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From Sticky To Spreadable: The Antidote to "Viral Marketing" and the Broadcast Mentality

Podcast: Communications Forum: "The Culture Beat and New Media: Arts Journalism in the Internet Era"

Podcast: "Skinny Jeans and Fruity Loops: the Networked Publics of Global Youth Culture"

Learning Matters interviews CMS grad student Hillary Kolos

Podcast: "Cinematic Games"

Podcast: "Transatlantic Acousmatics"

"10 Things Corporations Can Learn from Pro Wrestling" and more from Sam Ford via Fast Company

Futures of Enterainment nearly sold out, get your tix now!

Gambit's Philip Tan in the New York Times

Jobs: Teacher Education Program looking for educational games programmer

From the CMS blogs: "Google Wave: Innovating Innovation at the Expense of Innovation"

"Breaking Down Advertising's Walls": CMS researcher Sam Ford in Fast Company

Podcast: "Political Remix Video: A Participatory Post-Modern Critique of Popular Culture"

"Video games are hard, people don't like to play easy games": Eric Klopfer in the Boston Globe

CMS is a top place to find "tech-focused advertising talent": AdAge

Podcast: "Communications Forum: Race, Politics, and American Media"

Registration now open for Futures of Entertainment 4

GAMBIT introduces "Game of the Week" feature

Podcast: "How Not to Be Seen"

CMS announces addition of Ian Condry as program's Associate Director

From the CMS archive: "Not the Real World Anymore"

CMS grad Ford continues to pop up in every news story about the importance of soap operas

Podcast: "Fantasy Freaks and Gaming Geeks"

CMS job opening for tenured faculty position

You know you're doing something right when FoxNews lists you as one of the "11 Wackiest College Courses of Fall 2009"

Video: "J. Michael Straczynski: The Julius Schwartz Lecture"

More than half of Singapore-MIT GAMBIT Game Lab students find employment in game companies

Color (or the Lack of It) at Comic-Con...And Beyond

Three CMS blogs make list of "100 Best Blogs for New Media Students"

The very first issue of In Medias Res

From the CMS archive: "New Media Has New Impact on Campaign"

Center for Future Civic Media Co-Director inverviewed about online activism

NML's Van Someren interviewed for Spotlight on Digital Media and Learning

Podcast: "Anecdotes from a Lifetime of Electronic Product Creation"

Boston Phoenix highlights Media Lab work, including Center for Future Civic Media

CMS/NML's McWilliams elsewhere in UK media, this time with BBC

CMS/NML's McWilliams writing for The Guardian (UK)

Henry Jenkins follows up Obama/Spock connection in interview with Salon

From the archives, Henry Jenkins on digital culture and violence

Podcast: "The Discipline of Political Messages in an Unruly Era"

CMS' Madeline Clare Elish wins 2009 MISTI fellowship

CMS student Schmiedl earns accolade for image

Ellen Hume in the American Prospect, "Defining Public Media for the Future"

Rhizome highlights Driscoll/Diaz "chiptunes" research as required reading

Video: Media in Transition 6: "Summary Perspectives"

Podcast: Media in Transition 6: "Summary Perspectives"

Podcast: Media in Transition 6: "The Future of Publishing"

Video: Media in Transition 6: "The Future of Publishing"

Video: Media in Transition 6: "Institutional Perspectives on Storage"

Podcast: Media in Transition 6: "Institutional Perspectives on Storage"

Jenkins in "Yes, more thoughts on Susan Boyle" in the Boston Globe

Video: Media in Transition 6: "New Media, Civic Media"

Podcast: Media in Transition 6: "New Media, Civic Media"

Podcast: Media in Transition 6: "Archives and History"

Video: Communications Forum: "Global Media"

Podcast: "Communications Forum: Global Media"

Video: "Communications Forum: Global Media"

Tickets now available online for J. Michael Straczynski event

Henry Jenkins in WaPo article about Susan Boyle, out-of-nowhere superstar of Britain's Got Talent

