Information for the Press

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

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, 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

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: web-based marketing, media and copyright law, online publishing models, radio history

Graduate Students

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

Audubon Dougherty
Graduate Student, CMS (SM '10)
Specialities: social media, online multimedia production/distribution, and digital activism

Florence Gallez
Graduate Student, CMS (SM '10)
Specialities: journalism & the news media, civic media, online communities, collaboration, foreign reporting, Russia & the former Soviet Union, US-Russian relations

Madeline "Flourish" Klink
Graduate Student, CMS (SM '10)
Specialties: online religious behavior, fan activities (particularly fan fiction), livejournal communities, anonymous, 4chan and lulz

Michelle Moon Lee
Graduate Student, CMS (SM '10)
Specialties: videogames, educational games, games and social change, pervasive games/ARGs, web development for social justice.

Eliot Pinkus
Graduate Student, CMS (SM '10)
Specialties: videogames, game design, the videogame industry & history, interactive storytelling, user interface, narrative television.

Nick Seaver
Graduate Student, CMS (SM '10)
Specialties: noise, sound art and experimental music, history of sound reproduction, automatic musical instruments, hand bookbinding