The Comparative Media Studies program frequently recieves requests for interviews or commentary from the press, and we try to be accommodating whenever we can. Below we have collected a list of faculty, staff and students who have made themselves available for contact by the press and their self-selected areas of expertise. Profiles are available in our people section.

Faculty

Henry Jenkins III
Peter de Florez Professor of the Humanities
Professor and Co-Director, Comparative Media Studies
Specialties: the cultural and social aspects of new media, games research (gender and games, education and games, serious games, games as expressions of the culture, trends in the games industry), the role of new media in politics, fan cultures, youth and new media literacy, transmedia storytelling, reality television, comic book culture, children's literature and media, the future of news and journalism, the future of advertising and branding

Jesper Juul
Lecturer, Program in Writing and Humanistic Studies
Video Game Researcher, Singapore-MIT GAMBIT Game Lab
Specialties: video game theory, video game design, video game audiences, video game industry, casual games, video games and academia

Nick Montfort
Assistant Professor of Digital Media, Program in Writing and Humanistic Studies
Specialties: interactive narrative, imaginative and poetic digital writing, material history of computational media, video and computer games

Philip Tan
US Executive Director and Visiting Lecturer, Singapore-MIT GAMBIT Game Lab
Specialties: digital, live-action, and tabletop game design, production, and management

David Thorburn
Professor of Literature and CMS
Director, MIT Communications Forum
MacVicar Faculty Fellow
Specialties: history of media and literature; American television history and aesthetics; the relation of old media to new; the fate of libraries and the book in a digital age

William Uricchio
Professor and Co-Director, Comparative Media Studies
Specialties: history of media technologies and practices (print, photography, telegraphy, telephony, television, film, digital technologies...); media theory (representation, reception, aesthetic paradigms); social/cultural processes (hierarchization and differentiation, popularization, viral distribution)

Staff

Jason Beene
Art Director, the Singapore-MIT GAMBIT Game Lab
Specialties: visual arts, digital art, video game art, video game industry

Generoso Fierro
Event Coordinator, Comparative Media Studies and the Singapore-MIT GAMBIT Game Lab
Specialties: documentary film making (specifically early Jamaican musics); radio DJ at WMBR 88.1 covering Jamaican music from 1955-1970

Andrew Grant
Technical Director, Singapore-MIT GAMBIT Game Lab
Specialties: computer programming, computer game development, game design, tabletop role playing games

Geoffrey Long
Researcher & Communications Director, Singapore-MIT GAMBIT Game Lab
Specialties: fiction; transmedia storytelling; narratives and games, interactive narratives and other digital storytelling; mobisodes, webisodes and other online video; comics, graphic novels and visual narratives; new storytelling technologies and techniques; art and graphic design; toys

Marleigh Norton
Prototyping Manager, Singapore-MIT GAMBIT Game Lab
Specialties: human-computer interaction, user interface design, educational games, games for children, location-based gaming, augmented reality, experimental input devices

Scot Osterweil
Creative Director, The Education Arcade
Specialties: games, games & learning, educational games

Erin B. Reilly
Research Director, Project New Media Literacies
Specialties: social media and learning, online community development and moderation, digital media and ethics, girls and STEM

Matthew Weise
Lead Game Designer, Singapore-MIT GAMBIT Game Lab
Specialties: videogames, videogame design, videogame culture & history, relationships between games & other media

Andrew Whitacre
Communications Manager, Comparative Media Studies and the Center for Future Civic Media
Specialties: media and copyright law, online publishing models, radio

Graduate Students

Jason Begy
Graduate Student, CMS (SM '10)
Specialties: videogames, traditional games, information technology, usability

Josh Diaz
Graduate Student, CMS (SM '09)
Specialties: computer + video games, board games, card games, live-action role-playing games; massively multiplayer games + virtual worlds, games + education; youth education; social design, media + violence, comic books, zombies, orcs, magic (real, theoretical + fictional), fantasy, sci-fi, speculative fiction + slipstream, worldbuilding, history of science, popular science + history literature

Kevin Driscoll
Graduate Student, CMS (SM '09)
Specialties: popular music, dance, hip-hop, DJ'ing, mixtapes / alternative economies, internet history and culture, web video, education, teenagers, race/age/sexuality and online identity, free culture, free/open source software, mobile phones, text messaging/SMS, mopeds

Colleen Kaman
Graduate Student, CMS (SM '09)
Specialties: citizenship, civic media, globalization and identity, environmentalism, social movements, digital media and journalism, mobile media

Madeline "Flourish" Klink
Graduate Student, CMS (SM '10)
Specialties: online religious behavior, fan activities (particularly fan fiction)

Lan Xuan Le
Graduate Student, CMS (SM '09)
Specialties: health information technology (particularly health gaming with children); educational game design; animation aesthetics; Asian television, music & fan cultures; Vietnamese-American diasporic history

Xiaochang Li
Graduate Student, CMS (SM '09)
Specialties: "viral" media, Korean and Japanese television drama, social networks, digital and interactive marketing, transmedia, fanfiction and fanvidding culture, global media flows online, narrative theory, Proust

Jason Rockwood
Graduate Student, CMS (SM '09)
Specialties: post-humanism, video games, gays and video games, cyborgs, social networking

Talieh Rohani
Graduate Student, CMS (SM '09)
Specialties: film production, future of cinema, transnational cinema, storytelling, New Media Literacies, social networking, identity, global culture, ethnic media, fieldwork ethnography, documentary filmmaking, fan video, online dating, cinematography, photography, residual media

Nick Seaver
Graduate Student, CMS (SM '10)
Specialties: noise, sound art, history of sound reproduction, digital versus analog technologies, hand bookbinding

Lauren Silberman
Graduate Student, CMS (SM '09)
Specialties: social networking sites, video games, blogs and vlogs, security issues related to the media

Whitney Trettien
Graduate Student, CMS (SM '09)
Specialties: history of the book, future of the book, print culture, digital poetry, relationship between "old" and "new" media, media in transition, paper engineering, medieval and early modern automata, philosophy of technology