Podcast: "Opening Doors, Building Worlds": The Origins of the X-Men

CMS grad students Driscoll and Diaz's chiptunes study featured on BoingBoing's Offworld

Podcast: "On the WOW Pod: A Design for Extimacy and Fantasy-Fulfillment for the World of Warcraft Addict"

Ed Arcade's Osterweil quoted in "High-Tech Simulations Linked to Learning"

Podcast: Communications Forum: "Film Music and Digital Media"

Podcast: "Authorship, Appropriation, and the Fluid Text: Versions of the Law"

CMS alum Joellen Easton on "Playing the News"

More Jenkins from SXSW

Henry Jenkins interview from SXSW with the Austin American-Statesman

Henry Jenkins cited, from corporate policies to religious Twitterring

Ian Condry at Hip-Hop Worldwide: More Than a Nation

Nick Monfort on Atari and video games in the Boston Globe

Podcast: "Gendering Robots: Posthuman Sexism in Japan"

Gamasutra "Postmortem: Singapore-MIT GAMBIT's CarneyVale: Showtime"

Anthropologist Helmreich studies researchers studying ocean microbes

Podcast: Communications Forum: "Popular Culture and the Political Imagination"

Boston Globe coverage of Fierro/Begy MST3K event

Podcast: "Telling Stories In Print, Online and Onscreen: Walden Media and Family Audiences"

Podcast: "Identity-as-Place: Fictive Ethnicities in Online Games & Virtual Worlds"

Slashdot: "MIT Creates Class About Soap Operas"

MIT Director Jay Schieb in New York Times

New York Times on the Gambit Game Lab: "See Me, Hear Me: A Video Game for the Blind"

"Free speech versus fear": Boston Globe article on Christopher Capozzola's book

io9: "What Is David Bowie Doing In Dr. Manhattan's Sweet Pad?"

Ellen Hume on the Future of Journalism

Matthew Weise: "Press the 'Action' Button, Snake! The Art of Self-Reference in Video Games"

Help for landowners who could be victimized by natural gas drilling

Production makes Gertrude Stein sing

Neil Gaiman DVD available Dec. 17

Sam Ford: "Centenarian Newspaper Columnist Leaves Us Many Storytelling Lessons"

Podcast: "Transnational, U.S.-Asian Cinema: The Case of Tekkon Kinkreet (2006)" with Christina Klein

Wyn Kelley on Herman Melville's Moby-Dick

Landman Report Card highlighted in Good Clean Tech, PC Magazine

Landman Report Card, helping landowners negotiate with oil and gas representatives

Podcast: "The Authoring Challenge for Interactive Storytelling"

Co-Director Henry Jenkins to leave MIT, accepts position at USC

Podcast: Communications Forum: "The Campaign & the Media 2"

Jesper Juul and the Casual Revolution

GAMBIT Communications Director on James Bond gadgets

CMS alum Parmesh Shahani on promoting brands in Bollywood films

New website launched for the Center for Future Civic Media

Singapore-MIT GAMBIT Game Lab wins Microsoft 2008 Dream-Build-Play Competition

Podcast: "Tracking Secret Asian Man"

Education Arcade's "Hi-Tech Who Done It!" in the MIT Technology Review

Podcast: "Comics and Social Conflict" with Ho Che Anderson, Jeet Heer and Diana Tamblyn

Henry Jenkins cited in Washington Post article "What's Wrong with Studying Video Games?"

Greenblatt, Henderson, and Thorburn, from the MIT Communications Forum, on if:book

Ellen Hume to speak on news literacy

Podcast: Communications Forum: "Books and Libraries in the Digital Age with Robert Darnton"

Podcast: Stephen Greenblatt

William Uricchio in the Hollywood Reporter

Podcast: "Submarine Media: Sounding the Sea with Cyborg Anthropology"

Podcast: Communications Forum: "The Campaign and the Media 1"

Podcast: "Playing with Stuff: The Material World in Performance"

Osterweil in Yusef's Christian Science Monitor article, on video games in the classroom

Podcast: "The Myths and Politics of Media Violence Research"

