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Spring 2008 In Medias Res Now Available

CMS is proud to announce that the Spring 2008 issue of its newsletter, In Medias Res, is now available for download. The new issue contains the following:

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From the Directors
CMS Undergraduate Major nearly ready for liftoff

Features
Center for Future Civic Media welcomes Ellen Hume; the new games curriculum at MIT; Live Action Anime at MIT; William Uricchio's new Media@MIT course; HyperStudio examines Missed Opportunities between the US and Iran; Futures of Entertainment 2 conference introduces Backchan.nl

Events
Spring 2008 Colloquium schedule; CMS Class of 2008 thesis presentation schedule; CMS hosts House, M.D.'s Katie Jacobs and novelist Wu Ming 1; 10th annual CMS Media Spectacle returns; Neil Gaiman to present Julius Schwartz lecture; Purple Blurb announces Spring lineup

Project Updates
C3 examines what happens on YouTube; the Education Arcade imagines the future of educational gaming; GAMBIT welcomes Doris Rusch and Jesper Juul; HyperStudio develops resources for exploring history and historiography; Project NML modifies its exemplar library; C4FCM research takes shape

More
Poetry by Nick Montfort; faculty and alumni updates; Neeti Gupta deep-dives into real-world CMS

Other issues of our newsletter are available for download from the In Medias Res page in the News section of this website.