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<b>Sent:</b> Wednesday, February 26, 2025 11:11 AM<br>
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<b>Subject:</b> [CMSgrads] Mar 7: "Mark Weiser’s Minority Report" Book Talk by Gerald Sim</span>
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Please find below the details for the Book Talk on <i><a href="https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://www.routledge.com/Screening-Big-Data-Films-That-Shape-Our-Algorithmic-Literacy/Sim/p/book/9780367772635__;!!K-Hz7m0Vt54!iFVF3kAWqGxQC6GBzjTv1UUfOLBhK7iI7WKT_GE9_J7muPVrsVnyXZ46XAoQ8Sr9BlT0zVshMuE1l76CvYAHCXI$" id="OWA96a2bf3d-f4d6-06a9-9f39-cc7b58b04f93" class="x_OWAAutoLink" title="https://www.routledge.com/Screening-Big-Data-Films-That-Shape-Our-Algorithmic-Literacy/Sim/p/book/9780367772635" data-auth="NotApplicable">Screening
Big Data: Films that Shape Our Algorithmic Literacy</a></i> (<b>Friday, Mar 7th, 3:30 PM - 5:00 PM, CMU 202, Simpson Center</b>):</div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;">Title: </span><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><b><i>Mark Weiser’s Minority Report</i></b></span></div>
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Synopsis: Gerald Sim introduces his recent book, <i>Screening Big Data</i>, and highlights the ways in which films like
<i>Moneyball</i> and <i>Coded Bias</i> structure public understanding of current tech debates and controversies. Following that discussion, he examines how Spielberg’s
<i>Minority Report</i> has transcended Philip K. Dick’s 1956 novella, largely on the strength of two iconic sequences whose production designs are hailed as technologically prescient. Celebrated most prominently by
<i>Wired</i>, the film's origin story features a cadre of luminaries from the techno-media-industrial complex who consulted during preproduction. That historical myth effaces the contribution of computing visionary Mark Weiser, whose philosophical writing about
ubiquitous computing illuminates the enduring relevance of <i>Minority Report</i> and reminds us of the technologists who preached caution and foresaw AI harms long before the current techlash.</div>
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Speaker's Bio: Gerald Sim is a professor of film and media studies at Florida Atlantic University. He is the author of
<i>Screening Big Data: Films that Shape Our Algorithmic Literacy</i> (Routledge 2024), and articles about digital culture, data politics, and new media history in Television & New Media, Convergence, Projections, and the collection
<i>The Netflix Effect</i> (Bloomsbury 2016). His work on Edward Said’s influence on film studies, CNBC personality Jim Cramer, film music theory, and Asian cinemas can be found in
<i>Discourse</i>, <i>Rethinking Marxism</i>, <i>positions</i>, <i>Quarterly Review of Film and Video</i>,
<i>Inter-Asia Cultural Studies</i>, <i>Asian Cinema</i>, and <i>Film Quarterly</i>. His first two books are
<i>Postcolonial Hangups in Southeast Asian Cinema: Poetics of Space, Sound, and Stability</i> (Amsterdam UP 2020), and
<i>The Subject of Film and Race: Retheorizing Politics, Ideology, and Cinema</i> (Bloomsbury 2014).</div>
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Feel free to forward this to interested parties, thank you. Hope to see you there! </div>
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