In Medias Res
The Comparative Media Studies program publishes a magazine, In Medias Res, for students, faculty, alumni, sponsors, and anyone else interested in our news and events. Write to cms@mit.edu to request your own free copy of the latest issue, or enjoy PDFs of recent ones, below.
2013
In Media Res, Spring 2013 by MIT Comparative Media Studies
In this issue...
Power Up with Taylor and Hendershot
Taking Film and Games Studies to the Next Level
And!
Writing and Humanistic Studies Joins CMS
But wait!
Media and Technology in the Farm Worker Movement
More!
Interview with Ta-Nehisi Coates
Plus Japanese Cartoons, Bengali Harlem, and sometimes too personal updates.
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2012
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From the Director
The dust is settling...
Features
The Visual life of Occupy Wall Street; Faculty Profile: Ian Condry; Charting a Path to AAA; "I'll Give It a Try": From CMS to Tenure
Project Updates
Civic Media: A Year of Epic Research; New Projects Test Learning, Collaboration in Gaming Environments; Electronic Literature Organization at Home at MIT; Assessing the GAMBIT Summer Program; Annotations, Marginalia Move to Digital Domain; Taking on Social Discrimination, Self-Representation; Creating a Responsive and Sustainable Home Environment
Events
Sampling of CMS & Co.'s Spring 2012 Events
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CMS in the News; Updates from Faculty and Alumni; Wu-Tang Clan's GZA Visits the Center for Civic Media
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2011
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From the Director
"In Medias Res" Now More Apt Than Ever
Features
Why Gay Employees Need to Come Out; Finding One's Way at CMS; The Class of 2013; Faculty Grows with Civic Media
Scholar Sasha Costanza-Chock; The Undergraduate P.O.V.: Maeve Cullinane, '12; MIT to Host Electronic Literature
Organization
Project Updates
Cyberscholar and Media Maker Join Center for Civic Media; As Kids "VANISHED," Science
Learning Flourished; Games: More Than Cool; Readers as Editors: New Digital Tools to Support
Literary Interpretation; Introducing the Imagination, Computation, and Expression
Lab; Locast: Creating Visual Narratives with Location-Based, User-Generated Content
Events
Media in Transition 7; 2011 Civic Media Conference; Sampling of CMS & Co.'s Fall 2011 Events
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CMS in the News; CMS Welcomes Fall '11 Visiting Scholars; Updates from Faculty and Alumni
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2010: CMS 10th Anniversary
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History
Letter from Dean Deborah Fitzgerald; Letter from CMS Director William Uricchio; The Evolution of Comparative Media Studies
Projects
Convergence Culture Consortium; The Education Arcade; Center for Future Civic Media; Singapore-MIT GAMBIT Game Lab; HyperStudio; Project New Media Literacies
Events
10 Years of Happenings; Communications Forum, Media in Transition, and the Origins of CMS; Media Spectacle: Remembering Chris Pomiecko
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Alumni Testimonials; Faculty Testimonials; Visiting Scholars and Postdoctoral Researchers; Behind the Desks; And to Our Sponsors
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2009
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In Medias Res Fall 2009
From the Director
Change Is a Constant at CMS
Features
YouTube in the Amazon; Comic-Con Is Serious Business; Japan's Plans to Take Over the World: An Interview with Mia Consalvo; Vivek Bald: Dub, Diaspora & Digital; Life After CMS
Events
JMS @ MIT; MiT6 Delves Deeper into Data Storage and Transmission; The Future of News and Civic Media Conference; Fall 2009 CMS Colloquium and MIT Communications Forum calendar
Project Updates
GAMBIT: Time to Play New Games; C4FCM: Rolling Out Projects from "Institutistan" to Gaza; The Education Arcade: From Microbes to Monsters; HyperStudio: Exploring Visualization in the Humanities; C3: Consortium Wraps Up Research; Project NML: Grant Encourages New Media in Rio Schools
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Updates from Faculty and Graduate Students; Pitts-Wiley Joins CMS as MLK Visiting Scholar--and as MLK
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In Medias Res Spring 2009
From the Directors
Au Revoir
Features
CMS: Born to Collaborate; Can You Picture This?; Media Studies and the History of the Book; Showtime for GAMBIT
Events
Spring 2009 CMS Colloquium and MIT Communications Forum calendar
Project Updates
C4FCM: Website Connects Community Projects Online; Ed Arcade: Playing the Survey Game; C3: Spreadable Media Model, Continued; GAMBIT Students Win Global Game Competition; GAMBIT Summer 2008 Prototypes; HyperStudio: Digital Humanities--An Evolving Discipline; Project NML: Moby-Dick and Reading in a Participatory Culture
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Henry, Before You Go; Updates from Faculty and Graduate Students; Babylon 5's Straczynski; Gaiman DVD for Sale
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2008
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From the Directors
CMS uses a novel approach
Features
Features The transmedia story of CMS; Q&A with Pulitzer Prizewinner Junot Diaz
Events
Fall 2008 CMS Colloquium and MIT Communications Forum calendars; call for papers for the sixth Media in Transition conference to be held April 24-26, 2009; third annual Future of Entertainment conference coming in November
Project Updates
The Center for Future Civic Media hosts the Knight Foundation at Stata Center; GAMBIT undergrad sets sights on game design; HyperStudio creates archive of Asian Shakespeare performances
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Welcome class of 2010; new faces at CMS; faculty and alumni updates
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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
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Poetry by Nick Montfort; faculty and alumni updates; Neeti Gupta deep-dives into real-world CMS
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2007
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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
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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
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2006
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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.
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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.
