In Medias Res
Approximately twice a year, the Comparative Media Studies program publishes a newsletter called In Medias Res to keep its current students, faculty and alumni appraised of events and happenings in CMS. Below we've posted PDFs of some of these issues for download.
2008
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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
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2007
Introducing Nick Montfort and Erin Reilly; CMS and Media Lab launch the Center for Future Civic Media; C3 hosts Futures of Entertainment 2 conference; Project NML tackles Moby-Dick; Education Arcade and NBC announce iCue; GAMBIT unveils six new game prototypes; William Uricchio on the future of digital heritage; new staff, new faculty, new visiting scholars and the class of 2009
Upcoming collaboration between Singapore's Media Development Authority and CMS at MIT to bring GAMBIT Game Lab to Cambridge; preview of the upcoming Media in Transition 5 conference; Hyperstudio and pre-Revolutionary Boston; Alternative Reality Gaming; Participatory Culture and the New Media Literacies white paper
2006
The newsletter gets a new look thanks to CMS graduate student Geoffrey Long '07; the breaking news is that CMS will spearhead the new Singapore-MIT gaming lab; also, New Media Literacies receives second-phase funding from the MacArthur Foundation; the Convergence Culture Consortium's Project Good Luck visits China; and Education Arcade's Learning Games to Go develops the puzzle game Labyrinth.
CMS directors thank Humanities Dean Philip Khoury for his support; five years of Metamedia; CMS alum on being a public insight analyst; research project updates; symposium on Japanese culture; undergrad Nick Hunter says farewell.
Convergence Culture Consortium increases activities; New Media Literacies and Education Arcade project updates; CMS helps build digital archive of animation from the Beijing Film Academy; CMS graduate student films Kuna islanders.
2005
New Media Literacies research project launched with a MacArthur Foundation grant; the Education Arcade collaborates with Maryland Public Television and Johns Hopkins University on Learning Games to Go.
CMS begins search for partners for its Convergence Culture Consortium; the fourth Media in Transition conference – the work of stories – attracts over 200 international scholars; Beth Coleman joins CMS and Foreign Languages and Literatures.
2004
CMS visiting scholar Vera Walker launches Storyteller Project in Cambridge grade schools; political consultant Joe Trippi visits Communications Forum to address, "New Media, Old Politics?"
Call for papers issued for Media in Transition 4 conference on narrative and storytelling; Education Arcade is a hit at the Electronic Entertainment Expo (E3) in Los Angeles; CMS graduate students shoot short film in Blue Hill, Maine.
Education Arcade finalizes plans to host event at Electronic Entertainment Expo (E3) in Los Angeles; Metamedia projects update; CMS grad student works with women's radio station in Afghanistan.
2003
CMS, the MIT Communications Forum and the Center for Reflective Community Practice present a two-day event, "E-topia/ Designing Cambridge: 21st-Century Communications for our Community," broadcast live on Greater Boston's community access television channels.
2002
William Uricchio steps in as acting director of CMS when Henry Jenkins takes his first leave in a decade.