Podcast: "A Conversation with Junot Diaz"

Henry Jenkins at the Aspen Institute, Forum on Communications and Society

"Fun from 'political oppression'?": GAMBIT Game Lab in the Singapore Straits Times

From the Boston Phoenix: "Junot Diaz reads a new short story at the Brattle Theater"

From the School Library Journal: "Hero Reports"

Benjamin Mako Hill at the 10th annual Open Source Conference

CMS grad Huma Yusuf's article points to resolution

Junot Diaz on the Colbert Report

William Uricchio to present learned lessons from GAMBIT at GLS 4.0

William Uricchio to give keynote at European Network for Cinema and Media Studies conference

Henry Jenkins on NPR

C4 / Communications Conversation

Podcast: "Remembering Los Angeles in the Digital Age: Pat O'Neill's The Decay of Fiction"

Podcast: Communications Forum: "Youth and Civic Engagement"

GAMBIT Creates Game for Visually Impaired

Sandbox Summit Advisory Board Announced

Podcast: Communications Forum: "Our World Digitized: The Good, the Bad, the Ugly"

Podcast: "The Show Business High Wire Act: Walking the Tightrope Between Studio Filmmaking and Independent Production"

Podcast: "Slightly More Than Expected from a Band of Novelists: On How and Why a Group of Writers Called Wu Ming Set to Disrupt Italian (nay, European) Literature and Popular Culture (and then Came to Boston to Brag About It)"

Henry Jenkins to speak at Games for Change conference in NYC

Eric Klopfer to receive Education Award from American Institute of Biological Sciences

Education Arcade project featured in US News & World Report blog

CMS Permanent Major Approved

Class of 2008 Thesis Presentations

Podcast: Denis Dyack

Podcast: Communications Forum: "Global Television"

Podcast: Communications Forum: "Prime Time in Transition"

Spring 2008 In Medias Res Now Available

Podcast: "Viral Media: How's and Why's"

CMS Announces Spring 2008 Colloquium Schedule

Podcast: Futures of Entertainment 2: "Cult Media"

Podcast: Futures of Entertainment 2: "Opening Remarks (Second Day)"

Podcast: Futures of Entertainment 2: "Fan Labor"

Podcast: Futures of Entertainment 2: "Metrics and Measurement"

Podcast: Futures of Entertainment 2: "Opening Comments"

Podcast: Communications Forum: "NBC's Heroes: Appointment TV to Engagement TV?"

Podcast: Communications Forum: "Games and Civic Engagement"

Podcast: Communications Forum: "Collective Intelligence"

Podcast: "Lee Hunt's New Best Practices 2007"

Podcast: Communications Forum: "What is Civic Media?"

Podcast: "Technology & Media in the Experience Economy"

Podcast: "The Harry Potter Alliance: How the Myth of Harry Potter Is Changing the World"

Fall 2007 CMS Colloquium Calendar

Henry Jenkins, the "Mud-Wrestling Media Maven from MIT"

Podcast: "This One's Gonna Be a Slobberknocker": A Q&A with WWE's "Good Ol' J.R." Jim Ross

CMS, Media Lab Take Top Prize in Knight News Challenge

Podcast: "Love May Not Be in the Afternoon Anymore: A Q&A with Soap Opera Writer Kay Alden About How the Genre Is (and/or Should Be) Changing with the Times"

Podcast: Media in Transition 5: "Summary Perspectives"

Podcast: Media in Transition 5: "Reproduction, Mimicry, Critique and Distribution Systems in Visual Art"

Podcast: What's Live Got To Do With It?

Podcast: Media in Transition 5: "Learning through Remixing"

Podcast: Media in Transition 5: "Copyright, Fair Use and the Cultural Commons

Podcast: Media in Transition 5: "Collaboration and Collective Intelligence"

Podcast: Media in Transition 5: "Folk Cultures and Digital Cultures"

Podcast: Ambiguity, Process, and Information Content in Minimal Music

MIT Comparative Media Studies' American Pro Wrestling Series

Podcast: "The Real World''s Faker than Wrestling: Former WWE Champion and Best-Selling Author Mick Foley

Podcast: Communications Forum: "Evangelicals and the Media"

Podcast: "Old World, New World: How Communities, Culture, Connectivity, and Commerce are Changing How We Create Culture, Media, Education and Politics"

Podcast: Communications Forum: "What's New at the Media Lab?"

