative Futures," we'll explore how AI shapes and is shaped by creativity, knowledge production, and civic life. ⁠
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Throughout the day, we'll have concurrent sessions in Snell 160 and 350. Swipe to see the full schedule ➡️⁠
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The suggested registration deadline is today! Attendees can RSVP for individual sessions at the link in bio. ⁠
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This event is supported by Mass Cultural Council’s Creative Experiences grant and co-sponsored by Northeastern's Institute for Information, the Internet, and Democracy, the Center for the Arts, and the Center for Design. by @nu_ctm

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Thank you to everyone who joined us for Jonathan Kaufman’s book talk on Tuesday — and especially for coming with such great questions!

As Kaufman argues in “When America Roared,” the 1980s can serve not just to help understand the historical consequences of the Reagan administration and its brazenness, but to give a road map for how political possibilities can change wildly in just a short time. In an era that can feel rather bleak, we think these lessons are more crucial than ever.

Kudos, Jonathan! And special thanks as well to Brookline Booksmith for selling copies on site.
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Photos by Charlene Jiang. by @nu_ctm

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Next Thursday! CTM affiliate faculty member Sina Fazelpour will be moderating a conversation with author Mona Sloane about her new book, "Predicted: How AI is Restructuring Social Life." ⁠
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Drawing on the book, Sloane will discuss how AI functions as a new form of social infrastructure—one that embeds prediction as a guiding principle of social organization through what she calls the "prediction paradigm." ⁠
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Rather than treating AI's impacts as downstream effects of engineering design, she traces how AI systems both arise from and reorganize social practices, institutional logics, and professional authority. Her talk advances a sociology of AI that demystifies the technology and centers qualitative inquiry, institutional analysis, and public engagement, opening space for collective deliberation about alternative futures.⁠
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Event details ⬇️⁠
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🗓️ October 15, 2026⁠
⏱️ 5:00 PM – 6:30 PM ⁠
📍250 Dockser Hall Graphic contains headshots of Sina Fazelpour and Mona Sloane, as well as a description of the conversation. by @nu_ctm

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Very proud to see Eileen McGivney featured in Northeastern Global News this week! In the piece, NGN reporter Tanner Stening covers her team's recent National Science Foundation (NSF) grant and the project behind it. ⁠
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It’s an awesome project. Eileen and her team are building a tool that lets healthcare students practice patient interactions by simulating clinical environments similar to what they'll see in real-life hospitals. ⁠
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According to the research team, one of their goals for the project is not simply to make health care training more technologically sophisticated, but to give students more chances to practice “the human side” of the profession. ⁠
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“We really built it from the ground up,” said McGivney. The grant, she added, “will allow us to build an authoring tool, where clinical faculty who have no experience with virtual reality or AI can create their own patients that are fit for their own curricula and classrooms.”⁠
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Read the full piece at the link in bio. by @nu_ctm

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CfD and CTM core faculty member @laura4lano and other members of the Critical Futures Lab will be at 4S 2026 in Toronto later this week! 👏 Read along for details of their contributions to the conference program. by @nu_ctm

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Hot off the presses! Join our @nu_journalism Director Jonathan Kaufman for a book talk celebrating the release of his new book: "When America Roared". Drop by Snell 350 to buy a book, enjoy some refreshments, and learn more about the events of the 1980s that either saved, or broke, the country we live in today. by @nu_ctm

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Save the date! We’re thrilled to invite you to an all-day festival on AI and human creativity. (Think leveraging & shaping AI for creative endeavors, not AI boosterism.)

Join us next month on Oct. 29 for a full day of workshops, presentations, a film screening and a multimedia art exhibit.

We hope to see you there! Register for individual sessions at the link in bio.
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This event is supported by a grant from the Mass Cultural Council and co-sponsored by @nu_cfa, @nu_cfd and the Internet Democracy Initiative. by @nu_ctm

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Thank you to everyone who came out to yesterday’s screening! We so enjoyed sharing highlights from the Oral Histories of Mobile Communication with you.

For those who missed it, the recording will be available on our YouTube channel in the coming weeks. Image of four in-person panel speakers with a Zoom screen displayed behind them. by @nu_ctm

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The New Civic Terrains Speaker Series from the Digital Civics Initiative returns next week! The first event of the semester features @danahboyd, the Geri Gay Professor of Communication at @cornelluniversitycals. Her talk, entitled “Data Are Made, Not Found,” is next Wednesday, September 30, at 5:30 p.m. in Snell Library Room 160. Learn more and register at the link in our bio. by @nu_ctm

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We hope everyone's semester is off to a great start! We'd like to welcome the four new team members we welcomed to the Center over the past week: ⁠
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Jackson Diianni is joining us as our Communications and Games Research Assistant. He is a first-year Master's student in Northeastern's School of Journalism. ⁠
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Dana Bullister is joining us as the CTM Fellow this fall. She is a data scientist and student in CAMD's Ph.D. in Interdisciplinary Design and Media program. Her research focuses on how design, data and tech can improve equity and efficiency in policymaking and public systems.⁠
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Johan Romero Rodriguez joins us as a Qualitative Research Assistant on the Mobile Networked Creativity project. He is a second-year student in CAMD's MA program in Media Advocacy. ⁠
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Yuvraj Chawla joins us as a Design and Video Production Assistant. He is an MS student in Quantitative Finance.

Welcome, students! Image of CTM's four student staffers. Counterclockwise from top left: Jackson Diianni, Dana Bullister, Yuvraj Chawla, Johan Romero Rodriguez. by @nu_ctm

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