Scot Osterweil Gives Highest Rated Presentation at Serious Games Summit

WWE's JR excited to guest lecture at MIT

Jenkins interviewed for PBS' Frontline on the future of News

Jenkins on Ninjas, Politics, and the future of Democracy

Remixing Shakespeare

Podcast: Communications Forum: "Remixing Shakespeare"

CMS Research Fair featured at the MIT News Office

Boston Games Salon - February 26th Meeting Announcement

CMS Director Henry Jenkins on participatory culture and participatory democracy

CMS and the Singapore-MIT International Games Lab profiled about Game Design and Creation

Comparative Media Studies in the age of YouTube and Wikipedia

Open Invitation to First MIT Videogame Theorists Colloquium session this Monday!

Open Invitation to Converging Media: Games, Literacy and Culture Research Fair

Blogger Breakfast Friday February 2

Convergence Culture Wins 2007 Kovacs Book Award

NML Whitepaper nominated as a finalist for the EduBlog Awards

Henry Jenkins interviewed for documentary about the controversy surrounding violence in Video Game

CMS Director Henry Jenkins on Congress and MySpace

Podcast: Communications Forum: "Why Newspapers Matter?"

Podcast: Communications Forum: "The Emergence of Citizens' Media"

Podcast: "Half-Real: A Video Game in the Hands of a Player (Audio)"

Podcast: Futures of Entertainment 2006: "Not the Real World Anymore (Video)"

Podcast: Futures of Entertainment 2006: "Not the Real World Anymore (Audio)"

Podcast: Futures of Entertainment 2006: "Fan Cultures (Video)"

Podcast: Futures of Entertainment 2006: "Viscerality and Web 2.0 (Video)"

Podcast: Futures of Entertainment 2006: "Transmedia Properties (Video)"

Podcast: Futures of Entertainment 2006: "User-Generated Content (Video)"

Podcast: Futures of Entertainment 2006: "Henry Jenkins' Opening Remarks (Video)"

Henry Jenkins on Gaming Communities as reported on by Forbes Online

Podcast: Futures of Entertainment 2006: "Fan Cultures (Audio)"

Podcast: Futures of Entertainment 2006: "Viscerality and Web 2.0 (Audio)"

Podcast: Futures of Entertainment 2006: "Transmedia Properties (Audio)"

Podcast: Futures of Entertainment 2006: "User-Generated Content (Audio)"

Podcast: Futures of Entertainment 2006: "Television Futures"

Podcast: Futures of Entertainment 2006: "Henry Jenkins' Opening Remarks (Audio)"

Podcast: "Men Imagining a Girl Revolution"

Science Fiction Author Haldeman Says Write Every Day

Podcast: Communications Forum: "The Craft of Science Fiction"

CMS Director Henry Jenkins Talks Games with Gamasutra

The MIT News Office Reports on the Futures of Entertainment Conference

Project NML featured in latest MIT ZigZag podcast

CMS Director Henry Jenkins Speaks with Mediasnackers

Futures of Entertainment Conference liveblog!

CMS Director Henry Jenkins talks with Business Week about New Media Literacies and the MacArthur Foundation

CMS Director Henry Jenkins Profiled in the Boston Globe

Talk Tunes In to Evangelical Radio

New Media and Art Explored at Colloquium

Podcast: "Media Evangelism in the Global South"

Jenkins posts to Media Commons' new blog as inaugural video curator

The official CMS newsletter, In Medias Res, for Fall 2006 now available!

CMS Director Henry Jenkins Delivers the Keynote at the Serious Games Summit in Washington DC

CMS Professor Beth Coleman's Machinima Group as Reported on by the MIT News Office

Podcast: "New Media and Art roundtable"

CMS Sponsors Local Premiere of "Cruel 2 B Kind"

The Mac Arthur Foundation Launches it's Digital Media and Learning Initiative and CMS Director Henry Jenkins is There.

Donaton Examines Digital Impact on Advertising

Podcast: Scott Donaton, "Marketing in the Age of Consumer Empowerment"

November Conference To Explore Entertainment's Future

Singapore-MIT Gamelab Featured in CNET's Media Blog

CMS spearheads the new Singapore-MIT International Game lab

Colloquium Examines Podcasting, Television's Future

Podcast: "MIT's ZigZag on Podcasting and the Future of Media"

Registration open to the public for the Futures of Entertainment conference

CMS Director Henry Jenkins in an interview with Wisconsin Public Radio

Jenkins on Doonesbury, MIT, and Media Studies

Podcast: Communications Forum: "News, Information, and the Wealth of Networks"

CMS Director Henry Jenkins mentioned on Slashdot.org

The new CMS Colloquia Podcast is now available!

C3 founder, David Edery, now at Microsoft

Jenkins on Virtual Laguna Beach

Podcast: "Making Comics by Scott McCloud"

Interview with Prof. Henry Jenkins on Serious Games, Videogame Violence & More

Podcast: "Rocketo by Frank Espinosa"

Podcast: "Sex in Games with Brenda Brathwaite"

Jenkins Launches Official Blog

Convergence Consortium Manages its Brand

"A Piece of Cake" and "Amnion" Awarded at CMS Media Spectacle

Ford Discusses CMS at NPCA/ACA Conference

CMS Students Present at GDC 2006

Coming Soon: More News, Announcements and Accomplishments!

Jenkins on Women in Gaming

CMS.876 Goes Live with "Minority Report" on WMBR

Feb 22: Tea with Claudia Hart

Professor Coleman to Speak on ARTspace Panel

Jenkins on Korean "Pop Cosmopolitanism"

Program Offering Doctoral Fellowships

CMS Media Spectacle Honors Chris Pomiecko

Forum Partners with MIT World to Provide Webcasts

Jenkins on Virtual Economies and Gamers

C3 Cited in Convergence Editorial

Jenkins: Playing Games Makes You Better Workers

Jenkins Debunks 8 Video Game Myths at PBS

Turning Video Games' Power Into A Positive

The Gamer as Artiste

"We Fans Will Have The Power"

LA Times on Gaming Programs in Academia

Media Coverage of "Learning Games To Go"

Colloquium with Doug Lowenstein

The French Game Developers' Days 2005

TV You'll Want To Pay For

Education Arcade Works with MPT on "Learning Games To Go"

Jenkins Article at Forbes.com

The Games People Play, Sponsors Apparently Don't

Interview with Henry Jenkins and Ernest Adams at Future Play

Straight from Video

Henry Jenkins at Future Play

CMS and MIT Communications Forum Partner with Taiwan's Kainan University

The Power and Pleasures of Reality TV

Video Games and Education

Wrestling With the Margins

New Media Has New Impact on Campaign

NPR: Politics in Alphaville

NPR: Game Wars

Fast Company on Jenkins' Engagement at EA

UK Guardian: Birth of a Medium

MIT News Office on 'BollySpace'

Thorburn Named As MacVicar Fellow

CMS Highlights New Humanities Education Methods at Conference

CMS Among Recipients of MIT Excellence Awards

Teach-in On Media Response to Terrorist Attacks

CMS Creates "Reconstructions" Web Site

New Models for Teaching and Learning, Grow Up with Generation.org

Event offers diverse statements about race and digital media

'Race in Digital Space' to celebrate access, arts and achievements

Communications forum scheduled

Digital Cinema Conference to explore wide world of web-based filmmaking

Media Studies co-sponsors national online teen outreach program

Conferees discuss computer games

Gamasutra on MIT Games Conference

Media in Transition symposium examines 'wiring' K-12 classrooms

Comparative Media Studies program getting off the ground

Two forums will explore journalism in cyberspace